Algarkirk Parish Newsletter

Issue number 2, 20181

USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS Police – non urgent 101NHS emergency care service – 111 Sutterton Surgery 01205 460254 Vicar 01205 624128Boston Mayflower 0300 365 5000 Boston Borough Council 01205 314200 Lincolnshire County Council 01522 552222Taxi – Kirton Kabs 01205 725800 Pilgrim Hospital 01205 364801 Sutterton Fourfields Primary School 01205 460547 Thomas Middlecott Academy 01205 722336 Kirton Primary 01205 722236 Wyberton Play School 01205 311577 Susanna’s Hair Fashions 01205 460443 If you have any questions with regard to any item in the Newsletter, or indeed have any suggestions of what you would like to see in the next edition please send an email to algarkirkpc1@outlook.com or telephone 01205 352044 and leave a message with your name, contact number and nature of enquiry and we will get back to you.

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Boston Community TransportBoston Community Transport is a small, registered Charity offering community transport scheme to more vulnerable and isolated people or for those who do not have access to or cannot afford public transport or a taxi. We offer an essential, affordable local transport service for residents within the Borough of Boston and surrounding villages.

Our aim is to provide our member customers with journeys which they may otherwise be unable to make, such as: hospital, doctors, dentist and other medical appointments, both inside and outside of the county; opticians, physiotherapists, podiatry and chiropody appointments; local trips for shopping; seeing a relative or friend; attending community activities or a social club.

With the help of highly trained and professional volunteers, we take all the details of your appointment, we ask a volunteer driver to collect you from home, take you to your destination, help you in, wait for you and make sure you get back safely.

Membership fee is £12 per year, per household.Journeys cost 60p per mile, with a minimum charge of £5 per journeyQuotes for longer journeys outside of Boston can be givenPlease call with any enquiries to 01205 360183.

Do you have a few hours to spare? We are currently recruiting for volunteer drivers, administration staff and Trustees for our Board.

For Further details of our service, volunteering or to apply for membership please telephone 01205 360183 or email office@bostonct.org.uk. Our website is www.bostonct.org.uk

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Go-ahead Given for Lottery Renovations What's On at St Peter and St Paul's:April:

Sun 1st : Easter Holy Communion, 9.30Messy Church children joining at 10.00 for service and egg hunt!

Weds, 4th : Midday prayer, 12.15

Weds, 11th: Crafty Coffee and Cake Club 10-12 noon in the Village Hall; ‘Planters & Pots’

Weds 11th:Midday prayer,12.15 Sun 15th : Holy Communion, 9.30 Weds, 18th: Midday prayer 12.15 Sun 22nd : Messy Church, Village Hall, 1.30-3.00 Weds 25th : Crafty Coffee and Cake Club 10-12 Village Hall; Weds, 25th : Midday prayer 12.15 Sun 29th: Joint service at All Saints’, Fosdyke. 9.30

May: Sat 5th: Pilgrimage to Walsingham, Norwich. Sun 6th : Holy Communion, 9.30 Weds 9th : Crafty Coffee and Cake Club 10-12, Village Hall;

‘Quilling’. Weds 9th:Midday prayer,12.15 Weds 16th:Midday prayer,12.15 Sun 20th : Holy Communion 9.30 Weds 23rd : Crafty Coffee and Cake Club 10-12 Village Hall Weds, 23rd : Midday prayer. 12.15 Sun 27th : Messy Church, 1.30 – 3.00

After, literally, years of planning and hard work by so many people, we can finally announce that the Heritage Lottery Fund have approved our plans for the work at St Peter and St Paul’s. Around £1.7 million will be spent conserving the building, including the

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beautiful stained glass, and the painted scheme; installing a new bell frame, and making the church warmer and more hospitable with the installation of heating and a kitchen/café area, and a craft workshop for clubs and training.

Architects have been appointed and the work – which will take about three years to complete – will start over the coming months once a project manager and suppliers are all in place. If – due to the work – it becomes impossible to use the church for services, then we will move into the village hall on a temporary basis. We are still going to need to raise a lot of money to replace the stolen lead on the roof, and to match fund the lottery grant, so we hope you all will continue to support our activities.

The graveyard is looking lovely for the time of year. The payback team are doing a great job. Please remember us when you start on your own gardens: donations of bulbs or cuttings would be greatly appreciated. Just leave them in the church porch.

The children from Messy Church will be joining us again at Easter for what is now their traditional egg hunt. If you would like to bring a child or grandchild to the service, come along at 10.00. All welcome. There is also a “Prayer Box” on the table. If you know of someone who is in need of prayer or a visit, just add their name to the box – and their contact details if you would like Fr Paul to visit them – and we will add them to our weekly prayers. CH.

Algarkirk Village HallTo hire the hall contact Mandy on 01205 461527

Bingo is held every Saturday night in the Village Hall commencing at 7.30pm

For further information contact Mandy

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Wendy NixWatercolours

Watercolour paintings of local interest and wildlife allinspired by personal observations and country walks

.Come and view a selection of my work at Pinchin’s Farmshop.

Purchase or Commission a piece of artwork for an unusual and lasting gift or keepsake.

Greetings cards and Christmas cards also available.

Contact DetailsWww.wendynix.co.ukMob. 07932 658783

Email: nixwendy@gmail.comAny Subject considered for

Commission

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Susanna’s Hair Studio and Beauty Salon

Caring for Heads, Shoulders, Knees and ToesPools Lane, Sutterton, Tel. 460443

Ladies, Gents and Children’s Hairstylist

Closed Mondays Tuesday to Saturday Late night Friday 8.30am - 4.30pm 8.30am - 6.30pm

OAP days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays with lower rates on these days for hairdressing only.

Blow dries, wet cuts, dry cuts, sets, perms, colours, hi-lights, plaits and put-ups!!

A wide range of services available.

We have a Nail bar offering luxury manicures and pedicures with paraffin wax and heated mitts, polish and filing for

fingers and toes.

NEW - Nubar Gelicure now available, a long lasting Gel nail polish, Glitters and Gems also available.

We have a beauty room offering a wide range of treatments from waxing, for legs, underarms, bikini lines, eyebrows, top lips and chins and eye brow tinting, to facials, back facials,

Swedish body massage, hot stone massage, Indian head massage, tanning, Hopi ear candles, Eyebrow and lash

tinting. We sell Tigi Products.

Anna, Debbie, Amy, Kelly, Kerri, Claire and Sarah will be only too pleased to help and advise you. Call us today on 01205 460443

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S.A ElectricalElectrical ContractorsWorks carried out

- Domestic- Commercial (farms included)- Small industrial- Extensions- New Builds- Renovations- PAT Testing- Inspection and Testing (including landlord certificates)- Napit registered Part P Installer

Fully InsuredSean Ash

8 Church Lane, Algarkirk, Boston PE20 2HHTel: 07930 370428

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BOSTON INDOOR BOWLING CLUBROSEBERY AVENUE, BOSTON

We are looking for new members age 8 and above. We currently have 730 members We are open 7 days a week (all day) FREE coaching can be given to new Members. We do have shoes and bowls for new Members to borrow. Our season starts at the beginning of September and finishes the end of April. Visit our website …… www.bostonindoor.co.uk

Club Manager Tanya Whitmore-Brown Telephone 01205 363156 for more information

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NOTES FROM THE ALGARKIRK PARISH COUNCIL MEETING HELD ON TUESDAY 13 MARCH 2018 AT THE VILLAGE HALL COMMENCING AT 7.20PM

Present: Councillors H Pinchin (Chairman), S Walker (Vice Chairman), C Humphreys, D Reid, A Watt. Lincolnshire County Councillor M Brookes.Mrs K Partridge (Clerk). 2 members of the public. Apologies received from Boston Borough Councillor M Cooper.

Councillor Humphreys reported the alarms were set off at the church, pictures of the culprits (children) have been given to the Police; the Police did attend and it is understood the culprits are known to them, however, no action taken as a crime was not committed.

Mud on the roads has been a problem and the police have attended on several occasions.

It was resolved the minutes of the meeting held on 9 January 2018 be approved and signed.

Further to planning applications being forwarded electronically from 1 April 2018, costs for copies of plans and documents is deferred for a year.

Concerns regarding planning application B/18/0017 were heard from members of the public during the forum.

Reports of a tree requiring attention at Andrews Common, branch is leaning towards telephone wires. A quotation of £500.00 to remove the branch had been received, however, there is no immediate danger and the situation will be monitored.

Clerk to report the following matters: Footbridge over Three Towns Drain is in a poor state; 3 bad areas of potholes on Pitcher Row Lane from Washdike Road junction through to the A17; Shrub cuttings have been dumped on the side of the road on Bush Green Lane.

Playing Field Committee meeting held, the following was agreed:-

Prices for additional equipment and adult exercise outdoor equipment to be sourced

Possibility of any available grants to be looked into

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£60 was agreed to be made available for the costs of cleaning and repairing the current surfaces and equipment

Fund raising events to be looked into, a plea for help will be put in the newsletter

A letter from the Playing Field Committee to the Community Payback Team will be send thanking them for their hard work and excellent commitment

It was agreed the Parish Council will also forward a letter of thanks to them.

Church: The Lottery funding has been granted and new architects have been appointed. The first meeting will be at the end of March and it is hoped work will commence December/January.

Planning matters:-B/18/0095 – resubmission of B/17/0393 for the erection of single storey rear extension and siting of temporary static caravan during construction works at The Bungalow, Washdike Road – no comments.

B/18/0017 – front extension and alteration to roof at rear of garage building, and change of use of residential dwelling and associated land, buildings and paddock area to special needs school (Class D1) at The Coach House, Hall Lane – clarification to be requested on the following items:- parking, traffic to and from the site, drainage, pedestrian access. An extension for comments will be requested, however, an additional meeting may need to be arranged if not possible for an extension.

The following application was considered by 3 Members prior to the meeting:-B/18/0037 – retrospective application for the erection of 23 no. lighting columns at Intercounty Truck and Van Limited, Station Road, Sutterton: the following comments were forwarded to Planning.

23 lighting columns seem a rather large number for the size of area Residents in the area are experiencing sleep deprivation due to the intensity

of the lights Can the lights be directed away from houses in the vicinity Can the lights be turned off during night hours

The next Parish Council meeting will be held on Tuesday 17 April 2018 at the Village Hall and will commence at 7.20pm with a 10 minute public forum, if required.

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The View from the Vicarage.  Encountering the Holy – being scared of the sacred.  Have you noticed the play on words – scared and sacred, simply swap two letters around and you change the meaning completely, scared and sacred.

I often feel that many people in today’s modern secular world, Christians included are afraid or scared of the sacred. Why should this be, possibly because the sacred takes us out of ourselves, out of our comfort zone and even suggests that we lose control and give that control to God, a higher power. One of the other reasons for being scared of the sacred is that entering into the sacred leads us beyond ourselves and our own powers to actually doing something about the sacred – action is required, and here is where it gets unnerving.

We lament the decline in worship attendance within the Church.  We have tried to inspire mission and evangelism by alarming ourselves and others with an unbalanced emphasis on sin and judgment. Churches have too often tried often in panic mode to manage worship and increase attendance with an unbalanced emphasis on obligation and procedure. These attempts are unbalanced because both are missing the same thing: A vision and experience of God’s holy presence and the good news of his kingdom. This leads to being scared of sacred.

Good worship is about all about awe , not strategy . Worship truly happens when people become aware that they are in the presence of the living God. This happened when Moses realized he was standing on holy ground. This isn’t the same as being afraid of God. That will drive us away from Him. It isn’t the same as feeling sentimental about God either. That reduces God to what some spiritual writers call "the heavenly sweetheart." If we are afraid of God, then how can we ever know him and how can his news be good; if God’s only purpose is to make us happy then how can we call him Lord? These reductions of God’s presence and his good news diminish God and approach him as a force to be manipulated. But when we are in awe of God we are aware of His power and goodness and we are compelled to worship.

Some years ago staying with a priest friend of mine in Minnesota USA and I came across the writings of Annie Dillard, and she has some fascinating things to say about all this.

Annie Dillard in her book, “Teaching a Stone to Talk”1982, describes awe: "Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they

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should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offence; or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return."

Awe should not be reduced to a single emotion. Awe includes many human emotions. For instance, we can be in awe of beauty or majesty. We can be in awe of power and strength. We can be in awe of talent and artistry. We can be in awe of mystery and wonder. Likewise, reverence should not be reduced to a single emotion. It does not simply mean sedate. For instance, we show reverence of marriage at a wedding and it is proper to be joyous. We show reverence for life and loved ones at a funeral and we feel grief and sadness but also may recall happy memories. Awe and reverence involve many moods and styles but they have one thing in common – response! Maybe it is the response element that makes us scared of sacred.

Awe and reverence are about more than "shock and awe" demonstrations of force. Do you recall how around this time a few years ago many people were moved by the movie by Mel Gibson "The Passion of the Christ?" Very few people watched that movie in a sedate, calm, reflective atmosphere. People were moved with grief and sorrow. They were, in the words of Scripture, cut to the quick. I remember at the end when the risen Christ leaves the tomb someone shouted "YES!" and applause broke out. This wasn’t exhibitionism. It was awe and reverence! The film also convicted people. Some responded by changing their lives. I recall coming out of the cinema and watching how people were almost bowing to the screen as if an altar in Church. This is what happens in worship: God’s presence and his actions are revealed and we must respond.

Our Response to God involves elements that we can speak of separately, but we must be careful not to break these down and separate them completely. On the one hand we have the substance of worship: these are things like the preaching of God’s word, praise, the Holy Eucharist, Baptism, prayer, the public reading of the word, confession, and thanksgiving. We include all the actions, forms, and traditions that God’s people have always used to participate in worship and encounter God’s presence. On the other hand, there is the experience of the worshipper and the worshipping church. This involves current events, language, issues, problems, feeling, style, style of church music. 

When a local congregation experiences a tragedy, perhaps a sudden death of a beloved member or leader, their worship that Sunday is going to be different than the congregation that on the same Sunday celebrates because people they have been praying for respond to the gospel. Each church participates in the same substance of worship, but their experience is different. That’s biblical; the psalms are a collection of Israel’s worship songs. Not every song comes from the same experience. Sometimes the psalmist is angry, confused, sad, thankful, joyous, or reflective. The experience can also vary because of culture.

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When the substance of worship and the experience of the worshipper combine, worth is ascribed to God. That is the core dynamic of our response to God’s presence and his mighty acts. Combined, these elements represent our way of participating together in our worshipful response to God.

When you break out of the ordinary, the well worn ways of worship, when you dare to take off your shoes, you will find that you are indeed standing on Holy Ground – and what a difference it makes. Today think outside your normal Church of England worship box, let the silence, the lack of familiar words and postures speak to you of a deeper encounter with God.

Your friend and parish priest,

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COLD WEATHER HEROESDuring the recent snow and cold weather, several local farmers and businesses did an excellent job of helping to clear the snow and help those who were stuck, community spirit showed through and the help was very much appreciated by everyone.

The Parish Council would like to thank all of those who helped, going above and beyond the call of duty to give assistance.

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Playing Field – New EquipmentThe Playing Field Management Committee met recently and agreed to arrange some fund raising events later on this year with the intention to raise money to add additional equipment, including some of the adult outdoor exercise equipment.

Possibility of grants will be investigated, however, any grant that is available will need to have some percentage of funding from ourselves.

If you think you could spare some time to help with these events, or indeed have an idea for an event, please contact the parish clerk either via telephone to 01205 352044 or email to algarkirkpc1@outlook.com

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A FRIEND FOR ONLY THE LONELYLoneliness has been recognised as a major factor impacting on health and wellbeing. In isolated rural areas loneliness can be even more devastating. The British Red Cross Connecting Communities service is available in Boston Borough, offering a helping hand to all who feel alone. Whether you are facing a crisis or just want to chat with someone nearby, the Red Cross local team can help.

A skilled and dedicated volunteer will give support for an initial three month period, helping each person to feel better connected and able to enjoy the benefits of being more involved in their local area.

Contact a friendly voice at 0345 054 7171 and select option 1.

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