PARISH CHURCH of St GEORGE THE MARTYR

Vicar . During vacancy See website for information:

Web Site: www.stgeorgeschurchbrentwood.org Names of the Sick To be given to Pam Wood as early as possible on 01277 214340Confessions by appointment

Enquiries For Baptism, Banns of Marriage etc. see website for Details. Funerals contact Pam Wood 01277 214340---------------------------------------------------------------------Churchwardens Carolyn Harris 7 Bardswell Close Brentwood Tel No 219689

Beverley Smith 56 Hutton Drive Brentwood Tel No 223054P.C.C.OfficersSecretary Mrs P Wood 12 Warescot Close, Brentwood Tel No 214340Treasurer Mrs L Tanner 60 Warescot Road Brentwood Tel No 215619 Organist Mr J Bell 408 Ongar Road, Brentwood Tel No 374228---------------------------------------------------------------------PARISH ORGANISATIONS

St George’s Sunday School Sunday 10.30 am at Church HallContact: Naa-Anyima Boateng, anyima-quaye@yahoo.co.uk 07960020922

Brownies 3rd Brentwood, Thursday 5.30-7.00 pm.Brown Owl Nicola Parry Tel No 215179Brownies 1st Pilgrims Hatch, Tuesday 5.30 -7.00 pmBrown Owl Mrs Wendi Donnelly Tel No 2165601st Pilgrims Hatch Guides St George's Church Hall Thursday 7.15-8.45 pm Sarah Grimes sarah.grimes14@gmail.com Tel 07460868125 Kind Hearts Pre School - Megan Desmond Tel. 07852413334

Hall Secretary Mrs Pam Wood, 12 Warescot Close, Brentwood Tel No 214340For bookings please telephone between 6.00 and 10.00 pm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Organisations within the Parish but not attached to St George's1st Pilgrims Hatch Scout and Cubs Group open to all denominations and both boys and girlsHeadquarters St George’s Church Hall Tuesday Evenings2nd Pilgrims Hatch Brownies Larchwood Primary School Monday 6.30-8.00 pmBrown Owl See Nicola Parry above 1st Pilgrims Hatch Rainbows Bentley Village Hall Monday 6.00-7.00 pm.Guider Claire Henderson Tel No 07857 444931--------------------------------------------------------------------------Magazine Editors : Lesley and Clive Tanner 60 Warescot Road Tel No 215619 leclictanner@gmail.com

Calendar for June 2019

June

Sun 2nd Parish Eucharist & Sunday School 10.30am Evening Prayer 6.30pm

Tues 4th Hatch Ladies Social Group 8pm

Weds 5th Morning Prayer 9.30am Sat 8th Summer Fun Day 1 .30-4pmSun 9th Parish Eucharist & Sunday School 10.30am Evening Prayer 6.30pmWed 12th No Service 9.30amSat 15th Parish Work Day 9.15amSun 16th Parish Eucharist & Sunday School 10.30am

Fathers’ Day Evening Prayer

6.30pmWed 19th Morning Prayer 9.30amSun 23rd Parish Eucharist& Sunday School 10.30am Evening Prayer 6.30pmWed 26th No serviceSun 30th Parish Eucharist & Sunday School 10.30 am Evening PrayerJulyTues 2nd Hatch Ladies Social Group 8pmWeds3rd Morning Prayer 9.30amSun 7th Parish Eucharist & Sunday School 10.30am

Evening Prayer 6.30pmMon 8th PCC meeting 8pm

Dear Friends of St Georges,

As warm summer days are nearly here we have our ‘Stupendous Summer Fayre’ to look forward to, or have had if you bought your magazine late. The frenzy of activity that fills many young people’s lives comes to a crescendo as exams are finished, essays and dissertations are written and handed in and sports tournaments are lost or won. Parents fret, tempers are fraught and the promise of long sunny days of the holiday season still seem some time away.

For some of us those days are long past and for some of you new parents, you and your children still have that experience to go through. Today there is so much pressure to do well; at school, at work, even in our leisure activities. To be the fastest, the brightest, the best. But by whose standards? Who decides who is the fastest or brightest? Obviously, there has to be some tests of ability, some marker of achievement, otherwise we wouldn’t try; we wouldn’t feel the pride of achievement and the world would be a poorer place for those who lack the particular abilities, or those whose abilities are far superior to the rest. However, the pressure can be immense and sometimes we need to look beyond being the best, but know we have done the best that we can, even if that is not top marks, or the fastest time, or to someone’s particular liking or standard, We participated, we tried, we did our best and that is what is important. God loves us all, whatever our ability, whatever our talent and knows that we are all different and that is what makes the world we live in so unique. Celebrate what you have achieved, and learn from the experiences where you think you should have done better. Learn from your mistakes. It is that constant process that continually shapes and changes us as we go through our lives.

Talking of abilities and talent, please do involve yourself in any way you can with the community of St Georges. Do flower arranging, use your counting skills to add up the money, gardening skills to keep our grounds looking lovely, childminding and teaching skills to help develop our Sunday School children, reading skills for service readings, the list is endless. Yes, at St Georges, we can all learn from each other.

Best Wishes Carolyn and Beverley. Church Wardens

Visiting Preachers for June 2019

Date Morning EveningSun 2nd June Fr Ron Wiffen Fr Ossie TrellisWeds 5th June Fr Ossie TrellisSun 9th June Fr Ron Wiffen Mrs Lesley LynnWeds 12th June No ServiceSun 16th June Prebendary David

ColemanFr Ossie Trellis

Weds 19th June Fr Ossie TrellisSun 23rd June Fr Ron Wiffen Mrs Lesley LynnWeds 26th June No ServiceSun 30th June Fr Ron Wiffen Fr Ossie Trellis

Thankyou who all who helped with the Jumble Sale on Saturday 18th May and to all who helped move jumble, gave jumble, made tea or helped clear away.Our next Jumble sale is on Thursday August 1st. at 11am

Jumble can be brought to the Church and stored in the Lady Chapel before it is taken to a storage garage elsewhereLadies “bras” that we cannot sell are taken to Essex Wildlife Trust at Mucking, who collect these for a charity helping African ladies. Lesley will collect these at any time.

The Lent groups were well attended and everyone agreed that

we had enjoyed the discussions. It was suggested that we hold afurther study group in July and use one of the 4 week courses –“Making Room”- about making room in busy lives for God.Sessions will be on Thursday evenings in July from 7.45pm for 8pm start. Don’t be put off if you are away for a week, each session is separate so you can easily catch up. If you are interested please let Lesley (01277 215619) 07927904400 know so she can order materials. Thankyou

The Musical Afternoon Tea held on 11th May raised £154 for Christian Aid and £63 for the Church. Thankyou to all those who delivered and collected envelopes, around the roads and the Brownies and Guides and their leaders who delivered and collected the most part.

Fabulous Festival of Fun- will take place on Saturday 8th June from 1.30pm-4pm.Come along, bring the children and have a wonderful afternoon in the sun on the Bouncy castle and other stalls. Buy your plants for the garden, a good book to read, toys for the children and grandchildren (or dogs); have your face painted and an afternoon tea, have a fling on the raffle, buy a few early Christmas gifts to put away and meet your friends for an afternoon of friendly chatter.

See Nicola’s article for offers of help.

Quinquennial Inspection:- Every five years , the Architect makes an inspection of the fabric of the building of the Church and advises what repairs we need to make. He then produces a report showing the condition of the building and a list of repairs, this is known as the Quinquennial Report. Our next Quinquennial inspection is due in July this year and we know that we will have repairs to do. We need to carry out some extensive electrical repairs and weatherproof the flat roof. We have £7400 in the Designated Fabric Fund (money put aside for repairs), which will be enough for the electrical repairs, but not the roof as well. We cannot use money from the Porch Fund because this is Restricted, and can only be used for the purpose it was given for, and our general fund is used to pay the bills, so we need to raise some money. The PCC proposed to set up a Crowd Funding page through Just Giving. Clare Emery has investigated this and set up a page for St Georges Church. To use this page please go tohttps://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/stgeorgesroofrepairs

It is easy to donate and the donations can be anonymous if you wish. We hope that a large number of small donations will raise enough to do the work. Please support us in this endeavour and

tell, tell, tell, your friends and family. If you are on twitter or facebook, please share this as much as possible. Our target to be raised is £6000. Thankyou for your support.Contactless payments:- Clare Emery from our PCC is investigating schemes for paying donations by contactless payment in Church. She has identified a suitable scheme run on behalf of the Church of England, and the PCC has agreed to trial this. We aim to buy a machine by the end of the month (to take advantage of a discount) and then use this at collection time and at the back of the Church. Donations could be made by typing in the amount and tapping your card. Watch this space!Porch Fund News:- We have recently been granted full Faculty (Permission to Build ) and full Planning Permission, so we now need to raise £85000 to start building. We have applied to the Garfield Weston Foundation for a grant of £18000 and will know in July whether we have been successful. Two further grants are being applied for a) Veolia Environmental Trust for up to £75k and b) National Churches Trust for £25k , both of these have a July deadline with responses in September. It is not guaranteed that we will get the grants, but if we are successful, we hope to start building in

January 2020. If not we will apply to other bodies. Again watch this space!

E-Bay: Do you enjoy selling things on e-bay? Sometimes we have items given to the Church and jumble sale that are too good to sell for jumble. In the past Mick Grimes would sell these on e-bay and donate the money to the Church. He has now moved away, so we need to find someone who would be willing to take over this job. There is no lower or upper limit on what you sell for, it is just what you can get. Examples of things sold in the past have been good electrical items, pieces of good china, model trains etc If you can help please contact Lesley Tanner on 01277 215619 or 07927904400.BROWNIES AND GUIDES AT ST GEORGESGirls can start Brownies from the age of 7.  They do a variety of exciting activities each week.  Crafts, cooking, working on interest badges, adventurous activities at Thriftwood - archery, rock climbing etc.  Brownies take part in community events and projects and go on an annual holiday.  Our Tuesday pack have a few spaces at the moment and would love to welcome new girls to their unit. They meet in the church hall from 5.30pm-7pm.  If you know of any girls aged 7-10 years that would like to join this

friendly group please contact Brown Owl - Wendi Donnelly - details at the front of the magazine for more details.

Our Guide unit also has spaces.  Guides meet at St Georges on Thursdays from 7.15pm.  They are aged from 10 years and again take part in a variety of activities.  They also enjoy camping holidays too.   if you know of any girls aged 10-14 years that would be interested in joining then contact details are in the front of the magazine.

Fund RaisingDuring May the fundraising team have been very busy! Our afternoon tea was much enjoyed by all who attended.  We enjoyed endless pots of tea, cakes and sandwiches and some beautiful music from Emily and Jon. The afternoon raised £154 for Christian Aid and £63 for the church form the raffle.  Our thanks to 1st Pilgrims Hatch Rainbows for donating the raffle prizes. Our Jumble sale raised £514.  Thank you to all who helped move the jumble to the the church, set up and clear away afterwards.  Last month our Easter/St Georges Day raffle raised £88.  Thank you to all who bought tickets.

June 8th sees our STUPENDOUS SUMMER FAYRE 1.30-4pm in the church hall and grounds.  So far we have face painting, crockery smash, cakes, cream teas and refreshments, plants, crafts, bouncy castle, books and toys.  We do however need a few people to come forward and help run a stall.  If you can spare an hour please contact me - thank you.  Also please take a poster from the back of the church and put up somewhere locally to advertise the fayre for us.  Pray

that the sun shines on the day to entice lots of local people to come to our church and help us raise a good amount.

At the time of writing the Christian Aid money hasn’t been counted.  The Brownies Guides Leaders and a few PCC members have delivered and collected from some houses in the parish.  Our thanks to all who helped with this and our total will be announced in the next magazine.

P.C.C. Meeting Held Monday 13th May 2019

There was a meeting between the Churchwardens and Archdeacon Elizabeth Snowden on 25th March regarding the vacancy. We were offered 2 options –option 1 would be a ‘house of duty post’ which would mean a priest for 2 full days and Sunday services, but they won’t be paid a stipend. They would receive use of the vicarage and council tax payments. Option 2 would be a ‘half time post’. This would mean a priest for 3 days plus Sunday services and would be a paid post, as well as including a vicarage. We have requested option 2.The churchwardens are waiting to hear from the Archdeacon regarding her discussions with Becket Keys School.

Faculty has been granted for the porch. Lesley has applied for a grant from Garfield Weston, The National Churches Trust and she is in the process of applying for a grant from Veolia.

The Lent group meetings went well. The Church looked lovely on Easter Day and the attendance was good. The St. George’s Day service held on 28th April was well supported. The Dragon paid us a visit, the Sunday school children enjoyed taking part.

Beverley Smith and Carolyn Harris were elected as our Churchwardens at the AGM on Sunday 28th April.

P. C. C. officials – Vice Chairperson this year is Beverley Smith. Secretary is Pam Wood. Treasurer is Lesley Tanner.

Ray Smith has received an estimate from Brentwood Roofing regarding painting the roof with Solar Reflective paint and some minor repairs. This amounts to £5,040 inc. vat.

A full Electrical Inspection has to be done this year. Ray has not received an estimate yet but it could be about £3,000. This work needs to be done before July.

The Quinquennial inspection is due this year. Ray has been in touch with the church Architect, Ian Angus, and he would like to carry out the inspection in July, a date is to be arranged. Part of the inspection involves looking at all the roof levels, therefore he will need help putting up the ladders. Steve Smith and Clive Tanner have offered to help.

Clare Emery has offered to register and set up a ‘Crowd Funding’ Account to help raise funds for the roof repairs.

The Street collections at The Robin Hood shops and Harewood Road raised £192.00. The Easter raffle raised £87.00 and the tea afternoon raised £154.00 for Christian Aid and the raffle made £63.00 for church funds. The Summer Fayre is on Saturday 8th June from 1.30-4pm.

The usual standard treasurer’s report was circulated. We have paid 86% of the parish share to date, we are £2,000 short. Planned giving is down, Total payments paid at 30th April is £14,393.

Bookings for the hall remain good, income from lettings keeps our bills paid. During August some work needs to be done to one of the Pre-School storage cupboards due to dampness.

The church work day is on Saturday 15th June from 10-4pm. Clare Emery suggested contactless donations, this has been

tried elsewhere and payments went up. The machine can be obtained from Parish Buying and is on offer at £69 until 31st May. Clare is willing to set up an account and purchase a machine, the PCC were in favour of this.

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Finance report as at 30/4/19

Expenditure

Type of payments What we expect to pay/Budget

What we have paid at 30/4/19

Comments/highlights

Day to day running costs (heat/light/water, stationery, services, insurance, printing, vicars expenses, small works to the fabric of the building)

£ 7,830

£ 1,756

Central costs e g cost of housing, salary, pension (Parish Share)

£ 42,370

£ 12,122

£2000 short 86% of Parish Share paid to date

Costs for Mission/Outreach eg Sunday School, Easter Cards etc

£ 600

£ 60

Charitable Donations £ 1,500

£ 456

Total £ 52,300

£ 14,393

Income

Type of Income What we expect to receive/budget

What we have received to date

Planned income from regular giving schemes e g bank standing order

£ 18,000

£ 4,026

Income we hope to get but cannot guarantee or plan for e g collections, one off donations, fees for special services

£ 20,940

£ 4,330

Tax refund from Gift Aided donations £ 6,360

£ 2,472

Fund raising £ 7,000

£ 3,376

Quiz/Fun Day/BBQ/Jumble

Total £ 52,300

£ 14,203

Porch fund 441 Not counted in total

Current general fund bank balance £ 1,787

Other funds Balance

Restricted funds*

Fabric Fund £ -

£ 105,740

Vicar and Churchwarden £ -

£ -

£ 173

Designated funds

Fabric Fund £ -

£ -

£ 7,405

* Restricted funds are funds restricted for specific uses and can only be restricted by the donor

2nd June 9th June 16th June 23rd June 30th June

10.30am Easter 7 Pentecost Trinity SundayFathers’ Day

Corpus Christi SS Peter & Paul

1st Reading Mr BellActs 16:16-34

Mrs LindleyActs 2 :1-21

Mr SitchProverbs 8:1-4. 22-31

Mr BellGenesis14; V18-20

Mrs Lindley1Kings 19: 15-16. 19-21

2nd Reading Mrs TannerRevelation 22:12-14. 16-17. 20-21

Miss B SmithRomans 8:14-17

Mr SmithRomans 5 : 1-5

Mrs Tanner1 Corinthians 11 :23-26

Miss B SmithGalatians 5: 1. 13-25

Prayer of Faithful

Clive & Lesley Kath & Ray Beverley Grahame Clive & Lesley

Welcomers Kath & Ray Jan & Kay Kay & Kitty Clive & Lesley Clive & LesleyChalice presenters

Alan & Ray Ray & Eden Kay & Josie Clive & Eden Grahame & Kay

Server Grahame Grahame Grahame Grahame GrahameCollection Counters

Clive& Liz Ray& Kath Kath & Liz Clive & Ray Clive & Kath

6.30pm Readings

Mrs TebbuttIsaiah 44: 1-8Mrs WoodEphesians4:7-16

Mr BowleyExodus33 :7-20Mrs Wood2 Corinthians 3: 4-end

Mrs TebbuttExodus3 : 1-15Mrs WoodJohn3 :1-17

Mr BowleyGenesis 24: 1-27Mrs WoodMark 5: 21-end

Mrs TebbuttGenesis27: 1-40Mrs WoodMark 6: 1-6

Services During the Vacancy- these are generally celebrated on:-

Wednesday 9.30am - Morning Prayer Sunday … 10.30am - Parish Eucharist and Sunday School Sunday …. 6.30pm - Evensong

Check Porch Notice Board in case of changes

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