Broad Chalke Church

Church Websites and Bulletin

NAME	TITLE	TELEPHONE	ADDRESS
Chalke Valley Churches	Administrator	07890 262376	Chalke Valley Churches Broad Chalke page with online calendar.
Church Times Archive			Church Times Archive 1863 to today

Chalke Valley Bulletin and other messages

This is the Chalke Valley Bulletin for December 1st 2022 (PDF document, may take a little time to download).

Message from Rev'd Catherine Blundell

Dear All,
After 7 ½ years as Team Rector I will be leaving the Benefice in January 2023 when David and I will be moving to our cottage in Devon.
Bishop Andrew has written:
The Revd Catherine Blundell has decided to retire as the Team Rector, with effect from 31st January 2023. Catherine’s last Sunday will be the 8th January 2023.
These last 7 years have been fabulous, sometimes fraught, but full of laughter and joy. I will never forget them, and I will certainly never live in such a beautiful place again. Yes, Devon is lovely, but the Chalke Valley is very special indeed.
I do not know what work I will be doing next, I am not going to another Benefice, instead I will take some time off and listen to God’s call.
This will be unsettling news for some people but there are plans in place to make sure all parishes receive pastoral care and cover on Sunday’s. Jenny and Ruth (who knew about this before she was interviewed), will both lead you all through the vacancy.
This will be a long goodbye and I will get to speak to most of you before we leave.
In the meantime, my sincere thanks, and we will carry on with our plans for the autumn.
Catherine Blundell
Revd Catherine Blundell
Team Rector for the Chalke Valley Churches
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For Churchwardens etc who might have missed it, the new arrangements agreed by the clergy for services beginning on Sunday 19th September are:
* Orders of Service: We will return to using the Orders of Service that we used before the pandemic.
* Singing: We will include 4 hymns and those churches that sing the liturgy will recommence doing so.
* Masks will still be advisory especially in the smaller churches when it is busy and when we can no longer keep the doors open.
* We will keep offering hand gel.
* We no longer need to take names of people who attend.
* The chalice. The clergy have discussed this at length and have decided to review offering the chalice at the end of October. Infection rates in Wiltshire are still very high and we want to keep people as safe as possible as long as possible.
With Best Wishes
Geoff
Geoffrey Taylor
01722 503081

This is the Chalke/Cueibet Partnership Newsletter 8 (PDF document, may take a little time to download).

This is the Fellowship Study Group (PDF document, may take a little time to download).

CHALKE TALK

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Local Events

See also events in the Chapel.

DATE	PLACE	TELEPHONE	EVENT
Every Tuesday	Village Hall & Old School	01722 780789 01722 781200	Parenting Course; five to fifteen year olds; 10.15am; contact Caroline Lamb or Jayne Jennings
Every Tuesday	Wake House, Ebbesbourne Wake	01722 780285 01722 780008	Fellowship Study Group; Jane's Group meets weekly on Tuesdays, 10.00am until noon; contact Jane Pelly or Jackie Lowe
Tuesday evenings	All Saints' Church		Team Prayers; 5.00pm
Tuesdays and Thursdays	URC Chapel		Benefice Resource Centre; Library of Faith inspiring books and Traidcraft goods for sale; Tuesdays 10.00am to 12 noon and Thursdays 12.30pm to 4.00pm
Every 2nd Wednesday	Lodge Farmhouse	01725 519242 01722 780028	Meditation usually 3.30pm; contact Janet Roe or Anna Watson
Various dates & times	All Saints' Church	01722 780654 01725 519242	Church rotas contact Jane Gilbert or Janet Roe
4th December 2022	Lodge Farmhouse		Make some stars to decorate the church; 3.00pm - 4.00pm; contact Janet Roe
15th - 18th December 2022	All Saints' Church		Stars & their place in stories, particularly the Nativity; 10.00am - 4.00pm;
18th December 2022	All Saints' Church		Christmas Story; and short service for children plus tea; 3.00pm
20th December 2022	All Saints' Church	01722 780654	Christmas Decorations; 9.30am; contact Jane
21st December 2022	All Saints' Church		Christmas Service & Readings; 7.00pm
---------------- The Parish Council update states that repositioning of the Church flagpole is being considered.
Improvements	All Saints' Church		Parish Questionnaire: Friends of All Saints' Church have discussed improvements for the Church. Contact Chris Littlemore on chris @ cplarchitecture.com (no spaces) or by hand to Meadow House, High Lane. See the 2008 proposals below which are now largely out of date.
Phased work 2008 plans	All Saints' Church		Broad Chalke Church Development Project 2008, now subject to review Phase 1 - An improved lighting system, now complete Phase 2 - Improvements to the hearing loop system, upgrading the sound system and the integration of an audio-visual system, all now in hand including finance Phase 3 - New heating system; fundraising will be required Project details displayed in the porch in 2008 now seem to be a long-term plan, only partly implemented in the three phases described above. The plans included replacing central pews with seats; a new square centre altar; new vestry; additional storage; other relocations; improved lighting and heating using ground heat reclamation; inner glass doors to South Porch and an extension with kitchen and toilet through the North door. These were the three 2008 proposals: Church Upgrade 2008 (Potential Changes); Church Upgrade 2008 (Flexibility 1) and Church Upgrade 2008 (Flexibility 2);
ongoing	St Martin's Fifield Bavant	01722 417900	Fifield Bavant Church Restoration Appeal; contact William Hillary,

The Ministry Team

NAME	TITLE	TELEPHONE	ADDRESS
All Saints' Church			South Street, Broad Chalke, Salisbury, SP5 (Car park in The Causeway)
Rev'd Catherine Blundell (from 7th July 2015 to 8th January 2023)	Team Rector	01722 780134	The Rectory, Newtown, Broad Chalke, Salisbury, SP5 5DS
Rev'd Jenny Taylor	Team Vicar	01722 503081	27 Viking Way, Salisbury, SP2 8TA
Mr David Blundell	Licensed Lay Minister	01722 780134	The Rectory, Newtown, Broad Chalke, Salisbury, SP5 5DS
Rev'ds Ana & Tod Gobledale	URC Ministers	01722 330980	URC Website & contact form
Rev'd Jackie Lowe	Assisting URC Minister	01722 780008	Church Bottom, Broad Chalke
Emily Broomhead	Benefice Office Team Administrator	07890 262376	Church Office, Byworth, Meadow Close, Dinton, Salisbury SP3 5HY or URC Chapel, High Road, Broad Chalke, Salisbury, SP5 5EH
Chalke Talk	Chalke Talk News Editor
Chris Littlemore	Churchwarden
Rev'd Canon David Henley (retired February 2014; died 10/12/2018)	Team Rector		Hatch Beauchamp, Taunton TA3 6SD
Rev'd Roger Redding (retired 8th July 2012)	Team Vicar		Tintinhull, BA22 8PQ
Rev'd Alison Williams (retired 30th November 2012)	Team Vicar		Nunton, Salisbury, SP5 4HP
Rev'd Julian Thomas (retired 2013)	URC Minister		United Reformed Church
Rev'd Tom Grant (retired)	URC Minister		URC Website & contact form
Rev'd Rick Williams (moved 30th April 2017)	Team Vicar		Charfield, one of the team villages, just off the M5 north of Bristol, close to Chipping Sodbury and Wotton-under-Edge.
Rev'd Roger Leake (left 26th June 2022)	Curate	07947 149146

Assisting Ministers

NAME	TITLE	TELEPHONE	ADDRESS
Rev'd Canon Anthony Hawley	Assisting Minister	01794 390607
Rev'd Canon Tony Monds	Assisting Minister	01722 420942
Rev'd Canon Ann Philp	Assisting Minister	01722 555178
Rev'd Kate Rosslyn Smith	Assisting Minister	01722 780011

Lay Worship Leaders

NAME	TITLE	TELEPHONE	ADDRESS
Yvonne & Kevin Follett	Lay Worship Leader	01747 828785
Caroline Lamb	Lay Worship Leader	01722 780789	Knighton Manor, Broad Chalke, Salisbury, SP5 5EB
Sally Leaver	Lay Worship Leader	01722 780447
Naomi Martin	Lay Worship Leader	0771 3031774
Donald Morgan	Lay Worship Leader	01722 718557
Adrian Taylor	Lay Worship Leader	01722 325862	Florida, Nunton Drove, Nunton, Salisbury, SP5 4HZ
Gill Riley	Lay Worship Leader	01722 780538
Janet Roe	Lay Worship Leader	01725 519242
Biddy Trahair	Lay Worship Leader	01722 780666	Yew Tree House, Lower Road, Charlton All Saints, Salisbury, SP5 5HQ
Roderick Voremberg	Lay Worship Leader	07785 304142
James Wardroper	Lay Worship Leader	01722 718152