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Sunday Service – 29th August

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Below is the Sunday service, first, here are the notices:

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Help make the Autumn Fayre a success

Can anyone spare a bit of time to help make the Autumn Fayre a great success?

The fayre itself will be on Saturday, September 4, between 12 and 3pm but we need a bit of help before then as well as on the day. At this stage we need people to provide bottles for the bottle tombola and items for the general tombola. We need people to offer to number and fold programmes sometime before the fayre; we need people to sell lots of raffle tickets and we need people to offer to make cakes and biscuits for refreshments. We also need help setting up on the day before and on the day itself, and help with the refreshment stalls, the bar and BBQ on the day.

Please leave donations at the back of the churches and speak to Pamela or any of the churchwardens or Stella to offer help.

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Come to the fayre

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Come and join us at the Hale Autumn Fayre on September 4th at St John’s, Hale Road, 12-4pm.

There will be stalls, games, food and drink – a barbecue, bar, tea and cakes – a grand raffle with loads of prizes, and music. The fayre will be opened by Jeremy Hunt, MP, at 12pm, and Waverley and Farnham Councillor Sally Dickson will draw the raffle at 3.30pm.

Come and browse the stalls – everything from face creams to a bottle tombola, play games, eat, drink and be merry while listening to music by local musicians including two-thirds of Cajun Boogaloo; the Farnborough U3A Ukulele band; Wendy Edwards; Mary Klymenko; Frances Whewell; and Terry Owens, Football Club Ambassador for Aldershot Town and well known for keeping people going with his singing.

Buy a lucky programme and be in with a chance of winning a £50 voucher for Heaven’s Kitchen restaurant; buy a raffle ticket and you could win £100, or a host of other prizes including a £50 voucher for Daniele’s Sicilian Restaurant; browse gifts on the stalls; eat delicious cake or a burger; have a drink, and know that you are helping to raise money to support the church’s work in the community, including the setting up of a new youth hub at St John’s.

Join us from 12pm, Saturday, September 4.

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Sunday Service – 22nd August

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Below is the Sunday service, first, here are the notices:

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Please Give to our Ministry

This church relies on donations to provide care and support to everyone in this community. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry by clicking the button above. Thank you for your support.

Help make the Autumn Fayre a success

Can anyone spare a bit of time to help make the Autumn Fayre a great success?

The fayre itself will be on Saturday, September 4, between 12 and 3pm but we need a bit of help before then as well as on the day. At this stage we need people to provide bottles for the bottle tombola and items for the general tombola. We need people to offer to number and fold programmes sometime before the fayre; we need people to sell lots of raffle tickets and we need people to offer to make cakes and biscuits for refreshments. We also need help setting up on the day before and on the day itself, and help with the refreshment stalls, the bar and BBQ on the day.

Please leave donations at the back of the churches and speak to Pamela or any of the churchwardens or Stella to offer help.

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Sunday Service – 15th August

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Below is the Sunday service, first, here are the notices:

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This church relies on donations to provide care and support to everyone in this community. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry by clicking the button above. Thank you for your support.

Craft Market

Come to this month’s Craft Market at St Mark’s on Saturday, August 21st, 10am-2pm. Lots of lovely crafts and art – pottery, paintings, crochet, cards, glass, gifts, jewellery, hats, bath bombs, lights, face creams, scents, and much more. Refreshments, music and a relaxed atmosphere. Plus the chance to see the Kitty Milroy murals and support the church.

Help make the Autumn Fayre a success

Can anyone spare a bit of time to help make the Autumn Fayre a great success?

The fayre itself will be on Saturday, September 4, between 12 and 3pm but we need a bit of help before then as well as on the day. At this stage we need people to provide bottles for the bottle tombola and items for the general tombola. We need people to offer to number and fold programmes sometime before the fayre; we need people to sell lots of raffle tickets and we need people to offer to make cakes and biscuits for refreshments. We also need help setting up on the day before and on the day itself, and help with the refreshment stalls, the bar and BBQ on the day.

Please leave donations at the back of the churches and speak to Pamela or any of the churchwardens or Stella to offer help.

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Events, Giving and Fundraising, News Releases, Social Events, St John's Church

Autumn Fayre – we need your help!

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The Hale Autumn Fayre will be taking place at St John’s on Saturday, September 4, 12-3pm, and we need your help.

We already have lots of stalls planned, plus a bar, a barbecue and tea stall, and generous donors have given raffle prizes but we need more people to help with running the stalls and donating prizes.

We particularly need items for a bottle tombola – they don’t have just to be drinks but could, for instance, be shampoo or bubble bath – and the regular tombola. We need more raffle prizes and cakes. We also need more people to help on stalls, sell raffle tickets, and generally join in.

If you can help, please get in touch. Contact Stella Wiseman on 07842 761919 or admin@badshotleaandhale.org. You can also bring your donations to the back of St John’s Church or put them in The Ark (the old vestry).

Thanks! Let’s make it a great day!

Picture by Harry Grout on Unsplash.

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C’etait Fantastique – A French Holiday at St Mark’s

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Wendy Edwards reports on the parish’s first Holiday-at-Home.

With restrictions eased, the Parish of Badshot Lea and Hale believed that a French Song Cure in a Covid-safe environment was needed!

At St. Mark’s Church on Saturday, 7th August, 70 people braved the English weather, sporting their berets and strings of onions, to revel in a French Holiday-at-Home with company, croissants, coffee, lunch, holiday slideshow and raffle.

‘Fantastique! and ‘Incroyable!’ (incredible) were comments received afterwards. There was also musical entertainment, with many talented performers giving their skills for free, Fleet U3A Ukulele band, Cajun Boogaloo, Wendy Edwards, Olivia Jasper, Roger Sanders and Lesley Shatwell, Mary Klymenko, and the Parish Choir, all performing French songs from several eras, some in French.

A total of £553 was raised for the St. John’s Tower and Youth/Community Hub. Thanks everyone for donations of money, raffle prizes, time, skills, and energy.

One classic World War 1 song was Roses of Picardy by Haydn Wood (1882-1959). Wendy Edwards, organiser, contacted Marjorie Cullerne, Haydn Wood’s great-niece, in Toronto. Marjorie sent Wendy a 100-year-old newspaper extract about Haydn Wood performing his song to cure speech-impaired, shell-shocked soldiers after World War 1.

As we start emerging from a worldwide pandemic, singing Roses of Picardy again as a Song Cure, for our Covid 19 separation, seems most appropriate.

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Pride services at all our Churches

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This Sunday (August 8) we are celebrating Pride at all of our three churches and online, here on the website.

Like Pride Month, which takes place in June, it is an opportunity to celebrate LGBTQI+ people in their fullness, to look back on strides toward equality, and to imagine a world where celebration and full inclusion is the norm, not an exception. 

Lesley Crawley explains some of the thinking behind this: “Christians have historically punished and ostracized LGBTQI+ people, scripture has been weaponized and the church has contributed to the political, relational and spiritual dehumanizing of LGBTQI+ people. This has resulted in deep pain, bullying and death and rightfully many people have been put off the church forever because of the cruel behaviour of Christians. 

“As Christians, we give up a piece of our full humanity when we forgo compassion and treat people as objects worthy of scorn or violence. Pride gives us an opportunity to end oppressive practices and ideology while also becoming more fully human ourselves. 

“In these services we repent of the past and we look with optimism to the future. We stand with people who identify as LGBTQI+ and proclaim loudly that all people are loved by God and all people are welcome here.

“We thank God for the immense diversity of human beings and the love God has for us all. We recognise the way stereotypes have limited us all in terms of being able to be truly ourselves. We celebrate love in all its forms and we thank the God of Love that we are all fearfully and wonderfully made.”

Please join us this Sunday. There is a service at St John’s Church, Lower Hale, at 9.30am, one at St George’s, Badshot Lea, at 10am, and one at St Mark’s, Upper Hale, at 11am. And, of course, we are online too: https://badshotleaandhale.org/online-services/

* LGBTQI+ stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex and the ‘+’ is for others who don’t fit one of these labels

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Another creative triumph at St Mark’s

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St Mark’s Church was once again buzzing with creativity with Artz @ St Mark’s over the weekend July 30-August 1. 

Walls, tables and easels were covered with paintings and quilts, there were cushions, violins, knitting, tapestry, a prom dress, as well as music and dancing, all of it displaying the talents of local people who joined in for the first, but not the last, Artz @ St Mark’s, organized jointly by the Parish of Badshot Lea and Hale and a group called North Farnham Voice which exists to enable local residents to have a say in the present and future of North Farnham. 

North Farnham Voice was founded by Catherine Powell, the newly elected Surrey County Councillor for North Farnham. Catherine said: “l just knew there were a lot of artistic and creative people in North Farnham because so many volunteered to make the PPE scrubs for the NHS during Lockdown. They carried on making them into the spring of this year to provide a supply to the COVID vaccination clinics too, so we asked them to come and display their own work. 

“A large number got involved again this weekend and helped make it a real success.  About 220 people dropped by over the weekend and there was never a dull moment with all the live music too. What’s more there wasn’t an inch of wall or table space left for the want of an exhibit.  The church came to life with the colour, variety and the sound of people and really played it’s part as a great place for the community of North Farnham.” 

Refreshments were served and many people took advantage of the occasion to view the newly restored Kitty Milroy murals in the church. 

St Mark’s also holds craft markets on the third Saturday of the month and the next one will be on August 21 from 10am to 2pm, at St Mark’s, Alma Lane, Farnham, GU9 0LT. 

Coronavirus, Services

Sunday Service – 1st August

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Below is the Sunday service, first, here are the notices:

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Artz at St Marks

Join us for an afternoon exhibition of local arts, crafts and music to celebrate the restoration of the Kitty Milroy murals, Artz @ St Mark’s Sunday 2pm-4pm.

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