Hambledon Parish Magazine St Peter’s Church & Village News February 2013 50p www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk Hambledon Parish Magazine, February 2013, Page 2 PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HAMBLEDON Rector The Rev Simon Taylor 01483 421267 [email protected] Associate Vicar The Rev Catherine McBride 01483 421267 Mervil Bottom, Malthouse Lane, Hambledon GU8 4HG [email protected] Curates The Rev David Jenkins 01483 416084 6 Quartermile Road Godalming GU7 1TG The Rev James Gibson 01483 421267 2 South Hill, Godalming GU7 1JT [email protected] Ordinand in training Mr Alwyn Webb 01483 425244 36 Pullman Lane Godalming GU7 1XY Churchwardens Mrs Vicky Page Sawmill Cottage, Salt Lane Hydon Heath GU8 4DH 01483 869849 Mrs Jacqui Rook 1 Hambledon Park Hambledon GU8 4ER 01428 684390 Assistant Churchwarden Mr David Chadwick, Little Beeches, 14 Springhill, Elstead, Godalming, GU8 6EL 01252 702268 Church Treasurer & Gift Aid Dr Alison Martin Tillies Munstead Heath Road Godalming GU8 4AR 01483 893619 Sunday groups Crèche, Pre-School: Georgina Aylward 01428 682591 School Years 1-6: Alwyn Webb 01483 425244 Sunday Services Full details of these and any other services are set out in the Church Calendar for the month on page 5 Home Groups meet regularly on Monday afternoons and Wednesday evenings at various locations. Details from the Rev Catherine McBride Tel: 01483 421267 Alpha details and information from Copy deadlines for the John & Jeannie Postill Tel: 01428 687968 Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals contact March magazine Hambledon and Busbridge Church Office Tel No: 01483 421267 (Mon – Friday, 9.30am – 12.30pm) The deadline is Thursday, 14 February Please send your copy to Where there is sickness or where a visit would be valued, contact the Church Warden Philip Ryland The Rector is normally off duty on Fridays Little Leat, Lane End Hambledon, Godalming, GU8 4HD The Associate Vicar is normally off duty on Fridays Email: [email protected] The nearest Roman Catholic churches are St Teresa of Tel: 01428 683111 Avila, Chiddingfold (Fr Chris Bergin 01428 643877); St Edmund, Croft Rd, Godalming and St Joseph’s, Advertisers, please contact Milford (Fr Michael 01483 416880) Tony Parker Email: [email protected] TO SUBSCRIBE AND HAVE THE MAGAZINE Tel: 01428 683577 DELIVERED, PLEASE CONTACT PAT WILLIAMS 01428 682455 Hambledon Parish Magazine, February 2013, Page 3 Vicar’s Views – February ‘Roses are red, violets are blue….’ wonder if you’ll be eagerly awaiting the rattle of the letter box on February the 14 th as your Valentine’s cards hit the door mat. Or maybe you’ll be expecting a bunch of flowers or chocolates. I Perhaps you’ll be enjoying a romantic dinner for two at the Merry Harriers. Or does the thought of Valentine’s Day fill you with a deep despondency as it brings to mind failed relationships or makes you all the more acutely aware of being alone? No one’s really sure about the origins of St Valentine’s Day; although I quite like the story that St Valentine was a priest in Rome in about 270AD, during a time of great persecution for the church. He was imprisoned for helping Christians escape this persecution and also for performing clandestine mar- riages for Christians and for Roman soldiers, for whom marriage was forbidden by Roman law at the time. In order to remind them of God’s love for them and to encourage them in their faith, Valentine is said to have cut hearts from parchment to give to the Christians and soldiers. Whilst in prison awaiting execution Valentine is reported to have healed the blind daughter of his jailer and on the evening before his execution he wrote to her, signing himself ‘Your Valentine’. Maybe it is just a story, but one part of it is true: God does love us. It strikes me that Valentine’s Day is a good day to remember that. He loves us regardless of what we look like. He loves us without a thought about how ‘successful’ or popular we are. He loves us in spite of what we have or haven’t done. He loves us when it feels as if no one else does. Whether you’re loved-up, lovelorn or just a plain old cynic without a romantic bone in your body, God loves you. But He didn’t send a card or chocolates, he sent his Son. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Catherine McBride, Associate Vicar, Hambledon and Busbridge P.S. Please do keep an eye out for friends and neighbours who may be struggling to get out and about in any cold weather such as we had in January, and who may need a helping hand. Keep warm and safe. What makes the perfect neighbour? The Bible tells us to love our neighbours. But that doesn’t mean we have to live in each other’s homes! So this year, how do you measure up as ‘the perfect neighbour’ to those who live near you? It seems that ‘the perfect neighbour’ stops to chat for no longer than four minutes, according to research carried out by the insurer More Than. If you borrow something, aim to return it (in good condi- tion) within a couple of weeks. Invite your neighbours around for a drink or meal about six times a year. If you need to ask for favours, that is fine, but keep it to only a couple a month. Mow your neighbour’s lawn, should the need arise. Take in any parcels. Feed their cats/rabbits/guinea pigs/fish and keep an eye on their home when they go on holiday. NEVER cut a tree, plant or shrub that is on their land, and which has grown over onto yours, without asking them first. ‘A Golden Rule sums it up well: ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’. Mt 7:12 Hambledon Parish Magazine, February 2013, Page 4 CHURCH CALENDAR February 2013 Saturday 2nd 8.00 am Hambledon Ladies Breakfast at February West Surrey Golf Club, Enton Green ____________________________________________________ 3rd February 9.30 am Holy Communion (BCP) 2nd Sunday before Lent 11.00 am All Age Worship ____________________________________________________ 10th February 9.30 am Morning Prayer (BCP) Sunday before Lent 11.00 am Holy Communion (with Children’s Groups) ____________________________________________________ Wednesday 13th February 8.00 pm Holy Communion at Busbridge Ash Wednesday ____________________________________________________ Saturday 16th February 8.30 to 10.00 am - Prayer Breakfast in Church Rooms A time to meet together for prayer: all are welcome ___________________________________________________ 17th February 9.30 am Holy Communion (BCP) 1st Sunday of Lent 11.00 am Morning Worship (with Children’s Groups) ____________________________________________________ 24th February 9.30 am Morning Prayer (BCP) 2nd Sunday of Lent 11.00 am Morning Worship (with Children’s Groups) ____________________________________________________ And in March 3rd March 9.30 am Holy Communion (BCP) 3rd Sunday of Lent 11.00 am All Age Worship ____________________________________________________ Services at St John’s, Busbridge 8.30 am 1st & 3rd Sundays Morning Prayer 2nd & 4th Sundays Holy Communion 10.00 am Every Sunday “Classic” service in Church “Contemporary” service in Busbridge Junior School Groups for children of all ages in various locations – turn up and ask! 6.30 pm Benefice Evening Worship How a woman can make herself beautiful Some people attribute these wise words to the actress Audrey Hepburn, others credit writer Sam Levenson “For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed...reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone... As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others”. Hambledon Parish Magazine, February 2013, Page 5 PARISH & PEOPLE any congratulations to Alice and David the March edition of the magazine but we know that Graizevsky on the birth of a son, Rafferty there will be a service to celebrate Hazel’s life at M William, a brother for Lola and Roxy and a Chiddingfold church on Wednesday January 30th at grandson to Jacqui Rook. 2pm to which all are invited. To Hazel’s family we Carole and Ian Davis have attained the distinc- extend our loving sympathy. She was a lady that we tion of becoming great-grandparents! Well done to the all admired for the courage she showed throughout a two of you, although the occasion has been somewhat prolonged illness. Derek Lindley and his wife Dorene marred by the death of Ian’s mother on Christmas lived for a time at Hambledon Park and were fre- Day. Hambledon friends and neighbours extend their quent users of the village shop. They recently moved loving sympathy. to Wormley and we have missed them from the Ham- We have been saddened in the village at the bledon scene. To Dorene and the family we extend our loving sympathy. news of the deaths of Hazel Price and Derek Lindley. Hazel has lived in the village for many years and only And finally …... Well done Andy and Sally recently was widowed following the death of her hus- Falk on the occasion of a 40th Wedding Anniversary band Terry.