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GREETINGSWe have certainly been experiencingreal Mediterranean weather these lastweeks. Who needs to fly abroad tocatch the sun! I hope our more seniorparishioners are managing to keepcool. Do let’s be sensible and look outfor each other on the hottest days. Ourgarden birds are noticeably less activeduring the day when temperatures arehigh, they know to take a siesta. Theyjoin Nickie and I in the cool eveningswhen we sit out and enjoy a Pimms.Although the birds are not so busyflying about, the airplanes certainlyare. Flights are increasing, the noiseunwanted and the emissions unaccept-able. More reason not to holidayabroad? I joined the many, manyothers in writing to North SomersetCounty Council to lodge a complaintagainst the plans to expand theairport. The period for comments hasclosed and there have been 2,290comments made (1,904 of which areobjections) and 306 documents

lodged. A major campaign is under-way to prevent this massive and un-justifiable development of a regionalairport and I am proud that so many ofour parish are behind it. Keep up thegood work!June was a good month in ourchurches with lots going on. A hugethank you as always to those whosehard work makes our lunches, fayresand special occasions such a joy. Blues Vespers caught us all by sur-prise, with nearly 100 people in Holy

Trinity for a great Sunday evening ofmusic with Mike Craske and EllisJohns. They have already said theywill return next year so watch thisspace. Our next Vespers is September29th with local Jazz trio Scythia.

Rector Tim has now begun his threemonth sabbatical and is, as I write, inZambia before travelling to South Af-rica followed by a few weeks in Lon-don. We wish him, along with Lindaand Peter, every blessing. In themeantime, services and parish workacross the team will be handled by theremaining team with the occasionalsupport from retired clergy in thedeanery. Please allow for the fewchanges to services and times over thenext 3 months and a bit. Any changeswill be clearly communicated in goodtime. Let’s give thanks for all whosegentle, wise and effective ministrymake Yatton Moor such a great teamto work in.

It is such a pleasure to be chaplain atCourt de Wyck school and followingthe lovely trip to Wells cathedral withthe Year 6’s, I will be presenting themall with bibles at their leavers assem-bly. This is an annual gift, arrangedand provided for by our two parishchurches. We wish those children wellas they move up to secondary school.Enjoy this month and do look out forthose special events coming adver-tised elsewhere in Messenger, espe-cially Lammas on Saturday 3rd August3pm at St. Barnabas – a traditionalrural festival to celebrate the wheatharvest and thank God for His gifts.Peace & all good Nigel

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News from our churches.June was a busy month for both StBarnabas and Holy Trinity churches.St Barnabas Fete took place on 8thJune. It was a bit breezy so thedecision was made to have allactivities inside the church.

This made for a very social atmos-phere, everybody enjoying theircream teas and trying their luck onthe various stalls. An unexpectedpleasure was William Hagger whoplayed his saxaphone for us. Over£400 was raised by the event.

GloriaGlory to you, transfiguring our lives with deeds of love.Glory to you, inspiring service of neighbour and care for creation.Glory to you, for your presence in fragrant compassion.Glory to you, for transforming our failures and frailties.Glory to you, for the impulse of our heart’s love.Glory to you, for the regeneration of life, within decay and death.Glory to you, for the gifts of our physical environment,pointing to your presence; giving voice to our vocation.Glory to you, most holy Trinity. Amen

M threeSt B's celebratedits PatronalFestival the nextday andwelcomed RevdDr HowardWorsley, fromTrinity CollegeBristol, husbandof our BishopRuth. He gave avery entertaining

and uplifting sermon with spectacularvisual aids.The following week it was thePatronal Festival of Holy Trinity andBrother Clarke Berge SSF of HilfieldFriary was the guest preacher. Atcoffee time he talked, and answeredour questions, about his journey tobecome a Brother in the AnglicanFranciscan order and subsequently tobecome Guardian of Hilfield Friary inDorset.Hopefully both of our guest preacherswill come to visit us again. Theyenriched our worship with their verydifferent backgrounds and experiences

On the 29th June it was Holy Trinity'sturn to have their annual SummerFayre. It was a scorching day and thestalls were strategically placed underthe shade of the trees. Joe Roe drewmany punters with his Nerf gun shoot-ing of mugs with pictures of Nigel onthem. All the stalls did a roaring tradeas did the cream teas and the hot

weather encouraged a flow ofcustomers to Gill's ice cream stall. Atthe end of the day a total of £638 was

made which was over £130 up on lastyear and this will go towards the re-pairs of the crumbling brickwork overthe kitchen window and the renova-tion of the church room. There was areally great atmosphere. Many thanksto everybody who helped to make itsuch an enjoyable afternoon.

Then on Sunday the 30th June wewere entertained and uplifted by Mikeand Ellis at the Blues Vespersevening. They played a variety of

M fourbluesy numbers, most of which wecould, and did, join in with and themusic was dispersed with readings ofprose and poetry by Nigel, andprayers read by Nickie. The churchwas packed and so was the car park!!Fortunately nobody seemed to want toleave. We all sat there until Mike andEllis played an encore and then thecongregation moved to the churchroom where fulsome refreshmentswere laid on. People had come fromall over the Parish and from furtherafield for the evening and it was goodto meet up with friends from the otherTeam churches.Donations of £410 were receivedwhich will be put towards the organi-sation and costs of future events. Thenext musical event at Holy Trinitywill be Jazz Vespers on Sunday 29thSeptember, so put that date in yourdiary. I am informed that a car parkattendant will be on duty!

Do not despair if you missed ourSummer Fayres. Summer is still withus and Yatton Summer Fayre andFlower Festival will be held on July20 – 21 at St Mary's Yatton in aid ofthe Parish churches of Yatton Moor,Yatton, Kenn & Kingston Seymout.On a slightly larger scale than theones in our bit of the Team it willfeature Classic Cars, tours of theTower, ploughman's lunches and bell-ringing as well as all the usual stallsand activities. From 11am – 4.30 on

Saturday 20th and the Flower Festi-val in the church is also taking placeon Sunday 21st from 12 noon – 5pm.

Cleeve and Claverham Mothers'UnionThe Cleeve and Claverham MothersUnion's Worldwide Lunch onWednesday 3rd July in Cleeve VillageHall was a huge success. Around 80deanery members and village friendsenjoyed a lovely hot meal, choice ofpuddings, tea and coffee. Overall withticket money, a raffle, a cake stall andbric- a- brac we managed to raise over£700 for projects in this country andaround the world.Our Diocesan President, MadelineHellier was able to join us for thelunch and it was great that our mem-bers were able to meet her. Thank youeveryone for your generosity.Andrea on behalf of the Committee.St Barnabas News.Advance NoticeSt Barnabas Harvest Festival Week-end - Celebrating 140 years with aFestival of Flowers for Harvest,Saturday 5th October. Church openduring the day and a concert in theevening.Sunday 6th October – HarvestService 11am with Guest Preacher,then Harvest Lunch at the VillageHall.Sunday Evening 'Songs of Praise' toclose the weekend. Brenda.

M fiveClaverham news.The monthly market in the village hallwill take place on Saturday 20th Julyfrom 10am – 12 noon. All the usualstalls including Trevor's plant stall.Browse round, meet your friends andhave a cup of tea and a catch up .

Clevedon Foodbank AppealLocal demand in the Clevedon districthas increased over the last six monthsby 50% compared to the same periodlast year. Stocks are thereforecurrently lower than usual We are nowpreparing for the six weeks schoolholiday which is a period of high de-mand. Last year 400 bags of food forindividuals were given out, plus largerparcels for large families. So we haveappealed through our website andFacebook pages, on the boxes held atsupermarkets and through ourcontacts with local churches, for thefood that is still needed to ensure thatthe families of those children whonormally benefit from a free schoolmeal in term-time will get support tocope with the increased demands ofhungry children during the summerholiday.In preparation for this, we are askingall of the local churches across Cleve-don, Nailsea, Portishead, and the sur-rounding towns and villages toconsider collecting the following fooditems for the food bank. We currentlyneed -

Cartons of Fruit juiceInstant Mash PotatoSponge PuddingJars of Pasta SauceCartons of UHT MilkTins of Big SoupTinned VegetablesTinned TunaMultipack chocolate barsMultipack cerealsThank you very much for your ongo-ing support, we really  appreciate it.

Sewing Angels Wanted.Court de Wyck school are looking forthree volunteers to help at their pro-posed new sewing club. If anyonewould like to help the children tolearn basic needleworking skills thenJan Thomson, the Head, would love tohear from them.Green Shoots ..You would have to be on anotherplanet not to be aware of the damagethat plastic waste is having on our en-vironment. It is frustrating thatchange takes place so slowly whenthere is such a crisis. However, twoincidents recently seem to indicatethat the message is getting through.I was at Scoop and Spice refillinglaundry liquid and handwash. Theyhave been refilling Ecover and otherproducts for more than ten years andthey told me that they have seen ahuge increase in customers using theirrefill service cont’d page 8..

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Services from the third week of July untilsecond week of August

The Fifth Sunday after Trinity GREEN

3rd Thursday 18th July 09.30 Prayers for Healing & Wholeness + Holy Communion Cleeve3rd Friday 19th July 13.30 Leavers’ Assembly Court de Wyck School3rd Sunday 21st July 09.30 Shared Parish Communion Cleeve

The Sixth Sunday after Trinity GREENMary Magdalene WHITE

4th Thursday 25th July NO Service at Cleeve4th Sunday 28th July 10.00 Cafe Church Court de

Wyck School1st Thursday 1st August 09.30 Prayers for Healing & Wholeness + Holy Communion Cleeve1st Saturday 3rd August 15.00 ‘On the Edge’ Autumn Celebration - Lammas Claverham

The Seventh Sunday after Trinity GREEN

1st Sunday 4th August 11.00 ‘Bread on the Edge’ Shared Parish Eucharist Claverham2nd Thursday 8th August 09.30 Prayers for Healing & Wholeness Cleeve

The Eighth Sunday after Trinity GREEN

2nd Sunday 11th August 10.00 Shared Parish Communion Cleeve3rd Thursday 15th August 09.30 Prayers for Healing & Wholeness + Holy Communion

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Celebration - Lammas Claverham

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Jen Lankester July 21st

June Richards July 28th

Sarah CushNick Cush

August 4th

Andrea StoddartLin Mortimer

August 11th

Enid PringRon Pring

August 18th

Holy Trinity Cleaning Rota

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..cont’d from p 5. in the last couple of months. Then inTescos I was amazed to see that therewere loose apples and citrus fruitavailable with no pre-packing. Theystill have plastic bags to put them in,but customers can just put them intotheir trolley loose to be weighed at thetill, as in days of old! I mentioned it tothe lady on the check out ‘And abouttime too!’ was her comment, revealingherself to be a bit of an eco-warrior,having for years recycled her

husband’s old shirts into shoppingbags when the elbows get thin. Thatgave me an idea about Clive’sHawaiian shirts....Finally, I see that two local ladies,Libby Watts and Julia Wallis have setup a new facebook group‘ Yatton Re-duce, Reuse & Recycle’https://www.facebook.com/groups/2931094063582999/ as a support andforum for those who want to live agreener lifestyle. Good to see aninitiative at local level. Ed

Thank youFor your contributions to thismonth’s Messenger. Articles forthe August edition welcomed and-should be with me, Carole Perrottby Wednesday 7th August. Theycan be e-mailed tocarole.perrott@gmx.com, putthrough the door of 15 ChestnutDrive Claverham, or given to meat church.