CASSINGTON & WORTON NEWS News and views from the parish of Cassington and Worton June 2007 – Issue 360 From the team CONGRATULATIONS! Our splendid cover picture means we have less space to tease you with what you might Eat your hearts out, Hello and OK magazines. We’ve had find in this month’s issue, so you will have to the wedding of the year to celebrate, right here in St Peter’s. read it for yourselves. One event not detailed inside is Bike Night. On the morning of Saturday 5 May, two great Cassington families This year’s event is on Monday 25th June. came together when childhood friends Basil Bushnell and Janet Elger If you are new to the village you won’t believe it until you see it for yourselves. gracefully declared their vows before The Reverend Colin Sanders and Also missing this month are Roy’s Ramblings. a full church. And what a glorious gaggle of girls were there too to Roy is taking time out to recover from a little witness the day that Mrs Elger became Mrs Bushnell. surgical intervention. We are assured he will be rambling again very soon, and wish him a We’re sure that everyone in the village will want to join us in wishing full and speedy recovery. the happy couple many, many years of harmony and bliss. Have a great month. Contributions should ideally be provided by email (in the body or as a Word attachment) to: [email protected]; delivered on floppy disc, or (as a last resort) typed or clearly handwritten, to Kevin Hinton, Mill Lane House, Mill Lane, Cassington, Witney OX29 4DL, by the 20th of the month. We look forward to hearing from you. Advertising rates NEWS FROM THE PEWS OF ST PETER’S Local ‘what’s on’ and fund-raising stuff is free. Simple local services, ‘for sales’ etc, are now also free on noticeboard. CHURCH, CASSINGTON Suitable commercial business are invited to support our community by buying advertising space ... From the registers: 1/8 page, £5 (£50 per year) 1/4 page, £8 (£80 per year) Baptism: 1/2 page, £12 (£120 per year) Full page, £20 (£200 per year) 29th April 2007 Hamish LINNELL Technical details for artwork available on request. All material included at the discretion of CAWN. Profits will be passed to the Cassington Wedding: Parochial Charities to support our community. 5th May 2007 Basil BUSHNELL & Janet ELGER Many church members attended the wedding of Basil Bushnell and Janet Elger on 5th May. There was also Please join us for supper - a group of children and staff from St Peter’s School. Wednesday July 18th at 7.30 pm We all wish Basil and Janet every happiness and Come and enjoy an impromptu, out-door, contributory, blessings in their future together. free-of-charge supper at my home on Wednesday July Mid Week home groups continue to meet twice 18th at 7.30pm. Just pray for a fine evening, we have weekly as well as a prayer meeting in St Peter’s enough room in the house if it is wet so do come. Church at 1.30pm on Thursdays and 9.30am Holy Communion on Tuesdays. Everyone is welcome. Let’s see some fresh faces as well as those we know, even older daughters with mums, please Benefice events have included Prayer and Vision let us get to know more people who are our neighbours, it evening in St Leonard’s Church, Eynsham and there makes life more pleasant. New people in the village - you will be a camping weekend in June. will find we are not a bad lot to get on with. June Partridge The Mill House, Cassington. ST PETER’S DAY Sorry, we are the south side of the A40, team up with SONGS OF PRAISE someone, give one another a lift. with Witney Town Band on CASSINGTON VILLAGE GREEN Great value wholefood buying opportunity SUNDAY 1ST JULY 6PM Everyone welcome The Cassington Wholefoods buying group will be making a purchase in early June, so if anybody’s interested in looking at the catalogue they should contact Richard on New Music Group 731348. A new music group has been formed in Freeland which There’s no obligation to purchase anything as we already meets on alternate Wednesday evenings from 7.45- make the minimum order amount on our own, and 9.45pm. We would like to invite intermediate to advanced there’s no charge for deliveries or for being in the group – strings or woodwind players to join this friendly group. this opportunity is offered as a community service. The next meeting dates are 6th and 20th June and 4th The groceries get delivered to Cassington so you’d just July. Please telephone Wendy Marks on 01993 883379 or need to pick them up from our home in Eynsham Road. email [email protected] if you are interested in Richard Buckner coming along. SOUTHERN CROSS HEALTHCARE BURLEIGH FARM Premier Care Home Group Traditional Farmhouse Bed and Breakfast Accommodation Contact Jane Cook – 01865 881352 Burleigh Farm, Bladon Road, Cassington Oxfordshire OX29 4EA LONGLANDS NURSING HOME Visit www.oxfordcity.co.uk/accom/burleighfarm Pound Lane, Cassington, Oxon 01865 881440 for more information 24 hour care Quality with Commitment St Peter’s Church ST PETER’S CHURCH, CASSINGTON SERVICES JUNE 2007 Church Office: Eynsham Village Hall, Back Lane, Eynsham Mon–Thurs 9am–1pm Tel: 01865 883362 email: [email protected] Revd Morey Andrews: 45 Acre End Street, Eynsham, Oxon OX29 4PF Day off: Friday Tel: 01865 881323 email: [email protected] Sunday 3 June Sunday 17 June 8am Holy Communion (BCP) 8am Holy Communion (BCP) Revd Roger Aston Revd Andrew Atherstone 10am All Age Worship 10am Morning Worship Revd Andrew Atherstone Sunday 10 June Sunday 24 June 10am Holy Communion & Baptism Deborah Lake 10am Holy Communion & Thanksgiving Revd Roger Aston 6pm Evening Prayer (BCP) Revd John Underwood Midweek Holy Communion at 9.30am on Tuesdays Young people join our worship for the first 15 minutes of the 10am service and then go to the school for Sunday Club (3-10) and Soul Living (11+). We now also have a crèche for the under 3s. (Except All Age Worship when everyone stays in church.) Would you Adam and Eve it? At the moment in church we are looking at the first book account of how God created the universe and everything of the Bible, Genesis. in it. The creation stories in Genesis are more pictures - or images. They are pictures of why God made the universe, Many people think that Science and the Bible (and the earth, life and human beings. particularly the creation) are in headlong conflict but in reality it’s not like that. At St Peter’s church we have three “In the beginning God, created the heavens and the earth”. very active and involved members who were, or are, – God creates the sea and the sky, the dry land – the plants teachers of Science who don’t hold their scientific and the animals. And God creates humankind. Wow! background in conflict with the creation as portrayed in The creation accounts in Genesis give us a poetic vision of Genesis. the world as it was intended to be, God’s people in God’s The creation stories in Genesis are more about Why and place, under God’s rule & blessing. Repeatedly in the Who than How. More about our place in the universe and passage, after His works of creation, we are told that God about our relationship with God rather than how God put saw that it was good and after the completion of creation particular atoms and molecules together to make living on the 6th day we are told that God saw it all and it was things. very good. Antagonists say; “Who was Cain’s wife” – “How could we This is what chapter 1 of Genesis tells us. God created all have a common ancestry back to Adam and Eve”. everything from the beginning, it’s His, and it was good. These questions make the authors or compilers of Genesis It’s God’s world – not ours. It was us, mankind, that out to be fools which I’m sure that they were not – and thy mucked up paradise. So much so that God himself had to miss the point. The scholars who wrote down these come, in the person of Jesus Christ to give us a way back accounts were highly educated and intelligent people. to Himself – to forgive or past sins and give us a hope for Such obvious loop-holes and inconsistencies in the the future. creation stories of Genesis point, for me, to the conclusion that Genesis is not intended to be a chronological, factual, Rev’d Roger Aston parish notes CASSINGTON PARISH COUNCIL had no objections: the need for the facility had been demonstrated and Meeting held on 10 May 2007 it had been shown to operate in other areas without causing nuisance to neighbours. (The draft notes below are subject to confirmation by the Parish Council on 5 June) 20 The Green Cassington: Installation of three roof lights to the rear elevation. By Mr H Thomas (WODC Ref 07/0651/P/FP). The council Councillors Clive Wilkinson (chair), Iwan Hughes and Olaf Rock noted that as custodian trustees of the village hall they were attended, plus two members of the public, Cllrs Margaret Stevens and neighbours, and potentially had a prejudicial interest. However WODC Richard Andrews (West Oxon) and the clerk Liz Bickley. had advised that Standards Board advice was that parish councillors in this position need not register an interest.