St PETER’S CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY (including East Budleigh and Otterton Services)
Wed
1st
Holy Communion BCP
Pastoral Care Team Tea at EB Vicarage
Youth Group in The Peter Hall
9.30am
3.00pm
3.30pm
6.15pm
Thurs
2nd
Silent Meditation at All Saints EB
Fri
3rd
Rendezvous Coffee Morning
Holy Communion
10.15am
11.30am
Sun
5th
Holy Communion BCP
Holy Communion
Parish Eucharist
Holy Communion
Family Service
Choral Evensong
8.00am
8.00am
10.00am
10.00am
11.00am
6.00pm
Tue
7th
Wed
8th
Holy Communion BCP
Loaves and Fishes Lunch
Youth Group in The Peter Hall
9.30am
12 noon
3.30pm
Thur
9th
Silent Meditation at All Saints EB
6.15pm
Fri
10th
Rendezvous Coffee Morning
Holy Communion for healing
10.15am
11.30am
Sat
11th
Sun
12th
Sun
Holy Communion BCP
Informal Worship - Lay Led
Holy Communion
No service
No evening service
Tue
14th
Holy Communion in EB Vicarage
3.30pm
Wed
15th
Holy Communion BCP
Youth Group in The Peter Hall
9.30am
3.30pm
Thur
16th
Silent Meditation at All Saints EB
6.15pm
Fri
17th
Rendezvous Coffee Morning
Holy Communion
Editor: Chris Parrish (442275)
St Peter’s Church, The Lawn, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 6LT
February 2017
February View from the Youth
Thur
23rd
Silent Meditation at All Saints EB
6.15pm
Fri
24th
Rendezvous Coffee Morning
Holy Communion
10.15am
11.30am
Sun
26th
Holy Communion BCP
Parish Eucharist
Holy Communion EB
Morning Prayer
Solos Lunch
No evening service
8.00am
10.00am
10.00am
10.00am
12 noon
An article in last month’s edition of St Peter’s Mini-mag suggested that “when someone says they have No
Religion it is often interpreted that they have no religious belief … but that is incorrect. Rather, they “reject
identification with ‘religion’ or a particular religion”. Yet support for the established or traditional churches is
waning and No Religion has become the new establishment.
28th
1st
Shrove Tuesday
Pancakes in The Peter Hall
12 noon
Ash Wednesday
Holy Communion BCP
Youth Group in The Peter Hall
Holy Communion
9.30am
3.30pm
7.00pm
Thu
2nd
Silent Meditation at All Saints EB
Fri
3rd
Rendezvous Coffee Morning
Holy Communion
10.15am
11.30am
6.15pm
Sun
5th
Holy Communion BCP
Holy Communion BCP
Parish Eucharist
Holy Communion
Family Service
Choral Evensong
8.00am
8.00am
10.00am
10.00am
11.00am
6.00pm
Morning Prayer is said at All Saints’ East Budleigh on Tuesday mornings
and St Michael’s, Otterton on Thursday mornings at 9.30am.
Those Useful Quick Contacts (all 01395 numbers except the DoM and PCC Treasurer)
Rector: The Rev Anne Charlton, The New Vicarage, Vicarage Rd, East Budleigh EX9 7EF (not Mondays)
444276
[email protected]
Associate Priest: position vacant
Youth Minister: James McAdam
[email protected] 265836
RMC Administrator: Mrs Fran Mills (open Mon 1pm - 3pm and Fri 10 am - 2pm, or Email [email protected])443397
Churchwardens:
Iris Cooper
445273
Paul Maslen 488861
Deputy Wardens:
Judith Stewart-Young 442197
Chris Parrish
442275
Pat Rogers
446304
Eileen Milne
446725
PCC Secretary:
Iris Cooper
445273
PCC Treasurer:
Tony Gray 07977 531429
Director of Music and Organist: The Rev Clifton Graham
01884 32545
Church and Peter Hall Bookings: Fran Mills
443397
Peter Hall Manager: George Maddaford
446077
Friends of St Peter’s Chairman: Christine Channon
442927
Burial Ground Manager: Brian Shackleton 443762
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St Peter’s Mini-mag
9.30am
3.30pm
Wed
10.15am
11.30am
8.00am
10.00am
10.00am
10.00am
22nd Holy Communion BCP
Youth Group in The Peter Hall
March
8.00am
10.00am
10.00am
Holy Communion BCP
Parish Eucharist
No service
Holy Communion
No evening service
Wed
Tue
7.00pm
19th
The Parish Church of St Peter, Budleigh Salterton
There are signs that Christianity is not in terminal decline – but its expression is changing, just as there are
changes in our society. We are less inclined to meet together on Sunday mornings, especially when the sun is
shining and the local scenery is so inviting. School children have a wider choice of sports clubs and families
and friends make Sundays an opportunity to meet.
Sometimes gatherings in old buildings to sing unfamiliar melodies, repeat words which seem, to some, to have
lost their meaning and where habit has replaced love and compassion.
Abraham Heschel wrote in 1976 that “It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for
the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion
declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is
completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the
splendour of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in
the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion – it’s message becomes meaningless.” 1
Some folk reading this may be feeling a little uncomfortable reading these words. As do I. But I am trying to
write a “View from the Youth” and to express views many of us meet daily. It is also why, within the Raleigh
Mission Community, we are experimenting with different meeting times, ways to talk about our beliefs and
to encourage each other. The monthly “Celebrate Together” services at All Saints are less formal and usually
involve an optional activity – which often means chatting as well! In St Peter’s, the “lay-led” (i.e. not clergy)
services are a further opportunity to incorporate a range of approaches to Sunday church services, and for a
others to plan and lead them.
The “Open the Book” project is now up and running in all three of our local primary schools. The current team
seem to have as much fun preparing and presenting the Bible stories as the children do in watching and joining
in. It is one way of trying to ensure that the message is not seen to be dull or meaningless!
A child told me recently that she thought that “Christians don’t have fun.” I didn’t have enough time to tell
her of all the fun things that my Christian friends do – but perhaps that’s what we’re trying to do through
“Celebrate Together”, Messy Church, lay-led services and Open the Book and bring meaning to the message.
How can we all persuade others that Christians do have fun and that God created it?
Church, Schools and Families Co-ordinator
1 Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man (New York: Farrar, Straus and Girous, 1976) p3 as quoted in Brian D McLaren, The Great Spiritual
Migration (Hodder & Stoughton 2016, page 244)
This Month’s Quote.
Jesus is the bread of life, not the cake for special occasions. Anon
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O R G A N R E PA I R S A P P E A L
The finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls
This has now been mentioned several times without any
details. We can now report that the repairs are likely to cost
£30,000! A big sum. A lot of the necessary repairs stem from
damage done when the church roof leaked, now happily
fixed. Iris’s thermometer will be out again! Donations
will be gratefully received, please. (An incorrect figure of
£20,000 has been talked about. Sadly you should forget it!)
The irrepressible Di Bagshawe penned this short poem
about this sort of thing. (She told me she actually wrote it about
Just 70 years ago this month, on 7th Feb 1947, the first of
the Dead Sea Scrolls was found in a cave at Khirbat Qumran
(now in the West Bank, Palestine) - in an echo of a biblical
story - by a shepherd looking for a lost sheep.
If you want to get anything into this Mini-mag, space permitting, just Email [email protected]
or put it into the Mail Box in the church in the Magazine slot by Mon 20th February for March, please.
The Friends of St Peter’s - the active fundraisers for our Church!
Just a quick reminder. The Friends AGM will be on Tuesday
31st January at 3pm. Please come to this if you can.
The New Year’s Curry Party on January 14th was a great
evening, which you will know if you were there! The result
was a very satisfactory £485. Thanks to Gilly Chadwick for
the entertainment. And, of course, to all the other helpers.
The Rogers’, the Jones’ and the Mills.’ And you, for coming.
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been called the greatest
archaeological find of the 20th century. After an initial lack
of interest – some of the scrolls were advertised in a small ad
in an American newspaper – many more were discovered in
some repairs to the organ at her last church. But a quick update and
nearby caves.
it can be used again. No point in re-inventing the wheel. Ed)
COME ORGAN DONORS ALL
The organ is showing
age related ills
not easily blowing
its swells and its trills.
So, Rev Clifton
became ‘Doctor on Call’
before its downfall.
Consultants examined
the pedals and pipes,
thoughtfully determined
the state of its ‘tripes’.
“Tut,tut! This instrument
will surely succumb
unless we implement
a cure…. It is dumb!
A hard working servant
Of maker’s repute”
said the Consultants,
“must not become mute.
At some cost we assess,
Alas and Oh dear!
No Organ H.S
We regrettably fear.
There’ll be silent recovery,
it must be rested,
and the congregation’s discovery
of its loss will be tested”.
So now give a ‘O’
‘R.G’ it’s begun
‘A.N’ a long way to go
before it is done!
100 years on, we remember
For the first 40 years the study of the thousands of text
fragments was monopolised by fewer than a dozen
international scholars, which prevented quick publication
of the texts. But in the early 1990s, the Israel Antiquities
Authority nominated Hebrew University Professor Emanuel
Tov as chief editor, and the publication was divided among
about 100 international scholars. By 2001 most had been
published.
Private Albert James Yeats
served with 2nd/1st Wessex Field Ambulance
Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 14 August 1916 in France and is remembered on
the Thiepval Memorial.
Born in Budleigh Salterton living in Chapel Street and
High Street with his parents William James Yeats and
Fanny (Hallett)and his siblings. The family later lived
in Greenway Lane and are buried in St Peter’s Burial
Ground
Numerous biblical manuscripts were discovered that were
around 1000 years older than those already existing – and
surprisingly, they are almost identical, indicating the great
care taken by copyists down the ages.
for more details, go to www.devonremembers.co.uk
100 years on, we remember
Private Walter George Clark
One more manuscript that has come to light in recent
years refers to the predicted birth of a wonderful child and
provides a fascinating background to the New Testament
messianic hope. It has been reconstructed from twelve
small fragments, giving less than two columns of writing.
Most of the scrolls are in Hebrew, but others are in Aramaic,
the language spoken by many Jews – including Jesus –
between the sixth century BC and the siege of Jerusalem
in 70 AD. One of the most intriguing manuscripts from
Qumran is the Copper Scroll, a sort of ancient treasure map
that lists 64 hidden treasures around Israel. None of these
has been uncovered.
served in the Devonshire Regiment
died 20 February 1917 aged 38 in a Birmingham
Hospital.
He was born in Beer and married Emily Sparks. They
had four children. The family moved to Budleigh
before war broke out.
Walter’s gravestone can be seen in the St Peter’s burial
ground as can that of his widow buried in 1953.
Their children, who married into the Gigg and Trick
families, are all buried there as well.
for more details, go to www.devonremembers.co.uk
This month there is the ever popular Pancakes on Shrove
Tuesday, 28th February at noon, in The Peter Hall.
No tickets. Just turn up and make a donation.
Sorry, still no date for the talk on Stained Glass scheduled
for March. We live in hope, though!
Candlemas 2 February
You may wonder
where all this
information about
casualties from the
First World War
comes from.
Sheila Jelley, who
lives in Moorlands
Road, with her
husband, Colin,
is a historian,
researching this
kind of history. She
suggested these
records when we all
started remembering
the start of that war
couple of years ago.
They will go on for
another year yet.
Apologies that the
record of Albert
Yeats, to the left, has
been delayed.
(Luke2:22-40)
by Daphne Kitching
February snowdrops we welcome you!
Candlemas Bells,
winter’s half-way markers,
symbols of hope and light to come,
creation’s reminders of the Creator
revealed in the child in Simeon’s arms.
Jesus fulfilment of God’s promise
to save and illuminate.
Jesus who overcame darkness and death
to live for us and in us.
At the snowdrops’ prompting,
Lord Jesus, we welcome you afresh,
Hope and Light in person.
Extra witter from Pat
I was privileged to help at Youth Club where 27 youngsters had a good time playing table tennis/pool/table-football/ wii games and generally letting off steam.
They are a good bunch and very tolerant of Ancients like me. They would be
equally tolerant and welcoming to YOU! More helpers are needed, really just to
be there. Come on in, the waters fine!
Church Mission Society (CMS) – David and Heather Sharland
Many of you will remember the visit of David & Heather in the autumn. They gave us a most enlightening and inspiring description
of their work in agriculture and nursing in Northern Uganda with many visual aids and graphic illustrations. They work under the
auspices of CMS who pay them a subsistence allowance which is almost entirely funded by their supporting churches, of which we
are one. Such churches are committed to regular prayer and financial support.
Romance, marriage and all that stuff - the way children see it.... (after all it is the month with Valentines Day in it!)
Question: What do most people do on a date?
Answer by Lynnette, aged 8: Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even
boys have something to say, if you listen long enough....
Wardens’ Witterings - from a Former Wittering Person, Pat Rogers, of course
A recent joint meeting of the Mission Community’s P.C.C.s approved the ‘Person Specification’ for the post of Assistant
Priest here. This will appear on the Diocesan website initially, and if no suitable applicants come forward consideration will be given
to advertising in the Church Times. Rev Anne needs all the help she can get, so we pray someone comes along.
Sometimes sad news to report. Recently we have been told of the death of Steve Patten, our church Architect, a lovely and
young man who has been incredibly helpful over the years. Almost any work carried out in the church during my time as Warden
has had Steve’s input somewhere along the line.
After the early gremlins operating on the disabled access door, we hope all is now in full working order. And those wishing
to use it remember that they need to PRESS the BUTTON to make it open! That’s what it’s for!
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The PCC make an annual contribution to CMS out of our normal Budget, but in addition a number of individuals have private
collecting boxes which are brought to church each year on Mission Sunday and the proceeds then sent on to CMS specifically to
help David & Heather. I have a few spare boxes, and if anyone would like to join in this worthwhile activity, please telephone John
Hutchinson on 445625, or drop a note into 3 Park Lane. Even the smallest contribution is gratefully received and acknowledged.
SOME USEFUL LOCAL NUMBERS
Roger Pollard
Premier Café
Traditional Fish
and Chips and
more.......
01395 442962
Plumbing and
Heating Engineer
01395 444049
Bright Garden
Services
Mowing & Edging,
Hedges & Strimming,
Decking,
Gates & Fences,
Garden Clearance
David Bright
01395 225386,
Mob 07790 022767
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Budleigh Taxis
and Car Hire
01395 223333
or
Dave’s Taxis
01395 223333
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