'a parish with a desire for church growth, mission and evangelism' Congratulations Felicity! Holy Cross Church Clyne Chapel Fairwood Road Mayals Road West Cross, SA3 5JP Blackpill, SA3 5DH www.parishofllwynderw.org April 2019 50 pence THE PARISH OF LLWYNDERW Holy Cross Church & Clyne Chapel, Swansea, in the diocese of Swansea and Brecon VICAR The Venerable Jonathan B Davies B.Th (Archdeacon of Gower) Llwynderw Vicarage, Fairwood Road, West Cross, Swansea, SA3 5JP Telephone & Fax: 01792 512747 Email: [email protected] CURATE Reverend Hywel D Griffiths 23 Mayals Avenue, Blackpill, Swansea, SA3 5DE Telephone: 01792 403957 Email: [email protected] SERVICES IN THE PARISH Sunday 8.00am Holy Eucharist Clyne Chapel 9.30am Sung Eucharist Holy Cross 11.00am Sung Eucharist Clyne Chapel 4.00pm Evening Worship Holy Cross [as announced] Wednesday 10.30am Holy Eucharist Clyne Chapel Thursday 10.00am Holy Eucharist Holy Cross Please notify our pastoral care co-ordinator, Reverend Hywel Griffiths, of the names of those who are sick. The Chapel of St Faith is open throughout the day for personal and private prayer. Holy Baptism and Marriage arrangements may be made with the curate. The Blessed Sacrament is reserved for Communion of the sick or infirm at any time. The Holy Oils are available for the Sacrament of anointing. WEEKLY PARISH HALL BOOKINGS Mondays 5.30pm - 7.30pm Weightwatchers Fridays 9.30am - 12noon Community Art Class Sundays 2.00pm - 4.30pm Ariosa Singers & Mumbles Voices rehearse with Les & Penny Ryan 2 READERS Dr Felicity Padley 32 Fernhill Close, Blackpill Tel: 402437 Email: [email protected] Mrs Biddy Wigley 5 Whitegates, Mayals, Swansea Tel: 405404 Email: [email protected] LAY WORSHIP TEAM Felicity Barrow, Mair Kiley, Felicity Padley, Esther Searle, Biddy Wigley PAROCHIAL OFFICERS Parish Wardens Vicar’s Warden Mrs Lesley Morris Tel: 514769 65 Gwerneinon Road, Sketty People’s Warden Miss Geraldine Twinney Tel: 420243 23 Muirfield Drive, Mayals PCC Secretary Dr Felicity Padley Tel: 402437 32 Fernhill Close, Blackpill PCC Treasurer Mr Bob Wigley Tel: 405404 5 Whitegates, Mayals Parish Organist Mr Leslie Ryan, BA (hons mus), Tel: 406062 LCCMD, AWCCM, CertEd (Wales) 43 Mayals Avenue, Blackpill THE LLWYNDERW PARISH HALL can be hired for meetings, birthday parties and other special occasions Contact: Revd Hywel Griffiths Telephone: 403957 PARISH ACTIVITIES Messy Church, as advised, Holy Cross Church at 3.15pm Parish Prayer Group, every Tuesday Details on weekly sheet. Contact Lyn Jones: 402080 Cinema Club. Contact Dave & Joyce Owen: 401512 Mothers’ Union, Branch Leaders: Hazel Somers: 401705 & Elaine Griffiths: 208269 3 IN THIS ISSUE . 5. New Life Brings Exciting Times 7. Messy Church 10. Family News 11. Thank You 12. Diocesan Lent Appeal 17. Serenity - another version 18. Mothers’ Union 20. Music Notes 21. Happy Birthday Lamplighter 23. Unite in Prayer 24. John in Gethsemane 25. Ten Prayers for Our Nation 26. Highlights from Mumbles Ministry Area News 27. Easter Dawn 28. Women’s World Day of Prayer 29. What’s On? 32. I Believe 33. We Are Survivors! 34. May They All Be One Contributions for the MAY issue to be received on or before Thursday 25th April 2019 for publication on Sunday 5th May 2019 Biddy Wigley 5 Whitegates, Mayals, Swansea, SA3 5HW Email: [email protected] 4 NEW LIFE BRINGS EXCITING TIMES Archdeacon Jonathan nnwyl Ffrindiau / Dear many services and events that have A Friends been thoughtfully prepared for us throughout our Ministry Area. Now that Storm Freya, who brought with her gusts of 76mph to Sometimes, it’s hard to believe Mumbles has departed, we might that the events of Holy Week and get the odd lovely warm day as Easter actually happened, but there Easter fast approaches. are so many eyewitness accounts and things that took place after that Lent is moving quickly and first Sunday morning which simply gathering momentum as this could not have taken place had month we travel with Jesus to these events been untrue. Read the Jerusalem, continue with him gospels for yourself and remind through the Last Supper and yourself of the Easter story. Try accompany him to the cross on Mark’s gospel, the first one Good Friday. Then comes the believed to have been written, quietness and stillness of Easter which gives you immediacy and Saturday as we await the joy of fast pace through events. Or John’s Easter morning when, along with which is very spiritual and full of Christians from all over the world, meaning, or Luke’s which is we find the empty tomb and carefully written. I think that until celebrate Christ’s resurrection. you’ve read the gospels you really won’t know for sure whether to There are many ways of looking believe or not! at Holy Week and the season of Easter and each year I find there is Easter is also very much a time more and more to discover about for new life and green shoots and the Easter events. Each event of so life in our parish continues to Holy Week is a part of the Easter develop in all sorts of interesting story and Easter will mean far ways. Nearly 30 people are more if you attend some of the currently part of the Lent House 5 Groups and 23 people attended the completion of the internal recent Quiet Day at Nicholaston programme will be decided later House. The PCC, on behalf of the this month as the PCC strivesto parish, were recently able to align the parish to the Diocesan donate £5,000 to a number of Vision that “The Diocese will foster, charities. encourage and support local and creative initiatives in outreach, At Holy Cross, exciting plans for welcome and mission.” reordering the building and hall will be discussed later in the year So let us look forward to some and Messy Church continues to warmer weather, the first leaves of thrive with over 20 children at the new life and to all that God has in last event. Messy Good Friday store for us. will no doubt be a further success as our wonderful group of over 25 Sharon, Phoebe and Kaiden join helpers, parents and grandparents me in wishing you all a very join together to bring alive the happy Easter and Easter joy in stories of Jesus in exciting and these longer days. creative ways. Pob bendith / Every blessing Clyne has also experienced new life with the completion of a Jonathan comprehensive external refurbishment programme together with a magnificent rebuild of the organ made to fit inside the redundant casework from the original 1907 Kirkland organ said to have come from Brighton Pavilion. Permission for the 6 MESSY CHURCH Felicity Barrow essy Church was all about might have been, and are, M reaching out to others, as punishable by stoning. Jesus did when asked about the stoning of the alleged adulteress in To demonstrate this serious and John 8:1-11. We started with some important lesson, Felicity B parachute games of cat and mouse donned lawyers’ robes and a as an ice breaker and settled down willing criminal, in the form of quietly for our celebration in Francesca, came forward to be church. stoned. Paper missiles were cheerfully pitched before we The children were asked about handed out further paper and the law and what they understood invited everyone to write on it if it to be (a good grasp as it turned they had done anything unkind, out). They then heard how, in unnecessary, naughty or Jesus’ time and in some places disobedient in the last day, week, today, breaches of sacred laws month or year..... 7 It was impressive how much thought went into this and the children were told that if they had blank paper they could scrunch it up and lob it at Francesca as before. Every sheet was put in the bin and the children really got the message that before they point the finger at someone else they must reflect on their own behaviour. us in prayer before we started our Further, Jesus reached out to this activities. woman, notwithstanding her misconduct, as we must reach out Friendship bracelets, painted to others too, irrespective of who stones and cartoon characters were they are or what they have done. swiftly sorted. Cakes were decorated with Emojis - all happy! We sang our hymn of fellowship We enjoyed some water play too (Bind us together) and Hywel led looking at the ripple effect caused by plunging a large object into water and then a tiny grain of rice; the effect was similar and the message was that little acts of kindness have a similar effect to more elaborate gestures. Moreover, even a small, mean act can cause upset. 8 Following the theme bridges were built out of bricks, straws (not plastic ones) and masking tape to see how big a load they could bear before they collapsed. It wasn’t inevitably the largest load which was the last straw. We reluctantly stopped to eat and everyone assembled their own tortilla - used to symbolise that we are all wrapped in God’s love. We finished with the chorus Be Kind to One Another and said our goodbyes until April 19th for the Good Friday Workshop. Increasingly parents are helping in our sessions and numbers are growing with a regular and loyal cohort. We are really lucky and the atmosphere is wonderful- best described as organised chaos! We look forward to the Easter session and the promise of chocolate ... 9 FAMILY NEWS eaders may have spotted a the region. R familiar name among the nominations for the Evening Post Felicity also runs Swansea’s HE+ Community Awards 2019.