Rector: Rev’d Canon Katrina Scott Tel: 01451 821777 or Email: [email protected] Twitter : @KatrinaKrgscott Rev’d Sue Cox (Associate Priest) - 01451 821641 Rev’d David Quin (Honorary Associate Priest) – 01608 651571 Jean Bird (Reader Emeritus) - 01451 605086 View online at www.achurchnearyou.com Churches and School working together to share God’s love in our communities CHURCHWARDENS SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN Cutsdean (GL54 5RX) Joint Editor Mark Evans 01386 584245 Revd Canon Katrina Scott 01451 (Safeguarding Officer: Peter Forshaw) 821777 Lower Slaughter (GL54 2HR) Joint Editor/Advertising/Production: (Vacant) Karen Randles 01451 821964 (Safeguarding Officer: Marion Marshall) Copyright © Seventy Times Seven Naunton (GL54 3AX) Articles may only be reproduced with the David Renney 07770 815023 prior written permission of the author. (Safeguarding Officer: Barbara Steiner) The views expressed are not necessarily Temple Guiting (GL54 5RW) those of the Editors. 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(Safeguarding Officer: Ken Pascoe) Guiting Power (GL54 5TY) Michael Edwards 01451 850232 Temple Guiting Church of David Broad 01451 850713 --- Churchwarden Emeritus --- England Primary School Dorothy Watson 01451 850310 Head Teacher: Mrs Ann Barry (Safeguarding Officer: Michael Edwards) Tel: 01451 850304 Farmcote (GL54 5AU) www.templeguiting.gloucs.sch.uk Peter Loveday 01242 602887 (Safeguarding Officer: Michael Edwards) DEAR READERS … Welcome to our Summer edition, we hope you enjoy reading it and that you enjoy the wonderful events planned in our villages over the coming months. We would like to say a huge “thank you” to Liz Gibson for organising and running the recent refreshments weekend at Upper Slaughter to raise funds for our magazine, and to all who helped, provided cakes and supported the event from across the Benefice. With £573 raised, this was a marvellous result and very much appreciated. DEAR FRIENDS … We have two great pieces of news to share with you from life around our Benefice: Temple Guiting Church of England School have recently had their ‘Church School’ Inspection (SIAMS). The Inspector has written a very positive report and has concluded that we are Good in each area she inspected. She summed up our School saying, “Temple Guiting is ‘thriving’ as a learning community built on love”. Do go to the school website to see the full report – www.templeguiting.gloucs.sch.uk In late June this year, our ministry team here will be joined by Rev’d Sue Pestell. Sue will be a Curate working across our Benefice for the next 3-5 years. Here are some words from Sue introducing herself: “My name is Sue Pestell and I’m delighted to be serving my curacy among you in the Benefice of Seven Churches. I currently live in Winchcombe with my husband Rob, who is a Hospice Chaplain, and our youngest son James. We have two other children - Jonathan who is married to Zoë, and Andrew, married to Vikki. We also have three grandchildren. I have spent the last three years in theological training on a regional course based in Gloucester, an experience I have enjoyed very much. One of the lovely parts of it was doing a ministerial placement alongside Katrina in your Benefice. Other things that I enjoy are being with people, historic buildings, a bit of walking, Sudoku, the sea, and cake. And of course the family. I look forward to joining you in July.” Please do come along and support Sue at her Ordination at Gloucester Cathedral on 30 June at 10.15am and welcome her at our Benefice Welcome Service at Temple Guiting at 6pm on Sunday 7th July! Katrina, Sue, Jean and David MORNING PRAYER IN THE BENEFICE Mondays : 9.15am at Lower Slaughter Tuesdays : 9.15am at Guiting Power Wednesdays : 9.15am at Naunton Thursdays : 9.30am at Temple Guiting (following Open the Book in School) Fridays : 9.15am at Upper Slaughter. If you would like to join in that would be lovely. As part of our COMMUNITY MINISTRY we have shared in these special services ... BAPTISMS “May God guide and protect them” Thomas NELSON at Temple Guiting on 7 March 2019 Lois BELL at Lower Slaughter on 14 April 2019 WEDDINGS “May God bless them” Ross WEST and Sophie MOTTRAM at Lower Slaughter on 30 March 2019 FUNERALS “May God grant them light and peace” Michael RATCLIFFE Funeral Service at Bourton-on-the-Water and Burial at Lower Slaughter on 1 March 2019 Betty RUCKER Memorial Evensong at Upper Slaughter on 10 March 2019 Maureen VANDERPLANK Funeral and Burial at Farmcote on 26 April 2019 Ray MOSSON Funeral and Burial at Lower Slaughter on 17 May 2019 NEWS FROM THE WIDER CHURCH ... A Prayer for Health Here is a lovely prayer to use when you are thinking of a loved one who is going through a time of ill health: God of compassion and love, we hold before you all those who suffer and those who care for them. We pray especially at this time for those we love who are in pain. Hold them in your strength and with your peace. Bring them comfort and healing. May they know your joy and your light. Amen. Please do remember in your prayers Sue Cox, David Quin, Jean Bird and John Stanley, members of our Ministry Team here who are struggling with their health at the moment. What is a Curacy? Since we have announced that our Benefice will be celebrating the arrival of Rev’d Sue Pestell as a curate at the end of June, a number of people have asked me the question – “what does that really mean?” A curate is a newly ordained person who comes to a group of parishes as a training post. It’s a bit like an apprenticeship, where a curate comes to learn on the job. Sue will be a Reverend following her ordination at Gloucester Cathedral on 30th June, and for her first year works as a Deacon, before being made a Priest next year. She will be working across the Benefice, sharing in ministry with Katrina. Please do introduce yourself to her and invite her to get involved in events happening in our communities. Katrina Scott WHAT’S ON IN THE BENEFICE … Village Open Gardens Guiting Power - Sunday 2nd June, 2:00pm - 6:00pm There’s nowhere to go in Guiting … Pay a visit and help fund our Village Toilet in the Churchyard Project View the varied gardens, meet the gardeners, savour the setting and enjoy our teas Garden entry tickets: £6.00, accompanied children 16 years & under FREE Tickets, Maps, Teas, Toilets and Parking at the Village Hall Find us at GL54 5TX on your ‘sat nav’. GARDENS OPEN Sunday 9 June 2019, 11am – 5pm Do come and join us, we have 2 gardens open in aid of St Peters Church, Upper Slaughter. With all this glorious weather they are looking really lovely. The views, as always, are stunning – looking out over our truly wonderful countryside. There is plenty of parking and the majority of the two gardens are accessible for a wheel chair. There will be homemade cakes and tea in the barn at Kirkham where you will be waited on by my grandchildren (always an experience!) Kirkham Farm, Upper Slaughter, GL54 2JS Fir Farm, Upper Slaughter, GL54 2RJ Entrance £5, Children under 12 FREE Naunton Classic & Vintage Transport Show and Village Fete Sunday 14 July 2019, 12.00 – 16.00 hrs Naunton Recreation Ground (SAT NAV Post Code GL54 3AS) Awards for Best Pre-1940, pre-1970, pre-2000 cars. Best pre- and post-war motorbikes. ‘The car I most want to take home’. “Vehicle of the day” To register your vehicle contact: [email protected] www.nauntonclassicandvintagetransportshowandfete.co.uk £5.00 entry per vehicle in advance includes: driver and first passenger plus a cup of tea/coffee, bacon sandwich for the driver. Additional bacon roll, tea/coffee £2.50. Additional passengers £1.00 entry each, programme Children’s Games, Tombola, Bar-B-Que, Bar, Cream Teas, Stalls, Raffle £1.00 entry and parking for non-entrants. Under-16s free. All proceeds towards Naunton Village Charity Fund. NEWS FROM THE PEWS ... Temple Guiting How lovely it is to see the trees in full blossom and the lovely young green leaves, and how amazing the sunshine has been so early in the year. A large number of people crowded into the village hall for Party Pieces and had marvellous entertainment from the school children and adults. It’s surprising what unknown talent there is in the village! Michael Bochman was an excellent compere and we all enjoyed the jacket potatoes for supper. Easter was a beautiful occasion with the services well attended and the Church looking beautiful with all the Spring flowers. Now let’s look forward to a lovely warm and happy Summer. Audrey Mather Naunton Once again St Andrew's celebrated Easter with a family gathering on Good Friday during which as well as a short service, the children created an Easter garden and made various Easter themed items such as crosses and donkeys before finally joining in an Easter Egg hunt around the churchyard and then on Easter Day there was Holy Communion with Hymns. As this piece was being written plans were afoot for Ascension Day when St Andrew's was to be the venue for a Benefice celebration of Praise, Puddings and Prosecco - a first for Naunton - but otherwise the normal pattern of services is continuing, as is the weekly coffee shop and the monthly (except for August) rural cinema showings.