Service Calendar for September 2015
| Wednesday | 2nd | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 6th | NailsworthKingscote
Nailsworth Horsley |
8.00 am9.30 am
11.00 am 11.00 am |
Holy CommunionMorning Prayer BCP
All-age service Holy Communion |
| Wednesday | 9th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 13th | Christ Church Nailsworth | 10.30 am | Joint service for Benefice and Christ Church congregations |
| Wednesday | 16th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 20th | Kingscote
Nailsworth Nailsworth
Horsley |
9.30 am
11.00 am 6.00 pm
11.00 am |
Family ServiceFamily Communion
‘One Voice’ service at Christ Church on Newmarket Road Family Communion |
| Wednesday | 23rd | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 27th | KingscoteNailsworth
Horsley Horsley |
9.30 am11.00 am
11.00 am 6.00 pm |
Holy Communion CWHoly Communion
Messy Church Evensong BCP |
| Wednesday | 30th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group meets on Fridays at 9.45 am at Nailsworth. Refreshments served afterwards in the Parish Room.
The next PCC meeting will be at 8.00 pm in the Lady Chapel on Tuesday 8 Sept.
The Harvest Festival Service this year will take place at 9.30 am on Sunday 18 October.
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
Dear Friends,
Where has the summer gone ? Time seems to pass so quickly these days (no doubt a symptom of increasing age !).
But a year ago I was writing my first ever letter and preparing to move in to
Nailsworth and take up the reins as Vicar of Horsley, Kingscote and Nailsworth. Everything was new, not to say bewildering.
That gave me an excuse when things did not go quite right …. but after a year the ‘honeymoon’ period is over and the excuse of ‘I’m new here’ no longer holds true.
Any slip ups are now, quite simply, my fault !
As I look back over the first year I can see it was quite a steep learning curve – not least trying to remember so many names in three very different communities. I can see that there were times when there wasn’t quite enough of me to go round when meetings or events clashed on the same day at the same time and I had to have the Wisdom of Solomon to make the choice.
But there are two things of which I have been sure:
Firstly, that this is the right place to be. Such a beautiful place, such warm and friendly people, such a lot to do !
Secondly and more importantly, that it has been God who has led me. He remains the same yesterday, today and forever. His love never falters, his wisdom is unbreakable.
So, with those two thoughts in my mind I head into the uncharted territory of year two with confidence !
With every blessing,
Mike Smith
Flower Rota
| 6th and 13th September
20th and 27th September 4th and 11th October |
Jenny Tibbert
Elin Tattersall Vivienne Ainsworth |
Weddings:
Saturday 12 September, 1.30 pm Richard Tyler and Jessica Mullan
Wednesday 16 September, 3.15 pm Luke Osbourne and Amy Elliot
Saturday 26 September, 1.30 pm Julian Cooke and Laura McGinty
Lorna Reynolds
Cleaning Team
The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 14 September.
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 Tel. 860 367.
Teresa Day
Village Hall Programme
Film Night – Tuesday 8 September, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing of Enigma fame: 7.30 for 8.00 pm, admission free, Pay Bar.
Coffee morning – Tuesday 15 September: Coffee and cake £1.50, 10.30 to 11.30 am.
Carol Paton
Village Hall Committee
We are looking for new members to join the committee this Autumn – and in particular for a treasurer as Viv Ainsworth, who has been dealing very successfully with our finances for the last few years, has decided that she would like to stand down.
Our finances are currently on a sound footing and Viv says that it is not a particularly difficult or time consuming job and she would be happy to talk to any would-be treasurers !
We would also like some of the new people who have moved into the village to join us. We meet every 4 ~ 6 weeks over a glass of wine to discuss future events and any maintenance issues. Please contact Carol Paton on 860 649 if you would be interested.
Grumbolds Ash Group
On Tuesday 8 September we visit the famous David Austin rose garden and nursery. This gives us a chance to see first-hand and order plants for our gardens next year. We meet at 9.30 am at the VH to share the driving.
Austin Roses, Bowling Green Lane, Albrighton, nr. Wolverhampton, WV7 3HB
Jutta Tubbs
Book Club at 8.00 pm
Wednesday 2 September, Towers of Tuscany by Carol M Cram, at Viv’s.
Wednesday 7 October, Life after Life by Kate Atkinson, at Louise’s.
Monday 2 November, Go set a watchman, at Angela’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 callafternoons.
Kingscote Parish Council
The next meeting of the Parish Council will be on Tuesday 13 October at 8.00 pm in the Hunters Hall.
Planning Applications
St Bartholemew’s Church, Newington Bagpath, amended works to listed building.
Preliminary notice of possible future application to develop a solar farm at Woodleaze, Kingscote.
21 Kingscote, first floor extension.
Planning Appeal
Anearobic Digester at Chavenage (Stroud District).
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 4 and 18 Sept.
Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 4 and 18 September.
Bus Timetable Enquiries -Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.
Mobile Library
The next visit will be on Friday 4 September 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 September to
H. Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194.
The Editor
Ride and stride – Saturday 12 September
This annual event organised by the Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust raises funds for the restoration of churches of all denominations in Gloucestershire. They have been most generous in supporting our parish church over the years.
Many churches all over Gloucestershire are manned, supplying refreshments and recording the visits. Sponsorship forms are supplied and people are encouraged to visit as many of them as possible. Half of the money raised goes to a church of your choice and half to the Trust for its discretionary allocation.
If you prefer to visit more churches with fewer inclines, the Sharpness canal path by Frampton is a good choice.
Georgina Harford
A date for your diary: Concert in Kingscote Church on Saturday 17 October
We are delighted to announce that The Robinson Ensemble is kindly putting on a concert in Kingscote Church on Saturday 17 October, 7.00 to 9.00 pm. They are also including Mike Revell for a performance of the Mozart Horn Quintet.
Tickets will be £5, with donations welcome, and all monies will go towards the upkeep of the church.
Further details will be given in the October issue of the Forerunner.
Georgina Harford
Memories of Growing up in Kingscote
The little book written and published by Rosemary Sims our organist has now been accepted by the British Library for its collection and register, which is a nice milestone in the story. However she has had to supply 5 copies to an agent in Edinburg for distribution to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and elsewhere. The price of fame !
The Editor
Cosmic Clarity
Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Patrick Kidd, The Times 4 August 2015
Bills into Mills – Copied from the Diocesan Messenger for September 2015
Did you know that the Gloucester Diocese has a partnership with Stroud-based green energy company Ecotricity ? The company puts its profits back into building windmills, with its ‘bills into mills’ model.
Ecotricity does this in pursuit of a vision for a Green Britain – a place in which we all live more sustainable lives and where ethical business is the norm – pursuing outcomes other than just profit. All Ecotricity customers are on the latest, best and same price, no matter when they joined or how they pay.
Switching to Ecotricity is one of the single biggest things you can do to cut your carbon emissions. Its only electricity tariff is 100% green and it also offers one
single green gas tariff. What’s more, there are no exit fees or penalties for leaving.
Switch to Ecotricity and you get a voucher worth up to £25 to spend at Waitrose or John Lewis. Plus, for every household, vicarage or church that switches, Ecotricity will donate £25 to the Diocese of Gloucester into a special fund that will support new, local environmental projects.
Friends
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same
divine principle, the root and record of their friendship.
If absence be not death, neither is theirs.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas;
They live in one another still. For they must needs be present,
That love and live in that which is omnipresent.
This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die,
Yet their friendship and society are in the best sense,
Ever present, because immortal.
William Penn (1644 –1718)
Dag Hammarskjöld
(A Swedish diplomat who died in a suspicious plane crash in
Africa in 1961 as Secretary General of the United Nations;
the prayer below was later found in his personal papers)
Have mercy upon us.
Have mercy upon our efforts, that we before thee,
In love and in faith, righteousness and humility,
May follow thee, with self denial, steadfastness and courage,
And meet thee in the silence.
Give us
A pure heart that we may see thee,
A humble heart that we may hear thee,
A heart of love that we may serve thee,
A heart of faith that we may love thee.
Thou
Whom I do not know but whose I am.
Thou Whom I do not comprehend
But who has dedicated me to my fate.
Thou –
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.
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.