jan 2015 parish of killay magazine

Parish of Killay

Parish MagazineSt Hilary and St Martin

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Parish of Killay -‐ Who’s WhoVicar: The Revd. Timothy J. Williams The Vicarage, 30 Goetre Fach Road, Killay, Swansea ) 01792 204233

St Hilary'sReaders: David Morgan

Eucharistic Assistants: Gillian Hutchinson, David Morgan, Eileen Nielsen, Alan Pickard

Churchwardens: Jeremy Harris ) 07717 373435 Valerie Beynon ) 204352

Church Treasurer: Pam Davies ) 208506

Sacristan: Bryan Smale ) 402559

Servers: Beryl Claybrook, Catherine Swain, Steve Lewis, Bryan Smale, John Williams, Stephanie Budski

PCC Secretary: Eileen Nielsen ) 520685

Parish Centre Booking Secretary: Eileen Nielsen ) 07902844379 or 520685

Envelopes/Gift Aid Scheme: Ken James ) 205963

Junior Church Enquiries: Father Tim

Organist/Choirmaster: Peter Carder Please send text message to 07530025275 Or email [email protected]

St Martin'sChurchwardens: Elaine Graves )207126 Colin Williams )201364

Parish MagazineEditor: Father TimCopy Editor: Roger Rees ([email protected]) ) 207916Commissioning Editor and Printer: Eric ThomasAdvertising & Distribution: Ken James

Parish of Killay January 2015


The Vicar Writes……January 2015

ear Friends

By the time you read this we will be in 2015. I hope you all had a happy and Holy Christmas The name "January" comes from the Roman god Janus, the god with two faces, one looking to the past and the other looking to the future. This is indeed a time to look back at the year that has just ended and to look forward to the new year ahead of us. How did I spend this one year of my life that has just passed? Did I use it to advance my goals and objectives in life? Did I use it to enhance the purpose of my existence? Could I have done better last year in the way l invested my time between the demands of work, family, friends and society, and the demands of my spiritual life? What things did I achieve last year and what did I fail to achieve? How can I consolidate the achievements of last year while reversing the failures and losses in this new year? Through soul searching questions like these we find that a review of the past year naturally leads to setting goals and resolutions for the new year.

There are people who tell you that there is no point making new year resolutions. Do not believe them. We must set goals and make resolutions as a necessary conclusion to our review of the past year. And we do need to review our lives from year to year because, as Socrates says, the unexamined life is not worth living.

At the turn of the new year newspapers are full of individual and collective new year resolutions. Most of those, however, are not resolutions at all but only wishes. What is the difference between a resolution and a wish? A wish identities a goal one wants to reach; a resolution specifies the steps one will take to reach it. A wish says this is where I want to be, a resolution says this is the road I will take, this is what l will do to get there. The wishful person says "l want to pass my


exams this year" and the resolved person says "l will devote an extra hour to my studies everyday in order to pass my exams." The wishful person says "l will live a life of union with God this year" and the resolved person says "l will set aside this time everyday to pray and hear God's word," The difference between wishing and resolving is: are we prepared to do what it takes to make our dreams come true, are we prepared to pay the price?

In the gospels Mary is presented to us as a model of that new life in Christ that all of us wish for ourselves in the new year. There we see that Mary was prepared to do something to realise this goal.

What did she do? We read that the shepherds, when they went to adore the Child Jesus in the manger, told all that the angels had said to them. "But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart" (Luke 2:19). Again after the boy Jesus was found in the Temple, we are told that "His mother treasured all these things in her heart" (Luke 2151). Mary was a woman who valued the word of God, who treasured it and made time to meditate and ponder it and in order to do that she had to make an effort.

The two examples above of Mary pondering the word of God, namely, after the visit of the shepherds and after the finding in the temple, show that Mary found the word of God both in divine revelation (the angels' words to the shepherds) and in her own experiences (her encounter with her son in the temple). Similarly God speaks to us today through divine revelation (e.g. the Bible, the teaching and preaching of the Church) as well as through our personal experiences, if only we made time to reflect on them as Mary did.

Whatever the situation in which we rind ourselves -‐ a hardship, a disappointment, a decision to make -‐ God has a solution, an answer that is right for us. We tell God about it in prayer but we also listen to what God has to tell us about it. Prayer is a conversation with God but sometimes all we do is pick up the phone, read out the list of our problems to God and drop the phone without listening to hear what God has to say to us. Let us resolve to listen more to the voice of God, to treasure God's word and ponder it in our hearts. Then we will be


able to realise our new year resolution of a new life in union with God.Mary and l would like to thank you for all your cards and gifts at Christmas and wish you every blessing for the year ahead.

Yours in Christ

As the usual (multi-‐award-‐winning Editor is sunning himself in Phuket)please accept our apologies for any errors in this edition of the Parish Magazine.

Jan and Steve Lewis (one and only time sub-‐Editors) -‐ normal service will be resumed in February.

Have a very Happy and Peaceful New Year!!

Our Vision: A family, rooted in Christ, committed to transforming lives by:Gathering as God’s people – Growing more like Jesus – Going out in the power of the Spirit.


Monthly DiaryJanuary 2015

4th 10.30am Second Sunday of Christmas

9th 2.00pm Prayer Meeting led by Rev. Roy Blewett

11th 10.30am The First Sunday of Epiphany; the Baptism of Christ

5.00pm Combined Evensong with Siloam

18th 10.30am The Second Sunday of Epiphany5.00pm Evensong

25th 10.30am The Conversion of Paul, Apostle5.00pm Evensong

Interviews every Monday 6pm – 7pm

Music Society 2nd Monday 7.30pm

Mothers’ Union 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2pm

Brownies every Tuesday 6pm

Luncheon Club every Wednesday 11am -‐ 2pm

Ladies’ Guild every Wednesday 7.30pm

Bowls every Friday evening 7pm -‐ 10pm

Monthly Prayer Meeting 2nd Friday in the month at 2pm in the Choir VestrySimeon Fellowship last Tuesday of the month at 7.15 pm at Dunvant Rugby Club


Rotas for January 2015Readers at Morning Eucharist4th 1st Jan Lewis 11th 1st Eileen Nielsen 2nd Val Beynon18th 1st Ken James 2nd John Williams25th 1st Catherine Swain 2nd Ann Llewellyn

Offertory Procession4th Junior Church11th Mary & Haydn Osborne18th Susan & Bob Mapp25th Sylvia & Mike Powell

Altar Flowers4th Beryl Harris11th Barbara Thomas

18th Margaret Massey25th Gillian Hutchinson

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January Jan & Jim Proudfoot, David Jones, Angela ReedFebruary Phyl & Mike Smith, Gillian Hutchinson, Eddie Rowe

Coffee 4th Val Beynon 11th Eileen Neilsen 18th Jan Lewis 25th Susan Mapp

Sponsor for Bread & Wine Steve & Jan Lewis

Church Cleaning Eileen & Gregory


St Martin’s Church DunvantJanuary 2015

Date Service Time Sidesperson Reader

4th Holy Eucharist 9.00am E Graves D Morgan

11th Sung Eucharist 9.00am S Charles-‐Phillips S Gardner

18th Sung Eucharist 9.00am C Williams E Harris

25th Sung Eucharist 9.00am G Lewis L Lewis

Altar Flowers

4th Laura James

11th Christine Dardecker

18th S Charles-‐Phillips

25th Jane Riseborough

Bread & Wine

S Charles-‐Phillips

We pray especially for:-‐Kath Smith, Cran, Diane


Parish NewsWe pray for those who are ill -‐ at home, in hospital or nursing homes.

Phyllis Harries, Emlyn Bawden, Joan Davies, Olwen and John Isles, Joan Dobbs, Bill and Joyce Ivey, Gwyneth and Tommy Bartley, (Tommy is currently in Singleton Hospital) Pam Ward, Graham Treharne, we also remember, with gratitude, those who are lovingly caring for them.

It was with sadness that we attended the funeral of Eileen Watkins, so beautifully carried out by Canon Keith Evans and Fr. Tim. Eileen was aged 93 years when she died and had been involved with us in the Community and Church for many years. Eileen came to live in Killay in the early 6o’s from Pentrechwyth and almost immediately befriended Denise Rogers (both regarding each other as “best friends”). EiIeen’s husband Bill died some years ago but Eileen was extremely proud that he had received the DFC. She was a caring, kindly lady with many friends in the organisations she was involved with. Outside Church she was an active and keen outdoor bowler having played at County level.

She was a faithful member of the Ladies Guild, Mothers’ Union and our Flower Guild, she enjoyed meeting up with friends at the weekly Luncheon Club. We send our sympathy to her daughters Carol and Grace and their families and our prayers to Denise Rogers who is suffering the loss of a dear friend.

Bob and Sue Mapp would like to express their thanks to everyone for their condolences and best wishes following the death of Bob’s brother David.

Members of the Congregation wish to extend their thanks and appreciation to Beryl Harris and Sylvia Powell for all the hard work and many hours of their time in ensuring that the Christmas Tree Festival was such a success. We all go along and admire the Christmas Trees, but we do not realise the time and effort of getting them to their places in Church in order for us to admire their splendor. Thanks also to all the Sponsors and to all the organisations and schools for dressing them so professionally.

THANK YOU BERYL AND SYLVIA

Big Thank you to Dunvant Primary School for singing so beautifully at our St. Nicholas Fayre and to the Teachers who spent the time rehearsing them and to the Chairman of Governors for his attendance.

Also thank you for their attendance at Church to sing carols during the Christmas Tree Festival.

Gratitude to Fr. Tim who carried out a number of meaningful services during Advent -‐ the attendance showed how much we appreciate his words. Also thanks from people who attended the Crib Service on Christmas Eve -‐it was a joy to see all the children leaving Church, having heard the real Christmas Story from Fr. Tim, all had beaming faces ready to go to bed and await the arrival of Santa.



Ladies GuildChristmas dinner was held at Sketty Hall on 3 December.Following a delicious meal, Fr. Tim presented committee members with Marks and Spencer gift vouchers in thanks for their hard work throughout the year, after which the raffle was drawn, when several members won prizes skillfully prepared by Joan Roach.Jonathon Lycett entertained us with ridiculous Christmas Cracker jokes, some funny stories and, of course, a selection of songs from the shows, ending with communal carol singing. A most enjoyable evening.One of our favourite speakers, Grace Birt, came along the following week to help us make Christmas cards.Grace began by telling us a little of the history of greetings cards. ln the early 1800's, Sir Henry Cole invested in the first postal service, the penny post, which began as a service for businesses. Together with artist, John Horsley, he thought that the service should be extended to the public, so he had printed and marketed the first 1000 Christmas cards, this idea caught on and soon all types of greetings cards became popular.The card which Grace demonstrated, and taught us to make, was a very simple but attractive card, made with coloured buttons arranged to look like Christmas baubles.We were all delighted with our attempts at “Hand Made" cards and decided to keep them rather than send them to friends. Many thanks, Grace, for yet another fun filled evening!Our final meeting of 2014, was our annual carol service, together with Mothers Union, in church. The Service took the form of the traditional 9 lessons, read by Guild and MU members, and carols accompanied by Peter Carder on the organ. Canon Geoffrey read the 9th lesson from St John's gospel and Fr. Tim gave us a little history of each of the carols.Later we adjourned to the hall for sherry and mince pies when the Parish Raffle was drawn by Fr. Tim. Several people present, including the vicar, won prizes. An excellent way to finish the year Ladies Guild wish everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year.1st meeting of 2015 is on 13th January


MovemberThe Movember idea started first in Australia in 2003 as a conversation between two guys who were discussing health. They recognised that men, as opposed to women, were very casual about recognising the signs of a health problem and even more casual about getting medically checked out for a “man” problem such as prostate or testicular cancer. They decided on a scheme to raise awareness and finance to combat this problem by getting men to participate by growing a moustache for the month of November. Today this has expanded to 4 million men – “Mo Bros” and even “Mo Sistas” [wearing false moustaches of course] in 21 countries around the world. To date £346 million has been raised and incorporated into 800 programmes worldwide focussed on research and treatments.

Father Tim is a veteran of Movember having grown a moustache during November for several years [with some trauma] but for me it was a new and rather uncomfortable experience which resulted from the Gwalia Singers deciding that the whole choir [60 in total] should participate this year. This arose from the fact that several members in the last few years have suffered from, and received treatment for prostate cancer, and was driven by one of our committee members whose son [in his thirties] had also been diagnosed.

You can see the final result from St Hilary’s “Team Movember” above. I should like to thank, most sincerely, all those generous souls who financially sponsored me; in particular the members of the church choir. As a result I have personally been able to raise over £200.

Alan Clewett


Mothers’ UnionOn Dec 2nd, Mothers’ Union members assembled at Sketty Hall for an excellent Christmas lunch. We were pleased to have Father Tim and Canon Geoffrey Thomas dine with us and also a few intrepid husbands joined us this year.

After lunch Branch Leader, Carole Pickard, welcomed everyone and briefly outlined the aims and work of the Mothers’ Union and the projects it supports worldwide. The raffle, as every year, was well supported and all the ladies went home with a small gift from the Lucky Dip.

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Mothers’ Union supported the St Nicholas Fayre on December 6th with a stall of new gifts donated by members and friends. We also have a decorated tree in the Christmas Tree Exhibition in church. For the Carol Service, we joined with Ladies Guild, on December 17th, in St Hilary’s and, afterwards, in the Parish Centre for refreshments.

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We meet, for the first time in 2015, at 2:00pm on January 6th in church for corporate communion and refreshments in the Parish Centre. Our second meeting will be the AGM at 2:00pm on January 20th and, afterwards, for refreshments, again in the Parish Centre.

nThe annual tribute is also due as soon as possible in January, which will now be £15.50.

Sandra Banks


Going GreenNot so long ago, while I was chasing the answer to a crossword puzzle on the internet, my attention was taken by something which should be common knowledge. It concerns the chemical sodium (that was the answer to the crossword clue) and so, after scanning its properties and usages, I came across a small piece entitled ‘End of the line for yellow.’ What line I asked myself and read on. It turned out that.....well here is the little article for you to ponder.

‘While the UK is in recession the cost of raw materials and resources is, in many cases, soaring – such as the price of wheat, oil, silicone and, interestingly enough, industrial sodium. Interestingly? Sodium is commonly used the world over to produce the colour yellow in many paints and plastics, and is a core component of the epoxy paint used to tell us where we can’t park our car. Yes the iconic double yellow line is under threat from international trade because of soaring prices on the world chemical market.’

Mr.Ian Hoakes of the Government’s think tank, the National Unit for Motoring, Parking and Transport Initiatives says that government scientists have been experimenting with new paint additives that are significantly cheaper than sodium because they are vegetable based. The most promising of these is extracted from the pod of Vicia faba var loodicrus, otherwise known as the humble broad bean, once the beans themselves have been harvested. ‘The new additives are inexpensive, sustainable and green in every sense’ said Mr Hoakes.

Every sense? Apparently so, for the new epoxy is more green than yellow.

‘It’s brilliant’ the NUMPTI spokesman said, ‘not only is it ridiculously cheap, the new green colour, which is not unlike that of Kermit the Frog, offers night time visibility due to the inbuilt luminescence of the broad bean extract’. Small scale tests are planned for parts of Grimsby. Altringham and Bristol in the summer of 2023 and, if successful, the Dept. of Transport plan to start repainting all our existing yellow lines with the new lime green ones by the end of the year. Now don’t you think that G.B. deserves many brownie points for that? I certainly do.

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6 January Where did the Wise Men come from?Magi from the East – it isn’t a lot to go on. The Magi had originally been a religious caste among the Persians. Their devotion to astrology, divination and the interpretation of dreams led to an extension in the meaning of the word, and by the first century the Magi in Matthew’s gospel could have been astrologers from outside of Persia. Some scholars believe they might have come from what was then Arabia Felix, or, as we would say today, southern Arabia.Certainly in the first century astrology was practised there, and it was the region where the Queen of Sheba had lived. She, of course, had visited Solomon and would have heard the prophecies about how one day a Messiah would be born to the Israelites and become their king.Matthew’s gospel (chapter 2) is clear that the Magi asked Herod: ‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.’ So it is possible that in southern Arabia the Queen of Sheba’s story of how a Messiah would one day be sent to the Israelites had survived. Certainly there are a number of other early legends that connect southern Arabia with Solomon’s Israel.To many people this makes sense: that the ancient stories of a Messiah, linked to later astrological study, prompted these alert and god-‐fearing men to the realisation that something very stupendous was happening in Israel. They realised that after all these centuries, the King of the Jews, the Messiah, was about to be born.One more interesting thing that gives weight to the theory that the magi came from southern Arabia is this: if you study any map of Palestine as it was during biblical times, you will find that the old Arabian caravan routes all entered Palestine ‘from the East’.

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6 January What about the gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh?The story of the coming of the Magi grew in the telling. By the 6th century they had acquired names: Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar. By medieval times they were considered to be kings. Whoever they were, we do know from Matthew that they brought three gifts to Jesus.What about their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh? While we cannot know for sure what was in the minds of first century Magi, one Victorian scholar has offered a possible explanation as to the significance of their gifts. He was the Rev John Henry Hopkins, an American Episcopalian minister who, in 1857, wrote his much-‐loved Christmas carol: ‘We Three Kings of Orient Are’.

Gold, said John Henry Hopkins, was a gift that would have been given to a king. Frankincense had traditionally been brought by priests as they worshipped God in the Temple. Myrrh was a spice that the ancients used in preparing bodies for burial.If that is true, then you could say that the Wise Men, in

choosing their gifts for this infant, honoured Jesus with gold because he was King of the Jews, with frankincense because he was to be worshipped as divine; and with myrrh, because he would also become a sacrifice and die for his people.The Wise Men were the very first gentiles ever to worship Jesus. What faith they had! They travelled for months over difficult terrain, they never saw any evidence of Jesus’ kingship, his divinity or his sacrificial death. They worshipped him through faith in God’s promises about him. Isaiah foresaw this response to Jesus: ‘Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.’ The Magi’s eyes of faith saw clearly and far into the future.Compare that with the High Priest and religious leaders whom the Wise Men saw in Jerusalem when they first arrived. These head priests knew all about the prophecies of their own coming Messiah, but NOT ONE Jewish religious leader travelled to look for him in Bethlehem. And it is only six miles down the road!

Monday 19th January

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25 January St Paul -‐ THE FIRST CHRISTIAN INTELLECTUALThis month, on 25th January, the Church celebrates probably the most famous conversion of all. At least, what happened to a young man called Saul on the road to Damascus has become a byword for all instant conversions -‐ what is known as a ‘damascene’ moment. Saul was a devout Jew, a Pharisee, a student of Gamaliel and a fierce critic of the followers of Jesus, then a very new sect on the religious scene.

On his way to Damascus to organise a purge of Christians in that city, he was blinded by a bright light and heard a voice saying, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’ He asked the identity of the voice, and it replied, ‘Jesus, whom you are persecuting’. Stunned by the experience, he followed further instructions which led him to a Christian man in Damascus, who prayed with him. As he did, Saul’s sight was restored.

The experience convinced him that Jesus -‐ crucified in Jerusalem four or five years earlier -‐ was in fact the Messiah and had risen from the dead. After a period of instruction, Saul was baptised and took the name by which history has recognised him, Paul. At first, some Christians were wary about the reality of his conversion, but over a period of time he was accepted and indeed eventually recognised as an ‘apostle’, a ‘special messenger’ of Jesus Christ.His intellectual stature and leadership gifts quickly marked him out, and within a few years he became a leading figure in the emerging Christian Church, preaching and founding churches all over the Middle East, largely of Gentile converts. He was eventually martyred in Rome, probably in 65AD.Paul was the first intellectual of the Christian Church, the man who was able to set the events of the life and teaching of Jesus, and especially his death and resurrection, into a coherent theology, with its roots very clearly in the Jewish faith of his own upbringing. He’s not always easy to follow. Even the New Testament admits that: ‘there are some things (in his letters) hard to understand’ (2 Peter 3:16). But at the same time he gave the new faith a foundation and credibility which have stood it well down the centuries.Many people think of Paul as a rather negative, narrow misogynist, but even a quick reading of his letters actually reveals a person of great warmth, who evoked enormous affection and devotion from others. ‘You would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me!’ he writes to the Christians at Galatia. He was, of course, a man of his time and culture, in days when women were disregarded in terms of status and leadership.But read his letters, and see how large a role women play in them and how much scope he gave them to lead and teach in the Church. In terms of the first century, St Paul was a dangerous liberal!I think the amazing Paul of Tarsus deserves a bit of celebrating on 25th January.


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Electrical

Plumbing


Exercise

Classes St Hilary’s Church Hall, Killay: Tues 10:00 – 11:00 am Ladies

St Paul’s Parish Centre, Sketty: Tues 7:30 – 9:30 pm Ladies

Thurs 10:00 – 11:00 am Ladies

AWARD WINNING

PRIME CUT BUTCHERSUNIT 7, THE PRECINCT, KILLAY

Try our own-made FAGGOTS and PIES,Our own-cooked HAM, BEEF, PORK and TURKEY BREAST,ROAST CHICKENS and home-made SAUSAGES and BURGERS.

CHIROPODIST / PODIATRIST

STATE REGISTERED / HPC REGISTERED

JENNIFER PROTHEROE D.Pod.MMCH.S.(BOWEN)

SURGERY AT 18 ADMIRAL’S WALK, SKETTYTEL: 01792 535231

ENQUIRIESCHRISTINE O’ROURKE

01792 290100

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FUNERAL DIRECTORSIN PRIVATE OWNERSHIP

St JamesFuneral home

MAIN OFFICE AND CHAPEL OF REST

31 ST JAMES GARDENUPLANDS, SWANSEA

OFFICES AT462 GOWER ROAD, KILLAY, SWANSEA

AND3 GORWYDD ROAD, GOWERTON

24 HOUR SERVICETELEPHONE: 01792 643840

Partners: S.J. Lee – P. Garland-‐Thomas

Golden Charter Pre-‐paid Funeral Plans available


HAIR BY CLAIREMobile HairdresserFormerly of Mair’s

Tel: 01792 208503Mob: 07799403043

STEVE JONESELECTRICAL

ALL DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL WORK

Every th ing f rom a socke t to a comp le te re -w i reSecur i t y L igh t ing

Compet i t i ve p r i cesNO JOB TOO SMALL

91 Har lech Crescen t , Ske t ty01792 517554

Mobi le : 07974689902

AllsortsCard GalleryCARDSsGIFTSsPARTY WARE9 The precinct, killay

01792 208993and

helen’s cards, gorseinon

TROUSSEAUDesigner

Hand-Made to MeasureBridal & Evening wear

For an appointment

Ring Audrey Thomas

01792 390740

WHITECROSSAND SON LTD

9455

Plumbing & HeatingContractors

Gas Boiler Servicing28 Pentre Banadl, Killay SA2 7DD

Tel: 01792 206156Mobile: 07802152130

HHER ITAGECARPET & FLOORING LTD

422 Gower Road, Killay, Swansea SA2 7AJ

Tel/Fax: 01792 202021www.heritagecarpetandflooring.co.uk


Pre-‐paymentFuneral Plans

24-‐hourPersonal Service

MonumentalMasonry

SympatheticandCaring Staff

PrivateRest Room

EDDIETUCKER

OFKILLAY

CLOSE TO THECOMMUNITY BECAUSE

WE ARE PART OF IT

10 SWAN COURTTHE PRECINCT

KILLAY

TEL. 01792 280101www.eddietuckerfuneraldirectors.co.uk

Church ServicesSt Hilary’s

1st Sunday 10.30am Family Eucharist (followed by coffee with Traidcraft Stall) 5.00pm Evensong

2nd Sunday 10.30am Holy Eucharist 5.00pm Combined Evensong with Siloam

3rd Sunday 10.30am Holy Eucharist 5.00pm Evensong

4th Sunday 10.30am Holy Eucharist 5.00pm Healing Service

5th Sunday 10.30am Holy Eucharist 5.00pm Evensong at St Martin’s

St Martin’s1st Sunday 8.00am Holy Eucharist

2nd Sunday 9.00am Sung Eucharist

3rd Sunday 9.00am Sung Eucharist

4th Sunday 9.00am Sung Eucharist

5th Sunday 9.00am Sung Eucharist 5.00pm Evensong with St Hilary’s at St Martin’s


St Hilary’s Church Hall – Parish CentreTwo large rooms with refreshment and disabled facilitiesavailable for hire ….. parties, anniversaries, meetings etc.

Phone 07902844379

jan 2015 parish of killay magazine

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