Service Calendar for July 2015
| Wednesday | 1st | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 5th | KingscoteNailsworth
Nailsworth Horsley |
9.30 am 8.00 am
11.00 am 11.00 am |
Morning PrayerHoly Communion BCP
All-age service Holy Communion & Baptism |
| Wednesday | 8th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 12th | KingscoteNailsworth
Nailsworth
Horsley |
9.30 am11.00 am
3.30 pm 11.00 am |
Holy Communion BCPHoly Communion
‘Messy Church’ at Nailsworth School
Family Service |
| Wednesday | 15th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 19th | KingscoteNailsworth
Horsley
|
9.30 am11.00 am
11.00 am |
Family Service and BaptismFamily Communion
Family Communion & Baptism |
| Wednesday | 22nd | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 26th | KingscoteNailsworth
Horsley Nalsworth |
9.30 am11.00 am
6.00 pm 6.00 pm |
Holy Communion CWHoly Communion
Evensong BCP ‘One Voice’ worship service at Christ Church |
| Wednesday | 29th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group meets on Fridays at 9.45am at Nailsworth. Refreshments served afterwards in the Parish Room.
The next PCC meeting will be at 8.00 pm in the Village Hall on Tuesday 8 Sept.
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The Vicar’s Letter
Dear Friends,
So – summer is finally here ! School term ends, holidays are planned – all is good …
Except for some, this is not the time of ease and relaxation it might be.
Some will have an anxious wait for the results of their efforts during the exam periods – wondering whether they will get back into the 6th form or make it to their college or university of choice.
Others, bringing up families on their own, will be trying to juggle work and family life and the extra stress that can place on everyone.
And the whole idea of a ‘holiday’ may be a million miles away from the minds of many as they simply cannot afford to spend the money it costs these days, especially during the peak school holiday periods.
However, the word ‘holiday’ did not originally mean a week in the sun on the beach. It is derived from ‘holy day’. It was a day set apart from the usual bustle of life to recharge the batteries and renew our relationship with God. And I guess that we all need to take time out from the busyness of our lives.
There is a great verse from one of my favourite hymns that sums up my hopes and prayers for everyone over this summer period – that you will find time to stop and recharge your batteries:
‘Drop thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease.
Take from our souls the strain and stress
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of they peace.’
May God give you His peace however and wherever you spend the summer this year.
With every blessing,
Mike Smith
Flower Rota
| 5th July12th and 19th July
26th July and 2nd August |
Jane Nichols Carol Burness
Tracey Pool |
No Weddings in July.
Lorna Reynolds
Cleaning Team
The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 13 July.
Anyone interested and prepared to spare an hour in the afternoon on the second Monday of the month, occasionally or regularly, please contact me on 860 367.
Teresa Day
Village Hall Programme
Coffee Morning – Wednesday 15 July 10.30 to 11.30 am in the Reynolds Room, all welcome £1-50 for coffee and cake.
There will be no other events in the Village Hall until September but the hall facilities, including two table tennis tables and a pool table, are available if anyone wants to arrange an event during the school holidays. Please contact Pauiline McTear on Tel. 861 311 for details.
Carol Paton
Grumbolds Ash Group
On Tuesday 14 July we plan to take a ride on a horse- drawn barge on the Tiverton canal, North Devon. The barge trip costs £12-35, departing at 2.15 pm and returning after 2 1/2 hrs. If you would like to take part let me know by Monday 6 July.
We meet at the Village Hall at 10.00 am to share transport and drive to lunch – Tiverton Canal Co: EX16 4HX.
Jutta Tubbs
Book Club at 8.00 pm
Wednesday 1 July The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion, at Angela’s.
Wednesday 5 August Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey and/or The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins at Teresa’s. New members always very welcome.
Angela Wooldridge
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.
Kingscote Parish Council
The next meeting of the Parish Council will be on Tuesday 14 July at 8.00 pm in the Hunters Hall.
Plannng approvals
Calcot Manor, conversion of ‘cowshed’ building from existing staff residential & office accommodation to hotel guest suites.
Matara, Kingscote Park, replacement of existing signs and illumination.
Planning Applications
St Bartholemew’s Church, Newington Bagpath, amended works to listed building.
Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244
Weekly Recycling – Green food boxes and wheelie bins
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays.
Fortnightly Recycling – Black boxes, White Bags and Blue bags
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 10 and 24 July.
Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 10 and 24 July.
Bus Timetable Enquiries -Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.
Mobile Library
The next visit will be on Friday 10 July when the van will park as usual in front of The Walled Garden from 9.30 to 11.30 am.
Magazine
Any materialwhich may be of interest for the next issue of the Forerunner should be sent by 20 July to H. Tubbs,
3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194.
The Editor
From The Bard of Bagpath
Fascinated
Rosemary went down to Buckingham Palace,
With her went Carole instead of Alice.
They gave her a mirror and a chair,
So that she could fascinate her hair.
They took the train and returned to Stroud.
‘Broomy’ her mother would indeed have been proud.
John Giddings
The above ditty was composed by John for our tea party gathering on Saturday 30 May, held to celebrate Rosemary’s visit to Buckingham Palace and to debrief social and fashion aspects of the event. We had an excellent turnout, great fun and delicious cakes.
The Editor
A Cotswold Village or
Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire
(An extract from the book by J Arthur Gibbs, 1898)
The Parson
This reminds me that at the age of twenty-four I accepted the office of churchwarden of a certain country parish. I do not recommend any of my readers to become churchwardens. You become a sort of acting aide-de-camp to the parson, liable to be called out on duty at a moment’s notice. No, a young man might with some advantage to others and credit to himself take upon himself the office of Parish Councillor, Poor Law Guardian, Inspector of Lunatic Asylums, High Sheriff, or even Public Hangman; but save, oh, save us from being churchwardens ! To be obliged to attend those terrible institutions called ‘vestry meetings’ and to receive each year an examination paper from the archdeacon of the diocese propounding such questions as, ‘Do attend church regularly ? If not, why not ?’ is the natural destiny of the churchwarden, and is more than human nature can stand: in short, my advice to those thinking of becoming churchwardens is, ‘Don’t with a very big D’.
Since this book was written in 1898 thousands of happy and fulfilled individuals have served the church as Churchwardens and other PCC officers. The Editor.
You never know who you may meet in the Churchyard
One afternoon early in May as I was leaving the church, I met a group of Australian tourists coming in to see the inside of the building. In conversation, they mentioned that they were from Adelaide and I told them that my father had been out there in the 1920’s building a pumping station on the River Murray at Cobdogla. To my amazement one of them said that he had seen in the local newspaper recently an appeal for funds to do a restoration programme on the pumps.
I had always assumed that they had been long since scrapped, but in fact they were still running in 1965. They are now owned by the Australian National Trust and the site is the Cobdogla Steam and Irrigation Museum. Even more amazing is that just in January this year I sent all of his files, drawings and photographs to Emma Wong Yang at the Beardmore Archive at Glasgow University. It really is a small world.
Harry Tubbs
Old and young must partner God to care for Earth
(Extracts from an article by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg in The Times on 20 June 2015)
Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si (Praise be to You) marks a critical moment in the history of life itself. It is rare that anyone has the wisdom and courage to propose to a massive audience a comprehensive agenda for humanity, at once spiritual, moral, social, economic and environmental. It is done with love, knowledge and humility. Whatever our faith or philosophy, we owe the Pope our gratitude.
We also owe a duty to respond, because the letter calls for everybody’s participation and no less is at stake than the survival of life on Earth. Pope Francis’ understanding of the world is profoundly rooted in the Hebrew Bible. “The Earth is the Lord’s”. The human task is to “work and protect” the Earth and all life on it.
Equally biblical is the outspoken coupling of social with economic justice, the insistence that we must “hear both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor”. Whatever grows must be shared between poor and rich, citizen and refugee, domestic and wild animals.
The force and authority of the encyclical is inspired by that deep love of nature as the expression of God’s sacred oneness, known to mystics of all faiths. It is equally animated by an unremitting commitment to knowledge. Science is not regarded as hostile but rather as the essential partner of religion in seeking to comprehend and cherish God’s world: to love God is to study God’s works.
Laudato Si sets the results of such scrutiny before us with unsparing comprehensive frankness, including the state of oceans, forests and farms; cities, buildings and transport; and above all the fate of the poor, the first to pay the price of our spiritual and moral disorientation. The rabbis put into God’s mouth the blunt demand: “Do not destroy my world, because there is no-one to repair it after you”. The Pope’s plea for “intergenerational solidarity” may be his most powerful, painful appeal.
Texts selected by the Editor
Psalm 100 Jubilate Deo
(From the 1928 Book of Common Prayer)
O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands:
Serve the Lord with gladness,
And come before his presence with a song.
Be ye sure that the Lord he is God;
It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves;
We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving,
And into his courts with praise;
Be thankful unto him, and speak good of his Name.
For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting;
And his truth endureth from generation to generation.
Parish Directory
Vicar: Reverend Mike Smith, Nailsworth, Tel. 07840 260 182
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, Annabella Lucy
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: Harry Tubbs, Sebastian Cooper, Rick Bond, Roger Lucy, Godfrey Ainsworth, Ken Davies, Brian McTear, John Moore, Tony Wooldridge.
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.