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MAY
2021
If you have an item for the JUNE magazine
please submit it to Richard Hudson (editor) at 01509 413185
by FRIDAY 14th
MAY
THE MINISTRY TEAM
The joint benefice of Barrow, Walton, Wymeswold & Prestwold
Rev’d Clive Watts (Priest in charge) 07534 899522 (Day off Friday)
Rev’d Fiona Cotton-Betteridge 07903 665912 (Working Fri., Sat., Sunday)
Rev’d Simon Richardson 01509 856623
Pam Knowles (Reader Minister) 36 Ribble Drive, Barrow upon Soar 01509 412774
For general enquiries or for Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals please complete the
enquiries forms on our website or contact Hannah in the Church Office or the
Rev’d Clive Watts.
Website www.barrowandwoldsgroup.com
CHURCH OFFICE - Administrator: Hannah White
Opening hours: Monday and Wednesday 10.30am-1.30pm, Thursday 10am – 11am
01509 416520 [email protected]
For pastoral matters (ministry to the sick, bereaved or housebound) please contact
any of the following:
Rev’d Clive Watts [email protected] 07534 899522
Rev’d Fiona Cotton-Betteridge [email protected] 07903 665912
Pam Knowles [email protected] 01509 412774
Beverley Lott [email protected] 01509 412876 David Spencer [email protected] 07905 230825
If you would like to receive this magazine regularly or would like to receive a large-print version of future
issues, please contact Ruth Boothey on 413811.
CHURCH RE-OPENING
If you have been receiving weekly emails from Rev’d. Clive or check
www.barrowandwoldsgroup.com regularly you will already know that our
churches reopened for Sunday services on April 18th. At Holy Trinity that means
10.30am (apart from 11am on May 30th) and we would be very happy to see
you whenever you would like to come and worship with us. As before, it is
important to wear a mask and to observe social distancing rules in and around
the church - we only use part of each pew so that the congregation is suitably
spaced.
For those of you who would like to follow our services at home we have moved
these from Zoom to YouTube which should provide clearer sound and vision.
The link for the services is:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGZdHsI5HhI9RhAe9XZugMA. If you are
reading the print version of this magazine I suggest you find the online version
and click on the link. The services will be on our website soon after the live
streaming so that you can watch them at a time to suit you.
Following the death of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Holy Trinity
church did, in fact, open two days earlier than we had planned for a special
service. The flag on the church tower had by then been flying at half-mast for a
week and on Saturday 12th April a single bell was rung 99 times as in churches
throughout the country.
Mention of the flag has reminded me to mention that following the success of
our Mothering Sunday ‘Raise a Ribbon for Her’ event the ribbons, which
previously streamed out from the flagpole are, for the next month or so, being
displayed at the front of the church. Those attending services can obviously see
them as they leave but for other people the church is now open again between
10am and 12 noon each Saturday. Do come in and see them if you’d like to. If
you saw them way up above the church I think you may be surprised just how
long the ribbons are.
Richard Hudson
FROM THE REGISTERS
IN MEMORIAM:
Our sympathy is extended to the families of those who have died:
KEITH DOUGLAS FRAMPTON
BADEN ARTHUR NEWBY
CYRIL BAILEY
MARGARET ROSE STEADMAN
FLOODLIGHT SPONSORS FOR MAY
DATE SPONSOR DEDICATION
2nd Terry, Simon & Andrew In loving memory of Marie
9th
16th
23rd
30th
I have taken over the sponsorship for the Floodlights. If you would like to
dedicate the floodlights to a loved one please get in touch.
Pam Knowles tel. 01509 412774 or email: [email protected]
IMPORTANT DATES IN MAY
Thursday 13th May – Ascension Day – service at 7.30pm at St. Mary’s, Walton
Sunday 23rd May – Pentecost (Whit Sunday) – the Holy Spirit transforms the
lives of the Apostles
Sunday 30th May – Trinity Sunday – Holy Trinity’s Patronal Festival
Service at 11am rather than 10.30am
The BELLS – our treasurer, Martin Roberts would like to express his sincere
thanks to all who have made donations towards the refurbishment of the bell
clappers. Further donations this month mean that the total is now £1562 out
of a total cost of £1962.
Pastoral Letter - What is truth?
Around 30 years ago a politician, presumably gazing out of his window,
in the hope of inspiring confidence that the economic recession was
coming to an end, spoke of the ‘green shots of recovery’ as a visible
sign that all will be well with the world, or Britain at least. Whether we
believed him, I guess depended on how full our glass was at the time.
A similar situation exists today. It is true that Spring has arrived, the
brown fields are turning green and there is hope that the road map will
guide us out of lockdown and into some sort of new normality. That is,
unless you have been in a state of denial, carrying on as normal, as if
Coronavirus itself is ‘fake news’, or it’s not as bad as people are making
out. If you want to explore what happens along that path, look at Brazil
right now.
It is difficult to discern what is truth? Or what is reality? If you are a
Christian you may respond with ‘God is real, and the reality of God is
the truth revealed in Jesus’. It’s a great answer, and one which I
believe, but is it the best answer for someone struggling with faith, or
with no faith, who may respond with something like, ‘That’s alright for
you to say’.
Pilate famously asked Jesus, ‘What is truth?’ and subsequently
declared Jesus’ innocence to the crowd. Despite hearing that Jesus was
innocent, the crowd responded with ‘Crucify him!’
We struggle with trying to discern what truth is. We understand the
world through subjective truth, which means how we see the world
individually. This determines how we behave, how we vote, how we
decide what is important in our lives. However, we all have a
responsibility to make these decisions by discerning the real news from
the fake news.
And then, moving on from understanding the world as subjective or
objective, we need to transcend both these concepts. A subjective
world leads to confusion, ‘where nothing is real’, whilst an objective
world leads to isolation caused by intolerance. This moving on leads to
a state of non-duality where the world is not ‘this’ or ‘that’. It was
understood by Meister Eckhart (an early Christian Mystic) who
declared that, ‘The truth of Jesus is not found in what he did or said but
in who he is.’
Rex Shaw, Reader Minister
________________________
Margaret Steadman
Margaret Steadman died on April 1st, just three months short of what would
have been her 90th birthday a much loved member of Holy Trinity Church and
of all her knew her. Margaret’s family moved to Barrow in 1945. She worked at
Driver’s hosiery factory in the village for over 25 years and then became a
postlady. Her involvement with the church began in her youth and by the age of
sixteen she was a Sunday School teacher, something which she continued for
many years. She then became a Verger, a post she held for over 25 years and
was a member of the Guild of Vergers, visiting at least ten cathedrals for the
Guild’s annual gatherings. Margaret was a delight to be with; cheerful, positive
and supportive. The date of her death was Maundy Thursday and it was on that
special day in 2017 that
Margaret was invited to visit
Leicester Cathedral to receive
the Royal Maundy from Her
Majesty The Queen. The photo
is the one I included in our
magazine which reported in
this event, taken after she
returned home.
Richard Hudson
Dear Members I was talking to our Diocesan leader Yvonne and she has told me members are asking about our meeting programmes and when we can meet again. She has suggested that the important thing would be for us to socialise and not worry about booking speakers. Just getting together is the important thing and I hope that maybe September onwards that is what we can do here in Barrow. Yvonne Smith is our present Diocesan Leader till the end of 2021 and has been very disappointed that she has been prevented going round all the branches due to the virus. She has decided not be re-elected as our Leader for personal reasons. We are looking now for someone else next year and if you know of anybody please let the Trustees know of a likely candidate. I received my first copy of the new MU Connected magazine. If you do not receive yours shortly please let me know. Of course we are truly saddened at the death of our dear friend at Holy Trinity, the one and only Margaret Steadman. She will be greatly missed and was leader of the Mothers’ Union a few years ago. Keep remembering in your prayers our members who are frail and cannot get out and about and let us know if we can help.. Annette Hall 413331 Dorcas 416929
IMPORTANT DATES – p.4 – to read:
Ascension Day: Mark ch.16 v.19 Luke ch.24 vv.50-53 Acts ch.1 vv.6-11
Pentecost: Acts chapter 2
CHRISTAIN AID WEEK 2021 CAMPAIGN: 10-16 May
Florence sings a deep, joyful tune. Her song lifts the spirits of the other women on the farm.
Florence's story: Florence could easily have been defeated. But Florence is a fighter, and she shows the women in her farming group that they can be fighters too.
She’s courageous, kind and a survivor. A few years ago, her husband died, leaving her a widow. At that time, she had no water to grow crops. Her children were hungry. She had to walk for hours on a dangerous journey to collect water. ‘Life was miserable,’ she told us.
Florence could easily have been defeated. But Florence is a fighter, and she shows the women in her farming group that they can be fighters too. Next to her farm, Florence is proud to show us something remarkable – a dam, full of fresh water. It’s thanks to Christian Aid Week donations like yours that Florence and her community have built this water dam, with the help of our partner ADSE, just a short walk away from her village.
With this dam, Florence can grow tomatoes, onions, papayas and chillies on her farm. Her children can eat healthy, nutritious vegetables. It’s her source of life and joy.
This is Florence. She is full of
life, love and laughter.
The women in her farming
group look up to her.
Florence also uses the water from the dam to keep honey bees. She sells the rich, golden honey for cash at the market. Now, Florence is reaping a good life for herself and her family.
The dam gives Florence strength to withstand even the most unpredictable weather. It’s a reliable water source, whether she faces long drought or relentless rainstorms.
Florence is generous, and she knows other people are struggling to cope without a reliable water source. ‘There is a village nearby – they don’t have an earth dam. They travel for a long way to come to this water point. They are suffering.’
Our gifts could help Florence’s community build a dam, providing a long-lasting
source of water. Just £30 could provide a wheelbarrow to help a community
build a life-changing dam.
With a dam full of water, Rose would be free from her long, painful journey. She
could grow vegetables for her family to eat. And she could see her
grandchildren grow up and live life in all its fullness.
Give today and help more people like Florence stop this climate crisis.
Your generosity this Christian Aid Week could help another community build a dam. Many more people will have the water they need to sustain their families.
Every envelope. Every gift. Every challenge can change lives.
CHRISTIAN AID WEEK 2021
This year, Instead of house-to house collections we will be using delivery only envelopes - where envelopes are delivered, but gifts are returned to one or more local drop-off points.
WE NEED YOUR HELP to distribute the envelopes and put them through doors around Barrow (NO NEED to collect them). If you are able to help with this, please contact Frances Acton or Richard Hudson by 3 May: [email protected] / [email protected]
You can also support the work of Christian Aid – by making an online or text donation: Online:
https://donate.christianaid.org.uk/Donate/Step/1?ApproachCode=A034745&_ga
=2.143333749.1777145930.1584915531-1839029691.1569103652
Or via the church website www.barrowandwoldsgroup.com
You can find information on making donations by phone at:
https://www.christianaid.org.uk/legal/sms-donations-refunds
Annual Parochial Church Meeting
This year’s Barrow and Walton APCM (the church’s AGM) will be held on Tuesday May 18th at 7.30pm, probably on Zoom but this is still to be decided. We hope that all church members will make an effort to be ‘present’.
Members of church congregations throughout the Barrow and Wolds Group are always pleased to see the Rev’d. Simon Richardson when he leads our services. He has often filled gaps when there has been a shortage of clergy or they have been on holiday. We are now very happy to welcome Rev’d. Simon in a more formal capacity as the third ordained member of our Ministry Team.
Beverley Lott would like to thank people for the further gifts of UHT milk which have been passed on to Project 5000.
Drought stricken communities
need every last drop of water to
survive. Donate to help them
stop this climate crisis.
From the East Akeley Deanery Magazine 100 YEARS AGO
May 1921
Most of the Holy Trinity article for this month was taken up by the events of Trinity Sunday, May 22nd 1921 when the War Memorial in Industry Square was unveiled. You can read a fuller description of the event in an article I submitted to Barrow Voice and which can be found on page 9 of the current edition. It must have been a wonderful occasion with some 2000 people packed into the Square, 200 ex-servicemen drawn up behind the Memorial and the Barrow Silver Prize Band in attendance to lead the singing. The War Memorial was unveiled by Lt.-Col. R.E. Martin C.M.G. and was dedicated by the Vicar, the Rev’d. Thomas Stone. The Ministers of the Baptist (Rev’d. Lonsdale), Primitive Methodist (Rev’d Richardson) and Wesleyan Methodist (Mr. Burton) churches also took part. The 71 names on the Roll of Honour were read by Mr. J.T. Ball, Chairman of the Memorial Committee, the “Réveillé” and “Last Post” were sounded by ex-Sergt. Trumpeter W. Iliffe and the proceedings ended with the singing of the National Anthem. The first wreath, from the Ex-Service Men’s Association, was placed by
ex-Private George James who was blinded at Fontaine while serving with the 6th
Leicesters. He was conducted to the Memorial by Capt. A. Witham M.C. and
Lieut. C. Thompson M.C. both of whom were promoted from the ranks for their
gallantry in the field. Many of you will know Lieut. Thompson’s daughter, our
own Mary Payne, who for many years read the Roll of Honour in Holy Trinity
Church on Remembrance Sunday.
On the centenary of the unveiling, Saturday May 22nd
2021 at 10.45am, a
commemoration event will take place at the War Memorial. It has been
organised by the church and the Parish Council and, as in 1921, besides the
Rev’d Clive Watts, ministers of the Baptist and Methodist churches will be
taking part.
All are welcome to attend although, as you might expect, we would ask you
to observe social distancing regulations. It is probably unlikely that the
Square will be full (and I’m sure we won’t match the 2000 present in 1921)
but I suggest you bring a mask with you.
Richard Hudson
Deanery Synod
There are three Deanery Synod meetings per year and the one held on 23rd
February was Rev’d. Wendy Dalrymple’s last as Akeley East Area Dean as her
term of office will end this summer. Guest speaker Liz Rawlings, Diocesan
Discipleship and Vocations Enabler, addressed the Synod on The Changing
Shape of Lay Ministry. The Everyday Calling diagram (opposite page)
encapsulates what she outlined to us, accompanied by Corinne Aldis, a member
of the Bishop’s council and Andy Smith, Warden of Lay Readers. Bishop Martyn
is keen to further lay ministry. The developments in diocesan thinking have
been prompted by the following questions:
How can lay ministry be made open, accessible and flexible?
How do we grow vocations?
How is the diversity of your community reflected?
There are currently 90 Lay Readers in the Leicester Diocese and they are
essential to the functioning of our churches. Their role will continue as, of
course, will that of the clergy. You will see in the diagram that it is envisaged
that other roles will gain more recognition and that the directions in which lay
people feel called may be more varied and imaginative than has previously been
the case. Social action, for example, may take the lay person concerned into a
role outside the church community. For roles to be recognised, however,
training will be provided and required. The Journey in Faith course will always
be a recommended preparation and safe recruitment practices must continue.
Current training lasts 2 years and is sometimes difficult to complete alongside
the demands, for example, of family life; some who have a sense of calling are
deterred by the academic elements in the training; others need more time to
complete the training requirements. The intention is to guide vocations in a way
that accommodates these individual needs and reservations and which,
importantly, recognises and channels the gifts of those who experience a calling
to serve our Lord Jesus and his church.
Beverley Lott
FROM THE HOLY TRINITY PRAYER DIARY
Please pray for:
May 2nd Men’s Group – Committee and Members
May 9th NHS, Barrow Health Centre and all who care for the sick
May 16th Pingle Nook & Grays Court – Residents and Staff
May 23rd All who are suffering – refugees, the homeless and unemployed
May 30th Holy Trinity and the Wolds Group of Churches at Walton,
Prestwold and Wymeswold
WHO’S WHO IN THE CHURCH Holy Trinity Church, Barrow on Soar Churchwardens: Andy Garner, 07841 528148 Richard Hudson, 413185, 0777 608 6448 Treasurer: Martin Roberts, 620122 PCC Secretary: Lynne Brookes, 1 Beveridge Street, 07860 197183 Verger: Pauline Haynes, 41 Sileby Road, 416432 Tower Captain: Ian Stonehouse, 31 Flint Lane, 412411, 07850 675 014 Sacristan: Clifton Martin, 17 Beaumont Road, 620981 St. Mary’s Church, Walton-le-Wolds Lead Minister Pam Knowles, 412774 Churchwardens: Jeremy Bowman, 07974 967473 Treasurer: Martin Roberts, 621022 DCC Secretary:
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