Weekly News - Wimborne Minster

SUNDAY 28th DECEMBER 2014
HOLY INNOCENTS
FIRST SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS
8.00am
10.00am
6.30pm
Holy Communion
Parish Eucharist
Evening Prayer (Said)
We welcome everyone at our services. Families, please make use of children’s corner at the back of church. We
usually have a Sunday School for children aged 4-11 in Church House during the Parish Eucharist in term time.
Morning Prayer is generally said Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8.30am (entry by St. George’s door).
N.B. Evening Prayer is not said during January and February.
THIS WEEK
Tuesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
8.00am
9.30am
11.00am
12 noon
9.30am
2.00pm
Holy Communion
MU Corporate Communion in St. George’s Chapel
Holy Communion at St Margaret’s Chapel – St. Stephen
Lunch and Chat in Church House Lounge
New Horizons Prayers
Interment of the ashes of Brian Dillingham in God’s Acre
NEXT SUNDAY: 4th JANUARY 2015
EPIPHANY
SECOND SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS
8.00am
10.30am
6.30pm
Contacts:
Holy Communion
Joint Covenant Service at the Methodist Church
Parish Eucharist for Epiphany
The Rector : The Revd Canon Vanessa Herrick:
Parish Office:
Vergers:
01202 882340
01202 884753
01202 886667
MINSTER MATTERS
THE SICK: We pray for those known to us who are sick and suffering: Katie Lowden, Justin
Edwards, Philip Shea, Samuel, Euan Bassett, Joan Roopanarine, Eileen Thorpe, Rachel, Tony
Skidmore, David Mould, Isabel Marks, Melanie Fawcett, Pat Collier, Peter Tame, Di Sibley, Felicia
Heath, Lisa Sims, Janet Day, Mike Downton, John Carpenter, Sylvia Daffern, The Revd Judith
Henderson.
Joan Elgar and family would like to thank everyone at the Minster for their love and
prayers at this time and for John over the years of pain he endured with such courage.
Carols in the Cornmarket. Thank you to all those who participated in this event held
on Friday 19th December, and all who attended. The collection raised £445 for the
Mayor’s Charities, Wimborne Minster and The Priest’s House Museum, with a
donation also being given to the Salvation Army.
Grateful thanks to all those who have helped with so many different jobs over
the Christmas season, but also throughout the year, With our best wishes for the
New Year, Anthony Oliver and Francis Vine, Churchwardens.
Penny would like to thank everyone for the Christmas greetings she received, and
to wish you all a happy and healthy 2015.
The annual Joint Covenant Service is to be held at the Methodist Church next
Sunday 4th January 2015 at 10.30am. There will be a ‘bring and share lunch’
afterwards and all members of the Minster congregation will be very welcome.
Greenbelt Group – next Sunday 4th January 2015, 4.15 – 6.00pm. Downstairs in
Church House. The Corrymeela film ‘UPStanding’, features diverse accounts of
people who stood up to violence, discrimination or prejudice in Northern Ireland. It
prompts us to consider what choices we ourselves make, and why. What can we learn
from other people’s decision-making? How might we be upstanding? Led by John Spatchet,
this session poses timely questions at the beginning of 2015. Do join us. Mike and
Rosemary Lunt, 01202 889487.
The 2014 ‘Aspects of Spirituality’ series raised £515 for Minster funds. Penny
would especially like to thank all members of Minster groups who helped.
Donna Gosney has been appointed as the new Administrative Assistant, a temporary
post for one year which will commence on 1st January 2015. Donna is currently Shop
Manager here at the Minster, and this role will run alongside her present position. Part of
the new role will be cover for Penny in the Parish Office on Friday mornings, following the
retirement of Georgina Arnold. We wish Donna every success in her new post.
The proceeds from Lunch and Chat sessions on 2nd and 16th January 2015 will be given
to help towards the costs of Sheila Soper’s projected visit to the Sudan.
Offers of verger cover would be gratefully accepted for 8th - 11th January and 15th – 18th
January when Ashley will be on leave. Please sign the list in the Children’s Corner, or have
a word with Ashley or John.
We are arranging a photographic competition, for scenic views and pictures of
Wimborne and the surrounding area, to produce a calendar for 2016. There will be
3 categories, schoolchildren, local photographic clubs and the Minster congregation. The
competition runs from now until 31st January 2015, and judging will be on 1st February
2015. Entry forms are available from the shop. Entries should be in the form of prints,
10” x 8” and left in the Parish Office marked, ‘For the attention of Donna Gosney’.
We look forward to receiving sponsorship for altar flowers for 2015. As you will
remember, we ask for a donation of £20 per week sponsored, and details of your
dedication will be placed in that week’s news sheet if you so wish. Please speak to
Penny in the office.
WIMBORNE AND AROUND THE AREA.
Looking ahead: The Rural Dean has invited Gerald Osborne, Rural Dean of Pewsey
Vale to take part in the Deanery Lenten programme on Monday 16th March 2015 at
Canford Church, where he will present St. Mark’s Gospel without notes as the Evangelist..
Please contact admin@canfordparish.org if you would like to go, as space will be limited .
Oakley Friends, a support group for those caring for someone with dementia,
meets on the last Wednesday in the month, except in December, at Canford Magna
Centre. More details from com@oakleyfriends.co.uk,, Judy James 01202 880114, Judy
Ward, 01202 021705, Ann Nicoll, 01202 690554. There are also flyers at the back.
CONTACTS
Rector:
The Revd Canon Vanessa Herrick
01202
882340
rector@wimborneminster.org.uk
Curate:
The Revd Belinda Marflitt
01202
886694
Associate Priests:
The Revd Dr Brenda Gibson
01202
881472
The Revd Dr Lorelie Farmer
01202
801470
01202
888703
The Revd Elise Harding
Churchwardens:
Mr Anthony Oliver
anthony-churchwarden@wimborneminster.org.uk
Mr Francis Vine
01202
885538
francis-churchwarden@wimborneminster.org.uk
Website:
www.wimborneminster.org.uk
e-prayer circle:
tame@onetel.com
01202
881102
Friends’ Secretary:
Mr Peter Cook
01202
885470
Finance:
Mrs Karen Manneh
01202
884753
01202
884753
01202
886667
01202
886667
finance@wimborneminster.org.uk
Parish Secretary:
Mrs Penny Baxter
parishoffice@wimborneminster.org.uk
Vergers:
Mr John Hughes
john-verger@wimborneminster.org.uk
Mr Ashley Coombs
ashley-verger@wimborneminster.org.uk