The Link Parish Magazine Autumn 2020 The Link Parish Magazine Autumn 2020 Tidenham Parish Magazine Tutshill 22 23 Scarecrow60p Autumn 2020 Trail 2020 1 24 3 4 2 25 5 27 6 28 8 26 31 6 9 29 30 33 7 10 32 34 11 13 36 12 38 35 37 18 14 43 17 40 39 16 Tutshill Scarecrow 15 19 Trail 2020 20 41 42 44 21 The Link Parish Magazine The Parish of AutumnTidenham 2020 Contacts The Link Parish Magazine Autumn 2020 OTHER USEFUL CONTACTS Churches Together Church Activities St Mary & St Peter St Michael & All Angels St Luke’s Foodbank 07507 468396 Life Groups 01291 622163 Tidenham Tidenham Chase Tutshill Sunday: 9:00am Sunday: 6:00pm Sunday: 10:45am CAP (Debt Help 07539 477286 Wives & Friends 01291 625551 www.tidenhamparishchurch.co.uk David Price Group Vicar Revd David Treharne 01291 760034 [email protected] Christian Aid 01291 629098 Fairtrade 01291 622163 Tidenham Vicarage, Gloucester Road, Tutshill, Chepstow NP16 7DH [email protected] Care Home Services 01291 629098 Associate Priest Revd Canon Dr Tom 01722 504938 Clammer Other Local Churches Pioneer Curate Revd Janice Hamilton 01291 626158 Baptist 07712 899958 Stroat Evangelical 01594 562355 Curate Nicki Bullivant 0722 833 835 Methodist 01291 627014 Roman Catholic 01291 622649 Reader Fiona Gardiner 01291 624868 Sedbury Church 01594 529209 The Besom, 07563 644860 Reader James Parsons 01291 622163 Chepstow Children & Families Minister Jane Penny 01594 563803 Children & Youth [email protected] Pre-School in Sedbury 01291 638665 Tutshill Community 01291 629134 Youth Co-ordinator Ethan Richards 07933 249210 PATA@Pengins Pre-School Church Warden Nicholette Flatman 01291 621202 Offa’s Mead School 01291 622932 St Briavels School 01594 530428 Church Warden David Burr 01291 627886 Tutshill C of E School 01291 622593 St John’s School 01291 622045 Deputy Warden Tidenham Cate Phillips 01291 624260 Toddler Groups 01594 563803 Wyedean School 01291 625340 Deputy Warden Tutshill James Parsons 01291 622163 PCC Secretary Iain Gardiner 01291 624868 Care Homes PCC Treasurer Ewen Hamilton 01291 626158 Castleford House 01291 629929 Bell Ringers Cate Phillips 01291 624260 Medical Tidenham Choir Roger Martin 01291 627800 Tutshill Surgery 01291 637910 Sedbury Surgery 01291 626041 Parish Safeguarding Officer Marilyn Henderson 01291 620140 Chepstow Hospital 01291 636636 Gwent Hospital 01633 234234 Deputy Safeguarding Officer Marion Evans 01291 622252 NHS Direct 0845 4647 NHS Dentist 0845 4647 Parish Administrator Clare Presley 07541 582687 Chemist Sedbury 01291 622532 Merrick’s Chemist 01291 622387 [email protected] Pastoral Visit Co-ordinator Julia Parsons 01291 622163 Chepstow Library 01291 635730 Chepstow Leisure 01291 635745 Centre Parish Notices Clare Presley Forest of Dean Council 01594 810000 Gloucester Council 01452 425000 [email protected] The Link Editor & Tanya White 01291 623169 Police 101 Neighbourhood 101 and Link Distribution (non emergency) Watch [email protected] The Link Advertising Roger Martin 01291 627800 The Link Parish Magazine Autumn 2020 The Link Parish Magazine Autumn 2020 Professional Assistance Page Adult Community Learning 46 Letter from the Editor Accountants: Andrea Fry & Co 43 Greetings to everyone Architects: Axion 47 Computer Services: TechPro IT 40 and welcome to our Autumn Financial Planning: iam Financial 45 Link magazine. Funeral Services: Philip Blatchly 44 Tanya White I hope that everyone is keeping well. Funeral Services: Ian Watts & Son 42 Solicitors: Francis & Co. 41 The last Link was our April edition and now this Autumn edition are both Gardening Services being publishing online but we are thinking about getting a few editions Ben Williams Fencing Services 46 printed for those with no internet connection. Emma & Graham Williams Gardening Services 44 Let me know what you think… Green Grafter: Garden and Tree Services 49 Inside this time: Home Services Vicar David writes about Good News Boilers: A.J. Boiler Maintenance 48 In the midst of everything Carpet Care: Town & Country 48 (pages 4-5) Chimney Sweep: ChimKnee Sweeps 47 Spot some great wedding pictures (pages 24-25 ) Decorating: John Cottrell 48 Scarecrow Trail pictures on our cover but also answers can be found Electrics: T.F.W. Electrical Services 48 inside (pages 14-15) Home Help: Tara Price-Williams 47 Highlights from PCC meetings (page 32) Home Help: The Maid Brigade 48 In the centre you can find the Prayer Diary from Margaret Coombs Re-Upholstery: Della Rimmer 44 Ride & Stride happened this year (pages 32-33) Skips: Woodstock 41 Food Services Butcher: A. & H. Jones 44 See what details and events you can discover and Catering: Abbey Catering, @ Tintern 43 enjoy our magazine, Local Food Supplier: Hanley Farm Shop 42 regards from Tanya Personal Services Childcare: Hedgehogs Nursery, St John’s 40 Foot Health Professional: Ceri Crossland 41 Foot Care: Hallux 47 Gwent Sword Club 43 Hairdresser: Candice 46 Hairdresser: Di the Hair 43 PLEASE NOTE Car Services Many things are changing at the moment Dean's Auto Repairs 46 But please send me any copy for future editions of The Link Motor Services of Chepstow 44 to Tanya White at [email protected] ADVERTISING IN THE LINK: Roger Martin or posted to: Tanya White, Rockymead, Coleford Road, Tutshill, 01291 627800 e-mail [email protected] Chepstow, NP16 7BU (01291 623169) for the items advertised in this magazine and readers should exercise normal exercise normal and should magazine readers items this forintheadvertised reserves theEditorial Team The an advert. up Magazine care following when articles. advertisements or reject any right to responsibility cannot accept Church (PCC) Council The Parochial Tidenham 3 The Link Parish Magazine Autumn 2020 The Link Parish Magazine Autumn 2020 From the VicarVicar David Writes… As Good news in the midst of GreenGrafter everything! Tree Surgery, Mowing Good News in our communities & Hedge It has been so heart-warming to hear about good Cutting Services things in our communities over what has been a very trying time. Charities, churches, businesses, groups Tel: 01291 650628 Mob: 07815 791777 Vicar and individuals have selflessly supported many Email: [email protected] Revd David Treharne including some of the most vulnerable in our Web: www.greengrafter.org.uk society, working under particularly challenging conditions for the common good. Stories of fantastic neighbourliness, . with displays of generosity and kindness are a blessing and reminder of Established 1999, we are a family run business, the good out there! Thank you for any part you have played! Truly specialising in tree surgery & ground maintenance thank you! You are good news! Whether it be from felling a small tree to a Good News in the Church Good News in the Church more complex tree surgery, On the weekend of the 19 & 20 Sept 24 people were ordained in Gloucester such as crown reductions on large trees, to Cathedral. This is good news which you dangerous/confined tree removal. can read about on the Diocesan Website. https:// We have the specialist equipment required for www.gloucester.anglican.org/2020/ordinations-2020/ chipping up trees and mowing small and large Two individuals are from our locality. Nicki Bullivant from Boughspring was ordained a deacon and St Briavel’s David Rees was ordained a priest. grassed areas Both of them have stories to tell that led them to this point in their lives. from formal lawns to small wild flower meadows. Their stories are good news stories and they are both good news people. I’m sure you’ll join me in wishing them well and supporting them. Please We can cut any size hedges from small to tall. pray for them as they offer themselves to God in these ministries. After months of lockdown, church buildings closed and no face to face Please e-mail or give Steve a call public worship permitted we have thankfully been able to meet up with for any further information. each other to worship once again. I want to thank all those who enabled the online worship to take place, and continue to do so. So many of us Experienced, Qualified and Fully Insured have been operating outside our comfort zone just so that opportunities for worship and fellowship we available from local people. Thank you. 49 4 The Link Parish Magazine Autumn 2020 The Link Parish Magazine Autumn 2020 THEMAID BRIGADE It looks as though we are not going to have any ‘normality’ this side of Professional House Keeping Christmas so I would ask for your prayers as we consider how we might Uniformed, Insured & CRB mark Remembrance and celebrate Christmas in 2020. If you have any Checked Full Services creative ideas please do feel free to email them to me! At the moment it We clean Laundry & Ironing looks like we’ll be online for some things whilst if Covid regulations allow Deep Cleans - Carpets, Upholstery, Oriental Rugs, we may be able to have some significant gatherings at certain points. I Kitchens/Utility Rooms Curtains, Leather, Mattresses etc Linen Changes certainly hope that Sunday worship at Tidenham and Tutshill will House Sitting Eco-Friendly cleaning continue uninterrupted. As for Tidenham Chase, we are yet to go back Dog Sitting Rapid drying times to worship there on a Sunday. Being so much smaller, social distancing Prescriptions Collected Free Inspections and Quotations and lack of ventilation makes it a harder venue to use. Regular House Keeping Satisfaction Guaranteed 01291 630986 07595 343945 01291 621333 Good News for the World Despite what organised religion and fallible human beings trying hard at T.F.W.T.F.W. Electrical Electrical ServicesServices times to make it otherwise, Christianity and the message of Jesus Christ JOHN COTTRELL is good news to our beautiful but broken world. The God we find AllAll work work undertaken undertaken Qualified Decorator revealed in the person of Jesus Christ and read about in the Bible is a sin No job too small For a Quality, No job too small busting, death destroying, life and love giving God! DOMESTIC, Reliable, NewNew Installationsinstallations COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL It’s Good News on so many fronts.