Warsash Parish News September 2020 Church Information ST. MARY'S CHURCH - ORGANISATION & GROUPS CHURCH OFFICE: 109 Church Road, Warsash, Hampshire SO31 9GF Tel (01489) 570846 - Open 10.00am to 12.00 noon on Monday to Friday E-mail: [email protected] website: www.stmarywarsash.org.uk For BAPTISMS & FUNERALS contact the Church Office For WEDDINGS contact Antonia at [email protected] For CHURCH HALL BOOKINGS contact Liz Simpson on 570846 or email [email protected] CHURCH OFFICERS VICARS: Mike & Nicky-Sue Terry 808296 07786 023963 LICENSED READERS: June Ward 572197 Eva Upward 578862 CHURCH WARDENS: Roger Clear 574941 Peter Upward 578862 TREASURER: Liz Simpson 575668 PCC SECRETARY: Iain Wilkie 07810 756168 FAMILIES WORK: Nicky-Sue Terry 07786 023963 GROUPS HOUSE GROUPS Nick St. John 574589 SUNDAY SCHOOL/ PATHFINDERS Nicky-Sue Terry 07786 023963 COFFEE POT Brenda Bottomley 582093 STAY AND PLAY/MESSY CHURCH Nicky-Sue Terry 07786 023963 CHARITABLE GIVING Jenny Cox 576386 CHRISTIAN AID Jill Sadler 584310 PRAYER LINK Rita Collins 576867 MOTHERS’ UNION Jean Buckles 578687 STEWARDSHIP Liz Simpson 575668 WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP Office 570846 CHURCH & BRASS CLEANING Carol Barnden 574879 CHURCHYARD MAINTENANCE AND DIY Roger Clear 574941 Peter Upward 578862 FRIENDS OF ST MARY’S CHURCHYARD Mike Ford 331076 COFFEE ROSTER Brenda Bottomley 582093 FLOWERS Carol Barnden 574879 MUSIC GROUP Bob Bottomley 582093 WEBSITE Iain Wilkie 07810 756168 All phone numbers use 01489 prefix unless otherwise stated We are delighted that you are reading this edition IN PRINT as well as online – after 6 months without the Parish News in your hand! We know most of you prefer to read it in booklet form and are sorry not to have been able to provide it during lockdown. However, it has forced us to publish it online – which we had intended to do for some time – and for some people online is preferable. Visually it is better online with all the photos and artwork in colour. Anyway, now you can subscribe in either or both formats. There is currently no charge for the online version, although people are welcome to make a donation to St Mary’s if they would like to, and next year’s subscription for the printed version will reflect missed months this year. As we look back to March, much has changed and I’m sure we have, too. While the return to the familiar, such as this printed magazine, is welcome, I hope we can take forward all the adjustments we have made which are for the better, both in the way we do things or in changed attitudes. Our community has been so supportive and we remain grate- ful to those who have helped others, in grand or simple ways, to weath- er the challenges and deprivations of this time or to make the most of the opportunities it has offered. If you have a story from lockdown you would like to share, please email the editorial team or ring the Vicarage 01489 808296. NST. _________________________________________________________ Editorial Team: Revd Nicky-Sue Terry, Mo Colyer, Glenda Edmondson Email : [email protected] Webmaster: Iain Wilkie 07810 756168 Advertising: Sally Clear [email protected] 01489 574941 Distribution: Hazel Burcher 023 8045 2188 Publisher: John Buttler, 10 Holland Road, Woolston, SO19 9FW 023 8068 5248 CLOSING DATE for contributions to the Parish News is the 15th of each month The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Editor nor of the Anglican Church. All articles and advertisements submitted for the Parish News must be acceptable to the Editor and the PCC of St. Mary’s Church. 700 copies of the Warsash Parish News are distributed throughout the parish every month. It can be delivered to your door or can be purchased from the Church Office or at the Post Office in the One Stop shop on Warsash Road. Copies are available to visitors to the Church. Church Services at St Mary’s – in Church or on Zoom – From Revd Nicky-Sue Terry So…. September. A time of new beginnings, a Booking required for services in Church* fresh start, a sense of progress, getting back to Sunday 6 September – Trinity 13 work, to school, off to uni, to…? 10am Family Worship on Zoom Well, it just isn’t like that this year, is it? 6.30pm Celtic Communion in Church However, I do hope that for some of you that Sunday 13th September – Trinity 14 you ARE starting anew with a spring in your 8am BCP Holy Communion in Church step, full of hope, looking forward and anticipat- 10am Holy Communion on Zoom ing a new challenge! 6.30pm Evensong on Zoom But for many of us, we face uncertainty. Or we Sunday 20th September – Trinity 15 are returning to the familiar which no longer is 10am Holy Communion on Zoom the same and it will be more complicated to 6.30pm Taizé Communion in Church accomplish the same outcomes as before. Or there is little or nothing to return to and we must begin again, or wait for our usual activities or Sunday 27th September – Trinity 16 opportunities to open up again. We may just be facing more of the same. 8am BCP Holy Communion in Church 10am Holy Communion on Zoom How can we make the most of our situation, whatever it may be? Where do we even begin? Will circumstances dictate to us or have we some Sunday 4th October – Harvest choices in our situation? 10am Family Worship on Zoom 6.30pm Celtic Communion in Church We had, at the beginning of lockdown, looked forward to things returning to normal. At St Mary’s we looked forward for some long time to our first Thursday 11am BCP Holy Communion on Zoom (fortnightly) service back in church – all together in a crowd, shaking hands and Will be held according to minister availability – see Pewsheet hugging, singing our hearts out and having lots of chat over coffee after- wards. Our first service, while very special, was somewhat different!! I Latest information: think, now, we all know and accept that returning to normal isn’t going to Weekly Pewsheet http://www.stmarywarsash.org.uk/pewsheet/ happen soon and that, when restrictions are eventually lifted, life will Church Calendar http://www.stmarywarsash.org.uk/calendar/ have moved on, we will have changed and some things will never be the same again. Yet, while we can’t know how things will be when the threat Worship at home ‘with’ us on Zoom or by audio of Covid-19 recedes, we also are realising that what we do or don’t do Details on http://www.stmarywarsash.org.uk/servicestream/ now will make a difference – to our lives now and to our lives then. You can join our Zoom services using the website’s Yellow Button to ‘Join the Next Service’. Please download Zoom when prompted to do so I think most of us are trying to make our daily lives as worthwhile and and join with video and audio when asked. productive as possible in the present, especially those who have had You will also find recent sermons and audio-recorded services some unexpected time off through furlough or redundancy or the sus- pension of activities over the last few months. Others of us, on the other *Book for Church services through the Church Office from Monday hand, are desperate for a rest, having worked throughout lockdown. The 10am to Thursday 11am. The Office is now open between 10am and days during the last few months sometimes went by in a blur, because 12noon on weekdays: [email protected] 01489 570846 we were held in suspension to a certain degree, but now I sense a return of purpose and a desire to get on and accomplish things once again. From Revd Nicky-Sue Terry Church Services at St Mary’s – in Church or on Zoom – So…. September. A time of new beginnings, a fresh start, a sense of progress, getting back to Booking required for services in Church* work, to school, off to uni, to…? Well, it just isn’t like that this year, is it? Sunday 6 September – Trinity 13 10am Family Worship on Zoom However, I do hope that for some of you that 6.30pm Celtic Communion in Church you ARE starting anew with a spring in your step, full of hope, looking forward and anticipat- Sunday 13th September – Trinity 14 ing a new challenge! 8am BCP Holy Communion in Church 10am Holy Communion on Zoom But for many of us, we face uncertainty. Or we 6.30pm Evensong on Zoom are returning to the familiar which no longer is the same and it will be more complicated to Sunday 20th September – Trinity 15 accomplish the same outcomes as before. Or there is little or nothing to 10am Holy Communion on Zoom return to and we must begin again, or wait for our usual activities or 6.30pm Taizé Communion in Church opportunities to open up again. We may just be facing more of the same. Sunday 27th September – Trinity 16 How can we make the most of our situation, whatever it may be? Where 8am BCP Holy Communion in Church do we even begin? Will circumstances dictate to us or have we some 10am Holy Communion on Zoom choices in our situation? Sunday 4th October – Harvest We had, at the beginning of lockdown, looked forward to things returning 10am Family Worship on Zoom to normal. At St Mary’s we looked forward for some long time to our first 6.30pm Celtic Communion in Church service back in church – all together in a crowd, shaking hands and hugging, singing our hearts out and having lots of chat over coffee after- Thursday 11am BCP Holy Communion on Zoom (fortnightly) wards.