Hambledon Parish Magazine St Peter’s Church and Village News November 2020 70p www .hambledonsurrey.co. uk Hambledon Parish Magazine, November 2020 Page 1 Hambledon Parish Magazine, November 2020, Page 2 PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HAMBLEDON Rector The Rev Simon Taylor 01483 421267 [email protected] Associate Vicar The Rev Simon Willetts 01483 421267 [email protected] Assistant Vicar The Rev David Jenkins 01483 416084 6 Quartermile Road, Godalming, GU7 1TG Curate The Rev David Preece 01483 421267 [email protected] Churchwarden Mrs Elizabeth Cooke 01483 208637 Marepond Farm, Markwick Lane Loxhill, Godalming, GU8 4BD Churchwarden Derek Pearsall 01483 612684 39 Admiral Way, Godalming, GU7 1QN Assistant Churchwarden David Chadwick, Little Beeches 01252 702268 14 Springhill, Elstead, GU8 6EL Pastoral Assistant Mrs Jacqui Rook 01428 684390 1 Hambledon Park, Hambledon, GU8 4ER Pastoral Assistant Alan Harvey 01483 423264 35 Maplehatch Close, Godalming, GU7 1TQ Church Treasurer & Gift Aid Andrew Dunn 01428 482113 The Cottage, Lane End, Hambledon, GU8 4HD Sunday Services Full details of these and other services are set out in the Church Calendar for the month, shown on page 5. The Church has a number of Home Groups which meet regularly during the week at various locations. Details from Hambledon and Busbridge Church Office Tel: 01483 421267 Alpha details and information from: Hambledon and Busbridge Church Office Tel: 01483 421267 Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals: contact Hambledon and Busbridge Church Office 01483 421267 (Mon – Friday, 9.30am – 12.30pm) Where there is sickness or where a visit would be valued, please contact the Church Wardens Copy deadline for the The Rector is normally off duty on Fridays December magazine is The Associate Vicar is normally off duty on Fridays Thursday, 19 November The nearest Roman Catholic churches are: Please send your copy to St Teresa of Avila, Chiddingfold, Jane Woolley (Fr Irek Stadler, 01428 643877) ; Cobblers, Woodlands Road St Edmund, Croft Rd, Godalming, and Hambledon GU8 4HL St Joseph’s, Milford (Fr Jonathan How, 01483 416880) 01428 684213 email: [email protected] TO SUBSCRIBE AND TO HAVE THE MAGAZINE DELIVERED for £7.50 per year, PLEASE CON- Advertisers, please contact TACT: Emma Dunn, The Cottage, Lane End MARY PARKER, Telephone: 01428 682545 Hambledon, GU8 4HD 01428 482113 Cover Design by John Whittall email: [email protected] Hambledon Parish Magazine, November 2020 Page 3 Assistant Minister’s Letter – November Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot … o runs the old nursery rhyme. But November is a month when we remember so much more than Guy Fawkes and his unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament, way back in S 1605. Nationally, there is Remembrance Sunday, of course, when we remember those who have died in two World Wars and in many conflicts since, including those which are still happening today. There is a timelessness about the Remembrance rituals: the recital of names – including local heroes – who are remembered precisely because they did not come home; the laying of wreaths; the two-minute silence; the Last Post and Reveille ; and, perhaps most moving of all, the procession of veterans – fewer every year, but still so dignified and determined. Remembering is an important theme in the Bible. And in the church’s calendar, this is a season of remembering. The Christian celebrations of All Saints and All Souls (1 and 2 November respectively) provide an opportunity to commemorate all the faithful departed, both famous and unknown, who have died in the faith of Christ. For many years, in Busbridge & Hambledon, we have held our annual Memorial Service around this time. We invite all those known to us who have been bereaved during the previous two years, as well as others who keep coming back, year after year. The service seems to meet a need for those who attend, and I am always struck by the number of people for whom this is the only time they ever come to church at all. It seems to have a place in their own personal calendar and, for them, it is important to be there … and to remember. This year, along with so much else which has been adversely affected by the fallout from coronavi- rus, we are not able to invite people to be present with us in church; the numbers are too great and would flout the regulations! Instead, on Sunday 1 November, the main morning service in the benefice will be a special service for All Souls. Invitation letters will still be sent out, explaining the situation and inviting people to participate with us online, as the service is live-streamed. It won’t be the same – what is, at the moment?! – but we hope that next year we shall be able to revert to a service at which people can be physically present. In the meantime, when so much is unusual, unsettled, and not as we would like it to be, it is helpful for us to remember that God is faithful … that though our circumstances and the way we do things may change, he does not. As Hebrews 13:8 reminds us: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and for ever. The Rev Margot Spencer Assistant Minister, Hambledon&Busbridge Church Hambledon Parish Magazine, November 2020, Page 4 CHURCH CALENDAR November 2020 Hambledon Church & Busbridge Church are both open for private prayer daily 9.30 am -4.30 pm. ( COVID -19 health & safety in place). Our ministry is also continuing online, and in the community. We are pleased to be able to conduct weddings, baptisms and funerals, under certain restrictions. For more information, see www.bhcgodalming.org, or contact the church office, on 01483 421267. Zoom events sign up details via www.bhcgodalming.org on the Calendar ‡ As it is not possible to hold the annual Memorial Service in usual format, the C of E suggested that churches might mark the occasion of All Souls to remember those we have loved and lost, and acknowledge bereavements, by Covid 19 or through other causes. All are invited to the benefice service at Busbridge on 1 November. The latest details are on: www.bhcgodalming.org. All subject to change in the general situation. In Church On YouTube 1st November Morning Prayer (BCP, said) * 9.00 am Heritage Online service ** 4th Sunday before Advent All Souls service 10.00 am (** We will live-stream this at Busbridge Church, see above ‡ as soon as practical) _ Wednesday 4 November Morning prayer 9-9.30 am 8th November Remembrance Service (said)* 10.30 am Remembrance Service Remembrance Sunday (no 9 am service ) 3rd Sunday before Advent Service at Busbridge Church * 10.30 am Service live-streamed Wednesday 11 November Morning prayer 9-9.30 am Morning Prayer (BCP, said) 15th November 9.00 am Heritage Online service 2nd Sunday before Advent Service at Busbridge Church * 10.00 am Service live-streamed Wednesday 18 November Morning prayer 9-9.30 am Saturday 21 November virtual Prayer Breakfast 9.30 am via Zoom, see website 22th November Morning Prayer (BCP, said) 9.00am Heritage Online service Sunday next before Advent Service at Busbridge Church * 10.00am Service live-streamed Wednesday 25 November Morning prayer 9-9.30 am 29th November Messy Christingle (no 9 am service ) 10.00 am via Zoom (see above) First Sunday of Advent Advent Evensong * 4.00 (possibly live-stream see above) In the December issue : Details of the Christmas services. AND Comfort and Joy is the national theme suggested by C of E. We hope to have a Christmas Exhibition in Hambledon Church. * Space in church is limited, to maintain a distance of 2m between bubbles. If the church is full, or you prefer to stay outside, sound may be transmitted by speaker in the churchyard too. Bring a chair! * PLEASE SIGN UP! To help us cooperate with Test and Trace, you will be requested to sign in to services on church premises. A Welcomer will be on the door to take your name down, but it would help us to anticipate numbers, and be quicker when you arrive, if you sign up beforehand, via www.bhcgodalming.org. * PLEASE WEAR A FACE MASK . Seating inside will be amply spaced to ensure social distancing, and it is now a legal requirement to wear a face covering at church services for all those who can wear a mask safely. (We know for some people wearing a mask not possible for medical reasons.) * PLEASE LEAVE THE CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD DIRECTLY AFTER THE SERVICE Hambledon Parish Magazine, November 2020 Page 5 PARISH & PEOPLE e send our sympathy to Andy Falk on the Transatlantic, 3 Azores and Back, 6 Round Britain and W death of his sister, Mary , who died on 19 Sep- Ireland, one Fastnet and many other races. Having tember, aged 74, in Lymington. He writes: come through breast cancer in 2006 she raised over “Mary, as well as being one of the first female part- £100K for cancer research. She also ski-ed with simi- ners at Farrer’s, the solicitors well known for their lar enthusiasm, in retirement preferably from Decem- work for the Queen and others, had a remarkable ca- ber to April each year and was sometimes [3times] to reer as a short-handed (preferably single-handed) be seen hobbling round the village staying with her ocean racer. Her 1996 record for the fastest single- brother after her latest broken leg. She was a founder handed crossing of the Atlantic in a boat under 35 foot trustee of the Pioneer Sailing Trust, in Essex, and Co- remains a record to this day.