The Church of England in the parishes of Melbourne, Smisby

The Church of England in the parishes of Melbourne,
Smisby, Stanton by Bridge and Ticknall
The Bulletin
A weekly publication for the Parish of Melbourne
The First Sunday of Lent - 22nd February 2015
8am
Holy Communion
10.30am
Parish Communion, Junior Church and Coffee
Readings: can be found on pages 11/12
Settings: Willan Kyrie/Harris
Gradual Psalm: 25 vv.1-9 plainchant (page 12)
Hymns: 67, 65 [357, 425] 414
Anthem: Hide not thou thy face Farrant
Organ Voluntary: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (BWV676)
J.S.Bach
Refreshments are served after the service. All who wish to stay will be very
welcome. An excellent chance to build up community here.
6pm
Choral Evensong at Derby Cathedral (No Evensong here tonight)
Yellow tax reclaim collection envelopes are in the pews. Please use them if
you are offering cash during the services today, remembering to enter your
name, address and postcode. Thank you very much.
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Melbourne Parish Church: St Michael with St Mary
Part of the Melbourne Group of Parishes: Melbourne, Ticknall, Smisby and Stanton.
Melbourne Parish Church has a long and distinguished history. Once the southern seat of
the Bishops of Carlisle, it now has a ministry to the small market town of Melbourne.
Sunday and daily worship, music, youth work, bellringing, outreach and pastoral care,
together with a lively Friends programme, are all valued parts of the life and ministry
here.
Parish Office Tel: 862153 email: [email protected]
Website: www.melbourneparishchurch.co.uk
Rector
The Revd Dr Mark Powell 864741
Email: [email protected]
Curate
Associate Clergy
The Revd Angela Plummer
The Revd Sandra Chantry
The Revd Dr Alan Flintham
The Revd Canon David Thomas
Readers
Canon David Edwards
Dr Nick Gravestock
Church Wardens
Joanna Hocknell
Linda Latchford
Parish Secretary
Kate Landenberger
The Treasurer
Brian Bolton
PCC Secretary
Margaret Brackenbury
Stewardship Officer
Ben Kershaw
Gift Aid & Standing Orders
Steve Webster
Music Director
Simon Collins
The Ringing Master
Nigel Coupe
Junior Church Co-ordinators
The Wardens
Environmental Officer
Graham Truscott
Church Flowers Co-ordinator
Sheena Wilkins
Servers/Duty rotas
John Tatam
Overseas
Kate Landenberger
Church Library
Shirley Granelli
Mothers’ Union
Edna Brame
Electoral Roll Officer
Cliff Warner
Bible Reading Fellowship
Erica Stewart
St Michael’s Players
Tom Mills
Handbells
Pam Starkey
Bright Lights
Rachel Coupe
Friends Chair
Vacant
Friends Treasurer
Romey Cunnington
The Children’s Society
Helen Powell
The Leprosy Mission
Edna Brame
Child Protection Officer
Ros Bell
Webmaster
Terry Harrison
Padley Box
Alan & Roddy Lott
Archivist
Roy Dunnicliffe
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Welcome!
A very warm welcome to worship today, a particular greeting going to
those who are visitors or newcomers.
The church is open daily, 9am – 5.15pm
Across the Benefice today
Melbourne:
Smisby:
Stanton:
Ticknall:
8am - Revd Sandra Chantry
10.30am - Revd Angela Plummer/
Revd Canon David Thomas
6pm – At Derby Cathedral
5.30pm – Revd Angela Plummer
11am – The Rector
9.15am – The Rector
Lent Lunches: Start this Wednesday 25th February, 12.30 – 1.30pm in the
Honner Room.
Home-made soup, bread and cheese, a hot drink and conversation all for
£3.50 or £3 for pensioners.
Money raised at the Lent Lunches goes to aid the work of the Calcutta
Cathedral Relief Service. The Service works with some of the poorest in
Indian society, those who live in the most squalid slums, the poorest villages,
those whose home is a blanket on a pavement or a central reservation. We
have supported CCRS for several years now. Members of our congregation
have visited Calcutta to see the work being done. Adrian Whalley, the
representative in England came in November to talk to us about the various
ways the service seeks to improve life for those in great need. Please come to
enjoy a simple lunch and help support the Calcutta Cathedral Relief Service.
Lunches take place on 25th February, 4th March (12noon – 1pm as Singing for
the Brain uses the Honner Room at 2pm), 11th March, 18th and 25th March.
Thank you,
Sheena Wilkins and the Social Committee
CANON THEOLOGIAN: The Revd Professor David Thomas, as a Canon of
Derby Cathedral, is preaching at the Cathedral's Choral Evensong at 6pm
tonight. For this reason, there will be no evening service at Melbourne
tonight, and we encourage you to support David at the Cathedral.
CHURCH LINEN: Please speak to the Rector if you would be prepared to
launder the small altar linens for us each week - usually around eight items
the size of a man's handkerchief!
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Taking responsibility for Church life today:
This Bulletin section is a useful reminder to all who are on duty at this time,
and may well also help visitors and newcomers to begin to identify who’s
who:
8am
Holy Communion
Server: John Tivey
Sidesmen: Noreen & Tony Taylor
Reader: Karen Grewcock
10.30am Parish Communion, Junior Church and Coffee
Sidesmen: Victoria Hancock, John Battersby
Crucifer: Sarah Kington
Server: David Harris
Reader: Roger Kington
Intercessor: Margaret Brackenbury
Junior Church: Bronwen Truscott, Mary Bolton
Coffee: Kate Landenberger, Steph Hughes
Coffee rota
Readers’ rota
6pm
Kate Landenberger
Janet Warner
01283 200762
01283 701542 ([email protected])
Choral Evensong at Derby Cathedral (No service here tonight)
Illuminating the Tower
To make your booking, please call the church office - 862153. Donations to
sponsor the lights for an evening should be placed in a clearly marked
envelope and put in the Sunday collection or put through the Vicarage
letterbox.
Daily Prayer in church
Tuesday & Wednesday
Morning Prayer 9.15 am (in Rectory during
winter months)
Tuesday to Friday
Evening Prayer 5.00 pm (BCP)
You will be very welcome occasionally or regularly. This church, all who
live in this parish, and the needs of the world, are prayed for daily.
Thursdays at 9.15am Holy Communion
DAYS OFF: Mark has Monday as his day off and Angela has Friday. Please
try to limit calls and emails on these days to issues that are urgent!
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The Rector’s Letter
February got off to a good start when I discovered that I had won a box of
chocolates in the Derbyshire Life crossword competition! Sadly, being on a
diet, I ate rather fewer of them than I might usually have done.
I joined a group from all over the country, including Ticknall and Melbourne,
for our annual trip to the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel. Most of the
group were there to ring the bells in Lundy’s church, but a few of us were
hangers-on, and there to enjoy walking in the island’s natural beauty. My
previous trips have been marked by gale-force winds and heavy rain, but this
year was altogether gentler, with mild temperatures, no rain and very little
wind.
After arriving by helicopter, I wandered the 3 miles to the north end of
Lundy, enjoying the experience of not having to battle against the wind. I
walked back in shirt-sleeves, under a blue sky and very warm sun – not bad
for February!
I value the opportunity to “get away from it all” and have time to pray and
reflect, and the wild beauty of the island and its wildlife make Lundy a
perfect location. We met together each evening for prayers or the Eucharist,
but the rest of the day is free for you to choose solitude or fellowship with
others.
The church’s season of Lent is a little like that: we take time to draw closer to
God in prayer, penitence and study of the scriptures, before we reach the joy
of Easter and celebrate Christ’s resurrection.
Mark
Lent 2015
Wednesdays during Lent
from 25th February – 25th March
Lent Lunches in the Honner Room
“The Gospel in Action”
Discussion Evenings & Bible Studies
on some Global Issues
Thursdays at 7.30pm
26th February at Ticknall
5th March at Smisby
12th March at Stanton-by-Bridge
26th March at Melbourne
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THANK YOU: David Ingram would like to thank everyone for the cards and
messages that have been sent following the death of his wife, The Reverend
Joanna Ingram. He very much appreciates your kind thoughts, words and
prayers.
Melbourne Handbell Ringers: seeks new members. Everyone welcome, ability to read music an advantage but not essential. Full training given.
Time:6.30pm-7.30pm Tuesday evenings in the Vestry of Melbourne Parish
Church. Come & join us! Please contact Pam Starkey on 01332 694633.
Churches Together in Melbourne is organising a Cake Sale on Saturday 28 th
February, 10am – 12 noon at the Melbourne Assembly Rooms to support the
protection of vulnerable children. Please come along to support this event.
Village Quiz: Congratulations to the Four Tenors Bellringing team (Maurice,
Pam, Robert and David) who won their first round match in the Quiz. Their
opponents had a good start and took the lead, leaving the "Four Tenors" 21
points behind by the final round. In what was a spectacular come back, the
Four Tenors took the final round 35 to 10, to clinch the match 109 to 104
points. Well done for holding their nerve in that last round, and
commiserations to the "Rest of the World" team for a well fought match.
Thank you to all who came to support our team. The quiz continues this
coming Friday with the Broken Stays in their second round match. Please
come along to support them.
Nigel Coupe
Lundy 2015: According to a couple of magazines I’ve read recently, it is a
good idea each evening to write down three things one has enjoyed during
the day. Here are mine for last week on Lundy:
Monday: Perfect weather – bright sunshine, still air, and all 22 of this year’s
party present and correct at the heliport by 10 am.
Two young alpacas who insisted on grazing right next to the helipad ( you
can tell how sophisticated this heliport is!) being shooed to the opposite end
of the field by the incoming helicopter herding them like a sheep-dog with its
nose.
A hike in the glorious sunshine by almost everyone in the group to the
lighthouse at the north end of Lundy where seals were spotted by some.
Tuesday: News from the warden’s talk last evening that large numbers of
Manx shearwaters and puffins are now breeding on Lundy again.
Visiting my favourite places on the West side (the Battery, Earthquakes, site
of the crashed Heinkel and the Old Light) without getting wet feet.
Delicious meals in the Marisco Tavern, although Lundy lamb, Lundy goat
and Old Spot sausages on the menu are rather too close to home for me,
having admired the living creatures earlier. Thank goodness Lundy pony
didn’t feature!
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Wednesday: The Big Breakfast in Millcombe house (forgot about the Old
Spot piglets and ate tasty sausages and bacon - became a ‘failed vegetarian’
yet again).
Our group achieving a full peal of Cambridge Royal on the ten bells in 3 hour
9 minutes – and there were enough to ring it without including me.
Looking into the Devil’s Limekiln – a huge ‘pothole’ with a blow hole at the
bottom where the sea surges through – without being afraid of being blown
down it by the wind.
Thursday: Finding primroses blooming on the eastern side of the island, and
clumps of daffodils almost out.
Taking part in an Iona style communion in Government House on our last
evening together.
Being too old to join the ‘extreme knitters’ who climbed to the top of the Old
Light in the dark, after descending to the beach cave the previous evening to
knit there by torchlight. They also intend to knit on Rat Island, accessible
only at low tide after scrambling over slippery rocks. Just taking knitting to
Lundy is extreme enough for me!
Friday: Writing in the Bellringers’ Log Book that we had rung not only the
peal, but two quarter peals. Also that three of the four first-timers to Lundy
are joining the Lundy Island Society, and therefore have enjoyed themselves
so much, they want to return. (I hope they realise this year’s dry weather is
not typical.)
Being given a Wentworth jigsaw puzzle of the Lundy Ponies.
Everyone asking about dates for another expedition next year.
Saturday: Reunion with Jim at the Ash Farm Kennels – all three good things
rolled into one!!
Ruth Smith
Mothering Sunday: Students from Chellaston Academy will be coming to do
a presentation for us at the 10.30am service on their work in Uganda.
Envelopes will be given out next week so that their work can be supported by
us here at Melbourne.
Women's World Day of Prayer Service: will be held on Friday 6th March,
starting at 2pm at Melbourne Methodist Church. This year women from The
Bahamas have written the service. If you're able to come to the service, it
would be fantastic if you could wear something brightly coloured. This is
entirely optional of course!
Photos of 2014
Please can I request copies of any photos that you may have that I can use in
the next APCM report that I am preparing. Ideally these would reflect our
church life and activities over the last year. Please email photos to Nigel
Coupe, [email protected] or hand a copy to one of the churchwardens.
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Another Wendy Tour?
After Bruges 2014 I thought I might put together another 3-day tour, this time
to Reims in France. Reims is 2.5 hours drive from Calais and is at the heart of
the Champagne Region. It boasts 3 UNESCO World Heritage sites, The
Notre -Dame Cathedral, The Palace of Tau, a 16th Century then residence of
the bishops and archbishops and the Saint Remi Basilica, a RomanesqueGothic abbey church built in the 11th century to house the holy
ampulla. Reims is also noted for its many other tourist attractions both
gastronomic and shopping and of course it is noted for its part in WW2 . In
1945, it was in Reims that the German army signed its unconditional
surrender that ended World War II in Europe May 7, 1945 at 2:41am.
The tour will include all coach transfers, 2 nights accommodation B&B
Holiday Inn Reims and half day Champagne Tour of Vineyards and
tasting. Price based on a couple sharing £275.00 pp. Depart Melbourne Parish
Church Thursday 29 October 2015 – Saturday 31 October 2015.
If you are interested and would like more information, please do not hesitate
to ask me for the detailed itinerary. Wendy Robinson 01332
865818. [email protected]
Children's Events: Two musicals for children to take part in – 'Good News'
on Saturday 28th March at 7pm and a pirate musical on 1st June at 7pm in the
Vicarage Garden by the Pool. More details from Rachel Coupe (01332
416152). Monday 13th April (Inset Day): an exciting day of fun, games and
adventure for children aged 5-11. 1st session: 9.30am – 12 noon, 2 nd session:
12.30pm – 2pm. You can bring a packed lunch and come for both sessions.
Led by Pete Oakley of Pulse Ministries. To book, phone 01332 416152/email
[email protected]
Derby Churches Night Shelter 2014/2015:
The Derby Churches Night shelter project in 2013 was a big success and the
decision was made to repeat it this winter. Seven church venues around the
city each open one night a week from December through to the end of March.
These venues are the Friends Meeting House, Peartree Baptists, Central URC,
the Cathedral and St Anne’s, St Augustine’s, New Life Christian Centre and
Ozzy Road Baptist Church. The total cost of the project is £75,000, with each
night costing £600. The project has received support from a number of
sources. ASDA has again provided support along with the Derby Brewing
Company who donated a percentage of its food sales to the night shelter.
Outdoor equipment store, Millets, has generously provided equipment at a
reduced rate for the project and Derby College students have helped clean
venues. Each evening the venue opens at 8pm. Preparations are made for a
maximum of 35 guests. They are given hot drinks and a substantial meal. At
10pm paid overnight staff take over as the guests go to sleep in sleeping bags
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on mattresses in the church. Next morning they have breakfast to leave by
8am. The night shelter has built up good links with other agencies within the
city that are able to offer advice and support to guests. This collaborative
working has led to two guests being able to move into new accommodation.
200 people volunteer at the night shelter taking on tasks such as
administration, cooking and cleaning. They also spend time talking and
playing games with guests providing the friendly and welcoming atmosphere
that marks the night shelter out as different. In January some venues reached
30 guests on one night but we have been lucky not to have to turn anyone
away. The shelter has a stock of clothes available for guests to take away and
regularly needs supplies of socks, hats and gloves. The shelter are also in
need of good quality sleeping bags, if you have any spare that you would like
to donate please bring them into Derby Church House FAO: Rita Brierley or
take them to Derby City Mission, 25 Charmwood Street, Derby.
David Brierley (Article from Our Diocese)
From the March/April Find Newsletter by the Faith In Action, Derby
Diocesan Mission and Ministry Team.
Mickley Estate: no church building but present as living stones Mickley is a
housing estate in the Parish of Shirland. It was built in the 1960’s to re-house
the pit workers from Stonebroom, but as soon as it was built the pit closed
and the whole community were out of work. It lies isolated on a greenfield
site backing up to the A61. There is only one way in and out, no buses enter
the estate. Buses do travel past on the A61, and many residents do not have a
car. There is a small Infant’s School, an underused, underfunded community
centre and an Off Licence. The Estate today consists of 1000 people, most
living in social housing. There are up to four generations of a family all living
on the estate. Many are unemployed: qualifications are often few. Because of
its isolation from the surrounding communities, Mickley has developed a
culture of its own; residents often distrust outside professionals who have a
remit and budget to make provision for the estate. Some 18 months ago
SureStart staff became concerned. They spoke to me and other professional
agencies who work there. As a result the Mickley Group was formed
consisting of local professionals from SureStart, the Health Visitors, the
District Nurse/Doctors, the Youth Service, the Police, the Head Teacher,
Rykneld Homes, and myself as Rector of St Leonard’s, Shirland. The Parish
Council and Community Group are also invited. Together we came to realise
that the issues raised by the culture affect us all. Funding from statutory
bodies and agencies is usually made available because this is a high priority
deprivation area, but because initial enthusiasm from residents quickly peters
out the funding is lost. In this the church is an exception ministering for the
“long haul” to the estate. St Leonard’s Church already has a Pastoral Visitor
who visits baptism families and has a good relationship with the School and
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Police. But being part of this group has enabled members of the church to
reach out in new ways. As a church we provided the “2nd person”, a
volunteer, to work with the Health Visitor in the Baby Weighing Clinic.
Funding for additional paid person was withdrawn and yet the clinic cannot
open without two staff. We have also worked with the school and other
agencies to produce and distribute Mickley Community Newletters to every
household. In liaison with the Health Visitor we have been able to obtain
funding for floor covering from the Gisborne Trust, which the church
administers. This is to help when families on benefit move in to properties
with bare floors so crawling babies are safe. At the request of the residents I
have lobbied the bus company to allow buggies on the buses. We have also
tried to get the Fish and Chip van to call on the Estate, so far to no avail. The
group and the residents have all benefited by doing some “joined up
thinking” about the needs and the particular ethos of this estate. I am
reminded of the words we say in Services of Healing “May God make you
whole in body, mind and spirit, preserve you from evil and give you his
peace.” Humanity is very complex and I hope that in some small way this
“joined up thinking” will bring a sense of wholeness and value to complex
community. When we judge success numerically it is easy to be despondent
about Mickley. The work of Christ there is not evident in numbers at church
services (Mickley does not have a church building). It is simply in building
tenuous relationships both with the residents and other agencies who care. I
know Christ is at work there when I see someone with a buggy getting
accepted onto a bus, when our Baptism Visitor is invited in to a home, when
the Health Visitor asks if we can offer some specific support, when the Parish
Council Clerk finds solace talking to me about latest spate of vandalism,
when the Head teacher donates to the Foodbank and when a resident asks me
to sit with his terminally ill mum. All this and more besides is the work of
Christ on Mickley through a network of “living stones” on which Christ
builds his church.
Revd Margaret Jacques
This week in connection with Melbourne Church
Monday:
Tuesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
2pm
10am
7.30pm
7.25pm
9.15 am
10.30am
6pm
7.30pm
2pm
9am
9.30am
Caring Hands Group in the Honner Room
Rector to School Assembly
Friends Meeting
Bellringing Practice
Holy Communion
Deanery Chapter Meeting
Ticknall PCC Meeting
Lent Group (Ticknall)
Memorial Service (Ticknall)
Bulletin production team in Church House
Rector to Almshouse Trustees Meeting
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10am
5pm
Cake Sale & Coffee Morning (Assembly Rooms)
Church prepared for Sunday worship
A pattern for daily prayer, so that, at home or at church, we can pray together
Monday: Those in great poverty or need.
Tuesday: Those who have asked for our prayers: Anne Brazier, Roo Hubbard,
Wendie Moore, Vera Pipes and Tina. Also those in Derby’s hospitals and
hospices. All at Pool Cottage.
Wednesday: Our group of parishes.
Thursday: The church worldwide. All Christian people. The local church. The
Anglican Communion
Friday: All in need, especially the hungry, poor and homeless
The departed
In our prayers this week, we can remember those who have died recently,
among them Linda White, and those whose anniversaries occur near this
time, among them Bert Boocock, David Williamson and Beryl Barton.
Next Week at Melbourne – The Second Sunday of Lent
8am
Holy Communion
(Sidesmen: Joan Pass, John Tatam)
10.30am Parish Communion, Junior Church and Coffee
(Sidesmen:
Sheena Wilkins, Margaret Murray-Leslie)
(Coffee: Mary Bolton, Annabel Needham, SheenaWilkins)
6.30pm
Evensong
(Sidesmen: Jo & John Glaze)
The Readings at 8am and 10.30am:
The First Reading: 1 Peter 3.18-end
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the
unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the
flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a
proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey,
when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of
the ark, in which a few, that is, eight people, were saved through
water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a
removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good
conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into
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heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and
powers made subject to him.
The Gospel Reading: Mark 1.9-15
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptised by
John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up out of the water, he
saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him.
And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; with you
I am well pleased.’
And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. He was
in the wilderness for forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the
wild beasts; and the angels waited on him.
Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the
good news of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of
God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.’
Gradual Psalm at 10.30am: Psalm 25.1-9
(plainchant, sung by the Choir)
Unto thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul; my God, I have put my trust in
thee *
O let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies triumph over me.
For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed *
but such as transgress without a cause shall be put to confusion.
Shew me thy ways, O Lord *
and teach me thy paths.
Lead me forth in thy truth, and learn me *
for thou art the God of my salvation; in thee hath been my hope all the
day long.
Call to remembrance, O Lord, thy tender mercies *
and thy loving-kindnesses, which have been ever of old.
O remember not the sins and offences of my youth *
but according to thy mercy think thou upon me, O Lord, for thy
goodness.
Gracious and righteous is the Lord *
therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
Them that are meek shall he guide in judgement *
and such as are gentle, them shall he learn his way.
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth *
unto such as keep his covenant, and his testimonies.
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