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The Church publishes this newsletter in the parish of Bishopstone with Hinton Parva to serve the needs of the community. Items of interest to the community are always welcome for inclusion, but considerations of space may dictate the final content of any edition. Copy should normally be delivered to the editors, Keith and Hilary Newton, either to March House, West End Lane, Bishopstone, SN6 8PX or by email to bhp_news@yahoo.co.uk The telephone number is 01793 791086. This should be delivered by the 20^th of the preceding month and must include name and telephone number for validation purposes.

A fee of £1.00 should accompany personal advertisements. For business advertising rates please contact the editor. Adverts received without payment will not be included.

The newsletter is delivered free of charge to all households in the two villages, but if you feel able and willing to make a contribution to the cost of production, this will be gratefully received by the editor.

Internet

This newsletter is also available on the Internet at: http://members.lycos.co.uk/bhpnews/

The latest version will be available from approximately the 27^th of the preceding month. Any email correspondents will be added to a list that will receive an email notification when a new issue is available. If you wish to join the list or want to be removed then simply email bhp_news@yahoo.co.uk Your email address will not be disclosed to third parties or used for any other purpose.

Your email address will not be visible to other email subscribers.

Bishopstone Craft Fair

is returning this

year on Thursday the 25^th of November 2004.

So be “crafty” and book a table.

Call Christine Thomas Tel. 01793 790106

Pub Games Evening

There will be a pub games evening on Saturday, October 2^nd at Bishopstone Village Hall in aid of our two churches in Bishopstone and Hinton Parva.

Teams of four will take part so bring some friends or form a team on the night. A licensed bar will be available. Entry will be £6 and includes a fish and chip supper.

More details to follow – watch this space.

FROM THE VICAR

Dear Friends,

The wedding bells seem to be ringing over our parishes even more often than usual this year. We have fifteen weddings – up from 12 last year. Although the number is not huge, in all my 27 years as a priest I don’t remember ever taking so many wedding services in a year.

The statistics show that fewer and fewer people are getting married in church: all I can say is that no-one seems to have told this to the couples round here!

No doubt one reason for the popularity of marriage in our parishes is the beauty and antiquity of our four churches. People do like a `traditional church’ as a setting for their wedding, and I have many requests from couples who live outside the parishes who want to get married here. Sadly, most of these requests have to be refused because the law says you can get married only in the church in the parish where you live, or where you attend regularly, unless you have special permission from the Archbishop to get married in a particular church.

Many people say that couples should be allowed to get married in any church they fancy, regardless of where they live. In fact I find that some people think that this is already the law, and they are quite disappointed when I explain that it isn’t – at least not yet.

But there are moves in this direction, and one day that may come. Meanwhile the General Synod of the Church of England has just agreed a change to the rules so that couples can get married in a parish where they have some connection, even if they don’t live in that parish, or attend church there. We wait to see what this will mean in practice, but it is a welcome step.

Personally, I welcome a change in the rules so that people who were brought up in a parish, or who used to live there, or whose family used to live there, can get married in that church.

But I wouldn’t be so happy with a situation where people could go to any church they chose, even if there were no connection with the parish. For one thing it could mean an enormous increase of work for those churches whose age and beauty made them popular.

Another reason is that a parish church is not simply a spiritual supermarket providing services for all who want to come and pay for them. A church is a building which is the focus of a Christian ministry to the surrounding parish. This ministry grows through the building up of a relationship between the church community and the families of the parish over a period of time. Where couples simply come to the church for their wedding and then disappear such a relationship cannot grow, and there can be no on-going pastoral care for the couple.

The ministry of our parish churches is to help people discover a faith in God and to grow in that faith. Marriage can be a wonderful way of discovering God’s love, and it is our privilege to help couples make this discovery, as well as to make their wedding day as enjoyable and memorable as possible.

With best wishes,

Robin Cardwell

Church Services in the Benefice in August
Sunday 1st August	8.30am	Holy Communion	Liddington
8th after Trinity	10.30am	Holy Communion	Hinton Parva
	6pm	Evensong	Wanborough
Saturday 7^th August	2pm	Wedding Service	Wanborough
	4pm	Wedding Service	Wanborough
Sunday 8th August	8.30am	Holy Communion	Wanborough
9th after Trinity	10.30am	Family Communion	Bishopstone
	12 noon	Baptism Service	Bishopstone
	6pm	Evensong	Liddington
Saturday 14^th August	2pm	Wedding Service	Wanborough
	3.30pm	Wedding Service	Bishopstone
Sunday 15th August	8.30am	Holy Communion	Hinton Parva
10th after Trinity	10.30am	Holy Communion with Baptism	Wanborough
	6pm	Evensong	Bishopstone
Sunday 22nd August	8.30am	Holy Communion	Bishopstone
11th after Trinity	9.30am	No `Sunday Shout’
	10.30am	Family Service (Holy Communion)	Liddington
	6pm	Evensong	Hinton Parva
Sunday 29th August	8.30am	Holy Communion (Prayer Book)	Wanborough
12^th after Trinity	10.30am	Morning Prayer	Liddington
	6pm	Evensong	Bishopstone
Saturday 4^th September	2pm	Wedding Service	Wanborough
Sunday 5th September	8.30am	Holy Communion	Liddington
13th after Trinity	10.30am	Holy Communion	Hinton Parva
	3.30pm	Wedding Service	Liddington
	6pm	Evensong	Wanborough

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Wanborough Show

On the day of Wanborough Show, Saturday 21st, St.Andrew's Church will be open all afternoon, from

2-5pm. Gentle music will be playing . Please feel free to visit, look round, or just sit and be still!

Hinton Parva Flower Festival

`A Glimpse through Time’ was the title of the recent Flower Festival at St. Swithun’s, and what a wonderful week it turned out to be! From the opening event of strawberries and `pink fizz’, through the Festival itself with its marvellous flower arrangements, to a packed Evensong service, where Robert Sanday was the guest preacher, and culminating in a memorable concert on St. Swithun’s Day itself, the organisers did us proud.

The Flower Festival itself raised about a thousand pounds, and this will be split between Prospect Hospice and St. Swithun’s Church.

Our warmest congratulations and thanks to all the Hinton Flower Club, and friends, and especially to Moggs Boon and Angie Alcock who organised it.

`Called to Care’

This is the title of a training course starting in September and run by the Swindon Pregnancy Crisis Centre for those who want to train as an advisor with the centre.

The Crisis Centre offers a Christian counselling service for people who could do with some help with issues about pregnancy.

The course will run on Wednesday evenings and Saturdays in September.

If you feel called to this work, please phone SPCC on 01793 617799.

`To Remember Our Children’

The Annual Service of Remembrance will take place at Holy Rood Church, Swindon

on September 19th, 2004, at 3pm.

All who would like to mark the loss of a child, baby, or pregnancy, are more than welcome to attend this special service.

Opportunity will be given during the Service to remember each Individual who means so much.

Refreshments will be provided after the Service, and anyone who would like to stay for a while is welcome to do so.

Members of the Chaplaincy Service and the Hospital Bereavement Service will be available for you to talk to during this time.

For more information contact 01793 604020 and ask for: Steve Henderson or Helen Pepler

`Faith comes by Hearing’

This is the name of a project which aims to put the New Testament on tape in every major world language, so that illiterate people can hear God’s Word, even if they can’t read it.

There will be a talk on this Project on Saturday 21^st August, 7.15pm, at Freshbrook Evangelical Church, West Swindon. The speaker will be Morgan Jackson who is the International Director of the Project, and the evening will be hosted by Herald Ministries.

From the Benefice Registers

Marriages

3rd July at Wanborough Craig Wesley Franks and Rebecca Isabel Carron

12^th July at Wanborough Stephen John Handford and Brenda Seeley

Funeral

22^nd June at Liddington Mildred Edna Nelson aged 97

Burial

21^st June at Hinton Parva Margaret Thompson aged 93

Interment of Ashes

22^nd June at Wanborough Patrick Joseph Scanlon aged 61

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The Vicar is the Rev.Robin Cardwell who lives at The Vicarage, Church Road, Wanborough, Swindon

SN4 0BZ. His telephone number is 01793 790242 and his day off is Friday.

The Lay Readers are Mary le Coyte whose number is 01793 790477, and Richard Gaines, 01793 790347.

Churchwardens
	Mr.Toby Ford	Mrs. Joanna Jenkins
	Home Farm, Hinton Parva,	The Old Vicarage, Bishopstone,
	Swindon, SN4 0DH	Swindon, SN6 8PX
	Tel: 790264	Tel: 790545

Cleaning and Altar Preparation Rota

for

St. Mary’s Church, Bishopstone for 2004

MONTH	ALTAR ROTA	CLEANING ROTA
August	Jane McCutcheon	Gill King & Doris Brown
September	Ruth Taylor	Gill White & Caroline Brandi
October	Mary Lee	Liz Warrick & Jane Manktelow
November	Patricia Selbourne	Mary Lee & Joan Morris
December	Jane McCutcheon	Gwen Parker, Ray & Mary Darling, Patricia Selbourne

We always welcome more volunteers

Presentation Evening at the Royal Oak, Bishopstone

Friday 6th August

Come along to a fun evening, with music and a BBQ, to present sponsorship monies to all those gallant walkers who completed the 20 mile overnight walk along the Ridgeway last month.  

All monies collected will be presented to the walkers' chosen charities - in the region of £10,000 has been sponsored again this year. Approximately 20 charities will benefit, including some locally based ones.

- Come along and show your support and have an evening of food and entertainment from a top female vocalist..

http://royaloak-bishopstone.co.uk/ www.swindonweb.com/arkells/royaloak-bishopstone
	What's on in August? Mondays - Quiz nights Tuesdays – Darts Wednesdays – Cribbage 6^th August – Ridgeway walk presentation night.
Golf on 2^nd August at the Kendleshire, £35 inc. Steak Dinner For more details call 790481 Email: royaloak_bishopstone@lineone.net

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Scrabble Evening
Bishopstone Village Hall - Wednesday 11th August at 7:15 p.m.
 
Proceeds in aid of St. Mary’s and St. Swithun’s
£4 to include refreshments
Please bring a scrabble board if possible. Please let us know numbers if possible.
Tel. Mrs. J. Ball 01793 790293 or Mrs. R. Hetherington 01793 790298

Bishopstone 100 Club - latest winners

1^st	Emma Pawsey	83
2^nd	Henry Stoye	47
3^rd	Phil Thompson	89

£10 Subs required now.

For further information call 790485

Bishopstone Gardening Society

There is no meeting in August.

The Bishopstone and District Vegetable and Flower show is on Saturday 11^th September. Schedules can be obtained from Doreen Cooper (790797), Margaret Gill (790979) and Keith Gibbison (790898)

Photography section for the show: -

‘Something Unusual in the Garden’

Seasons: The same scene (two photos)

Snow Scene

Flowering Shrub or Tree

A Local House or Garden

All entries should be in by Tuesday September 7^th 2004.

On the day of the show all entries to be in Bishopstone Village Hall by 10:45 a.m.

All are welcome, members and non-members (Just £5.00 to join)

There are still some coach seats available for the evening outing to the Old Rectory, Duntisbourne Rouse near Cirencester. The writer and designer Mary Keen lives there. This will cost £12. Enquiries to Leone Knott on 01793 710333.

Further enquiries to Doreen Cooper on 01793 790797

Hinton Parva Mission - Speakers for August 2004 - 6 p.m.

1^st	Mr. E. Mortimer
8^th	Mr. E. Beer
15^th	Mr. D. Pirt
22^nd	Mr. P. Mulcock
29^th	Mr. J. Cairns

For further information call J. Williams (790576)

Bishopstone, Wiltshire SN6 8PW

Tel: 01793 790271

www.hillsboroughnursery.co.uk

Hillsborough offers family based childcare for children from 6 weeks to 12 years old. We are situated in a delightful country setting and registered with Ofsted.

Hourly rates – no sessions to comply with.

Wanborough Farmer’s Market

The next farmers' market will be on Saturday 21^st August at the Wanborough Show.

Wanborough Village Hall is a major beneficiary, as all the stall fees go straight into its coffers. Of course there is a commercial side, but generally it is local people working hard to stay in farming or related food production, and doing a huge amount of environmental good by reducing the 'food miles' associated with many supermarket products.

For more information, call Alison Mills (790284) or Sue Birley

(790438).

Bishopstone Village Hall

Bookings for August 2004

Tuesday 3^rd	Tae Kwon Do	7.30pm-8.30pm
Wednesday 11^th	Library	10.00am-10.55am
Wednesday 11^th	Scrabble Evening	7.00pm-9.30pm
Thursday 12^th	WI	7.30pm-9.30pm
Saturday 14^th	Private Party	12.00pm-6.00pm
Monday 16^th	WI	5.00pm-9.00pm
Tuesday 17^th	Tae Kwon Do	7.30pm-8.30pm
Tuesday 24^th	Tae Kwon Do	7.30pm-8.30pm
Wednesday 25^th	Library	10.00am-10.55am
Tuesday 31^st	Tae Kwon Do	7.30pm-8.30pm

If you would like to book the hall please call Angie Rosier 790325

Hourly rates are £5.00 per hour for Bishopstone residents and £7.00 for people living outside the Village

MISSING TEA TOWELS

Once again a number of tea towels have gone missing from the hall if anyone has taken them home to wash can we PLEASE have them back.

Summer News Release

The last year has been incredibly busy for the Wiltshire Air Ambulance which has once again proved to be a great asset for the people of Wiltshire having flown 291 missions during 2003, with a further 93 incidents attended by our fast response car.

The Air Ambulance could not have performed its vital work without the support of the people of Wiltshire. We would like to thank all of you that have supported us over the past year.

Accidents and illnesses often happen where access is difficult and the Air Ambulance overcomes problems of distance or congestion, enabling the life saving skills of the aero medic to be provided where needed. The Air Ambulance can take the seriously injured to the most appropriate treatment centre quickly and safely. It can reach any part of Wiltshire within 15 minutes. Almost half the incidents are road traffic accidents. The others include horse riding accidents, sporting injuries, farm and industrial accidents and fires.

The crew of three (pilot, police observer and aero medic) are on call 19 hours a day (8 a.m. to 3 a.m.) every day of the year. Incidents where life is threatened always take priority.

If you would like further details on the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal, would like to make a donation, or need information on how you can help then please contact us.

Tracey Edwards or Mary Laing at :-

Air Ambulance Appeal Office,

Police Headquarters, London Road,

Devizes, Wiltshire.

Tel. 01380 739453 or 07970 920414

Rainbow

Mothers and Toddlers

Now Every Tuesday in term time

1-3 p.m. at Bishopstone Village Hall

Next meeting – September 7th

We are a friendly group of pre-school children, babies and carers. Please come and join us for a play and a chat.

NEW MEMBERS ALWAYS WELCOME

For more information call: Hilary 791086, Kate 791451, Jill 791102

Or email toddlers@hooraygroup.com

Kevin Parfitt

Painting & Decorating, Tiling,

Household Maintenance

Prompt professional service

Fixed price quotations

Confirmed start dates

Telephone: (01793) 790627

Mobile: 07941 749027

Hinton Parva Village Hall

Bookings for August 2004

Flower & Handicraft Show	Saturday	7^th	4:00 p.m.
Bridge	Friday	6^th, 13^th, 20^th and 27^th	7:30 p.m.
Parish Council	Wednesday	4^th	7:30 p.m.
Whist	Monday	30^th	7:30 p.m.

For all Bookings of the Village Hall please contact Dodo Rawlings on 790388

FUTURE EVENTS:

The Archaeology & History of a Wiltshire Parish:

On the weekend of 16^th-17^th October we propose to hold an exhibition to celebrate the long and fascinating history of our Parish. We welcome any contributions, artefacts, maps, photographs; if anybody wishes to have a feature on their property investigated or would like to discuss the project PLEASE get in touch with MOGS BOON on 01793-790626.

IMPORTANT DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: SATURDAY 7^TH AUGUST:

Hinton Parva Flower & Handicraft Show. Show schedules available from Howard Crapper 0n 791171. All Welcome – do come and support this pleasant afternoon.

Refreshments will be available – all from 4p.m.

I would like to thank all the Ladies who contributed so generously with cakes for the Flower Festival weekend Teas and to the Ladies who helped me serve them in very inclement weather! You were all stars! Dodo.

Our beautiful Village Hall is available to rent on an hourly basis or longer – any BIRTHDAY PARTIES COMING UP, ANNIVERSARIES OR ANY OTHER OCCASION ONE CAN THINK OF we would be happy to oblige –

£4.00 an hour for residents of Bishopstone and Hinton Parva; £5 an hour for others.