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Welcome to our traditional website for the
Three Valleys Team Ministry
There is also a newer, jolly-looking website where you will be able to watch some previous live-streamed services uploaded during Covid-19 even if you are not a member of Facebook. There is also a text version of the Reverend George Moody's blog.
To explore the jolly website please click here
(To watch the services, when you are into the jolly website, follow the on-line page
Allow time to upload).
See the Three Valleys Team facebook page as well for more information and to watch live-streamed services.
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A PRAYER FOR ALL THOSE AFFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS
Keep us, good Lord,
under the shadow of your mercy.
Sustain and support the anxious,
be with those who care for the sick,
and lift up all who are brought low;
that we may find comfort
knowing that nothing can separate us from your love
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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For a morning and evening liturgy, published by Lambeth, to be downloaded for use at home,
please click here
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PLEASE NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF THE CORONA VIRUS
EVENTS AND ALL SERVICES ARE HAVING TO BE CANCELLED. ALL CHURCHES ARE NOW CLOSED.
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Dear Friends
I don’t suppose there is anyone anywhere who is not aware of the threat to our health posed by the new Coronavirus or Covid-19 as it has been officially named. It is clearly a very nasty disease and it is causing a great deal of fear and apprehension. I am not going to join the general media description of calling our reactions to this illness ‘panic’ because they are not. It is well documented that most people in a crisis do not panic but actually react remarkably calmly.
Our village communities are normally very good at looking out for each other and these communities are usually small enough for most people to be aware of who is going to need more help than others. I am sure that most people do look out for their neighbours anyway, but I would like to remind the Christians amongst you that, one of the tenets of Christianity is to look after those who need help. It is not an optional extra but part of the central core of the faith. It is incumbent therefore for us to ensure that everyone who needs it in our villages is properly looked after. If as, we are told, those over 70 are to be confined to self-isolation it would be easy to assume when we have not seen them for a while that, that is what they are doing. However, it might equally be true that they are at home too ill to call for help. We should check. We don’t have to take unnecessary risks but we should remember that sometimes God does require us to expose ourselves for the good of the whole.
Perhaps, a telephone call, a note under the door or offers to get shopping in may be something we might consider. There are many things we could do and I am sure I don’t have to spell them out. Just remember that miracles are very often seen in the remarkable actions of others offering help to those who need it.
Prayers. The Churches in the Benefice have been asked to stop holding main services because of fear of passing infection.
The Reverend George Moody has started a blog for the Three Valleys Team Benefice https://lookupinlockdown.blogspot.com/
Yours
Tony Gilbert
Team Rector
The Reverend Tony Gilbert and his wife Nicola