Advent 2020 m the Parish of Goring by Sea.17th. December 2020. Parish Office. Email: office@goringbyseaparish.org Tel: 01903 709163 Update on our Christmas Services We have been reviewing the arrangements for our carol services. As you are aware, singing by the congregation is not permitted and with a congregation in church we are asked to limit the number of singers in the choir. We have therefore reluctantly decided that in order to provide a meaningful and suitably joyful experience it is better to stream and record the service using a larger choir and providing the opportunity for people to sing along at home. The service will be streamed on Facebook on Sunday 20th. December at 16.00 and available to view thereafter. A copy of the order of service is also sent out with this newsletter so that you can sing along. You will also be able to follow the service on the overhead screen. https://www.facebook.com/StMaryAndStLaurenceGoringBySea/ You will of course have an opportunity to sing at 'Carols around the Crib', in the Molson Garden at 16.00 on Christmas Eve. No booking required. ‘Carols around the Crib', in the Molson GardenAs you can see the Nativity awaits us for our carol singing on Christmas Eve in the Molson Garden.Wrap up warm and bring a torch. Hot chocolate and mince pies will be served.Encourage the children in your family to follow the Nativity Story this week on Facebook and visit the Molson Garden to see the Nativity Tableau. Christmas Services 10.00 Thursday. 24thth. December. Christmas Eucharist. St Laurence’s Church 16.00 Thursday. 24th December. Carols Around the Crib. Molson Garden. (no booking required) 23.30 Thursday. 24th December. Midnight Mass. St. Mary’s Church. 10.00 Friday 25th. December. Christmas Eucharist. St Mary’s Church. With the exception of Carols Around the Crib in the Molson Garden (no need to book for this) please book for the above Christmas services via the Parish Office. Online Christmas services 16.00 Sunday. 20th December. Community Carol Service. Streamed live from St. Mary’s Church (see details above)This week’s services (not including Christmas Eve and New Year) Please register for all church services at the Parish Office. Face coverings should be worn in church at all services. The restrictions for Tier 2 reinforce the need for everyone (unless you have a duty i.e. sanitising the church or putting away equipment) to leave our churches as quickly as possible. However remember you can enjoy conversations and fellowship outside or away from the church building. 09.00 Sunday. 20h. December. Said Eucharist – 4th Sunday of Advent. St Mary’s Church. (BCP) Book of Common Prayer 11.00 Sunday. 20th. December. Said Eucharist – 4th Sunday of Advent. St Mary’s Church. (CW) (Also live streamed via Facebook) Online services 12.00 Saturday 19th December - The Funeral of The Very Reverend Christopher Campling. Streamed on https://www.facebook.com/StMaryAndStLaurenceGoringBySea/ 20.00 Tuesday 22nd. December. Compline / Night Prayer Streamed on https://www.facebook.com/StMaryAndStLaurenceGoringBySea/ 10.00 Wednesday. 23rd. December. Morning Prayer will be said via Zoom. https://www.zoom.us Meeting ID: 955 2642 8233 Password: 386017 Thank you to everybody who has been giving so generously to our special FSW appeal and our request for mince pies If you have not yet been able to give and would like to there will be a further opportunity to do so this Sunday. Coffee Ti Coffee time is taking a break for Christmas. We hope to start again in the New Year. Watch this space for more detail.Pastoral visits Please let Fr. Keith or the Wardens know if you have a personal pastoral concern or may know of someone in need. God Bless, Gill, Janice, Ruth and Geoff. Special notice Goring Parish News We have paused our publication of Goring Parish New while we review our means of communication across the parish. We will in the New Year be asking for your thoughts and ideas. So next week’s Newsletter will be a bumper Christmas edition and include the articles received this quarter.
Advent 2020Latest news from the Parish of Goring by Sea. 10th. December 2020. Parish Office. Email: office@goringbyseaparish.org Tel: 01903 709163 The Very Reverend Christopher Campling, Dean Emeritus of Rippon. RIP. Our much loved brother, friend and priest Christopher went to be with the Lord on Wednesday 9th. December There are a variety of responses by the parishioner to the clergy person: they might be grudgingly respected, found incomprehensible, or tedious, coldly remote, overly friendly, overbearingly pompous, creakingly old fashioned, or banally modern: sometimes, however, they are simply loved. Christopher, without doubt, belongs in that last category. The people of this parish loved him - as I am sure they did in the many other places in which he served. That affection was obvious to me from my earliest days here: one of the most frequent questions asked of me was, “Have you met Father Christopher yet?” And when I replied that I was intending to do so, as soon as possible, the questioner would invariably say something along the lines of, “Oh, he’s amazing!” And so he was. To say that Christopher was “old school” is by no means a back-handed compliment - it is not at all to suggest that he was the clergy equivalent of a forgotten bible on a dusty shelf- far from it! Rather, he embodied the priestly values that are deeply rooted in the long tradition of the Christian church - of pastoral care, attention to prayer, love of God’s word, delight in worship, and the enjoyment of Christian fellowship. Even at his venerable age there was a tremendous feeling of vigour about him - a robustness of speech and attitude that witnessed to a very incisive intelligence - and, more precious even than that, a wisdom that came from a life spent faithfully following his master, whom he loved so dearly. I will miss our times sharing Holy Communion, his telephone calls and letters of encouragement - for which I shall always be thankful. One final word: during one of my last visits to him, I asked, “ Christopher, have you enjoyed being a priest?” To which replied, in that sonorous voice, “Oh yes! I have loved it!” Our deepest condolences to Juliet, Penelope, Peter and Angela. “ Well done, good and faithful servant: enter into the joy of your master.” Fr. Keith Littlejohn Christopher’s funeral will take place in St Mary’s Church on the Saturday 19th December at noon. Thank you to everybody who has been giving so generously to our special FSW appeal and our request for mince pies If you were not able to give last Sunday there will be another opportunity this week. Carols Around the Crib. We will be showing hospitality by serving hot chocolate and mince pies at this event. Please can you donate a box or two of mince pies as a gift to your community? There will be a box in the porch for you to leave your donations. We also require a few more volunteers to act as stewards and to help with refreshments. Please let Janice janlelliott@yahoo.co.uk or Gill (gilliankeevill@me.com) know if you can help. Family Support Work (FSW) This year we will not be having a toy service at either of our churches. However we have heard from FSW in their most recent newsletter that they would welcome new books for children and donations of gift vouchers that can be given to older children, in addition to new toys for children aged 5 and over (but please no soft toys this year). We will put an additional box for books and toys (not wrapped please) in the porch at St Mary’s. Please hand gift vouchers to one of the wardens. With regards to food the main needs prior to Christmas are for Christmas-specific food items (such as sharing boxes of chocolates or biscuits; family packs of crisps or snacks; Christmas puddings; stuffing; gravy; cranberry and bread sauce). National Christingle Service. "We warmly welcome you to our first ever National Christingle Service in partnership with the Church of England on Sunday 13th December at 9am. This will be streamed on the Church of England’s website, Facebook and YouTube channels and we’d love it if you tuned in to share the light with the whole country. The service will include a few words from HRH The Duchess of Gloucester, the Archbishop of Canterbury who will be lighting the Advent Candle, as well as our Vice-Chair of Trustees, the Bishop of Derby Libby Lane. We’ll also see a special performance from award winning number one soprano Joanna Forest, and join young people lighting the Christingles. It is set to be a magical event. Register your interest to receive information on how to watch online, join in with Christingle making and download the Order of Service on childrenssociety.org.uk"Di & David Burt Traidcraft Last call for Traidcraft orders and deliveries... Please get your orders to Kate by Monday 14th December, either via phone 07818691922 or email kate.henwood@icloud.com The store will reopen from 5th January 2021. Happy Christmas and thank you for supporting Traidcraft in 2020. Kate Henwood Away in a Manger Fr. Neill and his family have been busy painting stones like these. They are for the children and the young at heart to take home and make him safe, warm and comfy in a manger. Baby Jesus stones were blessed at the All Age Worship this Sunday and are available to collect from the porch at St Mary’s Church. We ask that those who take a Baby Jesus send us a picture of their manger. office@goringbyseaparish.org After Christmas the stones should be returned to the sea with this beautiful prayer. “ Dear Jesus, Thank you for coming into the world to love me. Please live my life with me and fill me with your love and peace. Amen ”This week’s services Please register for all church services at the Parish Office. Face coverings should be worn in church at all services. The restrictions for Tier 2 reinforce the need for everyone (unless you have a duty i.e. sanitising the church or putting away equipment) to leave our churches as quickly as possible. However remember you can enjoy conversations and fellowship outside or away from the church building. 09.00 Sunday. 13th. December. Said Eucharist – 3rd. Sunday of Advent. St Mary’s Church. (BCP) Book of Common Prayer 11.00 Sunday. 13th. December. Said Eucharist – 3rd. Sunday of Advent. St Mary’s Church. (CW) (Also live streamed via Facebook) 10.00 Thursday 17th December. Said Eucharist - 3rd. Sunday of Advent. St Laurence’s Church. (CW) Online services 10.00 Wednesday. 16th. December. Morning Prayer will be said via Zoom. https://www.zoom.us Meeting ID: 955 2642 8233 Password: 386017 20.00 Tuesday 15th and Friday 18th December Compline / Night Prayer Streamed on https://www.facebook.com/StMaryAndStLaurenceGoringBySea/ Christmas Services 16.00 and 18.00 Sunday. 20th December. Community Carol Service. St. Mary’s Church. 10.00 Thursday. 24thth. December. Christmas Eucharist. St Laurence’s Church 16.00 Thursday. 24th December. Carols Around the Crib. Molson Garden. (no booking required) 23.30 Thursday. 24th December. Midnight Mass. St. Mary’s Church. 10.00 Friday 25th. December. Christmas Eucharist. St Mary’s Church. With the exception of Carols Around the Crib in the Molson Garden (no need to book for this) please book for the above Christmas services via the Parish Office. Coffee Time - Thursday mornings at 11.30. Join Zoom Meeting (Please note the change of time) https://www.zoom.us Meeting ID: 949 5590 0058 Passcode: 847352 Pastoral visits Please let Fr. Keith or the Wardens know if you have a personal pastoral concern or may know of someone in need. God Bless, Gill, Janice, Ruth and Geoff.
Advent 2020 Latest news from the Parish of Goring by Sea.3rd. December 2020.Parish Office. Email: office@goringbyseaparish.org Tel: 01903 709163Some special Christmas activities and events to help us to prepare for Christmas.Carols Around the Crib – A little more help neededThank you to all those who have given help with the preparation for this event. These Nativity silhouettes will be the background for this wonderful opportunity to sing carols – how we have missed singing. We will be singing many of our traditional Christmas carols lead by our parish musicians and singers. Please encourage your friends and family, particularly the children to follow our parish page on Facebook the week before Christmas to see the Christmas story unfold; and encourage them all to join us on Christmas Eve at 16.00. We will be showing hospitality by serving hot chocolate and mince pies. Please can you donate a box or two of mince pies as a gift to your community? There will be a box in the porch for you to leave your donations. We also require a few more volunteers to act as stewards and to help with refreshments. Please let Janice janlelliott@yahoo.co.uk or Gill (gilliankeevill@me.com) know if you can help.Away in a MangerFr. Neill and his family have been busy painting stones like these. They are for the children and the young at heart to take home and make himsafe, warm and comfy in a manger.Baby Jesus stones will be blessed at the All Age Worship this Sundayand be available to collect from the porch at St Mary’s Church.We ask that those who take a Baby Jesus send us a picture of theirmanger. office@goringbyseaparish.orgAfter Christmas the stones should be returned to the sea with thisbeautiful prayer. “ Dear Jesus, Thank you for coming into the world to loveme. Please live my life with me and fill me with your love and peace.Amen ”Family Support Work (FSW)This year we will not be having a toy service at either of our churches. However we have heard from FSW in their most recent newsletter that they would welcome new books for children and donations of gift vouchers that can be given to older children, in addition to new toys for children aged 5 and over (but please no soft toys this year). We will put an additional box for books and toys (not wrapped please) in the porch at St Mary’s. Please hand gift vouchers to one of the wardens.With regards to food the main needs prior to Christmas are for Christmas-specific food items (such as sharing boxes of chocolates or biscuits; family packs of crisps or snacks; Christmas puddings; stuffing; gravy; cranberry and bread sauce).National Christingle Service."We warmly welcome you to our first ever National Christingle Service in partnership with the Church of England on Sunday 13th December at 9am. This will be streamed on the Church of England’s website, Facebook and YouTube channels and we’d love it if you tuned in to share the light with the whole country. The service will include a few words from HRH The Duchess of Gloucester, the Archbishop of Canterbury who will be lighting the Advent Candle, as well as our Vice-Chair of Trustees, the Bishop of Derby Libby Lane. We’ll also see a special performance from award winning number one soprano Joanna Forest, and join young people lighting the Christingles. It is set to be a magical event. Register your interest to receive information on how to watch online, join in with Christingle making and download the Order of Service on childrenssociety.org.uk" Di & David BurtNews from Sharon Wilcox in EcudaorSharon Wilcox continues to support the Orchid group with activities with WhatsApp for teaching and written guidelines for some who lack Internet access. This is a major issue as in Ecuador since April all schools have taught via the Internet. Sharon witnessed some kids sitting outside a café in the capital in order to get Internet reception. As with this country the poorest kids lack Internet access. No face-to-face teaching will happen before next February. Please pray for Sharon and the students to maintain their commitment to Sharon’s activities for them.Alison EvansThis week’s servicesPlease register for all church services at the Parish Office. Face coverings should be worn in church at all services. The restrictions for Tier 2 reinforce the need for everyone (unless you have a duty i.e. sanitising the church or putting away equipment) to leave our churches as quickly as possible.However remember you can enjoy conversations and fellowship outside or away from the church building.09.00 Sunday. 6th. December. Said Eucharist – 2nd. Sunday of Advent. St Mary’s Church. (NB Common Worship not Book of Common Prayer - this week only).10.30 Sunday 6th. December. All Age Worship: Theme: Advent. St Mary’s Church. (Also live streamed via Facebook)10.00 Thursday (re-starting 10th December) . Said Eucharist. Common Worship. St Laurence’s Church.Online services10.00 Wednesday. Morning Prayer will be said via Zoom.https://www.zoom.us Meeting ID: 955 2642 8233 Password: 38601720.00 Tuesday and Friday. Compline / Night PrayerStreamed on https://www.facebook.com/StMaryAndStLaurenceGoringBySea/Christmas Services16.00 and 18.00 Sunday. 20th December. Community Carol Service. St. Mary’s Church. 10.00 Thursday. 24thth. December. Christmas Eucharist. St Laurence’s Church 16.00 Thursday. 24th December. Carols Around the Crib. Molson Garden. (no booking required) 23.30 Thursday. 24th December. Midnight Mass. St. Mary’s Church.10.00 Friday 25th. December. Christmas Eucharist. St Mary’s Church.With the exception of Carols Around the Crib in the Molson Garden (no need to book for this) please book for the above Christmas services via the Parish Office.Coffee Time - Thursday mornings at 11.30. Join Zoom MeetingPlease note the change of time from the 10th December onwards. https://www.zoom.us Meeting ID: 949 5590 0058 Passcode: 847352Pastoral visitsPlease let Fr. Keith or the Wardens know if you have a personal pastoral concern ormay know of someone in need.God Bless,Gill, Janice, Ruth and Geoff.
Latest news from the Parish of Goring by Sea. 26th. November 2020. Parish Office. Email: office@goringbyseaparish.org Tel: 01903 709163 Advent 2020 It is with great joy and thanksgiving that we can announce our return to worship in our churches from Sunday 6th. December 2020. “In all tiers… communal worship can now resume, subject to relevant social contact rules in each tier” UK Government Rules and Restrictions.Church Services The majority of this week’s newsletter is given to providing you with as much information as possible about services for Advent and Christmas. Please register for all Church services at the Parish Office. ‘Family/Support bubbles’ please ‘Book a Pew’ giving details of who will be in your bubble (up to 6 people). If you have previously registered for repeat, please can you confirm with the office that you wish to remain on the repeat list, and remember to inform the office if at any time you are not able to attend. The repeat list does not cover special Advent and Christmas services. Face coverings should be worn in church at all services. A gentle reminder: it would be very much appreciated that unless you have a duty i.e. sanitising the church or putting away equipment, everyone should leave our churches as quickly and as quietly as possible after a service. However remember you can enjoy conversations and fellowship outside or away from the church building subject of course to relevant social contact rules in each tier. This week’s services All services will be online (Facebook or Zoom) this week. 10.00 Sunday 29th November. 1st. Sunday of Advent. Said Eucharist (CW) from St Laurence’s Church. Streamed on https://www.facebook.com/StMaryAndStLaurenceGoringBySea/ 10.00 Wednesday 2nd December. Morning Prayer will be said via Zoom. https://www.zoom.us Meeting ID: 955 2642 8233 Password: 386017 20.00 Tuesday 30th December and Friday 4th. December. Compline / Night Prayer Streamed on https://www.facebook.com/StMaryAndStLaurenceGoringBySea/ Services in St Mary’s and St Laurence’s Churches during Advent 09.00 Sunday. 6th. December. Said Eucharist – 2nd. Sunday of Advent. St Mary’s Church. (NB Common Worship not Book of Common Prayer - this week only). 10.30 Sunday 6th. December. All Age Worship: Advent. St Mary’s (Also live streamed via Facebook) Please note the changes in time. Remember to register your name for the 9.00 and 10.30 services. We will be creating new registers for these two services. Please also note that the All Age Worship does NOT include the Eucharist. ‘Family/Support bubbles’ please ‘Book a Pew’ giving details of who will be in your bubble (up to 6 people). Thereafter 09.00 Sunday. 13th and 20th December. Said Eucharist St Mary’s Church. Book of Common Prayer. 11.00 Sunday 13th and 20th. December. Said Eucharist St Mary’s Church. Common Worship (Also live streamed via Facebook) 10.00 Thursday. 10th , 17th, 24thth. December. Said Eucharist. Common Worship. St Laurence’s 10.00 Wednesday 9th, 16th 23rd December. Morning Prayer will be said via Zoom. https://www.zoom.us Meeting ID: 955 2642 8233 Password: 386017 20.00 Tuesday 8th, 15th, 22nd. December. Friday 11th, 18th, December. Compline / Night Prayer Streamed on https://www.facebook.com/StMaryAndStLaurenceGoringBySea/ Christmas Services in St Mary’s and St Laurence’s Churches 16.00 Sunday. 20th December. Community Carol Service. St. Mary’s Church. 18.00 Sunday. 20th December. Community Carol Service. St. Mary’s Church. 10.00 Thursday. 24thth. December. Christmas Eucharist. St Laurence’s Church 16.00 Thursday. 24th December. Carols Around the Crib. Molson Garden. 23.30 Thursday. 24th December. Midnight Mass. St. Mary’s Church. 10.00 Friday 25th. December. Christmas Eucharist. St Mary’s Church. With the exception of, Carols Around the Crib in the Molson Garden (no need to book for this) please book for the above Christmas services via the Parish Office. Curate’s Coffee Time - Thursday mornings at 10.00. Join Zoom Meeting https://www.zoom.us Meeting ID: 949 5590 0058 Passcode: 847352 Carols Around the Crib – Help Urgently Needed! We are in the process of creating a 2/3-life size stable and silhouette nativity scene in the Molson Garden. This is to tell the Christmas story (with links to Facebook) in the week before Christmas and to be the setting for Carols Around the Crib, when we hope our wider community will join us. Plans are well under way but we could really do with some extra help with cutting out the silhouettes and painting them. If you possess a jig saw and have an hour or two to spare please let us know, we will provide and deliver the materials to your own house. Painting will most likely be a one off event at the Garden, date to be confirmed. Please email any offer of help to Gill at: gilliankeevill@me.com Cleaner required for St Laurence’s Hall A cleaner required for St Laurence’s hall: this is a paid position for 4 hours each week for 39 weeks each year (term-time), initially this would be on a fixed-term six month contract. To apply or for more details please contact Ruth Jepson ruthmjepson@gmail.com or phone 01903 620080. Poppy Appeal We have been informed that the amount collected from the sale of poppies was £73.50 and with the purchase of wreaths making the total donation £123.50. Pastoral visits Please let Fr. Keith or the Wardens know if you have a personal pastoral concern or may know of someone in need. God Bless, Gill, Janice, Ruth and Geoff.
