Broad Town News-March 2009

March 2009 BROAD TOWN NEWS Published by Christ Church

Sponsored this month by The Parish Council

Date/Day	Time	Church	Service	Readers	Sidesman	Chalice	Cleaner	Flowers
Sunday Mar 1	9.15am	Tockenham	Family Communion
Lent 1	11am	Broad Town	Sung Holy Communion	Mrs Green / Mrs Strang	J Wallis	C Green	Mrs McLaren	Lent
6pm	Clyffe Pypard	Evensong
Wednesday Mar 4	2pm	Hilmarton	Holy Communion
Sunday Mar 8	8am	Tockenham	Said Communion
Lent 2	9.15am	Clyffe Pypard	Holy Communion
	11am	Hilmarton	Family Service
Wednesday Mar 11	6pm	Broad Town	Evensong	Mrs Marshall / Mrs Richardson	C Green		Mrs McLaren	Lent
Sunday Mar 15	8am	Hilmarton	Said Communion
Lent 3	9.15am	Tockenham	Morning Prayer
	11am	Broad Town	Holy Communion	Mrs Crocker / Mrs Drury	D Marshall	D Marshall	Mrs Green	Lent
Sunday Mar 22	9.15am	Hilmarton	Holy Communion
Lent 4	11am	Clyffe Pypard	Holy Communion
Mothering Sunday	6pm	Broad Town	Evensong	D Marshall / C Green	C Green		Mrs Green	Lent
Wednesday Mar 25	8am	Tockenham	Said Communion
Sunday Mar 29	9.15am	Clyffe Pypard	Holy Communion
Lent 5	11am	Hilmarton	Family Service
Passion Sunday	6pm	Tockenham	Evensong

FRIENDS OF BROAD TOWN CHURCH

To all those in the Village who have contributed to this fund in the past we give our deepest thanks. Hopefully soon you will see a return for your money with the redecoration of the church. You may have noticed that the gates are missing - they have gone to be cleaned and repainted. We are now waiting for the bottom fixing to be mended and then they can go back up.

Our request is this - if you wish to continue to be a or indeed want to become a "Friend" to your Village Church please send your cheques (made out to The Friends of Christ Church Broad Town), a minimum of £12 to Rosemary McLaren at 12 Broadacres. If you can gift aid this please do so and then we can get the 28p in the pound from the Government for a bit longer.

It is hoped that people will continue to support the Church, any further information please contact the Church Wardens or other members of the PCC.

BROAD TOWN PARISH COUNCIL

1. The Broad Town website (www.broad-town.co.uk) is now up and running, and has the agenda and minutes of Parish Council meetings. Be a devil - try it.
2. Dog Fouling. The Parish Council is once again getting complaints of dog fouling, in particular in Chapel Lane, and Thornhill. I thought we had solved this problem. PLEASE clean up after your dog.

As March dawns this year, we move into Lent. Initially our Sunday services will be looking at God’s promise to us. On this journey we visit with Noah, Abraham, and Moses. There are also full details of our weekday Lent programme, available in the churches or from me. The midpoint of Lent is Mothering Sunday (March 22nd), please do come to our family friendly communions that day at 9:15am in St Lawrence, Hilmarton or 11:00am in St Peter’s, Clyffe Pypard. Please bring a drawing or photo of your mother or someone who has been like a mother to you to this celebration (A5 size would be perfect!).

Then the intensity of Lent deepens as we move into ‘Passiontide’ on 29th March, and we continue our journey through God’s promises by a visit with Jeremiah. In Holy Week, we will be concentrating on Jesus and his ultimate fulfilment of God’s amazing promises to us. We have a wonderful week planned overflowing with rich, thought-provoking and stirring benefice worship together. It begins with a benefice wide celebration of Palm Sunday at St Peter’s Clyffe Pypard on 5th April (at 10:30am). Later that week we share in the events of the last supper on Maundy Thursday (9th April at Christchurch, Broad Town at 7:30pm). On Good Friday (April 10th), our thoughts turn to the cross and there are 2 services that day, with different flavours. The first is aimed at people of all ages and for families to worship together on this red-letter day in the Church year at St Peter’s Clyffe Pypard at 10am. The second called ‘Jesus on the cross’, is aimed at adults with special music, readings, reflections and our prayer-filled response to God’s promise at 2pm at St Giles, Tockenham.

Our final benefice service for Holy Week, will be a first for this benefice (and a real treat, so please put it in your diaries now). On Saturday April 11th at 9pm at St Laurence’s, Hilmarton we will hold a benefice vigil, a service of light and re-affirm our faith, culminating with the first communion of the resurrection for Easter 2009. This will be worship that engages all the senses and elements of water, fire, wind and earth. It will be a splendid and spectacular celebration – don’t miss it! As well as this on Easter day (Sunday 12th April) there will also be Easter communion available at St Peter’s, Clyffe Pypard at 8am, St Giles, Tockenham at 9;15am and Broad Town at 11:00am, with the celebrations at Tockenham and Broad Town particularly suitable for all the family. 

Wishing you a holy Lent, and when it comes, a very happy Easter,

Rev’d Alison Way,

The Vicarage, Wood Street, Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire, SN4 7PY - 01793 739044 – alisonway@tiscali.co.uk 

			8am	9:15	11:00	6pm	Worship in the week
March	1	Lent 1		T - FC	BT - SC	CP - E	4th Mar - 2:00pm H
	8	Lent 2	T - C	CP - C	H - FS		11th Mar - 7:00pm BT
	15	Lent 3	H - C	T - MP	BT - C
	22	Mothering Sunday		H - FC	CP - FC	BT - E	25th March - 8:00am T
	29	Lent 5		CP - C	H - FS	T - E	1st Apr - 2:00pm H
April	5	Palm Sunday	Benefice Communion (with passion gospel)	at 10:30am at CP
Thurs	9	Maundy Thursday	Benefice Communion	at 7:30pm at BT
Friday	10	Good Friday	Benefice Family Worship for Good Friday 10am at CP	Benefice - At the foot of the cross  - meditation and music at 2pm at T
	11	Easter Eve	Benefice Vigil and first communion of Easter	at 9:00pm at H
	12	Easter Day	CP - C	T- FC	BT - FC

Key - BT – Broad Town, CP - Clyffe Pypard, H - Hilmarton, T - Tockenham

C - Communion, FC - Family Communion,  E - Evensong, MP - Morning Prayer, FS - Family Service, SC - Sung Communion

BROAD TOWN WI

In February the Broad Town WI were treated to a talk by Dr Tracy Rich - a zoologist and wild life photographer, with a wealth of experience and travel stories, who illustrated her talk with some outstanding photographs of animals and birds, from all around the world from the Marlborough Downs to the Antarctic icebergs via Kenya, Rawanda and Rajasthan.

Broad Town WI is hosting a talk on Wednesday 18th March at 7.30pm on Post traumatic stress disorder entitled "The black hole of trauma" by the world renown psychiatrist Prof Turnbull in aid of Help for Heroes. This is an open meeting to which everyone is welcome : - husbands, friends, partners, relatives. Suggested donation £3.50.

Refreshments and home-made cakes available. Please contact Kate, Tel:731816 or Jenni, Tel:731716 for more details and to give us an idea of numbers.

BROAD TOWN SOCIAL CLUB

Broad Town Social Club and Avon cosmetics are holding a table top sale in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer on 7^th March at the Village Hall from 12 noon to 4pm. If you

would like to book a table please ring Tina on 731699 or 07895519862, tables are £7 and a raffle prize, sellers from 11 am. Buyers 5Op entry fee.

The Bar is open, plus teas and coffees etc. are available. All welcome.

On 20th March there will be a skittles evening at the Village Hall. Doors open at 7pm skittles from 7:30, £1 to play. Prizes for 1^st 2^nd and 3^rd for adults and children.

On 10th April there will be an Easter party at the Village Hall from 8pm, with Parmes disco. Prizes for the best Easter egg (hard boiled please) and Easter bonnet (children only). Free

entry.

AVON COSMETICS

Hello my name is Tina and I am your Avon representative for Broad Town. If you would like to receive a brochure please ring me on 731699 , text/ phone on 07895519862 or

email me @ t.hillier1@sky.com

Avon would like to thank the Broad Town Social Club for helping to run the table top sale in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer on 7th March at Broad Town Village Hall from 12 noon please come and make it a great afternoon.

BUSHTON TROTTING HORSE

March Madness Meal Deals - we will be continuing with the 2 meals for £10 through March, Tuesday - Friday, but with a twist of madness:-

We are inviting you to come along and try our food (only available on meals from the yellow menu card) for FREE on Tuesday evenings in March Only.

WHATS THE CATCH? We will be giving away 10 meals & the only thing that we ask you to do is CALL THE MONDAY BEFORE AND BOOK YOUR FREE MEAL

This deal is for March 2009 Tuesdays only & is a STRICTLY BOOKINGS ONLY.

Mothering Sunday -22 March. Secure your table for lunch by calling 01793 731338 to book.

Thursday 26^th March-Chocoholics Party from 8pm in the dining room. Come along & stock up on goodies for Easter. As it will be basically the end of the Easter promotion there may well be some bargains to be had, however to ensure you get what you want catalogues are available for your orders to be placed before the night, available now at the pub.

Curry Night – Saturday 4^th April. All you can eat for only £14ph. One sitting only at 8pm. Limited spaces. Call 01793 731338 to make your booking.

June 5th & 6th - 3^rd Bushton Beer & Bangers Bash - Details to follow.

APRIL 09 EDITION

Will organisations or anyone wishing to have news, etc. included in the April edition please note that items must be submitted to Mrs M Green, 1 Broadacres, Broad Town, BY 6pm FRIDAY 20^th March. It is regretted that submissions after that time cannot be included.