Peninsula Papers Information and news for the communities of St Ishmaels, Hasguard, Herbrandston, Robeston West, Dale, St Brides and Marloes. Produced by the Church in Wales Parishes of St Ishmaels, Hasguard, Herbrandston, Robeston West, Dale and St Brides with Marloes. The Church in Wales Parishes of Dale, St Brides with Marloes, Herbrandston, Robeston West & Hasguard with St Ishmael's Parish Priest Contact Alan Chadwick, Area Dean 01646 600227 Postal Address: The Vicarage, Llanstadwell SA73 1E1EBB Church Wardens Dale: Mil Reynolds 636671, Billy Bevan 636335 St Brides: Mary Lewis 636430, Peter Evans 636366 Marloes: Yvonne Evans 636251 St Ishmaels: Richard Neale 636802, Heather Phippen 636261 Herbrandston: Josie Owens 692203, Sylvia Davey 695843 Robeston West: Gill Thorne 01437 890693, Geoffrey Harries 01646 692736 Baptist Chapels: Moriah --- Marloes and Aenon --- Sandy Hill The Revd Paul Bartlett 01646 692084 LOCAL SERVICES SHOPS: Marloes Village Store : 01646 636968 Open: Mon-Sat 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Sun 9.00 am - 2:00 pm The Taberna, Herbrandston: 01646 693498 Mon-Sat 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Sun 9:00 am - 11:30 am Post Office: Mon-Sat 9:00 am - 5:30 pm MOBILE LIBRARY: St. Ishmaels, Marloes & Dale 2nd & 23rd Sept Herbrandston 3rd & 24th Sept Contact 01437 776128 or 07929 058660 (Signal varies!) MOBILE POST OFFICE: Tuesday: St Ishmaels 14:00—15:00 Dale 15:15—16:15 Thursday: St Ishmaels 13:00—14:00 Dale 14:15—15:15 FOR HIRE CONTACTS FOR HALL HIRE: THE CORONATION HALL AND JUBILEE Marloes: SUITE DALE Nesta Watts 01646 636411 Herbrandston: Mavis Steer 01646 694780 St Ishmaels Memorial Hall: Yvonne Evans 01636 636251 St Ishmaels Sports & Social BOOKINGS: CLAIRE GARNISH 01646 636836 Club: Phil Devonald 01646 636546 or EMAIL- [email protected] Adrian Griffiths 01646 636752 MINISTRY REORGANISATION Over the past few years, the Church in Wales has been looking at how to continue the work of the church given the challenges it faces. It is felt there needs to be a change in the organisational structure of parishes. The need for change is driven by many factors, of which practical difficulties of falling numbers of clergy and financial challenges are two. The idea which is emerging as front runner is to form Local Ministry Areas. This would consist of a group of local parishes who agree to co- operate together for mission and ministry. The Ministry Area would be led by sti- pendiary (paid) ordained clergy supported locally by Focal Ministers, members of the community specifically trained to provide the day to day cover in a parish. In our area we have choices to make as to whom we wish to be affiliated with; one option is the Havens Group, which covers Broad and Little Haven, Talbenny, Haroldston and Walwyns Castle which has a lot of synergy with our parishes being both rural and coastal. The alternative is to join Milford Haven, which covers Milford, Hakin and Hubberston, a much larger area. Focal Ministers are still to be appointed, but may well include people like Bill Morse, Colin Reynolds and Gaynor Ford, who are already well know to many in the community, and would provide stability within the parishes. If you have any feelings one way or another please contact your church wardens, their numbers are in the front of Peninsular Papers, and let them know how you feel. It may not seem all that important to you now, but in the future, when you might wish to marry, have your children baptised or confirmed, or indeed when arranging a funeral, the ability to use your local church may well be important to you. PP Management Committee A grain of sand at a time This autumn, do you feel overwhelmed with all the things that you need to get done? Then think of your life as an hour glass. There are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hour glass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. We are like that hour glass. When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day. But if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hour glass, then we are bound to break our own fragile physical and mental structure. Do not attempt more than God designed you to do. From the Parish Pump website Don’t allow modern culture to rule your life The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his pre- cepts have good understanding. (Psalm 111:10) “Remember,” said W.C. Fields, “a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.” This quotation, reproduced on T-shirts and in management books, appeals to our sense of nonconformist individu- ality. The reality, though, is that most of us want to belong and win ap- proval. We fear the consequences of challenging organisational cultures, disagreeing with accepted workplace wisdom, or showing any weakness. To go against the flow, to be distinctive in God-honouring ways, takes courage. The psalmist emphasises that ‘the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wis- dom’. This godly fear is not to be placed alongside our fears of the opinions of our colleagues, important though they are, but takes precedence over them. Paul puts it starkly: ‘If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ’ (Galatians 1:10). The biblical wisdom is not merely intellectual capacity, but is linked with discipline and discernment, shrewd- ness and skill. It’s also profoundly countercultural, as Jesus’ own teaching illustrates: in order to live we are called to die; the first shall be last; giving away leads to being entrusted with much (Luke 6:38). In our relationships, Jesus calls us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us (Matthew 5:44). Moreover, God’s wisdom, which looks foolish and weak in the world’s eyes, is seen supremely in the cross, where it is shown that ‘the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength’ (1 Corinthians 1:25). The phrase ‘fear of the LORD’ uses the covenantal name of God, implying a committed rela- tionship of reverence and awe. If we allow the culture of our workplaces and the time pressures we experience to squeeze the fear of God out of our ‘wisdom’, we risk becoming ‘practical atheists’, where our responses to situations are barely distinguishable from those of our non-believing col- leagues. From the Parish Pump website Alfresco Songs of Praise St Peter’s, Hasguard 3.00pm Sept 21st Please wear suitable clothes and footwear Map SM80NE Grid Ref SM85350954 Marloes, St. Brides and Dale Mothers Union Harriet, Heather and Marina hope all our members have had a lovely summer break, and we look forward to seeing you at our next meeting, along with anyone who would like to join us. Our meeting is on Sept 9th at 7.30pm at the Jubilee Suite, Coronation Hall. Dale (please take note of the temporary change of venue) when our speakers will be the Macmillan Nurses. Teas. Hazel Champney and Val Krelle Date for the diary: Sept 20th. Archidiaconal Family Day at Hubberston. Marina Titley (Sec) St. Ishmael's Church Festival - St Ishmael’s Church 100 Club Raffle winners Summer Draw 1st Peter Tilling 1st Mrs D. Strong 2nd Kyan Jenkins 2nd Mrs H. Phippen 3rd John Bowen 3Rd Mrs E. Neale 4th Amanda 636992 5th Ann Barkworth 6th Nicola Thomas 7th David Hefferman 8th Wendy Haines 9th Anna Vaughan 10th Pauline Davies 11th Emma Halls 12th Jean M. 13th Phyllis Coburn Community Councils Dale the County Council to improve the signage From the meeting on 14 th July, 2014. in the region of the beach in order to deter Among items discussed at this meeting: dog owners from infringing onto the Blue One-way system enforcement – the Flag zone and to encourage owners to keep Community Council noted that at a meeting their dogs on a lead while on the beach. on 10 th July they had, on the advice of the Floodgate issues – the Community Police and the County Council officers, Council continues to monitor consented to an experimental lifting of the developments in connection with the one-way system in the region of Brook proposed replacement of the floodgate – Cottage. The Police and the County and the proposed installation of a Council had reported that they do not have pedestrian access to the pontoon area. In the resources to prevent the abuse of the particular, the Community Council has one-way system and that, in the asked that the pedestrian gate should be circumstances, it might be safer to allow wide enough to allow access of boating / two-way traffic and to encourage road diving equipment to the pontoon and that users to proceed carefully through the there should be additional guidance on the narrows – a similar arrangement is in place operation of the existing equipment in the on the road between Little Haven and time before the installation of the new Broad Haven. [POST MEETING NOTE – at gates. a subsequent gathering of Community Pontoon blocking / parking on the Councillors it was noted that there had beach – the Community Council continues been a strong reaction against the proposal to seek ways and means to eliminate these from among residents and it was agreed nuisance behaviours, but asks residents and that the County Council / Police should be others to use the pontoon and the beach asked to defer implementation of the responsibly and with due consideration to experimental scheme.] others.