St. Andrew's Church
How to contact the Benefice
The phone number for all Benefice business is 01454 260096. Please use this unless you wish to speak to your own Warden or PCC Secretary.
Emails should be sent to:
All phone messages and emails will be dealt with on a Thursday, but if an urgent answer is required call Benefice Secretary Hilary Legg on 01454 413234 or Gill Williams (Funerals) on 01454 261296 or Fen Marshall (Weddings) on 01454 260821.
There is a letter box on the gate at Falfield Village Hall where you can leave letters for the Benefice and Rev. Jenny or articles for 5Alive, although emailed items would be much preferred. If articles are put in the box:
(a) they should be clearly labelled either Benefice Secretary OR 5 Alive
(b) the box is unlikely to be emptied on a daily basis, so bear that in mind when dropping items off.
St. Andrew's has a new website - please check it out: www.saintandrewscromhall.org.uk
5Alive
5Alive is the Benefice newsletter for Falfield, Tortworth, Tytherington, Rockhampton and Cromhall.
Click here to download the August 2010 5Alive
Photocopying
You are welcome to have photocopying done, (for a small charge to cover costs) on a Thursday morning, but we would ask that you give us a call first as we will sometimes be doing long runs of printing, since we will now be printing 5Alive and will not be able to help you immediately if you just call in.
We can copy A4 or A3 and usually have coloured paper available, enlarge or reduce originals and do other clever things!
Family History
We have had a number of enquiries from folk tracing their family history. We do not hold any records (apart from current ones) in the Benefice.
They are all held at the Gloucester Records Office, who if they are contacted beforehand will assist.
Email:
Website: www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives
Weekday Eucharists
These are running, with Tytherington and Tortworth alternating each week. Revd. Jenny is keen to continue these services, but cannot commit to two a week.
The Clergy and the readers are glad to bring Holy Communion to the home for anyone unable to get to church: Please ring Hilary if you would like one of the team to come to you.
Cromhall 100 Club
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, plus a Christmas and Easter draw for £50.
You have the chance of winning three prizes per draw: £30, £20 and £10.
There are fourteen numbers left if anyone is interested - enquire at Cromhall Shop.
100club results are as follows for end of May: 1st £30 Sarah Boulton, 2nd £20 Gladys Day, 3rd £10 F Bryant
All profits from the sale of membership go towards the care and upkeep of St Andrew’s Church. Thank you to all of our supporters. For more information contact Ann Greenhalgh on 01454 294200.
Bell-ringing vacancies
Would you be sad if Cromhall Church Bells no longer rang out on Sunday mornings and for weddings?
Unless new people are willing to learn to ring, this may well happen.
Cromhall ringers practice on Monday evenings between 7.30 and 9pm. If you are interested in learning to ring and would be available on Sunday mornings to ring for most church services, either turn up on a Monday evening or call Peggy Collett on 01454 294545 for more details.
Anyone over the age of 11 until you can no longer climb stairs is able to learn. Rising 11 year olds are not covered by insurance but are able to learn if accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Newsletter
As we join together in our new pattern of services, it is important that news is still available, so please consider receiving the Newsletter by email - just drop Hilary an email: to be added to the distribution list.
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
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.
Calendar
9.30am Cromhall Eucharist
9.30am Rockhampton Morning Prayer
11.00am Falfield Morning Prayer
11.00am Tortworth Eucharist
11.00am Tytherington Morning Prayer
www.cromhall.com/community/church...
A four week course Monday Evenings at Townwell House and Tuesday afternoons at Eastleigh Close.
These will be a friendly meetings using a DVD as a starting point for reflections on paintings depicting the life of Christ.
www.cromhall.com/community/church...
7.30pm, Zena's
Gates open 11am, Talbot End House, Cromhall
Tickets are £6 for players and spectators and include coffee and a baguette (other drinks and refreshments will be on sale). Caps and berets optional.
There will be major prizes for the Boule competition, a raffle and some fun ways to encourage you to give to a good cause...
All proceeds go to St Andrew's Church. Tickets must be obtained in advance from the Cromhall Village Shop or from Drew and Zena Whitefield on 01454 294324 or by email below.
Email:
9.30am Cromhall All Age Eucharist
9.30am Rockhampton Morning Prayer
11.00am Falfield Baptism Celebration - come and celebrate your baptism with us as part of our 150th celebration
11.00am Family Service and Burial of Ashes
6pm Tytherington All Age Eucharist
www.cromhall.com/community/church...
9.30am Cromhall Eucharist and wedding blessing
9.30am Rockhampton Morning Prayer
11.00am Falfield Join Tortworth
11.00am Tortworth Eucharist and Baptism
6pm Tytherington Join Baptists
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A GREAT YOUTH ACTIVITIES WEEKEND AT VINEY HILL CHRISTIAN ADVENTURE CENTRE SLEEPING IN TENTS 24th – 26th September
Ignite your passion for God and the great outdoors. £55 inclusive of all food and activities. Details from Steve Bullock 01452 835557.
Email:
7.30pm, Falfield Village Hall
Adults £10, Children £5, Family ticket: £25 (2 adults, 2 children). Includes 3 course meal and cider/soft drinks.
Tickets available from 01454 260364 or 01454 260671.
www.cromhall.com/community/church...
9.30am Cromhall
9.30am Rockhampton
11.00am Falfield
11.00am Tortworth
11.00am Tytherington
Open Church - all welcome!
www.cromhall.com/community/church...
3pm
9.30am Cromhall Join Rockhampton
9.30am Rockhampton Eucharist
11.00am Falfield Join Tortworth
11.00am Tortworth Eucharist
6pm Tytherington Eucharist
www.cromhall.com/community/church...
7.30pm
7.30pm
The Reverend William Frank Burlton
Born in 1912, his twin brother George died at birth, Bill had polio as a child and his father was killed in the First World War, leaving his mother as a young widow to bring up Bill and his younger brother, Harold, alone. He recovered well from the polio but it left him with a permanent limp. These early struggles gave him great strength of mind and enormous sympathy with other people.
He worked first as a printer and then studied for the priesthood with the evacuated Kings College, London, during the Second World War, whilst also being a member of the Fire Service in Bristol and Bath. After the war he became a curate at Northleach, then priest-in-charge at Hewelsfield and curate at St Briavels before moving to Cromhall where he spent the next thirty years as the parish priest and assistant chaplain of Leyhill Prison. In addition he also became priest-incharge of Tortworth and Rural Dean.
On retirement he moved with his wife, Marjorie, to Marazion in Cornwall to be near their son Christopher and his family.
While there he took services in almost every church and chapel in the area until he was physically unable to continue.
He sat on committees, on local councils, he was a Scout Commisssioner, a governor of several schools, a church bellringer and chaplain to the local ringers guild and always, always, always, in whatever capacity, he was at the service of his fellow human beings. It did not matter to Bill whether the person he was dealing with was a roadmender, an obstreperous toddler, a juvenile delinquent, a housewife, a murderer, a duchess, a farmer, a good Christian or the village drunk – if they were a person he loved them even if he deplored what they had done, but he did not judge, simply tried to love them enough to lead them into the right path.
He was never narrow in his Christianity, taking services from behind the bar of the village pub when they wanted to celebrate harvest there and from a roundabout when a Steam Fair was held in the Rectory field. When pop music began attracting the attention of the young he did not condemn but invited them into church to play and sing during the service.
Indeed it was he who hosted the service at Tortworth at which Roy Hudd and the George Mitchell Minstrels performed.
His sermons were legendary for the singularity of both content and delivery; while the meaty Christian message was always there it was served up in a palatable and enjoyable manner. Who else, wishing to impress the virtues of perseverance on a congregation of Boy Scouts in Gloucester cathedral, would have taken “Incey Wincey Spider” as the text of the sermon?
In all this he was ably seconded by Marjorie, his wife for 63 years, who brought to their partnership the necessary practical qualities while sharing his faith and his service to anyone who needed it.
He is survived by Marjorie, his children Mary and Christopher, daughter-in-law Gill and grandchildren Naomi, Robert and
Thomas.
See also:
Located inside the church grounds is Cromhall's War Memorial.
