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Your May magazine is here

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Spring is here and even the hint of summer, with blossom, fresh green leaves, meadow flowers and … a Coronation! We have special Communion services on the day following the Coronation, each followed by a celebration involving a toast to the new king. We also have our monthly family service at St John’s on May 7th, including a Coronation celebration, sandwiches and cake.

There is a lot going on this month in the parish and the magazine is full of events, thoughts, a report on our new Parish Needs Process, a reminder about the coming summer fete, and issue two of the new Badshot Leader, produced by the Badshot Lea Community Association.

Read and enjoy, check out the advertisers – shopping locally is good for not just the local community but for the environment too – and tell your friends about what is going on here in Badshot Lea and Hale.

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Children and Youth, St George's Church, St John's Church

St George’s Day – services and a dragon

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St George’s Day is on Sunday, April 23, and you are invited to celebrate England’s patron saint at services at St John’s, Hale, at 9.30am, and St George’s, Badshot Lea, at 10am. TS Swiftsure, Farnham Sea Cadets, will take part in the service at St George’s.

St George has been venerated as a saint in England since the 9th century CE though he was actually born in the 3rd century CE in Cappadocia (modern day Turkey), and was probably an officer in the Roman army. He was a Christian and it seems he was killed in the early 4th century, maybe on April 23, because he wouldn’t worship pagan gods.

St George is meant to have killed an evil dragon but the story about this actually originates several centuries after his death. Nevertheless the story stuck and the image of St George defeating the dragon appears on the George Cross, an award created in 1940 by King George VI to reward acts of great courage in times of danger.

This doesn’t stop the friendly St George’s dragon coming to church however.

Art, Children and Youth, Craft, Inclusion, Social Events, St Mark's Church

Friday Night is Games Night!

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Come and join us at St Mark’s Church on the second and fourth Friday of each month from 7-9pm for our ‘youth club for all ages’, aka Friday Night Games Night. The next ones are: April 14 and 28, May 12 and 26.

We have table tennis, pool, board games, jigsaws, art and craft, modelling, food, drinks and lots of chat and general socialising. It’s open to all ages and we range in age from children to 80+. Anyone of primary age and younger must be accompanied by an adult.

We are inclusive and welcome everyone. Please let us know if you have any particular needs or dietary requirements. Contact revd.stella@badshotleaandhale.org to find out more

Serving the Villages North of Farnham: Badshot Lea, Hale, Heath End & Weybourne