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Easter Parishioner 2021 (cover)

Vicar

Rev Neil Lambert

203 Vale Road

Ash Vale

Surrey

GU12 5JE

revneil@me.com

Churchwardens: Martin Lindsay  & Nikki Glover            

Hon. Treasurer: Patrick Brown   

Parish Administrator: Jackie Scott            

E-mail parishoffice@ash-vale.org.uk

Office Hours Tues 11am-4pm, Thurs 10am-3pm

Parish Office Mobile: 9am-5pm

07863 311165

      

Roots down – into the Gospel… Walls down – into the Community

Sunday Morning 10am Services:

On Zoom for now, and in Person & on Zoom after lockdown

You are welcome to Zoom in to the Sunday Morning service at 10am; simply email the Parish Administrator to receive the link, or find it on Facebook @StMarysAshVale.

Once restrictions lift you will also be able to attend in person, with extra measures to keep everyone safe. On arrival please sign in or scan the QR code on your NHS app, use hand sanitiser, pop on your mask and go directly to your seat and remain seated. We must not mingle, so as to protect all those attending. (Please stay at home and use Zoom if you have COVID-19 symptoms).  We look forward to welcoming you. 

Evensong Wednesdays 8pm

You can Zoom in to Evensong on Wednesday nights or join us in the car park. Email the Parish Administrator to join our mailing list and receive the link. Keep in touch as arrangements are always evolving!

Monthly Messy Church:

Contact Alex 07730 609446 for details & bookings

 – Jan: Wedding at Cana Kits

 – Feb: Lost Sheep Trail

 – March: Messy Easter kits

 – April: Messy Easter Trail

– May: Messy Church  indoors if permitted, text to book!

St Mary’s Community Centre

· Large hall & kitchen               

· Small hall & sink / coffee making  area

· Wheelchair accessible toilet

Bookings: Please contact the Parish Administrator for news. We are following latest Government and CofE guidance.

The Chapel Project, Wharf Rd

(Joint project with Hants Surrey Border Methodist Circuit) www.ashvalechapel.com

Project Manager: 07730 609446

Parishioner Magazine Team

Editors: Alex Sanderson & Neil Lambert (Alex: 07730 609446)

Advertising: Eileen Monds

Collation: Alison Shewell  

Distribution: Caroline Johnson

Contact the Parishioner team: parishioner@ash-vale.org.uk

During the Pandemic we are publishing mainly online, with paper copies on request. Please collect your copy at St Mary’s or text us: 077309 609446  www.ash-vale.org.uk

We are hugely grateful to a small army of willing volunteers who contribute, collate, publish, email, print, bundle and deliver The Parishioner to all our readers!

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An invitation to the Table

By Revd. Neil Lambert

Once again, a huge thank you Dan Austin for another great Easter cover for the Parishioner Magazine. For those reading this on the web page you get it in glorious Technicolor too! You might remember, last year he took us verse by verse through the chapter in the gospel of Luke 24 and the road to Emmaus. This year, we have a picture of an English hedge row, with a tree that clearly represents the cross.

The painting was inspired by a wounded blackbird that Dan found in the road, and brought home to nurse. With the mother and father blackbird, and the eggs in the nest, it’s almost like a holy family. On the lft, representing our business that we are all involved with is the car, whizzing past. On the opposite side, a field, and the hope of something different. The Sun is shining, like a beautiful pearl.

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Happy New Year from Butterflies Preschool

Hello and Happy New Year!

Butterflies Pre-school has re opened.  We are open Monday – Friday, with longer days running on Monday’s and Wednesday’s. We are Ofsted registered and accept all funding.

When the UK Government announced another Lockdown, though Pre-schools and Nurseries were to remain open, it left us initially feeling a little confused.  However, it didn’t take us too long to carry out our own Risk Assessments, put a few extra measures in place and open safely after the Christmas holidays.

We opened Butterflies as a brand new Pre-school back in November 2019, then in March 2020 at 5 months old, we sadly closed our doors as everyone went into lockdown across the world.

In June we re opened and followed strict guidelines from Early Years and the Government, as well as our own extra measures to support infection control.  Many children returned and thankfully we kept Covid 19 free for the entire time that we were open, with just one of our families contracting the virus over Christmas.

Throughout 2020, despite the Pandemic and closure, we managed to successfully grow our team and attending children and we hope this can continue.  We run independently from the Community Hall side of St Mary’s Church and  follow the Early Years Curriculum. With an outstanding Early Years team, all highly qualified with many years of experience, they continually demonstrate commitment and dedication to providing the best and safest environment we can for our children.  

It is a blessing to see how resilient and happy our Butterflies children are as they enjoy playing and learning through play in their Pre-school.

With the new highly contagious variant of the virus spreading around, our infection control safety measures have been updated and implemented, safety continues to be one of our top priorities.  We understand it is a worrying time for many and are happy to share all the practices we have in place, should you be interested in learning more about our Pre-school.  We currently have just a few spaces left on a few days, if you are interested we would love to hear from you. For further information, please feel free to contact Natalie Andrews on 07881807337 or by email Butterfliespreschool19@gmail.com

We wish everyone in our community to remain safe and pray that all our lives can resume some normality in the not too distant future, after this challenging time.

Best wishes to all

Natalie Andrews – Owner of Butterflies Pre-school
Rebecca Hitchman – Senior Manager
Daniella Jaconelli- Manager
Kat Corbyn – Deputy Manager
Indi Dhami – Deputy Manager

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What’s on in Ash Vale? Feb/March 2021

Weekly Events:

Sundays 10am –Join St Mary’s for our weekly Church Service. All are welcome. During lockdown we will be on Zoom only, and once the doors open again we will be both in zoom and in person. Contact us to go on the weekly email list for links and news. Parishoffice@ash-vale.org.uk Wednesday night Evensong is back too, contact the office for the latest timings.

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