It is with much thought and prayer, that due to significant family concerns, I have decided to offer my resignation as Associate Priest in the parishes of Hambledon, Soberton and Newtown. I want to thank you all for your love and support during my ministry with you. It has been a privilege to serve you all and to share with you the love of God and the message of Jesus Christ. My last service in this benefice will be at St. Peter and St. Paul’s Hambledon on Sunday 6th September at 10.30am. I do hope you will be able to join me then. With love and blessings to you all, Liz
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
