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Ian celebrates 30 years in the Parish with his good friend
Bishop Bill Ind.

St Peter in the Wood holds regular services and a family service every month.

A popular church for both Weddings and Baptism.

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The Parish of St Peter in the Wood in the Benefice of Appleshaw, Kimpton, Thruxton, Fyfield and Shipton Bellinger in the Diocese of Winchester.

Services
February
21^st Family Worship 11am
28^th Parish Communion 11am
March
7^th Parish Communion 11am
14^th Mothering Sunday Family Worship 11am
21^st Passion Sunday Parish Communion 11am
28^th Palm Sunday Parish Communion 11am
April
4^th Easter Day Parish Communion 11am
11^th Parish Communion 11am
18^th Family Worship 11am
25^th Parish Communion 11am
May
2^nd Parish Communion 11am
9^th Parish Communion 11am

Notes:
Parish Communion means a Communion Service with hymns.
Family Worship means a service for the family of the Church at which children and their parents are particularly welcome.

The Rector Writes

The Parochial Church Council held a very positive meeting recently. The Hon. Treasurer reported that we had paid our way as a parish church during 2009, and that letters on behalf of the PCC had been sent out to encourage parishioners to plan their giving. You may have had one about this initiative and I hope that you feel that you can respond positively and realistically.

Then we heard that the architect was at the drawing stage and getting estimates for the proposed refurbishment programme, with the result that associated tasks were allocated to members to follow up. I hope, too, that there will be generosity when the appeal leaflet is sent out, especially by those personally connected with the building, because they were baptised, confirmed, married or had family funerals held there.

All these practical matters were set within the context of a discussion about the primary task of the parish church: worship and its contemporary expression. It was agreed to explore the presentation of Family Worship (the word family being seen as the family of God, not the nuclear family). This service would continue to be held once a month, to complement the eucharists on the other three Sundays.

It was suggested that there would be a short act of worship, suitable for all ages, followed by simple refreshments. This is a development of the work that Letitia Adams and her team have undertaken so successfully, and I am very grateful for all that they do in caring for children and young people in the life of the parish church. On Mothering Sunday 14th March, at 10.30am there will be a working group to make traditional posies for use in the worship at 11am.

As Lent is just about to start, looking forward to Easter, this is a heartening proposal and I trust that any ARC reader who reads this article will feel welcome to any service in the parish church. Furthermore, I am always happy to talk with others about faith and beliefs today, and their expression in how we give worth to God and one another, which is at the root and meaning of the experience and hoped-for outcome of all worship.

Sunday Club

Family Service: new format!

At the PCC, we are always reviewing the way our Church services are run, and have decided to make a small change to the Family Service: as of January 2010, we will adopt a new format: the Sunday Club at 10.30 will stop; instead, we will focus on the 11.00 service, with a particular emphasis on encouraging the younger members of our congregation to participate by ringing the bells, reading the lessons and taking collection. At the end of this service, which lasts approx. 40 minutes, we invite you all to join us for coffee and tea, and squash and biscuits. We hope that in this way, we will encourage all those who attend the service to stay and have a chat! And of course we hope that lots of little people will enjoy it too…
I hope that you will like this new format; please remember that children are welcome to all the other Services at St Peter-in-the-Wood as well!
Please please please contact me if you have any thoughts or questions! I have talked about this with some of you, and we have come up with some great ideas… so lots more to come. This is just the beginning!Of course, I am always happy to talk to anyone about ideas, so please contact Letitia tel. 772360 email: Letitia@cooks-farm.fsnet.co.uk.


St. Peter-in-the Wood Appleshaw Refurbishment Plan 2009  

There are three categories of work that the Parochial ChurchCouncil
hope to complete in this plan:   

1) Quinquennial Inspection Requirements

• Repair vestry external door    
• Realign gutter to down pipes    
• Redecorate and make good plaster/render internally and externally    
• Render/mortar repair to tile aisle, porch plinth and tower parapet     
• Repair glass fibre roof finish on tower 

2) Specific Projects

• Replace carpet in Chancel and Sanctuary with terracotta tiling
• Install corona lucis, made by Kurt Linssner, in memory of Charles Shirley     
• New west inner doors and plaque in memory of Lt. Col. Kidson-Montgomerie, given by his family, made by Berry Leighton-Boyce
• Construct archway and lamp at entrance to churchyard path to be made by the Linssners    
• New path to west door     
• Install loop and sound system for hard of hearing in memory of Sir John Clark  

3) Other     

• Repair west window     
• Adjust bells    
• Review and, if recommended, remove yew tree belt    
• Lantern bases and tops in memory of Don and Mary Philpotts
• Biological lavatory     
• Catering unit installed 

During the last year, plans and estimates have been followed up by the appointed architect to present to the Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches.  Over £13000 has been raised so far for the project.