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Archives for February 2020
Parish Paper – March 2020
Broadhembury & District Gardening Club – March 2020
For the latest news on the Gardening Club, please go to page 11 of the parish paper http://www.payhembury.org.uk/images/2020-03-Parish-Paper.pdf. …
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Bible and Biscuit Club
This Spring term we have been looking at the 'I am' statements that Jesus said about himself and asking what exactly we think he was meaning by them. For example, when he said, 'I am the way', did he mean there was only one way, what if you left the path could you return to it? When Jesus said, 'I am the bread of life', some of the children suggested that he was the main spiritual food that would fill you up. We had some interesting discussions, followed by making our own 'bread' in the shape of pancakes, being February and with Lent …
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Prayer Spaces
Some members from Payhembury church have been involved in organising and leading a morning of prayer spaces in the church for Oak Class, in February, with the theme of acceptance; this being one of the school's Parch values. The children went around the church in small groups, with their leader, discussing ways of acceptance in terms of inclusion, war/family rifts, positive words to describe ourselves, praying for people that are different/the same. Each prayer space had a different activity that helped the children focus and re-enforce the …
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Payhembury Provisions News – March 2020
Recently, we counted all our local products and suppliers and found that we have eight from within the parish, another fourteen within about a 12 mile radius and a further fourteen from the far reaches of Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset and the rest of Devon. By listening to you, our customers, we know that buying local food is important to us all, as well as being able to buy a huge range of value for money groceries in the shop. We're lucky to live in an area of the country where there is so much good food and drink and we aim to bring you the …
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Reverend David’s March Message
Rectory notes This is the strangest ‘Rectory notes’ I have written. It is still January, and I’ve only just written February’s notes, yet I’m now writing March’s. I start a month’s mini-sabbatical tomorrow. I will be back by March, but the magazine deadline will be gone. ‘Why didn’t I delegate this one to someone else?’ I ponder.
Yet it offers a chance to reflect. The mini-sabbatical is a gift, for which I am deeply thankful. In my ten-plus ordained years, I have glimpsed the dark side of the institutional Church; this is its caring side: a …
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Paul’s Nature Notes January/February
We have enjoyed a second awe-inspiring trip to Colombia, returning with so many wonderful memories: hummingbirds galore, magnificent mountain scenery, Bogota with its fantastic street art and Gold Museum and most remarkable of all incredible numbers of macaws and parrots all around us in the Amazonian jungles of Mitu. One day we were at 4,000 meters above sea level in the high Paramo with its beautiful vegetation and Andean Ducks, the next at sea level in intense heat and humidity alive with colourful birds all around us. All hummingbirds are …
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Broadhembury & District WI – March 2020
To see the latest news from the WI please see page 11 of the Parish Paper http://www.payhembury.org.uk/images/2020-03-Parish-Paper.pdf. …
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Reverend David’s February Message
Love, I’ve concluded, is like a boat. A sailing boat. It’s February, Valentine’s month, so yes, that type of love included – but wider too, the full huge reach of love.
We don’t have to step on board this boat. “Love woos – it does not compel”, as one writer puts it. But it draws us in, and if we are brave we step gingerly in, the boat rocking unnervingly as we try to keep our balance. “Love isn't something that weak people do,” as the priest in feisty comedy series Fleabag said, “being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope.”
We feel …
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