April 2014 40 p

Suggested contribution

Magazine for

All Saints’ Church and

St Mary & St Peter’s Church,

Salcombe Regis

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From the Vicarage

Easter Celebration

Easter is a celebration! That may sound a little strange when we consider all the painful events of Holy Week, but Good Friday wasn’t the end of the story. There was news on Easter morning!

The two parts of the story are both needed. We need to remember the love of God shown in Jesus’ offering of himself for us, and we need to remember the power of God shown in the victory over sin and death. So over the Easter weekend we move through a whole series of thoughts. The sombre reflection of Good Friday, the thoughtful quiet of Saturday, but then the joyous cry of Hallelujah! on Sunday.

In whatever circumstances you may find yourself this Easter, I hope the message of hope will bring you comfort and joy.

Notes from the Vicarage

Maundy Thursday, April 17th. The clergy thought it a good idea if we joined with others to remember this special evening, so do come to St Peter’s Sidford at 7.00pm for a shared service of Holy Communion.

Easter Sunday early morning will be a little different this year. We shall meet on the seafront at 7.30am, (by the Bedford steps) and then join in Holy Communion at 8.00am in the Parish Church.

The Annual Church Meetings take place this month: All Saints’: April 8th:

Salcombe Regis: April 15th both at 7.30 pm in All Saints’ Hall

We shall be electing wardens, PCC members, and also deanery synod reps for the next 3 years. Keep these meetings in your prayers.

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Our Mission: We exist to see lives transformed by Christ.

Our Vision is that All Saints’ should be increasingly:

God honouring, Christ following, Spirit-led and Bible-based

Welcoming, open hearted, outward looking and relevant

A people who are humble, gracious, generous and servant hearted.

Our service times are scheduled on page 16 of the magazine. The 8am Holy Communion follows the Book of Common Prayer. The 9.15 Service offers informal contemporary worship during which there’s seekers@saints, separate age related activities in five different groups for those aged 3 to teens. There are crèche facilities for the under 3s. The 11.15 am Service follows Common Worship.

We hope you will always find a warm welcome here, and worship which is both reverent and meaningful.

For disabled people we have level access into the Church by all doors, and a ramp to the Hall and toilets (including adapted toilet); we also provide baby changing facilities. There is an efficient loudspeaker system for those who find listening difficult. A hearing loop, covering most of the church and hall, serves those with hearing aids switched to the ‘T’ position. The car park is available free for those attending services and meetings. Permits for parking at other times are available for church members.

All Saints’ Church is part of the Sid Valley Mission Community in the Devon Anglican Diocese.

P 2 Vicar’s Letter & notes P4 Regular activities P5 Editors Note, Event, Diary Dates P6 -P7 Kate’s Blog P8 Mission News P9 All Saints’ PCC & poem P10 “Around Salcombe Regis” P11 Salcombe Regis Services for April P12 - P13 Easter - Mark Barrett

Contents

P14 &P15 Prayer Focus P16 All Saints’ Services for April P17 Mission Community Easter Services P18 Who’s Who- P19 Sid Valley Team - contacts & PCC P28- 30 Adverts P30-31 Book review P31 Photos from South Pacific P32 Events

WELCOME TO ALL SAINTS’, SIDMOUTH

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REGULAR ACTIVITIES @ ALL SAINTS

Prayer Groups

Weekly prayer, Friday 9.00 - 9.30 am in Church.

Monthly prayer and praise, 7.30 pm the last Tuesday of each month in Church

Men’s Prayer group, 7am each Friday morning in church. Contact Phil Cranch.

Prayer for the Nation, 4th Monday at 2pm in Church. Contact Joyce Missing. House Groups There are many groups which meet at various places in the valley on different days and times. Please contact Brenda Richards for information.

Pastoral Team (vacancy) Anyone who would like to discuss potential visits should initially contact the Vicar.

Friendship Group for retired people, meets on the second Tuesday of each month from 10am - 12noon for coffee, board games, and other varied activities. Chris Lowden manages this event.

Coffee & Co is a group for people who would like to meet others just for friendship. Biddy Miller manages this event which meets on the 4th Saturday of each month 10 am - 12 noon.

Snack ‘n chat meets for a simple lunch, from 12 noon on the first Tuesday of the month from October to April. Anne Kay and Hazel Fergie manage this event.

Man to Man Breakfast for the men normally on a third Saturday of a month at 8am – some for Christian men only and some outreach events. Contact Robin Johnson

Messy Church is a fun packed session for children aged 4-11 accompanied by a parent, with games, craft, storytelling, songs, short bible talk and supper. 3.30pm - 5.30pm on the 2nd Thursday of each month. Contact Kate Hamilton

Gardening. Contact David Guthrie-Clark

Missionary partners and Interests A blue leaflet in the foyer gives an overview of information. More detailed information is available on the notice board in the Church Hall.

See page 14 for contact tel. numbers.

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Diary Dates for All Saints’ &

St Mary & St Peters Churches See regular activities Tuesday - 1st Snack ‘n Chat 12 noon. (page 4) Wednesday - 2nd & 9th Lent services 11.45 am (page 11) Sunday - 6th & 20th Rose Lawn Services 4.30 (page 11) Tuesday - 8th Friendship group 10 am (page 4) Tuesday - 8th Annual Church Meeting -All Saints at 7.30 pm (page 2) Thursday - 10th Messy Church 3.30 pm (page 4) Friday - 11th Charity Auction 6pm(page 32) Tuesday - 15th Annual Church Meeting Salcombe Regis at 7.30 pm (page 2) Tuesday - 15th Rose Lawn Coffee Morning 10am(page 11)

Wednesday - 16th by 9am Magazine copy date

Saturday - 19th Man to Man 8am (page 4) Monday - 28th Prayer for the Nation 2pm (page 4) Saturday 26th Coffee & Co. 10am to noon (page 4)

Editor’s Note - As space is limited please refer to the contents page 3.

I haven’t referred to Easter services in the diary dates, as they are highlighted elsewhere on pages 11, 16, & 17. If anyone would like to offer items for the Leprosy Mission coffee morning please contact Jeanne Selley or Joyce Missing

516806 see p 32. Happy Easter!

TWO SISTERS AND A FUNERAL

Some of you will know of Roger Jones (Christian Music Ministries) who has written and

composed a number of musicals. He will be coming to All Saints' in October for a

performance of Two Sisters and a Funeral (the story of Lazarus, Martha, and Mary) and

we will be providing the choir and some live music. We need a large number of singers

of all ages and abilities (especially men!) who are available on the following dates:

- Monday 14th July at 7.30pm when Roger will introduce the musical to all who would

like to be involved,

- then weekly rehearsals on Monday evenings (start date to be confirmed) to be led by

Peter Fung,

- weekend of 11th/12th October when Roger will take the rehearsal throughout the day

on Saturday with a public performance on Sunday afternoon.

Even if you have never been in a choir, please consider being part of this one and let me

know if you would like to join us.

John Belton (tel: 01404-813431 or email: thebeltons@talk21.com)

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The Final Conquest Over the past couple of weeks I have been immersed in the world of Jedis, Ewoks

and the battle for freedom against an evil Empire. Star Wars eluded me when I

was growing up in the 1980s and so I’m having to start from scratch in preparing

for Holiday Club this summer.

With both trilogies and the LEGO Star Wars behind me, I’m feeling rather square-

eyed, although I can now at least identify each of the costumes we’ve been lent by

Emmanuel Church, Plymouth, and I am well progressed in adapting the scripts and

writing the group teaching material.

I am always delighted when I see in film scripts allegories to the Gospel such as the

Christ-like character of Obi-Wan Kanobi and Luke Skywalker as his disciple, the

journey of Han Solo away from self-centredness to putting others first and the

mystical Force which binds the world together. The real challenge with Holiday

Club is making some of the simple Biblical truths which shine through accessible to

the children of different ages, so that they love getting to know Jesus better as well

as having a brilliant time racing around with light sabres and reproducing R2-D2s.

Please be praying that in the coming months we would be getting together a great team of leaders, for a director and actors for the drama scenes ideally from amongst our youth, for someone to lead the music and for someone to overall lead the week which in all probability will not be me!

Guides Garden Angels

This Easter the Girl Guides I meet with each week are wanting to find customers for

their gardening sessions to raise money for camps and residential trips coming up.

There will be an adult and two girls at each session of 2 hours which cost £20.

Please give me a call on 07588 817590 if you are interested.

Summer Camps Thank you to those who have sponsored 3 boys this month to attend South West Youth Ministry’s Rock School, which is about developing creative gifts as well as exploring together the Christian faith. Please be praying that this would be a

Kate’s Blog

"It takes strength to resist the dark side. Only the weak embrace it!"

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great time for those boys. All Saints now has a very generous legacy fund to subsidise places on specific Christian summer camps for those children who would not otherwise be able to go. The potential for so many more young lives to be transformed by the gospel through this thoughtful act of making a gift in a will is much appreciated and a great posthumous investment!

We will be needing though to do some fundraising to help with places on South West Youth Ministries ‘SPREE’ Christian festival weekend in July to which we are expecting to take lots of youngsters, as well as for our annual trips to Bernards Acre and our ‘Surf ‘n Turf’ trip to Cornwall for our more ‘fringe’ contacts. The plan is hopefully a Mission Community Safari Supper some time in late May / early June, where diners circulate different homes for each course of a meal, meeting and eating with different folk throughout the evening. Please let me know if you would like to participate or co-ordinate this.

Please continue in prayer for work with children & youth people in the Sid Valley. I will ensure that the next edition of my Prayer Prompts due in May is uncommonly on time!

Kate Hamilton Children’s & Youth Pastor Sid Valley Mission Community

Tel: 07588 817590 / youth@sidvalley.org.uk

Change of address - Kathleen (Kate) Bowring has moved

from Abbeyfield Court to be near her sister, Mary. She can be contacted at:

Stanecroft Spook Hill North Holmwood Dorking Surrey RH5 4EG

The general phone number is 01306 876567 www.careuk.com/stanecroft

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MISSION PARTNERS

Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade.

WEC is an evangelical mission which is inspired by Christ’s instruction to go into all the world and preach the Good News. It is seeking to fulfil the need to see the message preached in the whole world before He returns for us. Many parts of the world are still closed and inaccessible to Mission personnel. However, literature can get into these places. Since English is an enthusiastically sought language, English language teaching material has ready access. “Soon Ministries” is an arm of WEC which is operated mostly by volunteers. Three or four times a year, English language teaching material is posted to places like India, Africa and parts of the Ukraine. The teaching is largely through short stories demonstrating the use of new vocabulary but also containing a clear Biblical truth. Any reader inspired by the messages is invited to sign up for WEC Christian Teaching courses and the take-up is very popular. Being teaching material, this literature also has ready access into closed lands. ‘Soon Ministries’ is in grave danger of folding, due to a shortage of volunteer personnel. Many of those currently involved are elderly and therefore unable to continue. Please consider prayerfully whether you are being called to this fruitful mission and in what way. My small contribution is as a ‘distributor’. My task is to stuff envelopes and address and stamp them. All address labels and stamps are provided. I would be happy to show you what is involved. Perhaps your call is to help elsewhere in the chain eg printing, editing, writing. Please, after prayerful consideration, offer your services by writing to: Soon Ministries, 44 Twyford Road, Willington, Derby. DE65 6BN. Tel No. 01283 702334. Distributors are asked to contribute the cost of posting their own 40 communications - in my case this amounts to £21 each time.

Lorna Meers.

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All Saints’ PCC report

Our most recent PCC Meeting took place on March 11th and the following list shows the specific topics discussed, in addition to the review of the previous PCC Meeting Minutes and Matters Arising.

Vicars Report Treasurers Report including Review and Approval of year end 2013

Accounts Items for Decision including: Freedom in Christ course next steps, Review of

Articles of Enquiry, Installing electric hand dryers in toilets, Safeguarding Policy Review, Health and Safety Policy Review, Wispire Project.

Items for Discussion including: Legacy Use suggestions, Worship Group Update, P/V Panels on church roofs.

Items for Information including: Deanery Synod Report, Article 8 – Women in the Episcopate, Safeguarding Coordinator Report.

Health and Safety Report Correspondence Communication Opportunities

Please note, the approved PCC Minutes for the meeting held in January are now in the Lounge PCC Minutes File for your information and review.

Tony Miller

When God Made. When God made the earth and sky,

the flowers and the trees,

He then made all the animals and the birds and bees.

And when his work was finished not one was quite the same.

He said I’ll walk this earth of mine,

And give each one a name.

And so he travelled the land and sea,

And everywhere he went,

A little creature followed him until his strength was spent.

When all were named upon the earth and in the sky and sea,

The little creature said, “Dear Lord, there’s not one left for me?”

The Father smiled and softly said;

“I’ve left you ‘til the end.

I’ve turned my own name back to front, and called you DOG, my friend.”

Submitted by Mary Davies

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Around the Salcombe Regis Parish For St.Mary and St. Peter, Salcombe Regis, Lent began with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10 o’clock on Ash Wednesday. As is the custom for the six weeks before Lent flowers had been removed but a Prayer Table had been established and it is hoped that parishioners and visitors find the prayers on display an inspiration or comfort.

On the 26th February twenty eight members of our congregation shared a lunch, not frugal, at the Blue Ball! This proved to be a popular event and requests to ‘do it again’ were very encouraging.

The Church at Salcombe Regis has been blessed with bells, all cast by Exeter founders, since the 15th century when the smallest was installed. This was followed in 1633 by a second bell and with a tenor bell installed in 1637. Subsequent maintenance to the bells was carried out in 1976 and 1986 and most recently in February 2014.

The latest refurbishment of the bells, costing some £4,000, was facilitated by a generous legacy from the late Aurea Caddy and we look for the bells to ring out in her memory for many years to come.

Anyone interested in bell ringing is very welcome to join our team of ringers for Sunday services and weddings. Please contact Jill Thomson on 01395-514882 where training will be willingly provided.

April approaches and, consequently, so do the Annual Parochial Church Meetings for all the Parishes within the Sid Valley Mission Community. Salcombe Regis will hold its APCM on Tuesday, 15th April 2014 in All Saint’s Church Hall at 7.30pm. New members for the PCC would be very welcome.

--------------------------------------------------------------- The sound of fairground music brought a smile to the faces of the many who gathered in Salcombe Regis Church for the funeral of Barrie John Spanton. It was Barrie’s wish that his much treasured fairground organ should be played at the service and so it was that a medley of tunes including ‘Roll out the barrel’ and ‘Yes, we have no bananas’ struck a very different chord to the singing of the traditional hymns sung at the service.

Evidence of Barrie’s skills and ingenuity, both within and without the Church, are

a legacy to his memory. If a job needed doing Barrie would do it!

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Rose Lawn

Sunday Afternoon 4.30pm followed by tea. 6 April Joyce Missing 20 April Revd Robin Laird

Holy communion Tuesday 8 April led by Revd David Lewis, 11am followed by coffee. All welcome to these services.

Ecumenical Midweek Services during Lent Lent 4 April 2 11.45 a.m. All Saints’ Lent 5 April 9 11.45 a.m. St Peter, Sidford

Services will be followed by a Frugal Lunch.

Salcombe Regis Parish Calendar for April 2014

6th Sunday The Fifth Sunday in Lent 9:15 am Parish Communion 11:00 am Matins 13th Sunday Sunday next before Easter - Palm Sunday 8:00 am Holy Communion 9:15 am Parish Communion 18th Friday Good Friday 2:00 pm ‘Before the cross’ 20th Sunday Easter Day 9:15 am Parish Communion 11:00 am Matins 27th Sunday The Second Sunday of Easter 8:00 am Holy Communion 9.15 am Parish Communion Funeral 21st February Barrie John Spanton May God grant him a share in His Kingdom.

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Easter and the war between the rationalist and the empiricist We are a month away from Easter and you might already be struggling to keep up your lenten chocolate or cake fast. But I wonder, as you so diligently deprive yourself, whether you have taken the time to stop and ask if it is all true. Ever since that first Easter, the cross and resurrection of Jesus has laid at the world's feet a monumental claim. A claim that goes against everything we know about the natural order of things. It is the claim that a human being, despite torture and death, can rise from the dead alive in a new physical body. If Easter is not true or perhaps only metaphorical then as the apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:19, '...we are of all people most to be pitied'. Frankly, if Easter is not true then I can think of a 100 better things to do with my Sunday mornings. These might include spending more time with my wife and children, improving my surfing, filling myself with more chocolate, cake, coffee or TV, and (O Joy!) not wearing impractical clerical robes. But if Easter is true, then what we have is nothing less than the most significant event in the history of the universe. What could be more significant than a death and life encounter with the creator of the universe in human flesh? But how could we ever know if it is true? How do we know if anything is true? Influential enlightenment philosophy has traditionally been divided into two camps: empiricists and rationalists. A strict rationalist might approach the Easter stories with reason: the claims of the empty tomb; the multiple eyewitness accounts of the risen Jesus; the reliability and early compilation date of the four gospels; the miraculous transformation in Jesus closest followers who were so quick to abandon him at his death yet would go on to give their lives in their pursuit to spread this good news; the unprecedented growth of the early church; the ultimate legacy of a poor carpenter’s son who died an early and humiliating death, who just happened to be the person we decided to base our whole western calendar on. 'Yes' the rationalist would say there is reasonable evidence. But here the rationalist hits a wall because the conclusion reached is utterly irrational. It defies all human reason: people do not rise from the dead. At this point, either the rationalist must step off a cliff in faith or reject his/her own reason, which might in fact mean rejecting the very cliff he/ she stands on. A strict empiricist, on the other hand, would approach the Easter stories from an experiential perspective. In other words, he or she would ask 'what did actually happen on that first Easter Sunday?' Here the empiricist would have to reject the Easter claim, as people don't rise from the dead. But he or she would also have to conclude that something significant did happen. What is often ventured is what has become known as 'the big fish story'. Perhaps Jesus' first followers were emotionally carried along by the sacrificial example set by Jesus. Then, in order to convince a more sceptical later audience the stories themselves and Jesus' identity would have had to be embellished.

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Finally, by the time the stories are written down the result is a great big elaborate fish caught by some very puffed up fisherman. But here the empiricist must hit a wall because a 'great big elaborate fish' is precisely what we don't have in the gospel accounts of Easter. Between the four accounts, Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24 and John 20, there is both consistency and confusion. First, there seems to be agreement about the day, the time, the empty tomb and that women were the first eyewitnesses. But there is discrepancy about the number of eyewitnesses, who was at the tomb, whether the women immediately kept the story to themselves or went on to tell the rest of the disciples. Second (this point has been made many times), if in ancient times one were constructing a 'big fish story', one would have to be extremely naïve to base its validity on the testimony of a few women. It is well known that at that time women were not considered reliable witnesses in court. Third, when compared to the rest of the gospels, there is a notable lack of 'theologizing'. These stories are simple. They do not draw on Old Testament scripture as in the case of the material leading up to the crucifixion. Moreover, they do not immediately elaborate upon any future Christian hope. They are simply preoccupied with the present circumstances, which they struggle to describe (See Wright, 'The Resurrection of the Son of God', pg 600). And so what we have is something more akin to a small bewildered fish with a fin and tail slightly out of place. Of course, let’s not also forget that if we read beyond the gospels about the acts of the early church, we also have quite a few dead or dying fishermen (eg. Stephen, James, Peter, Paul). Present day philosophy would conclude that in reality our knowledge is made up of a combination of rationalistic and empirical factors. What is interesting about the Easter stories is that they look precisely like the sort of stories a group of frightened people would tell who were trying to come to terms with something that was far too big for both the rational and empirical sides of their brains. Therefore, if I were a betting man, I would say, 'Easter is true!', but even as I say that I find myself gasping at the enormity of that statement, gasping at the life and death implications of the statement and gasping at the astounding love of my creator. Whether you have been going to church for 50 years or have never stepped foot in one, if Easter doesn't make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up then you need to read the stories again and be inspired! Happy Easter Mark Barrett.

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Geoff Purkiss used the following quote during the 9.15 service on Feb 16th. (Sorry it

was not in time for the March magazine, but I hope it will be a good reminder now.)

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those prayers down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

Peter Kreeft. Professor of Philosophy. Boston College.

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Prayer grasps eternity

Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of prayer. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning. We are beggared and bankrupt, but not broken, nor even bent..

Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our accent is on paying, theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!

In the matter of New Testament, Spirit-inspired, hell-shaking, world-breaking prayer, never has so much been left by so many to so few. For this kind of prayer there is no substitute. We do it--or die!

Taken from Why Revival Tarries, by Leonard Ravenhill. © 1959, Leonard Ravenhill. Submitted by Phil Cranch.

PRAYER FOCUS

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PRAYER FOCUS for APRIL

Intercessions for the Mission Community for April Pray for faith to issue in action:

For the continued development and implementation of the Team Mission Action Plan and the Staff and Churchwardens’ group as they oversee it.

For those elected to serve as Churchwardens and PCC or Deanery Synod representatives at our Annual Meetings.

For awareness of opportunities to act and speak as Christians in our everyday life and work, and for the grace and courage to use them.

For our observance of Holy week and our celebrations of Easter.

For the Good Friday Walk of Witness and the Easter morning service on the seafront.

For outreach to those occasional visitors who will come to hear the Easter message, that they will respond in faith.

1. Mark & Helen Barrett 2. Dennis & Ann Barrington 3. Marcia Bastin 4. Alastair & Sharon Bates 5. David & Mary Beale 6. Richard & Janet Beattie 7. David & Angela Bedford 8. John & Pauline Belton 9. Handel & Joan Bennett 10. Jen Bennett 11. Liz Bennett 12. Eileen Bevington 13. Frances Bigland 14. Brian & Alison Black 15. Joyce Blackwell

All Saints’ Church Fellowship Prayer list for April

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.” John 15 9

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ALL SAINTS’ SERVICES APRIL- 2014

6 April Passion Sunday

8:00 am Holy Communion (BCP) Rev Roger Trumper 9:15 am &11:15 am Morning Services Title: Take up your cross Preacher: Rev Roger Trumper Readings: Ezekiel 37: 1 – 14; Matthew 16: 20 - 27

13 April Palm Sunday

9:15 am &11:15 am Morning Services Title: The entry of the King Preacher: Rev Mark Barrett Readings: Psalm 118: 19 – 24; Matthew 21: 1 - 11

6:00 pm Holy Communion

18 April Good Friday

11:00 am All-age Service Title: Friday - Pain Preacher: Rev Roger Trumper Reading: Matthew 27: 32 - 44

20 April Easter Day

10:30 am Morning Service and Holy Communion Title: Sunday - Joy Preacher: Rev Roger Trumper Readings: Acts 10: 34 – 45; Matthew 28: 1 - 10

7:00 pm for 7:30 pm Encounter

27 April First Sunday after Easter

9:15 am & 11:15 am Morning Services and Holy Communion (at 11:15 am only) Title: I am the bread of life Preacher: Rev Ken Crooks Readings: Exodus 3: 1 - 6, 10 – 15; John 6: 25 - 40

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Friendship Group Chris Lowden 516028 Children’s Ministry Tracey Tipton 576804 Prayer Chain Margaret Jenkins 577981 Man to Man Robin Johnson 578433 Men’s Prayer Phil Cranch 515677 Snack ‘n’ Chat

Anne Kay 579040

& Hazel Fergie 513517 Coffee & Co Biddy Miller 513697 Hall Bookings & Flower Rota Biddy Miller 513697 Messy Church Sally Marvin 514475

Car Park Permits Tony Miller 513697 Notice Board Geraldine Gee 579604 Heating Tony Miller 513697 Sound System Martin Allen 579152 Bible Reading Notes Rosemarie Luff 579345 House Groups Brenda Richards 516241

WEBSITE Editor Paula Mills 515488 (millspaula@hotmail.co.uk)

PCC SECRETARY Tony Miller 513697 biddyandtony@ukgateway.net

PCC TREASURER Gill Johnson 578433

GIVING Freewill Offering Geraldine Gee 579604 Gift Aid Gill Johnson 578433

ELECTORAL ROLL SECRETARY Brenda Richards 516241

OFFICE / VESTRY PHONE 577773

CHURCH ADMIN. ASSISTANT Phil Cranch Office email : allsaints@sidvalley.org.uk CHURCH WARDENS Phil Cranch 515677 David Guthrie-Clark 512721

DEANERY SYNOD Joan Bennett 514211 June Glennie 578722 Tony Wiltshire 516612

WHO’S WHO VICAR - Rev. Roger Trumper, The Vicarage, All Saints Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8ES

Tel.: 515963 Email: roger.trumper@sidvalley.org.uk

CURATE - Mark Barrett, 25 Lymbourne Park, Sidmouth EX10 9HZ

Tel: 512645 Email: mark.barrett@sidvalley.org.uk

COMMUNITY YOUTH PASTOR - Kate Hamilton

Tel. 07588 817590 Email: youth@sidvalley.org.uk

ALL SAINTS WEB SITE : www.allsaintssidmouth.org.uk

All Saints’ Church charity number 1128968

HON. ASSISTANT CLERGY Rev. Handel Bennett 514211

Rev. Kenneth Crooks 489254

Canon Dennis Gurney 515362

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TEAM RECTOR - Sidmouth Parish Church

Rev. Philip Bourne

All Saints & Salcombe Regis Rev. Roger Trumper 515963 Mark Barrett 512645 Community Youth Pastor Kate Hamilton 07588817590 St. Francis, Woolbrook and Sidbury & Sidford Rev. Susie Williams 516036 Clergy & Staff Rest Days Rev. Roger Trumper - Thursday Mark Barrett - Wednesday Rev. Susie Williams - Wednesday Kate Hamilton - Saturday

Magazine Editors

Sidmouth Parish Church Margaret Jewes 512020 St Francis, Woolbrook (Grapevine news letter) Jackie Herbert & Bettina Wilson stfnews@yahoo.co.uk & bettina.wilson1@btinternet.com Sidbury & Sidford Janice Salway 514862 E-mail: jansalway@hotmail.co.uk

All Saints’ Church Joyce Missing 516806 E-mail: jemissing@aol.com Salcombe Regis Parish Church Contacts Annette Newman & 513313 m.newman140@btinternet.com Erica Hodgson 577216 hodgsonerica@hotmail.com

SID VALLEY TEAM

Rev. Roger Trumper - Vicar & Chairman David Guthrie-Clark - Deputy Chair and Warden Phil Cranch - Warden Gill Johnson - Treasurer Tony Miller - Secretary Barbara Allen Hannah Boyd Barney Croft Peter Fung Chris Hamilton Fran Lee Joan Bennett - Deanery Rep June Glennie - Deanery Rep Tony Wiltshire - Deanery Rep Mark Barrett - Curate Carole Hawkins - Reader John Dunster - Reader

If you have an issue you wish to raise for the PCC's consideration, please write to Tony Miller - PCC Sec.

ALL SAINTS' CHURCH PCC

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www.thegroveside.co.uk

The Groveside Guest House is a comfortable and welcoming guest House situated just three minutes from the Radway Cinema. We welcome family and friends of local residents and are happy to give an extra special discount for local people for a two night stay or more (quote code LP) We are a gold star rated guest house with 9 bedrooms all en-suite and the house has been furnished and decorated to a high standard. We welcome small groups of people (up to 18) and offer buffets for family occasions and soup and sandwich suppers for our guests and their family or friends. We offer special winter breaks for small parties (from 4 to 18 people). We would be delighted to offer cream teas in the summer for family occasions in our guest garden. Please contact Lucy for more details on 01395 513406.

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“Archbishop” by Michele Guinness, Hodder and Stoughton

Michele’s first novel is a thriller woven around the story of the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury, Victoria Burnham-Woods. It describes, in flashback, her formative childhood years, her time in training, the long wait for women to be ordained, and then her journey through the church as curate, vicar, archdeacon and bishop, to the top of a male-dominated institution.

Michele first had the idea over twenty years ago, then, a couple of years ago, when no one else had thought of it, said to herself, “What the heck. This book is asking to be written, so have a go.”

In the end, she says, the plot wrote itself. No one was more surprised than she was as the intrigue around Vicky and her husband began to grow, putting immense strain on their marriage and many of her closest relationships. She actually gasped one day when she saw how the story was going to end.

The country is in financial melt-down. The divide between rich and poor has widened, leaving a substantial strata of the population dependent on charities such as food-banks. But a totally secularist government doesn’t understand the important contribution made by the church and attempts to disempower it completely. Contd p 31

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A glimpse of South Pacific!

Contd. From p 30

Archbishop Vicky is a master of diplomacy who wins the hearts of the people, but when she takes on the government, church leaders and the press, she finds herself with a toxic mix of enemies who will stop at nothing to secure her downfall.

Can she survive to fulfil her vision for a dynamic church at the centre of national life? And what might forgiveness, reconciliation and redemption look like in the face of such naked hostility?

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Events

Charity Auction—organised by the Friends of

Salcombe Regis Church

This is to be held on Friday, 11th. April in All Saint’s Church Hall, doors open at 6.00 pm Tickets may be purchased from Paragon Books ( £6 - includes refreshments).

Items are required for the Auction. They should be of reasonable quality (no clothes). Items can be delivered to All Saint’s Hall on the afternoon of the Sale, or will be collected (please contact Linda Harris- 516624).

There will also be a charity draw.