Parish News Kington, Huntington & Titley June 2021 THE KINGTON PARISHES SARGEANTS BUSES FOR KINGTON FROM 3rd September 2020 email: [email protected] Mill Street, Kington St Mary, Kington St Thomas a Becket, Huntington Tel : 01544 230481 Herefordshire St Stephen, Old Radnor St Mary, Kinnerton St Peter, Titley HR5 3AL www.kingtonparishes.org.uk CLERGY HEREFORD 461 via Lyonshall 462 via Eardisley Rev Ben Griffith The Vicarage, Church Road, Kington HR5 3AG 01544 230525 Journey times vary Kington to Hereford approx 65minutes Vicar’s email: [email protected] Departs Mill Street Car Park, KINGTON Parish Office email: [email protected] 461 461 461 461 461 461 462 461 461 461 463 Mon-Fri 0645 0720 0850 0950 1050 1150 1250 1350 1450 1540 1710 ASSISTANT CURATE Saturday - 0720 0850 0950 1050 1150 1250 1350 1450 1540 1710 Rev Linda MacDermott 5 Gravel Hill Drive, Kington, HR5 3AE 01544 239395 Email: [email protected] Returns Railway Station, HEREFORD 461 461 461 461 462 461 461 462 461 461 Sat/Hol Sch 461 461 Rev Denis Parry 33 Mill Street, Kington HR5 3AL 01544 230550 Mon-Fri 0748 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1615 1700 1815 Rev Tony Jardine 9 Park Green, Kington 01544 239160 Saturday - 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 - 1700 1815 Rev Paul Buckingham The Cottage, Prospect Lane, Kington HR5 3BE 01544 231357 READER LLANDRINDOD WELLS Rob MacCurrach 33 Cutterbach Lane, Kington, HR5 3EH 01544 231848 Departs Mill Street Car Park, KINGTON 461 461 461 461 462 461 461 462 461 461 CHURCHWARDENS M-F Coll Days 0600 0750 1010 1110 1210 1310 1410 1610 1735 1810 Kington Miss Ann Edwards 01544 230271 M-F Coll Hols - 0750 1010 1110 1210 1310 1410 1610 1735 1810 6 Headbrook, Kington HR5 3DZ Sat - 0750 1010 1110 1210 1310 1410 1610 1735 1810 Mr Rodney Bowdler 01544 231501 Returns from Railway Station, LLANDRINDOD WELLS Bridge House, Bridge St, Kington HR5 3DW 461 461 461 462 462 461 463 462 461 461 M-F Coll Days 0638 0900 1108 1208 1308 1408 1600 1708 1808 1850 Huntington Mrs Christina Powell 01544 370655 Sat& Coll Hols - 0900 1108 1208 1308 1408 1605 1708 1808 1850 Upper Hengoed, Huntington, Kington HR5 3PQ Mr Peter Kelly 01544 370266 KNIGHTON Route 41 Greenfield Farm, Huntington, Kington HR5 3PZ Departs Mill Street Car Park, KINGTON M - F 0610 0820 1010 1210 1520 1730 Old Radnor Mr Michael Jones 01544 370259 Sat - 0820 1010 1210 1520 1730 Weythel Farm, Old Radnor, Presteigne LD8 2RR Departs Bus Station, KNIGHTON Mrs Rosemary Watkins 01544 230174 M - F 0642 0911 1111 1307 1617 1805 Dunfield Bungalow, Stanner Rd, Kington HR5 3NN Sat - 0911 1111 1307 1617 1805 Kinnerton Mrs Ruth Jones: Upper House, Kinnerton, Presteigne, LD8 2PE 01547 560207 TOWN SERVICE Tue & Fri Serves all areas of Kington Mr Michael Symons 01547 560319 Arrives DOCTOR’S SURGERY 10.02 & 11.20 Church House, Kinnerton, Presteigne LD8 2PE ARROW VIEW Tue & Fri Departs Kington Museum 9.20 11.15 Titley Mr Dick Allford 01544 231052 Departs Arrow View 9.30 RQ Pinecroft, Titley, Kington, HR5 3RL TIMETABLES FOR ALL SERVICES AVAILABLE ON MOST BUSES MAGAZINE EDITOR & OFFICE IN MILL STREET Miss Freda Lymath [email protected] Arrow Weir House, Kingswood Rd, Kington HR5 3HD 01544 231780 Also available on www.sargeantsbros.com St. Mary’s, Kington PCC is a registered charity and its number is 1185453 2 3 Letter from the Archdeacon of Ludlow View from the Vicarage This is the first time I’ve written one of these Trusting in the Trinity articles since I moved to south Shropshire and Dear Friends was collated as Archdeacon of Ludlow at the end As I write this, Coronavirus restrictions are being eased of April, so I’d like to begin by thanking you for on both sides of the border and for the majority of us, the very warm welcome my family and I have life is beginning to return to something approaching received among you here in the archdeaconry normality, although with some considerable and the wider diocese. Moving house during a distance still to travel. We are, therefore in a time of pandemic was a challenge, but we were well supported all the way, not least by the prayers considerable transition in which the future even the of those in both dioceses: St Albans and Hereford. immediate future seems very unclear and it’s very difficult to predict which of the changes we’ve become Like you, I’m hopeful that we may now be entering a time where the necessary restrictions accustomed to over the past months will prove to be under which we’ve lived for the past year will ease, and I can get out and about more to transitory and which permanent. visit parishes, beginning to get to know the clergy and people in our schools, churches, and It seems to me entirely appropriate that this period wider communities. of transition coincides exactly with the moment when the Christian calendar takes a dramatic change of tempo. Over the past months since the You may be wondering what my hopes and prayers for the coming years are. In many ways middle of February we’ve spent the long days of Lent, not just waiting for another Lockdown they’re summed up in the reading from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians which was read at to ease but also preparing to accompany Christ through his passion and death. We’ve walked with him as we recalled those astounding Spring days in Jerusalem so long ago my collation: and we’ve celebrated another Covd-19 Easter. In the past few weeks alongside celebrating the relief of hair cuts and shopping for non-essential items we’ve also celebrated Christ’s “I pray that out of his glorious riches God may strengthen you with power through his Spirit triumphant return to glory at Ascension. More recently while also perhaps enjoying in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that some indoor hospitality we’ve been alongside Jesus’ first followers in their self-imposed you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s quarantine ending in the revelation of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The emotional high wire holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to act that is the Christian year strangely in step with the Governments’ lockdown escape know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the plan. fullness of God. The conclusion of all of this busyness is the great festival of Trinity Sunday, the only occasion during the year when our celebration is focussed upon a doctrine rather than Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according an event. Not just any old doctrine either: the most mind numbingly complex theological to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus conundrum of them all. The one Christian truth which draws a clear distinction between throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” Christianity and our Jewish and Muslim brothers and sisters. In common with them, - Ephesians 3:16-21 Christianity is monotheistic, all three faiths believe that there is but one God. Unlike Jews and Muslims, Christians following the revelation of Jesus Christ believe that the one God I long that each of us in the churches across the diocese may know the fullness of the love reveals himself in three different and distinct forms. That, in brief is the Doctrine of the of God in Christ ourselves, and may be equipped and inspired to share that love with those Trinity; three persons but one God. St. Patrick, famously used the shamrock to illustrate around us in our homes, families, schools, workplaces, and places of leisure. I pray that this the Trinity. I, somewhat less famously, use water to do the same. However you explain it, faith and love will fill you, and our churches, villages, and towns. understand it or struggle to do either; the fundamental truth is that we believe in one God who reveals himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit or Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer to A tall order? Maybe. But at the end of the passage we’re reminded that God can do be non-gender specific. immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work It seems to me that as we wait in hope for the final easing of lockdowns and prepare to within us. That’s the grounds for my confidence as, together, we move on and out in faith, emerge from the dark shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic that we will depend on all three filled with hope, to share the love of Christ with our lips and our lives. persons of the Trinity perhaps more than at any other moment in our lifetimes. AD Fiona We will depend on the reassurance of the Creator that the fundamental forces of creation including the human intellect will enable us as global citizens from the scourge of 4 5 Coronavirus, doubtless with the knowledge that it will not have been eliminated but that is reading a psalm using the different translations people have brought with them. The following the sacrifices of these turbulent months and supported by the global vaccination meetings have no formal structure at all, with free prayer, Bible readings and silence all programme, Coronavirus’ worst impacts and its ability to mutate itself will, have been featuring in our time together.