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Sunday Services – 25th April

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Below are the Sunday services, we have a St George’s Day Service and a St Mark’s Day service for you.

First, here are the notices:

Notices

Giving

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.

Quiz night

Join our Great Board Game Quiz at 7pm on Saturday, May 1 via Zoom and raise money for the parish. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87640695934?pwd=THdnVUhFTDRkb3lEbGxSMHlNazFLQT09 Meeting ID: 876 4069 5934 Passcode: Quiz21

Sponsored Cycle Ride

Paul Eggleton is raising money for the church by undertaking a virtual cycle ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End, but without leaving his house. He will be cycling 20km a day on his exercise bike and tracking his virtual progress south over the next 10 weeks. You can sponsor him on his Just Giving page. All the money raised will be divided between the church to help repair St John’s tower, and Alzheimer’s Society. Please sponsor him here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/paul-eggleton-1?utm_id=60&utm_term=w2EdG8JgJ

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Morning Services
Evening Service
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RESCHEDULED – THE GREAT BOARD GAME QUIZ!

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The Great Board Game Quiz will be on Zoom on Saturday, May 1, a change from its original April date. It’s a brilliant way to have fun and raise money for parish funds. 

There will be quiz rounds inspired by board games and it will be suitable for all the family.

Get your teams together (or join on your own) and email admin@badshotleaandhale.org to be sent a link to join in.

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Join the 2021 Farnham Online Flower Festival

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This year’s Farnham Flower Festival will once more be held online over the weekend of May 15 and 16 here on the website with contributions from individuals, businesses, faith groups, charities, schools and other organisations, all celebrating the theme of hope and joy. Anyone who would like to is invited to send in photos or videos of flower arrangements or garden or wild flowers, or floral art to take part in the festival.

Pictures and videos should be sent to admin@badshotleaandhale.org to arrive by May 9th.

This is the third Farnham Flower Festival and the second one online, organised by the Parish of Badshot Lea and Hale in north Farnham. Rev’d Lesley Crawley, rector of the parish, said: “Our flower festivals celebrate colour and new life and the joy of God’s creation, and this year it feels more important than ever to draw attention to the hope and joy that we can find in nature and in the knowledge that God is here in the world, sustaining us.

“Please do send in your photos and videos and celebrate with us.”

This year’s festival is being sponsored by the award-winning florist Florescence who operates from downstairs at St Mark’s. Find out more about the company here.

You can see last year’s festival here.

Pictured above is William Cobbett Lion Care Bubble’s 2020 Flower Festival entry.

Art, St George's Church, St John's Church, St Mark's Church

Celebrate St George’s Day with Mayors and Music

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We will be celebrating St George’s Day on Sunday, April 25, at both St John’s and St George’s, with visits from two mayors, the Army Cadets and members of Alder Valley  Brass.

Cllr Alan Earwaker, Deputy Mayor of Farnham, and cadets from Surrey Army Cadet Force – Farnham Unit – will join the congregation at St George’s, at 10am for a family-friendly day service including drama and flags. One of the cadets will raise the flag in the churchyard and part of the service will be outside so that the congregation can sing and plant St George’s Day flags.

St John’s will be welcoming the Cllr Penny Marriott, Mayor of Waverley, and some Scouts, who will raise the flag, for a service at 9.30pm. Again this will be suitable for all ages and there will be singing outside and the planting of St George flags. Members of Alder Valley Brass will playing before the service and for the part of the service that will be outdoors.

Over at St Mark’s, the congregation will be celebrating St Mark’s Day from 11am with an emphasis on creativity. Bring along with you something to be creative with – your favourite pens and pencils, clay, paints – whatever you would like.

Everyone is welcome at the services which are Covid-secure. Masks must be worn in the churches.

Coronavirus, Services

Sunday Service – 18th April

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Below are the Sunday services.

First, here are the notices:

Notices

Giving

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.

What are your gifts

A fun course to think about our gifts, our passions and our personal style, as it is out of these that our calling is likely to come. The course will be run on Tuesday evenings at 7:30-9:00 for 5 weeks starting the 20th April.

Questioning Faith

Come to Questioning Faith online on 29th April 7:30pm – 9:00pm. Please come along of you are interested in exploring Christianity or have questions about faith you want answered. Contact Lesley on 01252 820537 or revd.lesley@badshotleaandhale.org.

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Morning Services
Evening Service
gifts

Gifts and how to use them

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What gifts do you have that you might use and which God might be calling you to use? Are you a great listener, a keen cook, someone who can transform a room with a bit of colour and style? Do you like to pray for people? Are you practical? Musical? Artistic? Can you sit alongside someone when they are having a hard time? Can you relate to all ages?  All these, and many more, are gifts and it may be that God is calling you to use them.

Starting next Tuesday evening (20th), we are we are running a special five-week course on Zoom which will look at our spiritual gifts, passions and personal style, as it is out of these that our calling is likely to come.

The course will be at 7.30pm-9pm every Tuesday on Zoom from April 20 to May 18.

If you’d like the details contact admin@badshotleaandhale.org or 07842761919 or email Alan on revd.alan@badshotleaandhale.org

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Work begins on restoring the Kitty Milroy murals

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The first stage of restoring the murals at St Mark’s Church has begun.

The murals, which are of significant national importance in the development of 20th-century mural painting, are being stabilised and cleaned by the internationally renowned mural conservationists Stephen Rickerby and Lisa Shekede. They were painted between 1911 and 1920 by local woman Eleanor Catherine Wallace Milroy (‘Kitty’) using other local people as models.

The murals blend influences from European Symbolist painting and the Arts and Crafts Movement and were featured in a recent talk by art historian, lecturer and author Olive Maggs for the Arts and Crafts Movement in Surrey. Comparisons have been made with pictures in The Watts Chapel and it is known that Mary Watts visited the area.

Stephen Rickerby and Lisa Shekede will be in the church for the next 10 weeks in order to complete this stage of the restoration.

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Churches open for prayer and reflection

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Following the death of His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on Friday morning (April 9), the three churches in the Parish of Badshot Lea and Hale will all be open this week from Monday to Friday for people to come in and light a candle, pray or just sit quietly. There will also be black ribbons available to tie in the churchyards as a sign of mourning and reflection.

The churches are St George’s, Badshot Lea, GU9 9LD; St John’s, Hale Road, GU9 9RP (park in the layby near Daniele Sicilian Restaurant); and St Mark’s, Alma Lane, GU9 0LT.

Because of Covid-19 we are unable to have a physical Book of Condolence but if you wish to sign one, there is an online one here: https://www.churchofengland.org/remembering-his-royal-highness-prince-philip

You can also do so by scanning the QR code here:

A copy of the QR code will be available in the churches.

If you need support or further information, contact admin@badshotleaandhale.org or call 07842761919.

Picture of Prince Philip copyright: Press Association

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