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PARISH  MAGAZINE

May 2008

WEB EDITOR:               ALAN     

MAGAZINE EDITOR:    KATE  

Dear All

Well, both mine and Bishop Bill’s final edition ! And he looks better in a wet suit than I do !  I have thoroughly enjoyed reading and printing your many articles over the years and am very pleased to hand over the baton to Mary Wooding who, I know, will bring fresh ideas and enthusiasm to the magazine.  I am sure you will continue to submit your news and views to Mary so please note the new contact details below.  I would also like to thank Chris and Jane who have coped with my emails late at night and squeezed in ‘after thoughts’ at late notice.  Keep up the good work team.  All the best. 

 Kate

                                                                                        Church News

Dear Friends,  

A brief profile

of our newly appointed Priest in Charge  whose induction will take place on Tuesday 17^th June  2008.

Rev Tim Heaney is at present working as Curate for parish of Dursley in Gloucestershire.

He is married to Diane, who works for an interior design company and has three daughters, Sam (22) who will be staying in Dursley, Katharine (16) who will be coming to Paul and Rebekah (14)  who will be boarding but coming home in the holidays. Also coming to Paul with Tim and Diane will be Holly the Airdale Terrier.

Prior to his ordination Tim had a career as an accountant and specialised in charity finance; his last position being Director of Finance and Marketing with a hospice charity (children and adult).

Tim didn’t start going to Church until he was 30; he has made his way to the Church of England via Baptist and House Churches and loves the “variety and breadth of Anglicanism”.

After family and Church Tim’s biggest interest is film and cinema and we are to “watch out for movie related sermon illustrations”

We look forward to welcoming Tim and Diane and their family to Paul.

In order for everyone in the community to receive pastoral care when they need it, it is important that the wardens, assistant curate and pastoral group know of a need as soon as possible.  In this first instance please contact:-

                                 Roger Bond  731057

                                 David Carpenter  731861

Failing this:- Revd. Yvonne Hobson   364354

Diane Bond   731057

Marta Van Emden   732881

Julie Whitt   731252

Hilary Madron 874324

Nancy Renfree 731608

Nigel Haward  740991

With everyone’s help we can care for each other and our community.

                                                                                                        PARISH NOTICES

 A  MESSAGE FOR THE PARISHES FROM

BISHOP BILL

These last few weeks are very hard for me because all I seem to be doing is saying goodbye and receiving presents!

I have enjoyed my forty years as a priest and think that I have been very lucky and these last ten or eleven years as The Bishop of Truro have been enormously happy and rewarding.

I have had the chance to do all sorts of things and to meet all kinds of people but I can honestly say that for me the times that have been the most rewarding and nourishing have been the visits week by week to the parishes in different parts of Cornwall. I have loved meeting people and just being with them. Especially this is true of places that are small and perhaps not often visited. It has been said that God loves ordinary people the most, that is why he made so many of us! My own faith has been enriched and I have gained all sorts of insights just by being here.

I hope very much that as many people as possible will come to the Eden Project on Sunday April 6th and will be part of all that happens there. I hope it will be an occasion of real thanksgiving and that we can all enjoy ourselves together and if I had some hair

of my own I would gladly let it down!

Of course for Frances and I it will be tinged with sadness at the thought of leaving Cornwall next day. A saying of Edward King, once The Bishop of Lincoln, keeps me going “This life is for making friends. Heaven is for enjoying them”

Thank you for all that you have given to me as Bishop.

With my love

+Bill

A Footnote submitted by John Dancy

Before consecration to Grantham, he served as a parish priest in Basingstoke and spent fifteen years building up a parish from very small beginnings there and in 1987 was invited to be Bishop of Grantham. I gather that on the day he had to make his decision about this, he was doing a school visit and a child in the class he was visiting apparently asked him, 'Do you have to be called to be a Bishop?' Now very naturally he took that as the voice of the Holy Spirit until further clarification revealed that in fact the child had been asking 'Do you have to be bald to be a Bishop?

  Bill has identified with the whole community at quite difficult times. Cornwall is not simply the   chocolate   box tourist attraction   that some  people  who   don't know it at all fancy that it is. When he first became Bishop the area was struggling both with the challenges of economic depression and regeneration.

 Investments in places like the Eden Project, which Bill blessed when it was still a clay pit, and with the University' life of the region, came in its context of being a Designated Objective One region in Europe. That is a region which has levels of poverty on a par with some of the most deprived areas of the continent.  Bill has been vocal throughout, on all the issues of his Diocese. He has represented his people at the highest level and made their voice heard. The pressures that have come on rural   communities   often   are   familiar to many in this Synod and Bill has been a very eloquent advocate on  all  kinds of issues around here;  the shortage of housing for key workers in rural areas — key workers like  teachers,  the  appalling  pressures  on farming communities intensified by the foot  and mouth crisis in which he and the Church in Cornwall were very much to the fore.

Diary Dates for MAY 2008      

Wednesday 7th Coffee morning and Mini Market. Church hall 10.30am

11th - 17th Christian Aid Week

Sunday 11th Christian Aid Supper

Monday 12th  Pastoral Ministers meeting  Trungle House 2.30pm

Tuesday 13th  P.C.C. meeting

Church Hall 7.30pm

Wednesday 14th Community Outreach Meeting at 2.30pm in the Church Hall

Brian Jackson to speak on the “National Coast Watch”

Saturday 17th Crowning of the May Queen by Lil Carter

Crowning of May Queen and Maypole Dancing on the car park at 7pm followed by a pasty supper.

Saturday 31st  Penzance Choral Society Concert in the Church at 7.30pm

SERVICES FOR May 2008

4th May 7th Sunday of Easter

8.30am Holy Communion BCP Rev Harry Burlton

10.30am All Age Family Service with Baptism Rev Harry Bourne

6.00pm  Evensong Rev Harry Bourne

11th May Pentecost Whit Sunday Christian Aid Sunday

8.30 am Holy Communion BCP Rev Nicholas Martin

10.30 am Parish Communion Rev Yvonne Hobson Preacher Dr Mike Hersant

6.00pm Evensong Rev Harry Burlton

18th May Trinity Sunday

8.30am Holy Communion BCP Rev Keith Watson

10.30am Matins Rev Nicholas Martin

6.00 pm Taize Service

25th May !st Sunday after Trinity

8.30 am Holy Communion BCP Rev Harry Bourne

10.30 am Parish Communion Rev Canon Pat Robson

6.00pm Evensong Patricia Murley