St. Andrew's Church
St. Andrew's has a new website - please check it out. Click here to visit www.saintandrewscromhall.org.uk
For Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals, please contact:
The Revd. Canon Pat Lyes-Wilsdon
The Benefice Priest
The New Rectory
Cromhall
Tel: 01454 294767
or Benefice Secretary Hilary Legg on on 01454 413234 or
5Alive
5Alive is the Benefice newsletter for Falfield, Tortworth, Tytherington, Rockhampton and Cromhall.
Click here to download the July 2009 5Alive
Calendar
9.30am Cromhall Family Service
9.30am Rockhampton Parish Communion
11.00am Falfield Morning Prayer
11.00am Tortworth Family Service
6.00pm Tytherington Family Communion
Readings: Ezekiel 2: 1-5, 2 Cor.12: 2-10, Mark 6:
1-13
9.30am Cromhall Parish Communion
9.30am Rockhampton Family Communion
11.00am Falfield Family Communion
11.00am Tortworth Parish Communion
6.00pm Tytherington Parish Communion
Readings: Amos 7: 7-15, Eph. 1: 3-14, Mark 6: 14-29
Bishop Michael is spending the day in the Benefice. He is joining us for the whole day, as he would like to know how this Benefice not only worships, but how we spend our time in fellowship and sharing our varied interests.
It will be a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate the strengths of our five parishes working as one benefice. Watch for details here and in the next 5Alive on how you can be part of this special day.
www.cromhall.com/community/church...
11am, Falfield Church
With Bishop Michael
11am, St Leonard's Church, Tortworth
To mark her retirement from the benefice of Cromhall, Tortworth, Tytherington, Falfield and Rockhampton, there will be a united service and we'd love to see you there.
If you prefer to join us only for a bring-and-share meal at 12.30 at Cromhall School, you will be just as welcome.
For more details, please contact either Hilary Legg on 01454 413234 or 07767 363284 or Ann Greenhalgh on 01454 294200.
12.30pm, St Andrew's School, Cromhall
To mark her retirement from the benefice of Cromhall, Tortworth, Tytherington, Falfield and Rockhampton, everyone is welcome for a farewell lunch for Canon Pat.
There will be a united service at St Leonard's Church at 11am and we'd love to see you there, but if you prefer to join us only for a bring-and-share meal afterwards, you will be just as welcome.
Please give a thought to what you would like to bring and share and let either Ann Greenhalgh 01454 294200 or Hilary Legg 01454 413234 know, so that we do not have 33 quiches or 15 bowls of rice! (delicious as I am sure they would be). Liquid donations would also be very acceptable if you don’t want to cook. We could do with sweet and savoury - so do your ‘special of the day’ and perhaps share the recipe with us as well.
You can leave messages on both phone numbers BUT WE DO NEED TO KNOW EARLY TO MAKE PLANNING EASIER. Ann and Hilary have already had offers of food and a generous offer of wine, but hope that they will need to feed the five thousand!
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9.30am Cromhall Family Service
9.30am Rockhampton Morning Prayer
11am Tortworth Join with Falfield
11am Tytherington Family Communion
with Baptism of Baby Daly
Readings: Ex. 16: 2-4, 9-15, Eph. 4: 1-16, John 6:
24-35
12.30-4.30pm, Gardens of Gate Farmhouse, Itchington
All food, tea and coffee included - bring your own drinks.
Outdoor games and raffle. Tickets: £8.50 available from Cromhall Village Shop or from Ann, Roy, Doug, Peggy or Anton.
Weekday Eucharists
Weekday Eucharists, to which all are welcome, are normally held on:
9.30am, Tuesdays at Tortworth
9.30am, Thursdays at Tytherington
Please check the weekly notice sheet or events calendar, as they sometimes vary.
The Clergy and the readers are glad to bring Holy Communion to the home for anyone unable to get to church: Please ring Pat if you would like one of the team to come to you.
Cromhall 100 Club
This is run by the church to raise funds for the care and upkeep of St Andrew's.
Entry cost is £10 per year, and there are four draws per year in Cromhall Shop on the last working day of November, February, May and August.
You have the chance of winning three prizes per draw: £30, £20 and £10.
The results of the latest 100 club draw at the end of February were: 1st £30 Sheila Drape, 2nd £20 Graham Clothier, 3rd £10 Steve Baines.
As we are now half way through the year, the remaining 9 tickets are half price(£5) if anyone wants them.
Numbers are on sale from Cromhall Shop or PCC members. For more information contact Ann Greenhalgh on 01454 294200.
New Community Office at Falfield
Most of you will know about the plans for a Community/Benefice Office and this is now definitely one step closer. We really have no option but to progress this matter with urgency; when Canon Pat leaves the Rectory in August, we will no longer have an office. We are grateful that Pat has allowed her private study to be invaded to provide an office, but any new incumbent at the Rectory may not be willing for their home to be used in that way and during the vacancy all the ‘stuff’ has to be housed safely and accessibly.
The BBC room directly behind Falfield Parish Hall has been identified as the best option, although not large, is central and has a large car park. We are awaiting final quotes for the necessary work to make it a safe, dry and suitable space for an office; we will install broadband/phone as we will no longer have this at the Rectory and will take over the photocopier etc. from the Rectory Office. We are anticipating these quotes will be in the region of £3,500.
It is felt that with such a wide spread Benefice, it is essential to have one central office where Benefice paperwork can be stored and give somewhere for the Secretary to work; 5Alive will share the office, as could any other organisation who may need to use the office equipment or a small space in which to meet. To expect people to house this sort of equipment in their homes is really not an option. The Office will be open one day a week at first and designated other people will have access as agreed throughout the week.
We now have general agreement from the Churches, 5Alive and Falfield Parish Hall. Cromhall, Tortworth and Tytherington have undertaken to fund the main part of the work, with Rockhampton being undecided as to their contribution and Falfield have agreed to hold a couple of fund raising events as their input. Falfield Parish Council has offered a grant of £700 to assist in the building work and we have approached the other Parish Council’s in the area and are also looking into other sources of funding.
We shall need some office furniture and equipment, particularly filing cabinets, or anything else you think might be useful (but not computer desks) which you no longer need or if you could offer any help with the conversion work or indeed would like to make a donation to funds, please give Hilary a call on 01454 413234. We will keep you updated on progress.
Easyfundraising.com
St Andrew's Church has set up an online shopping facility through Easyfundraising.com, where you can generate income for the Church merely by using all the usual online stores via our Easyfundraising portal.
Click here to visit www.easyfundraising.org.uk/standrewscromhall
Bell-ringing vacancies
There are vacancies for one or more church bell ringers at Cromhall Tower. Qualifications needed: the ability to climb a few stairs, aged 11 or above, able to attend Monday evening practices on a regular basis and determination to master the art of bell-ringing, despite evenings when it doesn't seem to "go right". Pay scale: none, except for the occasional wedding.
If you are interested and would like to visit the Tower, either come along on a Monday evening between 7.45 and 9pm or ring Peggy Collett on 01454 294545. n.b. Do not enter the ringing chamber whilst the bells are being rung, but wait on the stairs until the ringing stops.
Julian Trust
St Andrew's Church has a box in the church porch for donations to be taken to the Julian Trust, which urgently needs tinned goods (especially meat and sausages), toiletries and toilet rolls and warm men's clothing including socks and gloves.
Several of the church members do a duty there either on an evening to prepare a meal or to supervise the guests overnight and prepare breakfast.
Anyone interested in joining the volunteers rota would be very welcome. Contact Peggy Collett on 294545.
See also:
Located inside the church grounds is Cromhall's War Memorial.
