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Calendar for May 2014

 

 

The next stage in the process to appoint the New Vicar will be interviews of selected candidates on 13 May.

 

The next PCC meeting will be on Monday 9 June at 7.30 pm in the Village Hall.

    

     Diocesan News                 www.gloucester.anglican.org/news/publications

                                          www.gloucester.anglican.org/news/blog

     Nailsworth Benefice         www.stgeorgesnailsworth.org.uk

    

     Kingscote Community      www.kingscoteonline.co.uk

 

The Curate’s Letter

 

May is a delightful month when the dawn chorus of bird song reaches its full crescendo and the there are signs of new life everywhere.  There are new lambs in the fields, ducklings in the streams and the first sightings of the swallows’ arrival.  It’s a time to plant out the seedlings and everywhere people are vigorously attending to their vegetable plots and gardens.  It is a time of hope and anticipation for the new season, that this year it will be the best ever !

 

The Bible is full of stories about people who had hope when faced with the challenge of the changes in their daily lives.  Challenges that could bring them either growth and success or failure by the choices they made.  There are moments in these stories with which we can all identify with and which cause us to reflect and think further.  Challenges which we have to face in our spiritual lives and how we make our decisions and conclusions.  At the end of the month on 29 May the Christian Church celebrates Ascension Day when it remembers Jesus’ ascension into heaven.  It is one of the earliest festivals dating back to the very early church, which marks the conclusion of Jesus’ earthly ministry and the beginning of his new heavenly phase.  In his resurrection ministry we receive a fresh hope for a new season in our daily lives, knowing that Jesus ever intercedes on our behalf.

With every blessing,

Sue Sobczak

 

Flower Rota           

Sundays 4th and 11th May	Zoe Nichols
Sundays 18th and 25th May	Sue Spandler
Sundays 1st and 8th June	Jane Nichols

Wedding:  Sunday 4 May, 2.00pm, Douglas Bendle and Margaret Smith

 

Lorna Reynolds

 

 

Cleaning Team

The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 12 May.  We are always delighted to welcome anyone who would like to join the team.

Teresa Day

  

Village Hall Programme 

Village Hall AGM – Tuesday 13 May, 7.00 pm in the VH.  If you would be interested in joining the committee please contact Ken on Tel. 861 113.  Anyone is welcome to look at the VH accounts for 2013 either by contacting the treasurer Viv Ainsworth on Tel. 861 683 or by visiting the community web-site.

Coffee Morning – Tuesday 20 May, 10.30 to 11.30 am.  Coffee and cake in the Reynolds Room, £1.50.

Spring Supper – Friday 30 May, 8.00 pm, bring food to share (salads, savouries or desserts) and celebrate the season.  Admission free, pay bar.  Please let Carol know on Tel. 860 649 what food you plan to bring. 

Carol Paton

 

Grumbolds Ash Group

On Tuesday 13 May we visit the Bowood House Rhododendron Walks which open at 11.00 am.  Entry to the garden walks costs £6-75 / £6-25 and a combined House and Garden ticket costs £15-50 / £14-00.

Note that the entrance to the Garden is at  SN11 9NF, off the A342 Chippenham to Devises road, and signs to the House should be ignored for that.

Meet at the Village Hall at 10.00 am to share cars.

Jutta Tubbs

 

Book Club at 8.00 pm

Wednesday 14 May, ‘Secret History’ by Donna Tartt, at the Village Hall.

Wednesday 11 June, ‘Harvest’ by Jim Grace and/or ‘The Rosie Project’ by Graeme Simpsion, at Jane’s. 

Angela Wooldridge

 

Kingscote Parish Council

The Parish Assembly will be on Tuesday 13 May at 7.45 pm preceded by the Village Hall Committee AGM at 7.00 pm.  All parishioners are invited to attend.

 

Planning approval:

Scrubbets farm, Bagpath, proposed shelter for cattle.

Planning applications:

Woodlease Farm, Kingscote: proposed cattle/fodder store building.

2 The Park, Kingscote: fell holly tree and beech tree; trim yew, apple, plum, greengage, maple, willow, silver birch, cherry trees.

The Parish Council has been consulted concerning an application within Stroud District for an anaerobic digester at the Old Dairy, Chavenage, which is close to the Kingscote Parish Boundary.  Any comments should be directed to SDC.

 Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244

VILLAGE FETE – Saturday 28 June

There will be a Great Kingscote and Bagpath Bake-off to be judged on the day.  Please make either a Victoria sponge, or 4 scones or 4 cupcakes (or all three if you wish !).  Details of when to deliver the cakes to the fete will be announced in next month’s Forerunner.

There will also be a children’s Vegetable Monsters competition – let your imagination run riot !  Again for timings and delivery details please see next month’s Forerunner.

For those of you who keep empty jam jars and lids, we invite donations of filled jars as prizes for the tombola – sweets, crayons, dry pasta, jam/pickles, buttons whatever takes your fancy.

Also if you have gazebos or tents that could be used by stall holders please contact  Viv Ainsworth on Tel. 01453 861 683. 

Many thanks, Village Hall and PCC fete organising committee

 

Free-range eggs for sale

Mrs Pat Cooksley of 2 The Windmill normally has some free-range eggs for sale at £1 for six. Best call afternoons.

 

Mobile Police Van

The Mobile Police Station will visit Kingscote between 3.15 and 4.15 pm on Wednesday 21 May. Please support this initiative.

 

Mobile Library

The next visit will be on Friday 16 May when the van will park as usual in front of The Walled Garden from 9.30 to 11.30 am. 

 

Weekly Recycling – Green food boxes and wheelie bins

All current collection points – from 7.30 am, Fridays.

Fortnightly Recycling – Black boxes, White Bags and Blue bags

All current collection points – from 7.30 am, Fridays 2, 16 and 30 May.

 

Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill

All current collection points – from 7.30 am, Fridays 2, 16 and 30 May.

 

Bus Timetable Enquiries – Ring traveline on  0871 200 2233.

 

Magazine 

Any material which may be of interest for the next issue of the Forerunner should be sent by 20 May to H. Tubbs,  3 The Walled Garden,  Tel. 860 194.

The Editor

 

 

How the Christian Faith began for David Suchet

(Extracts from an article in The Times on 19 April describing the experience

of the actor, famous as Hercule Poirot in so many well known films)

 

In the beginning was a bath tub and David Suchet was in the bath tub.  “ It began in Seattle in an hotel in 1986,” he says.  “ As I was lying in my bath I was thinking of my grandfather, Jimmy, who was sort of my spiritual guide.  I thought ‘Isn’t that funny that I think he’s with me ?  I don’t really believe in life after death.  I don’t want to believe that.’  I thought: ‘Is there a Bible ?’  And I opened the drawer of my bedside table and there wasn’t.”

 

That might have been that.  Suchet, who was shooting the movie Bigfoot and the Hendersons, could just have headed to the bar and had a drink with his fellow actors.  However, Suchet is nothing if not assiduous, and he dug out the Yellow Pages, found a bookshop and went out to buy a Bible.  That night he read Paul’s Letter to the Romans.  “ I was grabbed in a way that I never, ever thought I would be.  I was looking at a world view that I had been searching for ever since the Beatles.

 

So began more than 20 years of exploration, leading to Suchet’s conversion to Christianity.  Suchet’s father, a hospital consultant, was Jewish and his mother a nominal Christian, but neither was religious.  At Wellington School he enjoyed reading from the King James Bible in chapel, but more from the perspective of an aspiring actor who relished the language than for the message.

 

The bath tub moment did not exactly herald a Pauline conversion.  “Paul had the flashing bright light and the world changed.  That’s not me.  The way that I prepare for a role was the way I prepare for my faith.  I was determined to prove it wrong.  I was determined that the Resurrection never happened.”  From 1986 to 2007 he “did the A to Z of churches”, trying to find the right fit.

 

Eventually he settled on the Church of England Chapel Royal at the Tower of London.  One day the chaplain there noted that he was taking communion and asked where he had been confirmed:  When Suchet said that he hadn’t been confirmed the chaplain said that technically he shouldn’t be taking communion.  He was later confirmed by the Bishop of London.

 

He is anxious though, not to be seen to be banging on about his faith.  “I am the last person to want to be considered in any way an evangelist.  It’s just not in me.  I’m not embarrassed about my faith either.  I will talk about it to anybody who wants to know.  But I’m certainly not going to push it into people’s faces without being asked.  It has given me a lot of strength in my life.  It’s not for everybody, but it’s my life.”

 

Not for him, though, any thought that the Church is on its last legs.  “ I presume, like every fashion, we are coming towards the end of the pendulum, and one day it will go all the way back again as it has done throughout history.  I don’t think it is a crisis in the church.” 

Ukrainian History

  

It seemed a good idea to provide a short item describing the history of the Ukrainian nation.  It was quickly found that this comprised almost permanent chaos, with frequent cycles of invasion, occupation, exploitation, revolution, partition by neighbouring powers to the East, North and West for over a millennium.  Tensions between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches were also involved due to strong influences from Russia and Poland.

 

A significant feature of society in 19th C Ukraine was the class of small landowning Kulak farmers who in many cases formed the focal point of community life.  These became victims of Communism being hounded by Stalin to facilitate collectivisation, concluding with the genocidal famine in the 1930’s which resulted in the death of over 3 million rural peasants.

 

As we are seeing ourselves now, there is nothing straightforward in the Ukraine.

 

The Editor

 

 

 

For the Children:

 

The Song of Mr Toad

(Composed by Toad) 

The world has held great Heroes,

As history books have showed;

But never a name to go down to fame

Compared to that of Toad !

 

The clever men at Oxford

Know all that there is to be knowed,

But they none of them knew one half as much

As intelligent Mr Toad !

 

The animals sat in the Ark and cried,

Their tears in torrents flowed.

Who was it said, ‘There’s land ahead’ ?

Encouraging Mr Toad !

 

The Army all saluted

As they marched along the road.

Was it the King ?  Or Kitchener ?

No.  It was Mr Toad !

 

The Queen and her Ladies-in-waiting

Sat at the window and sewed.

She cried, ‘Look ! Who’s that handsome man ?’

They answered, ‘Mr Toad.’ 

Kenneth Grahame

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parish Directory

 

Vicar:                        Interregnum – awaiting new appointment.

Curate:                      Reverend Sue Sobczak, Horsley, Tel.  01453 833 526

Reader                       Sue White, Nailsworth, Tel: 01453 835 693

Churchwardens:         Harry Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, GL8 8YP.        Tel: 860 194

                                 Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Kingscote, GL8 8XY, Tel: 861 683

 

Hon. Sec. PCC:          Georgina Harford, Ashcroft House, Kingscote, GL8 8YF, Tel: 01453 860 227

 

Hon. Treas. PCC:       Jane Nichols, Asheldown, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote, GL8 8YB,  Tel. 01453 860 534

 

Members of PCC:          The Churchwardens, The Hon. Secretary, The Hon. Treasurer, Elin Tattersall, Zoe Nichols, Chris Alford.

 

Flower and Clean Team: Teresa Day, Vivienne Ainsworth, Angela    Wooldridge, Pauline McTear.

 

Nailsworth MU:          Trissa Jones,   Tel:  832 551

 

Editor of Forerunner:  Harry Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote,  GL8 8YP Tel: 860 194

 

Gift Aid and Envelopes:   Jane Nichols, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote, Tel. 860 534.

 

Church Flowers Rota:  Lorna Reynolds, Tel. 860 231

 

Organist:                   Rosemary Sims, 15 Badger’s Way, Forest Green, Nailsworth,  GL6 0HE  Tel: 832 446

 

Sidespersons:             Harry Tubbs, Rod Tibbert, Elin Tattersall, Godfrey Ainsworth, Jane Nichols.

 

Electoral Roll:            Elin Tattersall, 3 Boxwood Close, Tel.01453 860 182

 

Mowing Team:           Tim Sage, Harry Tubbs, Sebastian Cooper, Rick Bond, Roger Lucy, Godfrey Ainsworth,

Ken Davies.

 

Village Hall:               Bookings: Pauline McTear, Kingscote,  Tel. 861 311

                                 Secretary:  Carol Paton, Bagpath, Tel. 860 649

 

Parish Council Chairman: Graham Nichols, Asheldown, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote  Tel: 01453 860 534

 

Parish Council Clerk:   Anna Davison, Bagpath Court, GL8 8YG, Tel. 860 244

 

Village Agent:             Aileen Bendall, Tel. 07810 630 156 or 01452 426 868

 

Printer of Forerunner:  Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Tel. 861 683                                                   

 

 

 

The Forerunner is published by the P.C.C. who are usually most willing to

accept copy from village groups and individuals. However, please note that the opinions and views expressed by the contributors within the Forerunner are not necessarily those of the Church, P.C.C. or Editor.

 

 

The Magazine for the Parish of Newington Bagpath with Kingscote

Wednesday	2nd	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	6th	Nailsworth Kingscote Horsley	9.30 am   9.30 am 11.00 am	Family Communion Morning Prayer BCP Holy Communion  CW
Wednesday	9th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Palm Sunday	13th	Kingscote Nailsworth Horsley	8.00 am   9.30 am 11.00 am	Holy Communion BCP Family Communion Family Service
Wednesday	16th	Nailsworth	10.00am	Holy Communion
Thursday	17th	Nailsworth	7.30 pm	Holy Communion
Good Friday	18th	Nailsworth Nailsworth Horsley Kingscote	11.30 am   2.00 pm 2.00 pm   2.00 pm	Service in Mortimer Gardens Quiet Hour Quiet Hour Quiet Hour
Easter Sunday	20th	Nailsworth Nailsworth Kingscote	8.00 am 9.30 am  11.00 am	Holy Communion  BCP Family service Parish Communion CW
Wednesday	23rd	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	27th	Nailsworth Kingscote Horsley	9.30 am 11.00 am 6.00 pm	Family Communion Family Service Evening Service
Wednesday	30th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion

The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group meets on Fridays at 9.45 am at St George’s Church Nailsworth, except on 18 and 25 April.

The next stage in the process to appoint the New Vicar will be a meeting of the selection panel on 29 April to choose the applicants to be interviewed on 13 May.

The Annual Parochial Church Meeting    will take place on Monday 7 April at 7.30 pm in the Village Hall.  This meeting is open to all parishioners who are most welcome to contribute.    

     Diocesan News             www.gloucester.anglican.org/news/publications

                                          www.gloucester.anglican.org/news/blog

     Nailsworth Benefice       www.stgeorgesnailsworth.org.uk

     Kingscote Community   www.kingscoteonline.co.uk

  

The Vicar’s Letter

The Christian Faith stands or falls on the resurrection !  Without the raising of Jesus from the dead there is no Gospel, no Good News.  As St Paul says when some in Corinth were denying the Resurrection, “If there is no resurrection, then Christ was not raised:  and if Christ was not raised, then our Gospel is null and void and so is your faith …..  But the truth is Christ was raised to life – the first fruits of the harvest of the dead !”

Indeed, the Resurrection is the true starting place for the study of the making and meaning of the New Testament.  We can be tempted to believe that although the Resurrection may be the climax of the Gospel, there is yet a Gospel which stands on its own feet and may be understood and appreciated before we pass on to the Resurrection.  The first disciples did not find it so !   For them the Gospel without the Resurrection was not merely a Gospel without its final chapter, it was not a gospel at all.  Jesus, it is true taught and did great things:  but he did not allow the disciples to rest in these things.  He led them on to paradox, perplexity and darkness –  and there he left them.  There too they would have remained, had he not been raised from death !

All the New Testament writings were written in the light of the Resurrection, and the conviction that Christ is raised and alive shines through in the letters of Paul, James and John.  As I said at the outset, the Christian Faith stands or falls on the Resurrection.

Yet there is a temptation for us to see the Resurrection as a past event, or as a future event when we will be called to share in the final Resurrection.  However, if we see it as something past or future only, we really lose the true impact of Christ’s resurrection, for as the New Testament writers show time and time again, the Resurrection of Jesus is something that is to be experienced here and now.  It is in our lives now that we should experience the power and freedom that God in Christ has given us in overcoming death and sin.

So that which was dead is made alive and that which was old is made new.  Indeed, when we begin to recognise the power of the Resurrection present in the ordinary everyday routine of our everyday lives, then we shall see for ourselves that all that separates, injures and destroys, is being overcome by what unites, heals and re-creates – all because we are empowered by the Risen Christ.

So let us joyfully celebrate this coming Holy Week from Palm Sunday through Maundy Thursday and Good Friday to Easter Day, and thereby proclaim the Easter Faith – that Christ is raised and that He lives in us – “Alleluya Christ is risen !  He is risen indeed”.

With every blessing,

Michael Irving

Flower Rota           

Sundays 6th and 13th April            LENT	No Flowers
Sundays 20th and 27th April        EASTER	Flower team
Sundays 4th and 11th May	Zoe Nichols

Wedding:  Saturday 26 April, 2.00pm, Timothy Benford and Georgina Payne

Lorna Reynolds

Cleaning Team

The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 14 April.  We are always delighted to welcome anyone who would like to join the team.

Teresa Day

Grumbolds Ash Group

On Tuesday 8 April we will explore the lovely old market town of Marlborough.  We plan to join the timed tour of The Merchant’s House and Garden (SN8 1HN) at 10.30 am which will take us up to lunchtime.  Admission costs £6-00.

We meet therefore at 9.00 am at the Village Hall to share the driving.

Jutta Tubbs

Village Hall Programme

Film Night – Tuesday 8 April, 7.30 pm, ‘Walk the Line’  based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash.  It stars Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon who won Best Actress for her role.  Admission free, Pay Bar.  Last film of the season.

Coffee Morning – Wednesday 16 April, 10.30 to 11.30 am.  Coffee and cake in the Reynolds Room, £1.50.

In view of the Easter holidays, there will be no further events in the Village Hall in April.

Carol Paton Tel. 860 649

Book Club at 8.00 pm

Wednesday 9 April, ‘The Sisters Brothers’ by Patrick de Witt, at the Village Hall.

Wednesday 14 May, ‘Secret History’ by Donna Tartt, at the Village Hall.

Wednesday 11 June, ‘Harvest’ by Jim Grace and/or ‘The Rosie Project’ by Graeme Simpsion, at Jane’s.

Angela Wooldridge

 

Kingscote Parish Council

The next PC meeting will be on Tuesday 15 April at 8.00 pm in the Hunters Hall.

The Parish Assembly will be on Tuesday 13 May at 7.45 pm in the Village Hall, preceded by the Village Hall Committee AGM at 7.00 pm

 

Carbon Monoxide gas poisoning:

Following the recent tragic death of Tommy Cooksley and Pat’s near escape, we need to be more aware of this domestic threat which appears to have been responsible.

All heating devices involving combustion generate variable quantities of this poisonous gas, but if the flue through which the exhaust gas discharges to the chimney is partially blocked, or if the appliance has leaks, great danger to life results.  The particular problem is that the gas does not smell and just slowly asphyxiates.

The only sure solution is to have a detector unit in any room where a combustion appliance is operated.  They cost between £15 and £30 and are available in all stores selling household goods.  It is essential to have one with a sound alarm, and they can be portable and taken to the room where the risk exists.  They must be used in compliance with the manufacturer’s instructions.  They do not detect smoke.

Plenty of official advice is available on this subject from local authorities and the Citizens’ Advice Bureaus.

 

Planning:

Shepherds Way, Calcot  –  Reduce the conifers on the boundaries with the roads by no more than one third.

No objection (County Council)

Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244

 

Plants for sale

At Bumpers Island we have a range of plants for sale from 1 April.  Call 01453 860 498 to check availability. 

Jane Bateman

 

SAVE THE DATE – VILLAGE FETE !

Kingscote and Bagpath Village Fete will be held on Saturday 28 June at Kingscote House;  Hog Roast, Afternoon Teas, Bar, Dog Show, Children’s competitions, Stalls and lots more.  Guest band appearance by Dr Jazz.  Bring your friends.  Full details next month.

Village Hall and PCC fete organising committee

 

Free-range eggs for sale

Mrs Pat Cooksley of 2 The Windmill normally has some free-range eggs for sale at £1 for six. Best call afternoons.

Weekly Recycling – Green food boxes and wheelie bins

All current collection points – from 7.30 am, Fridays.

Fortnightly Recycling – Black boxes, White Bags and Blue bags

All current collection points – from 7.30 am, Fridays 4 and 18 April.

Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill

All current collection points – from 7.30 am, Fridays 4 and 18 April.

 

Bus Timetable Enquiries – Ring traveline on  0871 200 2233.

Mobile Police Van

The Mobile Police Station will visit Kingscote between 6.30 and 7.00 pm on Tuesday 22 April. Please support this initiative.

Mobile Library 

Due to the Easter holidays the next visit will be on Friday 16 May when the van will park as usual in front of The Walled Garden from 9.30 to 11.30 am.

Magazine

Any material which may be of interest for the next issue of the Forerunner should be sent by 20 April to H. Tubbs,  3 The Walled Garden,  Tel. 860 194.

The Editor

 

An Easter Message – Experience Easter : Experience Hope 

(Copied from the Diocesan Messenger for April) 

Ukraine, Syria, South Sudan – just some of the places deeply scarred by conflict today.  And in our own country a range of challenging issues – communities recovering from floods and storms, unemployment, a fragile economic recovery – the list goes on.   It can all seem a long way from the story of new life and resurrection that the church will be celebrating once more as Lent and Holy Week give way to Easter.  Where do we find hope?

The Easter story speaks of transformation born out of Jesus’ defeat of death.  His rising to life eternal happened out of a crucible of pain and crucifixion.  That is the ground of Christian hope.  Not simply optimism which believes that somehow everything will be okay, but a true hope founded on the power of God to raise Christ from the dead.  If death can be defeated, then all those other things that scar our world can be transformed too.  But to do so takes courage, faith and love.  Hope is not cheap.

Easter proclaims that the power that raised Jesus from the dead can now work in us and bring transformation to the world.  Are we bold enough to be an Easter people who allow that power to be at work through us so that others too can experience the hope that Easter celebrates ? 

Revd Canon Andrew Braddock

(Director of Mission and Ministry) 

 

An Easter Prayer

 O Lord God, our Father. You are the light that can never be put out; and now you give us a light that shall drive away all darkness.  You are love without coldness, and you have given us such warmth in our hearts that we can love all when we meet.  You are the life that defies death, and you have opened for us the way that leads to eternal life.

 None of us is a great Christian; we are all humble and ordinary.  But your grace is enough for us.  Arouse in us that small degree of joy and thankfulness of which we are capable, to the timid faith which we can muster, to the cautious obedience which we cannot refuse, and thus to the wholeness of life which you have prepared for us through the death and resurrection of your son.  Do not allow any of us to remain apathetic or indifferent to the wondrous glory of Easter, but let the light of our risen Lord reach every corner of our dull hearts. 

Karl Barth 1886 ~ 1968

 (He was the most prominent Protestant theologian of his time, and he asserted that the supremacy of God, revealed in Jesus Christ, was far above the grasp of human reason.  Most of his life was devoted to his academic work and to resisting the Nazi movement.  But in his mellow old age he preached a series of sermons at Basle prison in his native Switzerland, each of which concluded with a prayer.)

 

May Hill

Gloucestershire

This they once called Yartleton Hill,

From the Celtic, meaning ‘round topped’, still

A name that fits, that’s suitable.

Close to a thousand feet above sea level,

An encampment of towering Scots pine

Is assembled here, like a conquering clan

Claiming the hill.  We gaze around

The circling counties, admire the border ground,

The silvered Severn reflecting sunlight,

The Forest, the Malverns, and Welsh hills receding.

 

The sky is blue-and-yellow bright,

But crisp chilly March will keep us moving.

These are the early-in-the-year days we love

When landscapes awaken with the life we crave.

A pine-cone is blown from its tree-top,

Pin balling off branches as it tumbles down –

The tall and the small of this Gloucestershire crown.

 Roger Pope, from his book

‘Love Between Sandwiches 2’

Parish Directory

 

Vicar:                    Interregnum – awaiting new appointment.

Curate:                  Reverend  Sue Sobczak, Horsley, Tel.  01453 833 526 

Reader                  Sue White, Nailsworth, Tel: 01453 835 693 

Churchwardens:   Harry Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, GL8 8YP.            Tel: 860 194

                            Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Kingscote, GL8 8XY Tel: 861 683

Hon.Sec.PCC:        Georgina Harford, Ashcroft House, Kingscote, GL8 8YF Tel: 01453 860 227 

Hon.Treas.PCC:    Jane Nichols, Asheldown, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote, GL8 8YB Tel. 01453 860 534

Members of PCC:   The Churchwardens, The Hon. Secretary, The Hon. Treas- urer, Elin Tattersall, Zoe Nichols, Philip Kendell, Chris Alford.

Flower and Clean Team: Teresa Day, Vivienne Ainsworth, Angela Wooldridge, Pauline McTear.

Nailsworth MU:     Trissa Jones,   Tel:  832 551

Editor of Forerunner:  Harry Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, GL8 8YP Tel: 860 194

Gift Aid and Envelopes:   Jane Nichols, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote Tel. 860 534.

Church Flowers Rota: Lorna Reynolds, Tel. 860 231 

Organist:               Rosemary Sims, 15 Badger’s Way, Forest Green, Nailsworth,  GL6 0HE  Tel: 832 446

Sidespersons:         Harry Tubbs, Rod Tibbert, Elin Tattersall, Godfrey Ainsworth.

Electoral Roll:        Elin Tattersall, 3 Boxwood Close, Tel.01453 860 182

Mowing Team:         Tim Sage, Harry Tubbs, Sebastian Cooper, Rick Bond, Roger Lucy, Godfrey Ainsworth, Ken Davies. 

Village Hall:        Bookings: Pauline McTear, Kingscote,  Tel. 861 311

                            Secretary:  Carol Paton, Bagpath, Tel. 860 649

Parish Council Chairman: Graham Nichols, Asheldown, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote  Tel: 01453 860 534

Parish Council Clerk:   Anna Davison, Bagpath Court, GL8 8YG, Tel. 860 244

Village Agent:        Aileen Bendall, Tel. 07810 630 156 or 01452 426 868

Printer of Forerunner:  Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Tel. 861 683                                                   

 

The Forerunner is published by the P.C.C. who are usually most willing to accept copy from village groups and individuals. However, please note that the opinions and views expressed by the contributors within the Forerunner are not necessarily those of the Church, P.C.C. or Editor.