50p

‘The end of the world’

St Leonard’s and other

church yards

Literalism, defea�sm?

No, op�mism!

All change!

Happy 250th Birthday

Beethoven

Can you spot the church?

The summer looking out

from her brazen tower

Living with Lockdown

Mary’s Recipe and Don’s

Poem

The Parish Churches of

July 2020

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Our church buildings have begun to reopen for personal, private visits for

prayer or just to be a quiet place of peace. For reopening details please see

page 19. St Peter's and St Leonard's are communi$es of faith welcoming and

serving all. As our lives con$nue to be very different in challenging ways, if

we can help or support you in any way, please make contact.

A prayer for this �me:

Loving God,

We pray for all those who are suffering because of the coronavirus, may they

know your healing power.

When we are afraid for ourselves and our loved ones, give us your strength

and courage. When we feel alone and isolated, reassure us with a sense of

your presence.

Give wisdom to those in authority and may our community work together for

the good of all.

We give thanks for those who care for others and ask

you to bless them in all they do.

We ask this in the name of Jesus, healer and physician.

Amen Stuart Burns, Rector

Tel. 07595 946284

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June 6th

was my final study day at Sarum College,

but this $me via ZOOM, because residen$al weekends have been cancelled due to the COVID

-19 restric$ons. The next step should have been

to go on retreat before being ordained Deacon

at Wells Cathedral on June 28th

returning to you all as the Curate for the Benefice of Cheddar,

Drayco= and Rodney Stoke. However global

pandemics have a way of altering outcomes and

the ordina$on service has been postponed un$l Michaelmas. By the $me you read this we Ordinands will have been licenced (via ZOOM) as

Lay Parish Workers, and I hope many of you were able to watch the

service online.

Frustra$ng as I find this situa$on, I know that it is nothing compared to

the frustra$ons, disappointments and distress caused to too many

others by the consequences of COVID-19.

But what can we Chris$ans say, when asked how can we believe in a

God of Love in a world where there is s$ll so much suffering due to

diseases, where people are s$ll being murdered just because of the

colour of their skin? How can we reply without sounding smug or

judgemental?

I think we should be honest and say that our only answer can be that we believe that the triune God is the source of all truth and beauty and the

love that gives meaning to all life. God is the deepest mystery in our

lives, con$nually sustaining us – but who does not interfere in our day-

to-day lives like a puppeteer inflic$ng harm on sinners or rewarding

believers.

One thing that 2020 increasingly reminds us is that we are all part of

one human race. And we are all in this together. While God did not

cause this pandemic, nor the race riots, neither has he leE us to face any

of it alone. He is with all key workers, suffering pa$ents, and families

who grieve.

As Jesus wept for Lazarus, the resurrected Christ, s$ll weeping with us and for us, promises to be with us to the end of $me. This is what we

must proclaim. Thea Oliver

Pastoral Le0er to the Benefice from Thea Oliver

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Le0er from the Right Reverend Peter Hancock,

Bishop of Bath and Wells

Building a sustainable and hopeful future

One impact of the Coronavirus pandemic is there is

now a lot of talk about the need to change and to re-

imagine society, in order to build a sustainable and

hopeful future. This is to be welcomed. However,

change is something that we always have to live with.

The Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, wri$ng some 500

years before Christ, was a great proponent of this. He

is known for saying: ‘There is nothing permanent except change’ and

that ‘You cannot step into the same river twice’. By this he meant that

because the river flows, you cannot touch the same water twice, so no

two situa$ons are exactly the same and that the world is constantly

changing.

We live in a $me of extraordinary change. Self-driving transport is now

prac$cal, not just for cars, but also perhaps more alarmingly for ships

and aircraE. Ar$ficial Intelligence is opening amazing new possibili$es

and medicine is advancing rapidly as the decoding of the human

genome increases our understanding of many diseases. At the same

$me our world groans under the weight of lifestyles and exploita$on

of resources which are not sustainable. I am wri$ng this on World

Environment Day and it is becoming increasingly clear that we need to

change the way we live before we wreak even more havoc on the

world which God has given us to care for and steward.

But in looking for change we need perhaps to look in rather than out.

I remember once reading someone saying: ‘You can’t change what is

going on around you, un$l you start changing what’s going on within

you’. Or as Tolstoy put it: ‘Everyone thinks of changing the world. But

no one thinks of changing themself.’ It is some$mes said that if ‘we

change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.’

There may be some truth in that and perhaps we need to use this $me

of lockdown to con$nue to reflect on what it means to look at the

world through God’s eyes and to live faithfully in God’s world so that

we all play our part in building a sustainable and hopeful future.

Every blessing Peter Hancock

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I have been a=racted to churchyards since I was a free cycling teenager in

Lincolnshire and visited the lovely limestone-built villages of Silk Willoughby, Ewerby and Osbournby among others. We would sit among

the long grass and wildflowers and eat yoghourt, the latest ‘exo$c’ food

fad of the six$es.

Lincolnshire is as renowned for its beau$ful churches with their tall spires

as is Somerset for its magnificent towers. Some$mes, while cycling across the fens we would see five or more steeples rising from the flat arable

fields. The drainage channels we followed are called ‘dykes’ and I took a

while to call them ‘rhines’.

St. Andrew’s, Heckington was, and is the most notable village church and

only five miles from my home. My parents were married there, my grandmother was secretary to the Mother’s Union and my great-great

grandfather’s name is carved into the wall of the belfry with all the other

members of the ringing team.

In St. Denys Church, Sleaford, my home town is a version of the famous

scissor arch of Wells Cathedral. It is no surprise that I have always felt at

home in Somerset, two unique coun$es but which resonate in many ways.

The physical presence of churches and churchyards is such a powerful link with the past, and yet so important to the here and now. It would be a

catastrophe if more of them fell into disuse because they are too expensive

to maintain or too consuming of energy to use. Please let us use them

more not less Ann Percival

St. Leonard’s and other churchyards

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St Peter’s carpet of spring flowers

St Leonard’s

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‘The end of the world’ It’s not the end of the world

Just the end of the world as we know it

A mass awakening is on the horizon

Opening hearts, minds, eyes and

I am not surprised

Mother Earth needed a rest

From the pollu$on, the death

This is a $me for growth

For expansion

Because without it, look what can happen

We are meant to wake up now

From the illusion of separa$on

To stop the degrada$on

The judgement, the hatred

And we rise to something so sacred

A remembrance of who we truly are

Moving back to basics

Humanity working together

Our darkness we will be facing

And healing

One aEer another

Healing our mother

Solitude

To make us ponder

On what really ma=ers

As the old paradigm sha=ers

A paradise unravels

Beaming crystalline light

From a sky misty grey

My family, be pa$ent

For New Earth is on its way

Ella Marie aka ‘Elz’

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My late father (ini$ally a Bap$st minister,

then an Anglican curate/vicar for the last

27 years of his short life), was always a

firm proponent of the pastoral approach.

He believed that being seen walking and

visi$ng around his parish every day in his

dark suit and dog collar meant he was

readily iden$fiable to anyone who was in

need of spiritual sustenance or just

something as simple as a smile and a

gree$ng,

Trust is a fundamental keystone of any life. Without trust, who would

employ a builder to fix their roof? Without trust, would the footballer

pass the ball to his team-mate? The shopping and errands that so many

have done for others during lockdown would not be possible without

those benefiOng trus$ng that the shoppers won’t run off with their

money and never return.

Like any other rela$onship, the trust between par$es can only be

engendered through geOng to know each other be=er. It takes $me

and this is where the present situa$on has had a real upside: enabling

so many people to get to know others much be=er or strengthening

bonds between those who were already in$mates.

It’s a quality that cannot be accomplished without absolute honesty and

transparency. Subterfuge and dissembling are anathema to establishing

trust. It is the cores of good pastoral prac$ce and so many, Chris$an,

agnos$c, atheist and all points in-between are effec$ng pastoral care,

whether or not it is a term they would employ.

The COVID-19 crisis has meant the tradi$onal means of pastoral care

have been necessarily much curtailed but this period has, as stated, also

witnessed many welcome acts of neighbourliness and kindness. It is

human nature at its finest, in fact. Ade Macrow

Literalism, defea�sm? No, op�mism!

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Music Ma0ers

Happy 250th

Birthday Beethoven

Later this year we shall celebrate the birth, in December 1770, of

Ludwig van Beethoven. He did not have a good start in life; a poor

household and a domineering and abusive father made him a

wayward child, prone to fits and to uncontrollable bursts of temper.

Already in his early twen$es he was suffering from the $nnitus

which eventually led to his total deafness.

Deaf? But that surely meant the end of his musical career? Not at

all. His greatest works, such as the Choral Symphony, the Missa

Solemnis, his one opera Fidelio and the late string quartets were all

wri=en when he was completely deaf.

Do you mean that he never heard a note of those pieces? Not at all.

He heard them all far more clearly in his own head than he would

have done in the concert hall, completely unspoiled by any

mistakes in the playing and noisy audiences.

But surely deafness was a great drawback to his musical ability? I

don’t think so. When he was young, he wrote music very similar to

that of his great hero Joseph Haydn. AEer he was flung onto his

own resources, he was free to develop in his own way. He was the

originator of the Roman$c Movement in music, which meant a

loosening of the $es of tradi$on, a breaking of the rules of what is

“correct” and a reliance on the composer’s crea$vity alone as the

master of his des$ny. Throughout the 19th

century and beyond,

Beethoven’s music was seen as the very pinnacle of musical

achievement.

What was the secret of his success? Quite apart from his

inven$veness in melody and harmony, it was his drama$c $ming.

Ask any comedian or actor: any performance ar$st knows the

importance of split-second $ming. As Leonard Bernstein said: “If

you hear music in which every note is the right one and sounds at

exactly the right moment, it’s probably by Beethoven.” His music

may sound as though it came down perfectly formed from heaven,

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but a glance at his manuscripts will show the immense labour and

anguish that went into all his changes of mind, crossings-out and

altera$ons, to get it all just right.

When Beethoven died in March 1827, 30,000

people came to his funeral in Vienna. He might

have chosen as his epitaph these words from

another great crea$ve genius:

This above all: to thine own self be true

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

(Hamlet, Act 1).

David Cheetham

Can you spot the church? Photo by Stuart Burns

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When I had the pleasure of talking to Thea it was in a St. Peter’s

Church almost devoid of chairs, being made ready for only limited

opening for private prayer.

Which was reflected in the wai$ng she will have before actual

ordina$on, delayed un$l September, unless there should be

further extensions. Thea’s course was itself affected in its final

three months with only distance learning meaning the loss of the

togetherness of a group which had had a shared life for two

years. And even the very important pre-ordina$on residen$al

retreat will be missing.

But clearly the course overall had been a really posi$ve

experience for her, despite the fact that it began with nineteen

members, but one member sadly died just a few weeks ago aEer

a short illness, a loss much felt by the group. In his last days the

Bishop came and prayed the ordina$on prayer over him.

Thea’s smaller working group of five women and only two men

had some strongly evangelical members and some who were

more liberal, but clearly working together for two years helped

people come to a be=er understanding of each other on all sides.

Thea par$cularly enjoyed her placement at Wells Cathedral but

feels she could be quite happy in most surroundings.

I asked Thea what led her to feel that ordina$on was the path she

was called to take, and she said that she had always had a call ‘to

extend, to go beyond’ as she put it. She had had many occasions

Thea Oliver’s Forthcoming Ordina�on

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when people had suggested that ordina$on was right for her.

This included a remarkable occasion at a medical mee$ng

when she found herself talking to a District Nurse who was

also an Anglican priest. Moving into ministry was almost a

sort of natural progression from her medical calling.

I wondered whether being ordained might in any way alter

her rela$onship with church members and other people in

the villages. Thea thought that having been living here for

thirty years, it probably wouldn’t make much difference, but

she did recall an occasion many years ago when she

wandered round the Strawberry

Fayre talking to people, then later

on in the aEernoon walking round

with John Hall in his dog collar

and realising how very different

people’s responses were.

Thea said her family had been

helpful and she could not possibly

have gone ahead without

enormous support from Richard.

So she’s looking forward to the

joys and challenges ahead. She

says she’s an emo$onal person

and may need to develop a bit of

a tough skin to keep going for the

deeply emo$onal bits of funeral

and marriage and bap$sm services. Although presiding at the

Eucharist will be central, in the world of actual services it’s

those bap$sms and marriages she’s par$cularly looking

forward to being able to conduct.

I think we are going to be very fortunate to have Thea as a

fully ordained member of our strong ministry team.

Gordon Jeff

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Living with Lockdown - what our readers say

About the Good Neighbours of Drayco4 and Rodney Stoke:

Sewing for the NHS " Would anyone like to help in this crisis, by sewing for the NHS ? ", was a

ques$on asked on the villages Good Neighbour site, just 12 weeks ago. The response was wonderful; 35 people offered to sew; as many again offered to donate material, others offered to sort, to wash, to fetch &

carry; and others to deliver.

Everyone worked flat out, and now an unbelievable, 900 plus items have been made & delivered!

They have gone to our wonderful care workers, in every field, from big hospitals to care- in-the-community workers, with our grateful thanks.

Facemasks are now being provided for villagers & their families through the Village Stores, at a token price.

Alan Rowntree writes: Stanley Price

I have enjoyed reading the warm contribu$ons these past months about

Stanley, who was very helpful when I was delving into the history of St

Peter’s in 2011 with the forthcoming 150th

anniversary celebra$ons in

mind.

During the course of many conversa$ons, I men$oned that I did not re-

search local families this side of World War II as many skeletons started

falling out of the cupboard.

With that soE Brummie accent and a twinkle in his eye Stanley replied,

“Yes, you kick one person and half the village falls down!”

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Gil Dury writes:

Cuckoo Roy and I have s$ll been self-distancing and

keeping safe locally, but we did venture further

afield to Westhay Moor last weekend. We are

keen supporters of the Somerset Wildlife Trust

and were interested to see what innova$ons

had been made at the reserve since last year. We arrived at

about 8am on Sunday morning, before families arrived, and

immediately heard the calling of the cuckoo. What a lovely

surprise! We started to sing the 60’s Simon & Garfunkel song,

based upon the child’s nursery rhyme

April, come she will.

May, she will stay.

June, she’ll change her tune.

July, she will fly.

August, die she must.

Who else remembers this? Our cuckoo con$nued to call for ten

minutes or more, but had not yet changed her tune to a minor

key.

Should you feel like a change of scenery from the Cheddar Valley,

I would recommend a visit to Westhay, preferably in the early

morning. Watch out for herons, egrets, cormorants, ducks, coots,

swans, and much more. Listen out for the deep foghorn-like

booming of bi=erns. AND, thank God that we, in Somerset, s$ll

have wide open spaces in which to enjoy the sounds of silence!

My thought for the day is Psalm 117:

Praise the Lord, all na;ons,

extol him, all you peoples;

for his love protec;ng us is strong,

the Lord’s constancy is everlas;ng.

O praise the Lord!

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A great boon of this period of lockdown has been the opportunity to join

members of the Cheddar benefice for Sunday service via Zoom, even though

I’m in Nova Sco$a. It’s been wonderful catching up with old friends and

sharing news. Something I’m always asked is what things are like in Nova

Sco$a, and how our lockdown experience compares with yours.

From the start, Nova Sco$a’s Premier took a determined approach. When the

first case was announced the province immediately locked down, with people

working from home where possible. We were advised to stay indoors, other

than for exercise in our local neighbourhoods only. All parks, beaches and

non-essen$al businesses were closed un$l recently. When spring arrived and

some made a bid for freedom, the Premier offered a now infamous reminder:

"We don't need online graphs to tell us what we need to do. We need to stay

the blazes home,” he declared, frustrated with rule breakers. “Everyone is

pu@ng pressure on the public health to solve it, our healthcare system to deal

with it, and government to pay for it, when all we have to do is stay the blazes

home.”

You can now buy T-shirts, mugs, and masks

carrying the slogan, and beer, although in

keeping with the name the beer is available by

delivery only!

We were the first province to lockdown and

we are among the last to fully reopen. While

others adopted a phased approach, our

Premier and his lauded medical sidekick, Dr.

Robert Strang, decided to wait for the virus to

wane, then liE lockdown all at once. Business

have reopened with safety protocols and our

days without new cases are increasing. Murray should begin his postponed

social work placement soon, and I’ll return to work if Nova Sco$a’s progress

con$nues.

Compared with other places we’ve been lucky. As of today we’ve had 1,059

confirmed cases - 999 of which have recovered - and 61 deaths, most in a local

long term care facility. Canada as a whole has had 96,153 confirmed cases,

54,474 of which have recovered. The overall death toll is 7, 832.

Tricia Heckbert

The return of Patricia’s Pantry

The summer looks out from her brazen

tower, through the flashing bars of July.

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Of all the major altera$ons to our way of life since the an$-COVID measures

started in March, changes in travel are perhaps the most obvious. AEer all, the key message of lockdown was to stay at

home and avoid unnecessary travel. We have actually discovered that some of these

journeys are permanently unnecessary, as there are alterna$ve ways of working and

holding mee$ngs on-line, which may con$nue to be used aEer restric$ons are liEed, saving

both $me and carbon emissions.

Public transport has unfortunately, but necessarily, been severely curtailed, which

has been a setback for environmentally-friendly travel. Sadly the reduc$on in public transport is likely to be prolonged,

with requirements for social distancing limi$ng the number of passengers who

can travel this way.

However there has been a boom in walking and cycling since lockdown. Cycle

shops have even been deemed 'essen$al services' and have remained open throughout! Fewer car journeys and more cycling and walking have resulted in

reduced emissions and cleaner air everywhere, and many local authori$es are looking to encourage this post-COVID. There have been several high-profile city projects to support greener travel in the news. For example several routes into

central London are now closed to motor traffic and dedicated to cyclists and walkers. Our own Mendip Council is currently shaping its post-COVID plan,

including greener transport op$ons, and encourages residents to respond to

their Residents' Survey at www.Mendip.gov.uk by 27 June.

And what of air-travel post-COVID? We know avia$on generates the highest

carbon emissions of all transport modes. Lockdown has resulted in planes being grounded and airlines, otherwise going bankrupt, seeking government support.

Some campaigners, including Ex$nc$on Rebellion, argue the airlines should not be rescued because of the urgent need for decarbonisa$on. Others suggest this is

the moment to a=ach 'green strings' to any rescue-package, requiring airlines to reduce flights, pay tax on avia$on fuel, levy taxes on frequent fliers instead of

rewarding them, and proac$vely produce data on flight carbon emissions,

allowing passengers to avoid the most pollu$ng flights.

COVID will cast a long shadow, but we can use our voices to help shape the kind

of transport networks we want, as we emerge from it. Nikki Devi4

All change!

(or how COVID may change our travel habits for ever)

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Mary’s Recipe and Don’s Poem

1.

6 very thin slices

smoked panaceta or

bacon, or about 200g

pance� cubes (lardons)

1tbs olive oil

250g salad leaves,

mixure of so?, crisp &

peppery

1-2 Hass advocados,

halved & stones

removed

Dressing

6tbs extra virgin olive oil

1tbs cider vinegar

1 garlic clove, crushed

1tsp Dijon mustard

Sea salt & freshly ground

black pepper

Alabaster Boxes

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up, un$l your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness.

Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say them before they go.

The flowers you mean to send-use to brighten and sweeten their homes before they leave them.

If my friends have alabaster boxes lay away, full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affec$on I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours and open them, that I may be refreshed and cheered when I need them.

Let us learn to anoint our friends beforehand. Post-mortem kindness does not cheer the burdened spirit.

Flowers cast no fragrance backward over the weary way. Anon

Avocado Salad

If using pance=a, cut the

slices into 3-4 pieces. Heat

a frying pan, brush with

1tbs olive oil, add the

pance=a or pance$ cubes

& cook over medium heat,

without disturbing the pance=a, un$l crisp &

papery but not too brown. Remove from the

pan & drain on kitchen paper.

To make the dressing, put the oil, vinegar,

garlic, mustard & salt & pepper in a salad

bowl & beat with a fork or small whisk.

When ready to serve, add the leaves & toss

well, using your hands. Using a teaspoon,

scoop out balls of avocado into the salad.

Toss gently if you like (though this will send

the avocado to the bo=om of the bowl). Add

the crispy pance=a or pance=a & serve

immediately.

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St Peter’s Drayco0

Re-opening the Churches

St Leonard’s, Rodney Stoke

We at St Peter's are delighted to be opening your village church in Drayco= once more, aEer the long weeks of lockdown.

Regular opening will at first be on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, during the day$me, and will be for individual visits only and not for gatherings (although funerals will be permi=ed).

In all cases, strict precau$ons are being taken, to ensure social distancing and appropriate hygiene (for example, someone will disinfect all relevant surfaces daily). Further informa$on and instruc$ons will be given on no$ces around the church.

The PCC, Drayco4

Once again, we are pleased to be able to welcome you to St Leonard’s Church.

At the moment we are unable to conduct our normal range of services, but the church is open every day of the week for private prayer between 10 AM and 5 PM.

Health and safety instruc$ons are posted by the porch door, and these must be followed to protect the health of yourself and others during the current Covid19 pandemic.

The inner and outer church doors will be leE open, and a hand sani$zer is available for your use and protec$on. Please do not close the doors when you leave.

To ensure that the 2 metre distancing requirement is maintained, some of the pews will be roped off. The available pews will be rotated daily, to minimise the risk of any traces of the virus being spread.

The PCC, Rodney Stoke

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Services during the period of social isola�on

We rejoice that our buildings are now opening for private prayer (see separate no$ce), but services con$nue to be online. The congrega$ons of Cheddar, Drayco= and Rodney Stoke combine for these, and some

even join from further afield. They con$nue to be very popular.

From Mondays to Fridays, we have Evening Prayer at 8:30 p.m., and on Saturdays, Morning Prayer at 10 a.m. These last about 20 minutes, followed by a chance to chat and socialise. On Sundays the service is at 10 a.m., and slightly longer (and it is Eucharis$c on alternate Sundays).

This will be followed again by a chance to chat, but in smaller groups.

The best experience is probably to join with a laptop or smartphone that has a camera, microphone and speakers. However you can also join using just an ordinary telephone, and listen and contribute that way. Evening services are smaller than Sundays. However some of us find them a very sustaining way to keep prayerful company with others

during the week.

How to join our services

We use the 'ZOOM' videoconferencing soEware, which is compa$ble with most types of computer and smartphone - and allows telephone

dial-in.

If you would like to be with us in worship and fellowship, we would love you to join us. We don't make joining details publicly available for security reasons, but you are invited to contact one of those listed

below. And if you are already par$cipa$ng, why not introduce a friend?

We look forward to further services in our churches but, whilst there is

a need, we will con$nue to conduct at least some services online.

Name Email address telephone

Stuart Burns stuart.burns01@gmail.com 01934 743649

Chris Green greendevi=@gmail.com 01749 870554

Ben Buse benjaminbuse@aol.co.uk 07503782719

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Ways to pray or find spiritual feeding online during social distancing

Stuart can email simple orders of service for Morning and Evening

Prayer to you (with pleasure) if you ask by email

stuart.burns01@gmail.com

Some churches throughout the land are streaming services on

Facebook every day; search your area on h0ps://

www.achurchnearyou.com/live-stream/?tags=Live_stream

Find lots of prayer resources on the na$onal church website at

h0ps://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/coronavirus-

covid-19-liturgy-and-prayer-resources

Or to listen to some Family Prayer Adventure podcasts. Or listen to a

family podcast together. For example, you can go to h0ps://

www.thykingdomcome.global/resources/digital-family-prayer-

adventure-map

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BENEFICE cheddardrayco=androdneystoke@gmail.com

RECTOR Stuart Burns

Email stuart.burns01@gmail.com

Home phone 01934 743649 Please note: Stuart's home tel number has a call-screening facility to stop nuisance calls; the system asks you to say your name and then press # and wait briefly ; Stuart then hears who it is and allows the call which adds your name so that next time you will go straight through; please bear with this; once added the first time you won't have to be 'processed' again! There is also an answering machine on this number.

BENEFICE OFFICE 01934 742535

LAY/LICENSED READER Dr Chris Green

BAPTISM COORDINATOR Julie Hope 01934 742234

CHEDDAR www.standrewscheddar.org.uk

Churchwardens: Margaret Gelder 01934 710573 Paul Tulle= 01934 743281

Deputy Wardens: Peter Lythgoe 01934 744074

Deanery Synod Reps : Margaret Gelder, Dawn Hill

Treasurer: Dawn Hill Secretary: Sylvia Hall

Cheddar Village Hall Bookings: Richard Scourse enquiries@cheddarvillagehall.org.uk

DRAYCOTT www.rodneystokewithdrayco=.org.uk

Churchwardens: John English 01934 740117 Chris Green 01749 870554

Deanery Synod Reps: Tricia Lumley, Thea Oliver

Treasurer: David Cheetham Secretary: Chris Green

RODNEY STOKE www.stleonardsrodneystoke.org

Churchwardens: Megan James 01749 870555 Chris Neave 01749 870053

Deanery Synod Reps: Jo Symes, Colin Symes

Treasurer: Sue Walker Secretary: Joanne Turner

Church Hall Bookings: Sue Walker 01749 870611

MAGAZINE EDITORS

Cheddar: Margaret Gelder e: margaretgelder@hotmail.co.uk

Rodney Stoke & Drayco0: Rob Walker e: editor.rsdparishmag@gmail.com

Deadline for Magazine copy is 11th

of each month

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