Noticeboard & Mission Update 28th August & 4th September 2022

THE PARISHES OF FAWKHAM & HARTLEY AND LONGFIELD

Notice Board Sunday 28th August 2022 & Sunday 4th September 2022 Nineth and Tenth Sunday after Trinity

Date

Time

Service

Location

Sunday 28th August

8.00am Holy Communion 9.00am Morning Worship 10.00am Holy Communion 10.30am Holy Communion 10.30am Morning Worship 4.00pm Service & Tea 8.00am Morning Prayer 9.00am Holy Communion 9.00am Holy Communion 10.00am Morning Worship 10.30am Holy Communion 8.00am Holy Communion 8.00am Holy Communion 9.00am Morning Worship 10.00am Holy Communion 10.30am Morning Worship 10.30am Morning Worship

St Peter & St Paul, Ash

St Peter ’ s, Ridley

St Peter & St Paul, Ash St Mary ’ s Fawkham

St Mary Magdalene, Longfield

St Peter ’ s, Ridley

Sunday 4th September

St Peter & St Paul, Ash St Mary ’ s, Fawkham

St Peter ’ s, Ridley

St Peter & St Paul, Ash

St Mary Magdalene, Longfield

Wednesday 7th September 10.00am Holy Communion

St Mary ’ s, Fawkham St Peter & St Paul, Ash

Sunday 11th September

St Mary Magdalene, Longfield

St Peter ’ s, Ridley

St Peter & St Paul, Ash Church Centre, Hartley

St Mary Magdalene, Longfield

12.00pm Baptism of

St Mary ’ s, Fawkham

Oscar James

Sunday 18 September

8.00am Morning Prayer 9.00am Holy Communion

St Peter & St Paul, Ash St Mary ’ s, Fawkham

12.30pm Baptism of

All Saints, Hartley

Albie Frederick and Sonny Barry Frank

9.00am Holy Communion 10.00am Morning Worship 10.30am Holy Communion 4.00pm Songs of Praise 8.00am Holy Communion 9.00am Harvest Festival 10.30am Holy Communion & Sunday Club 10.00am Holy Communion 10.30am Morning Worship

St Peter ’ s, Ridley

St Peter & St Paul, Ash

St Mary Magdalene, Longfield

All Saints , Hartley

Wednesday 21st September 10.00am Holy Communion

St Mary Magdalene, Longfield

Sunday 25th September

St Peter & St Paul, Ash

St Peter ’ s, Ridley

Church Centre, Hartley

St Peter & St Paul, Ash

St Mary Magdalene, Longfield

6.00pm Evensong

St Peter ’ s, Ridley

Saturday 3rd September - Jayne and Ollie Ordinations On Saturday 3rd September the Ordinations of Priests and Deacons will take place at Rochester Cathedral. These will be special services for our parish as Jayne will be ordained Priest and Ollie a Deacon. Everyone is welcome at these public services and several members of our congregation are planning to go. If you would like to attend please make it known to others so that we can explore the possibilities to car share.

11am

Ordination of Priests

- Jayne

3pm

Ordination of Deacons - Ollie

We pray for all those who are ill or in pain especially Sheila Eames, Roger Smith, Pam Cass, Natasha Warner, John Roberts, Heather Field, Alan Strachan, Laurie Francis, Jenny Crook and Roger Howsam.

For the departed Marian Harvey, Doreen Smith and Arthur Derek Hattersley

In Remembrance Janet Anne Walford, Vi Robbirt and Derek Stevens

Please let Liz Houlding, our Parish Administrator know if you are planning to attend a service around the anniversary of the death of a loved one and would like to hear their name remembered in the intercessions for that Sunday. Please give as much notice as possible.

If you have a bread maker could you bring some dough for the next Sunday Club on 25th September? The children will be making our harvest loaf during Sunday Club for the following week and if we have enough dough they will be able to take a dough mouse home as well. Recipe will be provided. Please let Christine know if you can help.

Monday Bible Study Group 7.30pm on Zoom We continue to study Acts. Joining instructions are sent to everyone on the Parish distribution each week. Please let Jayne know if you are not receiving them.

Songs of Praise Songs of Praise will be back on 18th September. Please send your hymn choices to Mandy. If you would like to bring some cakes for the refreshments afterwards they will be very welcome.

Ride and Stride, the Fund raising event run by Friends of Kent Churches is here again on Saturday 10 th September. If you like to walk or cycle now is your chance to raise money through sponsorship for the Friends and our parish by doing a sponsored walk or cycle ride. Both All Saints and St. Mary ’ s will be open to log in participants and offer refreshments. Gill Cramp is looking for volunteers to cover two hourly slots at each church between 10am and 6pm. You can also get sponsorship for this activity. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Please contact Gill Cramp if you can help and for more information and sponsor forms. Her email address is gacramp038@btinternet.com and her phone number is 01474 704849.

All Saints Repairs Update

The builders BW May will be starting work on the repairs required to the chancel ceiling at All Saints in the week beginning 22 nd August. All Saints will be opened for private prayer as soon as the work has been completed and the church has been cleaned. Our first service at All Saints is likely to be Songs of Praise on 18th September. A further announcement will be made later when the dates have been confirmed.

While All Saints has been closed we have unfortunately noticed a worsening of the cracks in the rear vestry wall and roof apex. The Rochester diocesan surveyor inspected the cracks last week and has advised us to engage a structural engineer to further investigate the issue and advise on next actions. It is likely that the recent hot and dry weather has caused the surrounding ground to contract resulting in some subsidence. When the weather becomes wetter the surveyor suspects there could be further movement in the vestry walls, possibly even reversing the recent movement.

The condition of the Vestry walls and roof apex will not prevent us from re - opening All Saints after the Chancel ceiling is repaired but the surveyor thinks some work will be required later this year and/or early 2023. We will know more when the structural engineer has examined the vestry and reported to us on his findings. A further update will be distributed when we know more.

Parish Calendars — Now Available

Our 2023 Parish Calendars (£10 each) have been printed and can be purchased after most church services. Please contact Christine on christine@fawkhamandhartley.org.uk if you need to arrange an alternative method of collection. We have already sold or have orders for over a 100. Thank you everyone who has purchased so far.

PS. We are already planning the 2024 calendar so please get snapping if you would like to enter next year. Summer photos especially .

Thank you everyone who helped, brought cakes and things to sell and supported the event.

We raised £232!!!!!!!

Pop In

at the Church Centre every Thursday

from 10am - 12pm

Join us for a tea or coffee & catch up.

Every Monday - 2pm until 4pm

Church Centre

Bring a craft or hobby & join us for a chat & refreshments. Everyone is welcome

Collect

Eleventh Sunday after Trinity

Twelfth Sunday after Trinity

O God, you declare your almighty power most chiefly in showing mercy and pity: mercifully grant to us such a measure of your grace, that we, running the way of your commandments, may receive your gracious promises, and be made partakers of your heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you,

Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray and to give more than either we desire or deserve: pour down upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask but through the merits and mediation

of Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

CONTACT DETAILS

Priest - in - Charge of Fawkham & Hartley and Longfield :

The Parishes of Fawkham & Hartley & Longfield are currently in vacancy. If you wish to contact our parishes please contact our Group Clergy or Parish Administrator .

Group Clergy

The Revd. Helen Reeves

01474 872209

helen@rnwkgroup.org.uk

The Revd. Elizabeth Robertson

01474 871637

elizabeth@rnwkgroup.org.uk

The Revd. Jayne Shillito (curate)

01474 708696

jayne@rnwkgroup.org.uk

Fawkham & Hartley and Longfield Administrator & Noticeboard/Mission Update

Liz Houlding

01474 630459

parishoffice@fawkhamandhartley.org.uk

Safeguarding Officers

Fawkham & Hartley

Lucie Sleeman

01474 706640

safeguarding@fawkhamandhartley.org.uk

Longfield

Marion Strachan

01732 851714

marion.strachan@rnwkchurches.org.uk

Fawkham & Hartley Church Centre Bookings

Phyllis Conroy

01474 702795

bookings@fawkhamandhartley.org.uk