Hambledon Parish Magazine St Peter’s Church & Village News December 2018 60p Hambledon Parish Magazine, December 2018 Page 1 www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk Hambledon Parish Magazine, December 2018, Page 2 PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HAMBLEDON Rector The Rev Simon Taylor 01483 421267 [email protected] Associate Vicar Position advertised 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 Alan Harvey 01483 423264 35 Maplehatch Close Godalming, GU7 1TQ Assistant Churchwarden David Chadwick, Little Beeches 01252 702268 14 Springhill, Elstead Godalming, GU8 6EL Pastoral Assistant Mrs Jacqui Rook 01428 684390 1 Hambledon Park Hambledon, GU8 4ER Church Treasurer & Gift Aid Andrew Dunn 01428 482113 The Cottage, Lane End Hambledon, GU8 4HD Sunday Services Full details of these and any other services are set out in the Church Calendar for the month, which is 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 Tel No: 01483 421267 (Mon – Friday, 9.30am – 12.30pm) Copy deadline for the Where there is sickness or where a visit would be valued, contact the Church Wardens January magazine The Rector is normally off duty on Fridays The deadline is Thurs 13 December The nearest Roman Catholic churches are St Teresa of Avila, Chiddingfold (Fr Irek Stadler, 01428 643877); Please send your copy to St Edmund, Croft Rd, Godalming and St Joseph’s, Jane Woolley Milford (Fr David Parmiter, 01483 416880) Cobblers, Woodlands Road Hambledon GU8 4HL 01428 684213 TO SUBSCRIBE AND HAVE email: [email protected] THE MAGAZINE DELIVERED, £6 per year PLEASE CONTACT: MARY PARKER Advertisers, please contact Telephone: 01428 682545 Derek Miller, 2 Church Lane, Hambledon, GU8 4DS 01428 684362 email: [email protected] Hambledon Parish Magazine, December 2018 Page 3 Assistant Vicar’s Vista – December Dear All Have you ever seen an Angel? ave you ever seen an Angel; perhaps you don’t believe in Angels? Well, the Bible does: there are references to them over and over again. Take the Christmas story when they are mentioned H more than 5 times. The first time is when the Angel Gabriel came to give the good news to Mary that she was going to give birth to a son. ‘He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end. ’ Luke chapter 1 Well that’s all right then. No. Mary was thought to be just thirteen years old, not married and a virgin. What is more, the punishment for any out-of-marriage pregnancies was death by stoning! Can you imagine the inner turmoil Mary went through and her reliance on the words of an Angel? Are there really Angels, did she really see one, and what would her fiancé think? Again an Angel came to the rescue, reassuring Joseph that the child was part of the Holy Spirit’s work of creation. An Angel also spoke to an old priest Zechariah telling him that, against all the odds, his wife Elizabeth would become pregnant too. Then there were the wise men who had come from, well, we don’t know where, but they had come a long way. Using a star to guide them they arrived just where the precious baby was born in a smelly stable! Yet again danger was lurking around the corner and it was up to an Angel to warn the wise men to avoid King Herod and go home another way. Yes, the story of Jesus’s birth is littered with Angels, but the bit I enjoy the most is that bit where a huge choir of Angels sing praises to God’s glory, not before kings or wise men or even the great and the good but before humble shepherds out in the fields and under the stars. So what are you going to put on the top of your Christmas tree this year? A fairy or a star or an Angel? Do you know, I hope it is an Angel because I believe in Angels. I believe we all have a guardian Angel – not to make life easy for us (after all, Mary’s life was not easy) but to guide and help to direct us when we are perplexed. What I want for this Christmas is a world that believes in Angels acting under the direction of God. After all, that’s what Abba believes in. Then we would have a Christmas focused on Jesus because that’s what the message of the Angels was all about. May I wish everyone reading this a truly happy Christmas and one which leaves plenty of room for that child called Jesus. The One the Angels told us about. David Jenkins, Assistant Vicar Hambledon and Busbridge If you would like to join the Choir for 16 December, Carols by Candlelight at 6.30pm, please contact Alan Harvey, 01483 423264, alan.harvey @bhcgodalming.org Hambledon Parish Magazine, December 2018, Page 4 CHURCH CALENDAR December 2018 2nd December no 9.00 am service 1st Sunday of Advent 10.30 am Morning Worship 4.00 pm Special Advent Choral Evensong _________________________________________________________ Thursday 6th December 9-9.30 am Morning Prayer _________________________________________________________ 9th December 9.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) Mission Sunday 2nd Sunday of Advent 10.30 am Holy Communion (CW) Besom _________________________________________________________ Thursday 13th December 9-9.30 am Morning Prayer _________________________________________________________ 16th December 10.30 am Morning Worship & Children’s Groups 3rd Sunday of Advent 6.30 pm Carols by Candlelight _________________________________________________________ Tuesday 18th December 7.30 pm Pub Carols – The Merry Harriers ________________________________________________________ Thursday 20th December 9-9.30 am Morning Prayer _________________________________________________________ 23rd December 9.00 am Morning Prayer Combined Service (BCP) 4th Sunday of Advent _________________________________________________________ 24th December 3.00-3.45pm & 4.30-5.15pm Crib Services Christmas Eve 11.00 pm Midnight Communion _________________________________________________________ 25th December 10.30 am Family Celebration Christmas Service Christmas Day followed by short Holy Communion _________________________________________________________ Thursday 27th December 9-9.30 am Morning Prayer _________________________________________________________ 30th December No services at Hambledon 1st Sunday of Christmas 10.00 am Benefice Combined Service at St John’s, Busbridge _________________________________________________________ 2019 And...Thursday 3rd January 9-9.30am Morning Prayer _________________________________________________________ 6th January 2019 9.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 2nd Sunday of Christmas 10.30 am All Age Worship _________________________________________________________ December Services at St John’s, Busbridge 8.00 am 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sundays: Holy Communion (said) 10.00am Classic Service in Church: Contemporary service in School: 1st Sunday: Morning Worship 1st Sunday Fuse Christingle 2nd Sunday: Holy Communion (CW) 2nd Sunday: Morning Worship 10.00am 3rd Sunday: Combined Family Carols } Groups for children of all ages 10.00am 4th Sunday: Combined Morning Worship } in various locations – turn up and ask! Christmas Eve 3.15, 4.30, 5,30, 6.30pm Candlelight Celebration for all the Family 11.00 pm Midnight Communion Christmas Day 9.00 am Holy Communion with Carols 10.30 Family Celebration, followed by Short Holy Ciommunion 10.00am 5th Sunday: Benefice Combined Morning Worship 6.30 pm 1st Sunday: Holy Communion; 2nd Evening Worship; 3rd Sunday: Evening Carol Service 4th Sunday Christmas Unplugged; 5th Sunday Churches Together Service Hambledon Parish Magazine, December 2018 Page 5 PARISH & PEOPLE any congratulations to our good friend Mic interest she displays in helping to ensure its smooth Coleman who celebrates his 90 th birthday running. Without her input the village would be sadly M this month. Hambledon friends and neigh- lacking. bours extend their good wishes to Mic: the entire John and Tucker Anderson’s son Alexander is community is in his debt for many years of service to marrying Anna Malmberg at St Peter’s Church this the village. We are also grateful to his family for the month. We all send them our good wishes for a very up-date that they provided to mark this very special happy day and for all the years that lie ahead. occasion. A great bit of old-fashioned romance crept into Ian Davis celebrates his 73 rd birthday this month. the village on 21 October when John and Sue May His friends throughout the village will remember Ian celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. At 2pm, and his family as they gather at Holy Cross Hospital the time of their wedding, they went up to the church where Ian has been a patient for the past three years. and sat in the porch with a celebratory drink of Both Ian and Carol have done much for the village: champagne. We are reliably informed that the sun Ian was a long-serving member of the Parish Council always shines on 21 October and on this occasion it and undertook many tasks, particularly caring for the didn’t let them down. Well done to John and Sue and footpaths. This takes on an added significance when may they enjoy many more celebrations in the porch. we read this month’s Parish Council report: our foot- There’s no need for the rest of us to turn up! paths and bridlways are incredible village assets and In thanking all our contributors to the magazine ones which we must never take for granted .