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Welcome to our Parish website
Thank you for visiting our Parish website. We hope you find everything you want to know about the Team Parish of Melton Mowbray, which consists of 6 churches across the Melton Mowbray area. For more information on any of our churches, simply click on the picture of your choice of church below.
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The parish team
 Revd Kevin Ashby
Team Rector
57 Burton Road, MM, LE13 1DL
(01664) 503535 (07921 919917)
rector@meltonparish.org.uk
 Revd Dr Mary Barr
Team Vicar
The Vicarage, 23 Melton Road,
Waltham on the Wolds, LE14 4AJ (01664 464293)
vicarmary@meltonparish.org.uk
Active retired clergy:
Revd Graham Spencer,
07904 229284 grahamandtrish@talktalk.net
The Revd Canon Peter Moseling 01664 669289 frp.moseling@tiscali.co.uk
Church wardens:
St Mary’s, Melton Mowbray
Ian Neale 01664 565798
John Spence 01664 813944
St Mary the Virgin, Thorpe Arnold
Tricia Lynott 01664 562959
Catherine Shenton 01664 850422
St James’ Church, Burton Lazars
Janet King 01664 372373
Jenny Pengelly 01664 668095
St Bartholomew's Church, Welby
Peter Franklin 01664 569602
Colin Beavis 01664 851386
St Leonard's Church, Sysonby
Colin Moulds 01664 852391
David Wilford 01664 560968
Freeby Church
Jane Meakin 01664 564827
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
The Parish Office
8 Burton Street
Melton Mowbray
Leicestershire LE13 1AE
Telephone: 01664 562267
If you have a safeguarding concern, then please contact our local Safeguarding
Co-ordinator, Alyson, via the Parish Office in the Samworth Centre (address and telephone number above) or the parish priest. If you wish to speak to the Diocesan Safeguarding Team, or to someone outside the church, their contact details are available by clicking here
EMAIL
admin@meltonparish.org.uk
PARISH WEBSITE
www.melton.leicester.anglican.org
 WEB EDITOR -
Phil Balding
Telephone:
07950
342246.
philloveskaren@yahoo.co.uk
ST MARY’S CHURCH
For Church bookings, ring Alison on 503530
To book concerts in church, please email James Gutteridge at:
stmarysmeltonbookings@gmail.com or call 07832 974668
PARISH MAGAZINE
Please forward ALL articles to:
Keith Wilson
email: kgw87mm@aol.com
If you do not have access to email, hard copy (typed please) can be left at the Samworth Centre front desk.
To advertise in the parish magazine contact Advertising Manager Derek Larder on 01664 569245
To subscribe to the magazine and to receive it regularly each month contact Ken Mason on 01664 851930.
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Don't miss your chance to join in a virtual Coffee Morning being held tomorrow morning (April 4th) at 11am by Brian Wray.
All you have to do is make sure you download the Zoom app on your computer or phone, grab a cup of coffee just before 11am and then cut and paste the following link into your browser:
https://zoom.us/j/421316978?pwd=bUNpemw3YnhlbGxLUUFaRDdtaFRjZz09
It's a chance to "see" everyone and have a chat, and also a chance to learn how to use Zoom.
*Brian has put together a simple guide to using Zoom, which can be downloaded and printed by clicking HERE.
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 Thanks for your prayers and good wishes... I'm obviously being very careful what I do and can't wait until I'm able to sit on a proper chair again, like a grown-up!
Last week's Passion Sunday "Zoom" Service was much appreciated and we intend to repeat the exercise this coming Sunday (Palm Sunday) at 10.05am. If you asked to be invited to last week's service, you will be invited to this one too (and all future ones).
If you want to be sent an invitation text me (on 07921 919917) your email address and you will receive an invitation (it may be on Sunday am) which will give you a link to the service. Please don't share your invitation with anyone else... ask them to contact me directly for their own invite.
Any liturgy should be available to download on this website by Saturday evening so you can print it off or view it on another electronic device. Oh, and don't forget to download the Zoom app. Very much look forward to seeing (literally!) you on Sunday morning!
To download and print a simple guide to using Zoom by Brian Wray click HERE.
God bless,
Kevin.
*For a message of support from Churches Together
in Melton Mowbray click HERE.
*To download a leaflet with prayers for use during this troubled time click HERE.
*If you just want to chat, Alyson Ashby has set up a WhatsApp group “Melton Team Chat”. Just text or email her your mobile number (07843802355/alysona.ashby@hotmail.co.uk) and she’ll add you to the group. Of course, you’ll need to download WhatsApp onto your phone.
*Melton Borough Council has set up a Community Support Hub to coordinate, help and support residents across the borough during the Coronavirus outbreak. To find out more click HERE.
*All donation for Storehouse that were left in St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray, or Mary’s Place before the buildings closed have been delivered to Storehouse.
To find out how you can donate money so that items they need can still be purchased and to view a message from Storehouse Co-ordinator Caroline Stannard click HERE.
*To view a special edition of St James Blazers magazine click HERE.
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*The font in St Mary the Virgin Church, Thorpe Arnold, was pictured in The Daily Mail on Thursday, March 26th, in an article on an amateur photographer who is trying to photograph all of England's rural parish churches. To view the article click HERE.
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*To view the April issue of the Melton Mowbray Team Parish magazine Parish Views click here.
Please note that Parish Views will appear only on this website for the foreseeable future. Please forward ALL articles to: Keith Wilson via email at: kgw87mm@aol.com
The copy deadline for the May 2020 magazine is 10th April. If you haven't written for the magazine before, now is your chance to do so.
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| | Some good news in the midst of such difficult times is that contractors MSM (Midland Stone Masonry Ltd) have completed the renovation work at St Mary the Virgin Church, Thorpe Arnold, writes Catherine Shenton.
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| | Here's the chance to take a trip down memory lane and try to see who you can identify in some pictures sent in by John and Liz Craig. |
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| | For a prayer of blessing for us to pray for one another across the Melton Team Parish in April, please read on... |
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| | As I write this, it’s less than a week since our society has been turned upside down by attempts to halt the spread of Covid-19 and ease pressure on the Health Service, writes the Revd Kevin Ashby. |
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| | The trip to the 2020 Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria, plus a week on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, to be led by the Rector from 7th – 16th September, has been cancelled for this year, and is to be rescheduled for 2022. |
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| | Pirates of all ages set sail for a fun morning in St Mary’s Church, Melton Mowbray, on Saturday (March 14th).
One hundred and ten adults and eighty one children took part in the morning with the theme of Pirates Ahoy!
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| | St James Church took over the Burton Village Coffee Morning on Saturday, March 7th, to raise funds for the Albania Earthquake Project, writes Janet King. |
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There is a way in which we can participate in Communion with Jesus Christ ‘spiritually’ even when serious reasons, such as the necessary restrictions placed on us during these very difficult circumstances caused by the Coronavirus, prevent us from sharing in it together, Writes Team Vicar, the Revd Mary Barr. Find out more by clicking HERE.
Or you can view some video messages on this from the Revd Barr by clicking HERE and HERE.
*The Revd Barr is also inviting people to join her at midday to pray for each of our Melton Team churches and their surrounding communities using the Time to pray app. To find out more click HERE.
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“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” – Winnie the Pooh
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The Glory of
the Garden
By Rudyard Kipling
Our England is a garden that is full of stately views,
Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues,
With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by;
But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye.
For where the thick laurels grow, along the thin red wall,
You will find the tool- and potting-sheds which are the heart of all;
The cold-frames and the hot-houses, the dungpits and the tanks,
The rollers, carts and drain-pipes, with the barrows and the planks.
And there you'll see the gardeners, the men and 'prentice boys
Told off to do as they are bid and do it without noise;
For, except when seeds are planted and we shout to scare the birds,
The Glory of the Garden it abideth not in words.
And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose,
And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows;
But they can roll and trim the lawns and sift the sand and loam,
For the Glory of the Garden occupieth all who come.
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing:"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
While better men than we go out and start their working lives
At grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner-knives.
There's not a pair of legs so thin, there's not a head so thick,
There's not a hand so weak and white, nor yet a heart so sick,
But it can find some needful job that's crying to be done,
For the Glory of the Garden glorifieth every one.
Then seek your job with thankfulness and work till further orders,
It it's only netting strawberries or killing slugs on borders;
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden,
You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,
So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray
For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!
And the Glory of the Garden it shall never pass away! |
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