Thank you for Hambledon Parochial Church Council’s recent donations from your soup lunch and also from the Macgillvary Funeral. We are extremely grateful to receive your support. Your generous donation totalling £605.40 (£48.00 & £557.40) makes a huge difference to people across Portsmouth and the local surrounding areas who are living with a life-limiting or progressive illness and need specialist Hospice care.<u></u><u></u><u></u> <u></u>With your support we can continue to provide compassionate Hospice care, whether it's caring for a patient in the Hospice In-patient Unit or their own home with the Hospice at Home team. The Living Well Services help people to live well with their illness from the moment of first diagnosis, throughout the stages of illness and into bereavement.<u></u><u></u><u></u> <u></u>As a Charity, we would not be able to provide the quality of care that we do without support from community groups such as yours.<u></u><u></u><br>With thanks.
We held our fourth Greening festival on Saturday 9 May, a joint enterprise between St Peter and St Paul’s as Eco Church Silver Award holder and the Hambledon Village Greening Campaign.We had about 300 visitors to the festival with many stands with a sustainability or ecological theme such as Warmer homes, Solar panels, Woodland Trust, RSPB, our bell-ringers, the village art group, village companies; and my favourite, a stand with three live bats (the church has several resident pipistrel bats).We had various talks, a live band and a wonderful buzz and not just the bees in our ecologically managed churchyard.Photos of the event by Roger Palmer
Rev Liz Quinn officiated at our Dawn service for the lighting of the fire and blessing of the Pascal candle. The dawn chorus was wonderful. A big thank you to Michelle Griffiths who painted our candle and Steve and Jane Wilkins who provided the much appreciated bacon sandwiches afterwards.After the service we checked the progress of PCC member Toby Finch and companion Richard Meeson on the 125 mile continuous marathon kayak race from Devizes to Westminster. They finished in 26 hours and raised £6000 in memory of Guy Stanford a parish member who had done the race 3 times.
Eleven Lay Worship Leaders were commissioned this week for the Bishops Waltham Deanery by the Area Dean Rev James Hunt and the Assistant Area Dean Rev Fiona Grove, following a course and safeguarding training. The LWL are commissioned for the whole Deanery, whilst concentrating on their own parish/benefice for the most part. Thanks to Canon David Isaac for organising the course and trainers.Congratulations to Richard, Louise, Liz, Helen and Paul.
