OCTOBER 2020 90 PENCE Apple Day - 21st October Advertising If you are interested in advertising in this magazine the cost is £55 per annum for an advertisement eighth A4 page (landscape 90mm x 60mm) and £95 for a quarter A4 size (portrait 90mm x 130mm). Please contact Rose Grisman - [email protected] - for more information. Magazine readers please note that we are unable to guarantee the services provided by any of our advertisers. If responding to advertisers please do mention that you saw their advertisement in the Crediton Benefice Community Parish Magazine. Thank you. Contacts in the In this month’s magazine: Crediton Benefice Community Contact and Pastoral Care Page 2 RECTOR Rector’s Notes The Reverend Matthew Tregenza 01363 894038 Page 3 PRIEST AT SANDFORD Boniface Centre The Reverend Paul Fillery 01363 777372 Page 4 LICENSED READERS News from around the Benefice Carol Price 01647 24468 Page 5 Sandra Collier 01363 777013 Crediton APCM PARISH OFFICE Page 8 Parish Administrator: Gill Lee Called by Name (Tuesday and Friday 9.30am – 12.30pm) Page 9 The Boniface Centre, Church Lane, Crediton, EX17 2AH 01363 773226 [email protected] Crediton PCC Feedback Website: www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk Page 14 Life in Lockdown - Part 7 CLERK TO THE CHURCH GOVERNORS Sandra Thresher Page 16 01363 85467 [email protected] St Lawrence Chapel Page 17 CHURCHWARDENS Crediton: John Musty, Sheila Ralph, Mike May Church of England Digital Labs Sandford: Colin Clark, Linda Bennett-Smith Conference Shobrooke: Rosemary Barber, John Lee Page 20 Yeoford: Carol Price (Licensed Reader) Music for Mission and Ministry Posbury: Fiona Mortimer (Chairman), Ruth Vigers (Treasurer) Page 20 DIRECTOR OF MUSIC (ACTING) Safeguarding Update Richard Stephens 01363 775170 [email protected] Page 22 BELL TOWER Plus regular features: Tower Captain: Geoff Sparling 01363 776681 [email protected] Choir Notes – Page 18 Friends of Crediton Church – Page 7 BONIFACE CENTRE BOOKINGS From the Archives – Page 21 Robin Lavery 01363 772536 [email protected] Mothers’ Union – Page 17 CREDITON MOTHERS’ UNION Prayer Diary – Page 10 Anne Jerman 01363 772865 Reverberations – Page HOLY CROSS FACEBOOK PAGE Rhymes and Things – Page 12 James Turner [email protected] PARISH MAGAZINE Editor and Advertising: Rose Grisman To all contributors to the 1 Dokkum Road, Crediton, EX17 3DJ magazine 01363 776002 [email protected] The deadline for items to be Distribution: Kathleen Hughes 01363 777371 included in the NOVEMBER edition of the magazine is If you would like a copy of the magazine delivered each Sunday 18th October month please contact Gill Lee or Kathleen Hughes Thank you for your co-operation Annual subscription £9 ********** Distribution of the magazine will be © ROOTS for Churches Ltd 2002-2013. Material in Prayer Diary reproduced with permission www.rootsontheweb.com by delivery and email, and hard copies will be available at All articles and correspondence in this magazine reflect the Evans Newsagents from views of the writers and should not be read otherwise Saturday 31st October 1 British Summer Time ends at 2pm on Sunday 25th October Don’t forget to put your clocks back 1 hour! OCTOBER SERVICES IN THE BENEFICE Please note that these services may be subject to change, depending on the guidelines in place at the time. CREDITON SANDFORD SHOBROOKE Others 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) POSBURY 4 Oct 9.30 Harvest Communion 10.00 Holy Communion 11.00 Holy Communion 11.00 Harvest Communion Trinity 17 (BCP) 6pm Choral Evensong 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30 Holy Communion 11 Oct YEOFORD 11.00 Holy Communion 10.00 Holy Communion 11.00 Family Service 10.00 Harvest Service Trinity 18 6pm Evening Prayer at St Lawrence Chapel 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) 18 Oct 9.30 Holy Communion POSBURY Luke the 11.00 Holy Communion 10.00 Holy Communion 11.00 Holy Communion 6pm Sacred Space (BCP) Evangelist at St Lawrence Chapel 25 Oct 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30 Holy Communion YEOFORD 10.00 Holy Communion 11.00 Holy Communion Bible 11.00 Holy Communion 9.30 Holy Communion Sunday 6pm Said Compline Contact and Pastoral Care during the ‘Lockdown’ Gill has been able to return to working in the Parish Office but due to Covid-19 working restrictions, please don’t call at the office but continue to make contact by telephone (01363 773226) or email [email protected]. Gill is still checking the [email protected] email address as well. There is also lots of information and the resources for the Sunday services on the church website: www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk And don’t forget the Holy Cross Crediton Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ CreditonParishChurch/ where you can also view the Sunday service. You don’t need to have a Facebook account to view the posts that have been made. There are Pastoral Care arrangements in place. Do contact the Pastoral Care group by email: [email protected] or phone Matthew (01363 894038) or Stella Stephens (07960 388198) if you, or someone you know needs some help or would appreciate a phone call. Please use the same contact details to offer help. There are a small number of people where we are helping with shopping in particular and the team is also maintaining telephone contact with the church family. 2 Rector’s Notes Yours, Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the splendour, and the majesty, As we move into October, I'm reminded for everything in heaven and on earth is of Keats's poem To Autumn, which yours. begins with 'Season of mists and mellow All things come from you, and of your fruitfulness'. Perhaps, like me, you had own do we give you. to study the poem for O-level English Literature, and isn’t it strange how In the middle of October we especially certain lines and phrases stick with remember St Luke. This year, his feast you? day (October 18th) falls on a Sunday. Many scholars believe him to have been As I walk the dog along the footpaths a physician and so St Luke is very much around Crediton with the hint of associated with healing and wholeness. autumn in the atmosphere, apples We shall pray for physicians and all falling from the trees and the colours of other medical staff and also those who the trees beginning to turn, those words are involved in the Church's ministry of come to mind. Mellow fruitfulness, slow healing and wholeness. We give thanks ripening. In many ways that phrase too for the skills and gifts of medical could be used to describe the journey of staff and for our NHS, especially during faith. For some people faith is the current Covid-19 pandemic. something that develops slowly, almost unseen and perhaps unrecognised, until And finally... I know that many of us we somehow notice that something has have really appreciated having 'live' happened, whilst the rhythm of life goes music during our Sunday worship and on. so it has been really good to welcome the Choir back, albeit in small groups as The rhythm of life indeed goes on and at current regulations allow. Thanks to all the beginning of October we especially who have used their ingenuity and time cultivate the virtue of thanksgiving as and efforts to make this happen. we give thanks to God for the Harvest. Harvest Festival gives us an opportunity Your friend and Rector to celebrate all that God provides for us: Matthew Tregenza "first the grain, and then the ear and then the full seed shall appear." This cycle of life in the natural world is one of nature’s miracles. We so easily take it FROM THE CHURCH REGISTERS for granted until floods or drought OF THE BENEFICE 2020 threaten our supplies; then we’re Baptisms reminded that food supplies are often August 30 Isabella Grace Coles uncertain for many people across the September 6 Anais Ivy Matthews world. Although life has been rather Weddings difficult, in many ways, during these last August 29 Mark Broster and few months it is worth remembering Robyn Harrigan that in this country our food supplies Funerals have continued and that is something to August 20 Peter Tucker give thanks for. September 2 Ruby Saulsbury When thinking of Harvest, I'm often September 4 Reita Piper reminded of those words in the September 7 Pearl Bulled Eucharist when we declare ... 3 Sunday Worship Boniface Centre Sunday Worship continues with services This article is being written on the very at 8.00am, 9.30am and 11.00am and day that the new “Rule of Six” regime 6.00pm. For the 9.30am and 11.00am comes into effect. Inevitably this has services, contact Anne Jerman on caused significant reflection as to how 01363 772865 or email: the Centre is affected and what is [email protected] if you possible within legally imposed limits. cannot attend or wish to attend at a The first casualty has most different time to your ‘normal’. Please unfortunately been Drop-in and there is note that it is now compulsory to wear a separate article about that. face coverings when attending a place of worship, apart from those who are There was very little time to react to the exempt from doing so. Everyone that has new rules that were announced 5 days attended a Sunday service has received a in advance with the written information service booklet to take home and bring appearing 2 days later. We have now to back each week. The church toilets are distinguish between business meetings available on Sundays. Please do not and social gatherings in what can go attend church if you have any of the ahead, and there will inevitably be grey symptoms of coronavirus.