Monthly NEWSLETTER for

June & July 2018 The Cathedral in the Woods

RANMORE COMMON

Saturday JULY 14thfrom 11.30am to 2.00pm

Fun for all the Family

Churchwardens’

Raffle, Toys,

Books, Plants,

Home made cakes,

Bric-a-brac,

Tombola, etc. etc.

atT.S BARNABAS’ CHURCHRH5 6SP

Refreshments & Lunches

ervices SSunday 10th June at 11.oo a.m.

Holy Communion for St Barnabas’ Day

Sunday 17th June ~ no service at 11 a.m.

Sunday 17th June at 4.00 p.m.

Service for Families and Children

Tuesday 19th June 10.oo a.m. to noon

COFFEE MORNING

Sunday 24th June at 11 a.m. ~ Matins(BCP)

Sunday 1st July at 11 a.m. ~ Matins (BCP)

Sunday 8th July at 11 a.m.

Holy Communion (BCP)

Tuesday 10th July 10.oo a.m. to noon

COFFEE MORNING

Saturday 14th July 11.30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

CHERRY FAIRSunday 15th July ~ no service

Sunday 22nd July at 11 a.m. ~ Matins (BCP)

Sunday 15th July ~ no service ~ cycle race

Sunday 5th August at 11 am ~ Matins (BCP)

WELCOME

ELCOME TO OUR service of Matins Wthis morning which will be led by

Rev’d Mike Stewart and our Lay Minister Terry

Ellis will preach. We will draw the monthly

100 Club winner after the service.

Next Sunday, the 10th June is the Sunday

nearest to the day of our Patronal Festival,

June 11th, Saint Barnabas’ Day and we will

mark this with a Holy Communion service on

this Red Letter day in the church calendar ,

Rev’d Mike Stewart will preside at this

service and there will be refreshments after-

wards and we invite people to bring a ‘bring-

and-share picnic’ ...perhaps ‘serious canapés’

.... for the occasion.

There will be no service in the morning on

Sunday 17th but in the afternoon Rev’d Mike

Stewart will conduct the second of our quar-

terly services for Families and Children and

this will be based on the parable of the Good

Samaritan.

From 10.00 a.m. on Tuesday 19th all will be

welcome at our monthly COFFEE MORNING

and on the following Sunday June 24th Rev’d

Mike Stewart will be with us for Matins.

As there will be no July newsletter, we can

tell you that Lay Minister Terry Ellis will con-

duct a Matins service on July 1st and Rev’d

Mike Stewart will preside at a service of Holy

Communion on Sunday 8th of July.

The next COFFEE MORNING will be on

Tuesday July 10th, a few days before the

CHERRY FAIR on the 14th and this will be an

opportunity for some planning before the big

day. There will be no service on the 15th and

Lay Minister Chris Watts will lead a Matins

service on the 22nd.

There will not be a service on July 29th as

the roads will be closed for the Prudential

RideLondon – Surrey Classic cycle race. We

will celebrate Matins again with Lay Minister

Terry Ellis on Sunday August 5th.

Cabbages and Kings (and Cherries!)

“The time has come the Walrus said to talk

of many things”……….

…..and yes the time has come for the St

Barnabas A-team to roll into action once

again in support of the Cherry Fair on

Saturday 14th July from 11.30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

So do not be..... “late for this very impor-

tant date”.

It is a case of all hands to the pump and

shoulders to the wheel in order to make it hap-

pen but it is well worth the effort when the

time comes to open the gates and welcome

friends, family and visitors to this jolly “brillig

and frabjous” event and, as ever, we rely on

T 7.30 p.m. at St Martin’s, Dan Collins (of A“The Sixteen” fame) will also be singing

vocal solos in a concert of vocal and choral

music performed by the Martineau Ensemble.

The music includes English and Continental

madrigals and part-songs, and concludes with

the Spirituals from Tippett's “A Child of our

Time” and Vaughan Williams’ “Five English

Folk Songs” and on SUNDAY JULY 8th.....

........at 6.00 p.m. there will be a Special Choral

Evensong in Celebration of this Anniversary.

You can follow life at St Barnabas and read the monthly newsletter on our website at www.achurchnearyou.com/ranmore-st-barnabas

Information about the lives of the men listed on the war memorial and a background of life on Ranmore and the Denbies Estate can be found at

www.ranmorewarmemorial.info

Who’s Who at St. Barnabas

Rector: The Reverend Derek Tighe

St Barnabas is part of a United Benefice with St Martin’s Dorking. Please contact

the Church Office with enquiries about baptisms & marriages on 01306 884229

or email: stmartinsdorkingchurchoffice@gmail.com

Assistant Priest: Reverend Mike Stewart 01306 884153

Lay Minister: Mr Terry Ellis 01483 303513

Churchwardens: Dr Robin Luff 01306 884093

Mr Nicholas Grealy 01306 882168

Pastoral Assistant: Mrs Sandra Lowry 01306 885932

Treasurer: Mr Ian Hudson 01306 888281

News Editor & Webmaster: Mr Dick Gover 01306 882238

Tower Captain: Mr Paul Beeken 01306 887538

Churchyard Manager: Mrs Sandy Luff 01306 884093

Verger: Mr Brian Belton 01306 884950

100Have you given more thought to joining the St Barnabas Club?Members set up a monthly standing order for £5 to support church funds. A winner each month receives 10% of these subscriptions, currently £30 with 60 subscriptions. Consult the Club Secretary Dick Gover as above or email him. Application forms are available at the church or by email and members can hold more than one ticket.

door. This concert is supporting Dorking

Minds: The Dorking Mental Health Project.

RECITALS for ST MARTIN’S

SATURDAY JULY 7th 12.00 to 12.40 p.m.

Vaughan Williams

Anniversary Celebrations

Dan Collins – Countertenor

sings a selection of Vaughan Williams songs

your spontaneous generosity to provide the

prizes for the Churchwardens’ Raffle.

If you are able to offer help with setting

up in the morning from 9 a.m., making cakes

or growing produce for our stalls, donating

bric-a-brac, plants, books, toys or manning a

stall on the day then please let us know. We

will be able to start storing items for the Fair in

the Chapel from 1st July.

Please contact David and Lynda Mackie-

Gandy on 01306 885164 ~ or by email on:

d_gandy@sky.com

(with acknowledgements to Lewis Carroll)

ST BARNABAS for CHILDREN

E INTRODUCED our new quarterly Wservice for children and young fami-

lies last June, when we covered the story of

Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood. We have a

small but loyal group of children and their par-

ents/grandparents who come to those ser-

vices and we are continuing these quarterly

services this year in the hope and belief that

numbers will grow.

So if you have young children and would

like to have them spend a little time in our “sa-

cred space” up here at St Barnabas, please do

come along. The services are at 4 p.m. and last

no more than 40 minutes, followed by re-

freshments, we would really love to see you.

The next quarterly service is on Sunday

17th June at 4 p.m. when the theme will be the

Story of the Good Samaritan. In the Autumn

(Sunday 16th September), we shall celebrate

the Harvest Festival with the Story of the

Feeding of the 5,000, and of course the year

would not be complete without our ever-

popular Christingle and Nativity Play (Satur-

day 22nd December).”

SUNDAY TEAS

HE RESPONSE to the call for volunteers Tto serve Teas in the Churchyard on

Sundays from July 2nd until September 10th

has been most encouraging although there

are still some gaps.

One intrepid team have decided to walk

up from Dorking and open for teas on July

29th when the roads are closed but a consid-

erable number of people do come to Ranmore

to watch the cyclists race past. It will be inter-

esting to see the response and how much busi-

ness they do.

CONGRATULATIONS

N APRIL 7th Giles Heather & Rebecca OHackett were married at St Barnabas

and April 21st saw the marriage of Benjamin

Readman & Andrea Masna. We send them

and their families our best wishes for the

future and trust they will visit St Barnabas

from time to time.

We also congratulate Leo David Gale on

his baptism on 6 May. Leo is the son of Joe

and Rosanna Gale who were married here at

St Barnabas last year.

The Ladybirds Choir present

A BEAUTIFUL DAY

“What a beautiful day for a wedding in May!”

SELECTION of delightful music includ-Aing songs from Oklahoma! and hits by

Andrew Lloyd Webber directed by Helena

Twentyman.

On Saturday 9 June at 3 p.m. at the United

Reformed Church Hall, West Street,Dorking

Tickets £7.50 from 01737 843662 or on the