Herald - Issue 396

8th October 2020 • The HERALD • Page 39 v THE HERALD - PART OF YOUR COMMUNITY v Yours Faithfully... You are invited to BETHANY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Rollestone Road, Holbury Every Sunday, 6.20pm for 6.30pm C hristian W orship & T eaching • Last Thursday of the Month C offee M orning 10.15-11.45am 023 8089 2153 Everyone Welcome Fully polished Granites 30” high from £555 inc VAT Fully polished Grey/Black Granite 24” high from £455 inc VAT Copythorne Church are urgently looking for a Director of Music/Organist. e Church has a ne Brindley and Foster Organ (1905) with improvements under consideration. e Church has an Adult Robed Choir, Weekly Anthem, Weeknight Choir practice and a 9.30am Sunday Service. ere is scope to involve two Church schools in the Parish. Relief Organists are available for Sunday Cover. For more details contact Priest in Charge Rev John Reeve by email johnreeve6@aol.com, phone 023 8066 3267 or Churchwarden Tom Menzies by email kimmen10@btinternet.com , phone 023 8086 3855. Trinity Church, Hazel Farm Road, Totton is holding Services on Sunday mornings at 10.30am. Safety measures are in place including distanced seating, hand sanitising and those attending are requested to wear masks. Despite restrictions they plan to o er the chance of quite, calm and recuperation both at their Sunday Services and on ursday evenings between 6.30pm and 8.30pm when they are open for personal prayer. ey look forward to seeing you. ORGANIST NEEDED Trinity Church Service e church St Mary the Virgin in Eling is the 10th oldest church in England, the mother church of Totton, and a place where generations have been married, baptised, and laid to rest. Now, in the 21st century we face the challenge of responding to the great environmental crises that are upon us, climate change, pollution, extinction of wildlife and now, pandemic disease. We are doing this by going deep green and by opening our doors to the community of Totton and Eling. Local award winning architects Snug are designing an accessible, zero carbon church building with modern audio visual systems so that the church can be used for community activities safely and to its greatest capacity. We are wilding the extensive church grounds as a home for the natural world and as resource for play and learning for people of all ages. We need to raise around £360,000 to achieve this, no small task! We are working with Eling Infants School, the Eling Tide Mill, the Eco Eling resident’s environmental group and the support of our local councillors, David Harrison and Caroline Rackham. I am church warden and Eco Church champion at St Mary’s and this project means so much to me that I am going to walk 200 miles to raise funds for it. At 72 years old this will be quite a challenge, but with a stout stick made by Richard the toll keeper at the Tide Mill, and the support of family, friends and community, I will do it, and the more money I raise the easier it will be. I shall start fromWhitstable on the north Kent coast on the 15th November. I will set out with a pilgrimage to Canterbury along the quaintly named Crab & Winkle Way - 14 miles there and back. I shall then travel along the Saxon Shore Way to Rochester, calling on my birthplace, Gillingham (8th August 1948). Rochester is home to my second cathedral. From there it is the North Downs Way to Guildford Cathedral and on to Farnham where the route becomes the St Swithun’s Way. is is home territory and the next cathedral is Winchester, where I expect the streets to be lined with ag waving supporters. en it is onwards to Salisbury spire via the Clarendon Way. at’s it with cathedrals; the last bit of the walk will be along the Avon Valley Way to Downton and then over to Romsey for prayers in the Abbey, and there I will join the Test Way all the way to St Mary the Virgin Eling Hill. I hope to arrive on Advent Sunday 29th November 2020, exactly a year a er the launch of the Sanctuary Church project at St Mary’s. To nd out more about the project go to www. stmaryselinghill.com and follow my blog. Facebook www.facebook.com/stmaryschurcheling/ To sponsor me on the fundraising walk go to www. justgiving.com/fundraising/graham-norman2 Five Cathedrals and Two Sore Feet Written by Church Warden and Eco Church Champion, Graham Norman St Mary the Virgin, Eling Hill e team at the Waterside Cancer Support Centre (WCSC) are keeping busy, coming up with innovative ways to continue supporting anyone a ected by cancer. O ering telephone support, remote counselling, Zoom meetings, email or Facebook support, please contact the Centre on 023 8178 0409 in the rst instance to talk through the best option for you. e much appreciated ‘Man Group’ continues to meet on the 4th ursday of each month from 6.30pm at the Fountain Court Hotel. Due to current COVID-19 restrictions you will need to register your interest by telephoning the centre on the number above, leaving a message for committee members Peter or George. is group is for any man who has been a ected by cancer and wants to meet other men for support. The friendship group are still managing to meet up in groups of 6 or less if the activity chosen falls in line with government guidelines, recently they have been meeting over lunch. For so many people this social contact can make such a di erence to their lives. Time to say a big THANK YOU to; • Mike Osman & SO45 for holding another of their famous golf days – Raising a whopping £4,711. Such a fantastic achievement and huge thanks go out to all those who took part. • Will Lickley for raising £727 from his sponsored run. ank you to Will and all the generous donors, your hard work paid o ! • Mandy Smith, a local green ngered lady, raised £66 by nurturing and selling plants. ank you for your time and dedication. e Centre will be celebrating their 10th Anniversary on Saturday 31st October where they invite you to remember a loved one by writing a special memory on a ribbon which will be then displayed on a tree in the Grove Garden. Update and Thanks from the Waterside Cancer Support Centre