Wilmington Parish News Spring 2024

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Vicar: Revd Carl Chambers

The Vicarage, 1 Curates Walk, Wilmington, DA2 7PU Tel: 01322 634506 / 07368 223743 email: vicar.wilmington@gmail.com

For enquiries about weddings, baptism & thanksgiv ings please contact the Parish Office: 288235

Reader: Eric Hookins 662337

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Penny Culliford 07812 752395

Pastoral Assistant: Chris Hookins 662337

Licensed Lay Ministers: Jean Hook 222417

Richard Kinderman 07828703322

Churchwardens:

Youth Minister

Marc Culliford 07446 111454

Tony Bullimore

Sharon Stirman 07521 712311

Treasurer: Julie Short 292764

Electoral Roll: PCC Secretary

Sharon Duncan

Christine Jefferys 221874

Organist & Choirmaster: Alan Hunt 527959

Church Flowers:

Louise Richards 07771 863613

Parish Archivist: Keith Simons 224379

Vergers:

Honorary Vergers

Louise Richards

Chrystal Simmons

Maureen & Tony Guard

All are welcome to join us at any church service. We try and ensure that those who have never been before are made to feel part of the family from the start.

Our services are every Sunday 8.30am (approx. 45 minutes) and 10.30am (approx. 60-75 minutes).

On the first Sunday of the month there is a 5pm Evensong before a youth group (Year 6-Year 13) at 6pm.

Please contact the Vicar if you’d like to know when Holy Communion is, or would like a home visit to receive Holy Communion.

Please contact the Vicar if you’d like to know when Holy Communion is, or would like a home visit to receive Holy Communion.

From the Editor

Welcome to the Spring edition of the Wilmington Parish News. I’m sure we’re all looking forward to longer, warmer days. Some of us may be marking Lent by forgoing something. We hope that you find the variety of articles interesting. They range from a youthful adventure to South America to two deeply personal reflections on life’s challenges and ways that they can be resolved. There are, of course, items about Wilmington’s fascinating past and present day activities that may surprise you, unless you’ve seen first -hand, the lycra clad people gathering by the Memorial Hall! In fact, they represent only a small part of the many different activities that are on offer to active Wilmington residents. Just check out some of the advertisements!

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Editorial team members: Jean Hook, Shirley Wilson, Janice and Gerrard Hennessy, Sharon Stirman and Carl Chambers. We always welcome articles from readers. If you would like to submit an item for inclusion in a future edition, please send it to: StMichaelsWilmingtonmagazine@gmail.com . We also welcome letters to the editor. Please note new, working email address.

We reserve the right to edit any material submitted by contributors and, occasionally, to save items for future editions. The views expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of the editorial team, nor can we vouch for the competence of advertisers.

This newsletter is published every two months and payment can be made online via the church website/Facebook page.

John 16:33

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

CHRISTINGLE

In January the church celebrated Christingle – a special service to celebrate Jesus being the Light of the World and bringing Good News to everyone. As we shared tea and cake we learnt about the meanings of each part and made our own Christingles. We then lit them, so they shined and twinkled in the darkness reminding us that the light of Jesus is always bright and never goes out. We went home with our Christingles and the words of the song Shine Jesus Shine in our heads!

What the Christingle represents

The ORANGE represents the world that God created.

The RED RIBBON is Jesus’ love for the whole world.

The FOUR STICKS are the four compass points; north, south, east and west, because the Good News of Jesus reaches all around the world.

The SWEETS show all the good gifts that God gives us.

The CANDLE is Jesus – the light of the world.

Look at our Christingles shining in the darkness!

LOCAL SOCIETIES AND GROUPS

St Michael’s Under 5’s Playtime: Thursday 9.30 – 11am in St Michael’s Parish Centre. Contact Jean Hook, tel. 222417

Toddler Club: Wednesday 10am, Wilmington Community Church. Contact: Nicola Field, tel. 222604

St Michael’s Pre-School: Mon-Fri, 9.15am-12.15pm in the Church Hall.

Contact: Chantelle Queensbarrows.

Wilmington Women’s Institute: 2nd Tues. 2pm in the Memorial Hall.

Contact: Sheila Kennard, 01322 279706

Joydens Wood Women’s Institute: 3rd Tues, 7.45pm in Joydens Wood Community Centre. Contact: Ms Isabella Smith, tel. 557025

Wilmington Society: 4 meetings a year in the Memorial Hall Contact: Pat Burt tel. 745451

Wilmington Active Retirement Association (Wilmara): 3rd Friday, 2pm in the Memorial Hall. Contact 226943 for further information.

Leyton Cross Active Retirement Association: 2nd Thurs at 2pm in Leyton Cross Social Club. Contact: Marilyn Wells, tel. 863996

Wilmington Axtane Probus: Last Thursday of the month at 12 noon at Swanley Bowls Club. Mr Phil Burt, tel. 745451

Brownies: Tues 6.15-7.45pm, St Michael’s Church Hall

Beavers: Weds 6.15-7.30pm, Scout Hut, Whitehead Close

Cubs: Thurs 6.15-7.30pm, Scout Hut, Whitehead Close

Scouts: Thurs 7.45-9.15pm, Scout Hut, Whitehead Close. Contact: Glenn Killick at gs.1st Wilmington@gmail.com

Dartford Bridge Club: Tues at 7pm, Wilmington Community Church Hall, Contact: John Davies, tel.01474 83221

Rotary Club of the North Downs: Thurs at 7pm, Hartley Country Club.

Culvey Close, Hartley, DA3 8BS Contact: Bob Phillips, 07815807520 or John Smeeth. 07889 137951

If you belong to a group in Wilmington for the benefit of residents, please let the editor know and we will include it, space permitting. If information is incorrect or incomplete please let us know using the magazine email.

PARISH REGISTERS

Funerals/Burial of Ashes

Kathleen Benson

Kevin Kench

Nicholas Tolhurst

Bernadette King

Marion Maidment

Bryan Knight

CHURCH FLOWERS

If you have a special date when you wish to remember a loved one or to mark a special anniversary with church flowers there is a list at the back of the church. Alternatively you can telephone Louise Richards on 07771 863613. Donations for flowers should be handed to a church warden or Louise .

GENERAL INFORMATION

Wilmington Heritage Centre (side of Memorial Hall): open on the 1st Thursday of the month between 9.30 and 11.30 am and on the 2 nd Saturday of the month between 10am and midday. Contact: Jean Radford on 01322 221056.

Wilmington Parish Council office : Oakfield Park Pavillion open between 7am and midday on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. E-mail: clerk-wpc@outlook.com, tel. 01322 221149 and www.wilmingtonpckent.uk

Wilmington Memorial Hall: Bookings can be made by telephoning Barbara Harris on 07518 057941 between 9am and 6pm or using the Wilmington Parish Council website, clicking on the Wilmington Memorial Hall and following the on screen instructions.

Wilmington Police & Community Support Officers : For non urgent crimes ring 101 or email csu.dartford@kent.pnn.police.uk. Non urgent means there is no immediate danger to life, the incident is not in progress and the offender is not nearby. To report an urgent or life -threatening crime ring 999.

Dear Parishioners,

“Hope springs eternal” they say. We all want a bit of hope sometimes, don’t we?

We say it all the time. I hope the weather improves. I hope you get well soon. I hope the doctor comes through with their appointment. I hope it’s not too bad.

Hope is, by definition, looking to the future. It is anticipating something, especially that it will come out well.

But here’s a question: how can we be sure? Can we be sure of what happens in the future, and that it will turn out well?

I’m afraid I can’t promise world peace (though I pray for it), nor that your doctor’s appointment will give you the result you’d like (though I pray now for that, not knowing the specific, but asking our God who knows everything to work good in your life).

But what I can offer you is a sure and certain a joyful expectation for the future, based on true events in the past, which

changes everything about my present.

The Christian message, which seen most clearly at Easter, is that Jesus has died on the cross and risen from the dead, in order to offer a sure and certain future for those who put their trust in him.

Jesus told his disciples (in John 14) that he was going to heaven to prepare a place for them. He offers the same to anyone who would turn from relying on themselves, and take his hand, letting him lead them safely through this life, into the next.

If you want to know this for sure, yourself, please drop me a line and invite me for a coffee.

I’d love to help you have peace in this most important of questions. With very best wishes to you, CARL

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There has been a Christian presence on the ground of St Michael’s for 1,000 years. Whilst the building is not so old, there is much that needs to be done to the church and surrounds to help maintain it.

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Youth minister update

Hope you all had a great Christmas. It’s so lovely to see the snowdrops and daffodils out in the churchyard - Spring is on its way!

December was a busy month with visits to the church from local schools and groups and a real joy to go into schools to celebrate ‘the reason for the season’ - the birth of Jesus. Reception children from Oakfield Primary completed a treasure hunt around the church learning how Christmas is celebrated by the church family, collecting sticky stars as they went! The Beavers learnt the true Christmas story through crafts and took home a goodie bag as well as really enjoying the opportunity to ring the church bells! Seeing the church full of Year 7 pupils from both grammar schools for their carol service and being able to share with them that ‘He [Jesus] Is Coming Home’ was just wonderful! Huge thanks to the schools for both visiting the church and inviting me to visit them and to everyone from the church who supported me in making these visits such a joy .

It was a real pleasure to accompany a group of our more senior parishioners to Wilmington Grammar School for Boys for their Christmas Afternoon Tea where we enjoyed delicious sandwiches and cakes as well as entertainment from students - I even won a hamper in the raffle! It is really lovely to have these links to the local schools.

January brought lots of study for me as I attended a conference with 400 other Christians who work or volunteer with children and youth work and completed online lecture days for my Masters degree - I am learning a lot!

BEEs and EPIC, our Sunday Groups are back in full swing following the holidays and continue term times, with BEEs (the Bible’s Eager Explorers) for children aged 3 to 14 at 10.30am and EPIC (Every Person In Christ), our Youth Bible study at 6pm for ages 11 -18. The children and young people are joining forces on March 10th to lead our special service for Mothering Sunday so please do join us at 10.30am in the church.

During the Easter holidays we are hosting a Family Craft Morning to celebrate Easter including an Easter Egg Hunt around the church yard so please do look out for further details of this!

Please feel free to get in touch if you want any information about my work - it would be great to chat! Or pop in and see me from 10.30am12 noon on Tuesday mornings at our Church Coffee Pop -In and if you have children under 5 years of age, why not join us for our Under 5s group, Thursdays 9.30-11am in the Parish Centre (through the glass doors).

Lots of love and blessings

Sharon

Receiving my hamper from Mr Harrington!

News from Kondoa

On a recent Saturday morning at a Kondoa “GetTogether” meeting, people from various churches in the Rochester diocese joined us at St Michael’s to share their experiences of the link their church has with village churches in the Kondoa diocese, Tanzania.

It was an exciting morning as we heard about trips people had made to Kondoa over the past year, enthusiastically describing the welcome and the generosity they had received from their hosts . We were told about the many services they attended as they travelled around the extensive diocese with Bishop Given, the Bishop of Kondoa, conducting Confirmation services each lasting 3 - 5 hours! Sometimes there would be two services in one day, travelling between villages in Land Rovers along dusty unmade roads through the bush. Food is always supplied in plenty on these occasions – often goats’ kidneys specially prepared for “honoured guests”.

Bishop Given live-streamed from Kondoa, sharing his passion for making and discipling new Christians. Conjester, the Head Teacher of the diocesan school told us via a video link of the work they do to educate children and the challenges they currently face due to a change in the syllabus requirements laid down by the government. There is a fee to attend this school, (£300 per year) which many parents cannot afford so sponsorship is always being sought. An enterprising lady from St Justus Church in Rochester had the idea in lockdown to plant small cuttings in old china cups and mugs and sell them for a few pounds each. Amazingly since 2019 she has raised £8500 for the school and has never run out of containers thanks to many donations.

The link between Rochester and Kondoa dioceses has been running for over 20 years, the purpose being to foster and build up friendship and prayerful relationships as well as financial support for specific

purposes, e.g. to build new churches or provide agricultural h elp to encourage sustainability, often working with other charitable organisations such as Tearfund. St Michael’s Church has had a link with St James Church in Chemba village since 2007 and several members have visited in the past. Although language proves a difficulty, we have managed to exchange letters (thanks to Google Translate) and have also corresponded via WhatsApp. St Michael’s is planning to compile a photo album showing our church , some of its activities and members of the congregation to be sent out to Chemba later this year.

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The club recently celebrated its 80 th birthday at the AGM and annual dinner. Club rides set off from the shelter opposite the shop in the centre of Wilmington, every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, venturing near and far. One thing that every ride has is a café stop where cake and coffee is consumed with glee! A good chat in a carefully selected café is every bit as important as the ride.

New members are always welcome regardless of their ability to cycle great distances or at pace. The three different rides nearly always have long and shorter routes planned. The Friday ride is more of a social event, at a slower pace and over a shorter distance. This ride is especially suited to those who lack confidence cycling on the road but want to dust off that bike lingering in the shed.

Cycling in a group means encouragement, security and safety. Got a puncture! There will be an experienced member ready to lend a hand. You don’t need to have a super light, top of the range machine. As long as it’s safe to ride you’re most welcome. We also have club members using e-bikes which can be helpful on the hilly local roads!

The club members meet on the first Tuesday of each month in the Memorial Hall in Wilmington from 8 pm and you are welcome to drop in and chat to members if you are curious about joining in for a ride or two.

The club rides throughout the year. As long as its not too icy, blowing a gale or teeming with rain there will be intrepid cyclists gathering by the shelter from 9.15 am. You may have noticed them already! Interested? You can always come along to a clu b evening or contact the club secretary, Colin on colin.ashcroft@outlook.com

Wilmington Girl saves the elderly from their tech nightmares

A local girl who attends Wilmington Grammar and St Michael’s church, as well as the Guides and helping at Brownies, has become very popular with certain older folk in Wilmington, helping them with their tech problems.

Word of mouth recommendations already mean she is becoming quite sought after.

It helps that St Michael’s is a church where young and old are encouraged to mix together.

But when Daisy found out that some were having difficulties making the most of their devices, or even using the ‘simple stuff’, she was more than happy to help.

“No job is too small”, Daisy says. “I know what it’s like to get new devices and have helped my grandparents with their phones and other computer things. So, I love to help in church and others in Wilmington too. This also helps me with my GCSE computing”.

“Daisy is so helpful and fixed a problem with my iPad and printer that I just couldn’t sort by myself”, says one resident of The Close and longstanding member of the church.

Daisy isn’t available during the school day but has said she’s very happy to help outside of school hours (and homework time!).

She’s available on: 07308 949809 (phone, text, WhatsApp, etc). She charges £10/hour but is happy to give fr ee consultations.

Going solo in South America – a ‘gap year’ expedition

Fortunate enough to be in the position to work and travel through family friends and connections, on my gap year I found myself based in Chile for the first 2 months of my 4 months in South America working in a fast-food restaurant, 4 hours south of the capital Santiago in a town called Chillan.

Arriving in |Chile I started off settling into the trip by having 5 days to relax and get my bearings in Santiago, the capital of Chile, whilst staying with an Australian missionary friend and his family. However, within 12 hours I found myself sitting inside a floodlit cauldron of anticipation and rowdiness as ‘Colo Colo’, arguably the biggest football team in Chile were playing that night. So, I decided to cross the whole city and catch a taste of South American football! Astoundingly I managed to make 2 Chilean friends, one of whom had a British wife. Thankfully, both were English speaking and most importantly Christian. The game ended 1-1 with 2 very late goals . Being jet lagged, my first time flying alone whilst also being away on my own. Realising that I was jumping into the ‘deep end’ would be an understatement to say the least.

My last full day in Santiago, after meeting some Cambridge and Durham university students on a placement year, was enjoyed by taking part in the capital’s biggest festival celebrat ing Chile’s biggest national holiday, ‘Dieciocho’, Chilean independence day. Good job I’m 18 have energy to spare!

Moving onto and working in the town of Chillan, and living with a Chilean family was more like a ‘fever dream ’ than anything else; from flying spontaneously to a private island one Sunday morning, 40 minutes away, in a 822

10 seater private plane, to rubbing shoulders on a weekend retreat with some of Chile’s business elites.

Each day I felt blessed to wake up and be in the position I was in . As, although the 45 working week was hard going I eventually worked my way up to managing the daily operations of the restaurant. I t wasn’t at all easy going. Challenging but greatly rewarding.

Challenges such as being subject to sexual harassment, to uncovering or exposing a deep-rooted system of theft and malpractice. “Just a Gringo” they said… nonetheless my Spanish greatly improved! My wages of just £1.67 an hour (£15 per day) left a lot to be desired but I was glad to earn a bit because even buying a bag of Doritos, let alone a coffee, would cost me nearly 2 hours of my hard won wages.

A cavalcade of experiences such as going to a ‘carne asada’ (BBQ) at the owners of one of the biggest dairy farms in Chile, weekends spent on the family’s 500-acre hazelnut farm that supplies Ferrero , learning to play blackjack with raw chickpeas whilst enduring a weekend long blackout. Going up to the local ski range just to look around and being part of the local church who welcomed me so lovingly, meant I got to have a good feel of what Chilean life was like (even squeezing in going to the local team’s football match in the 1st division with a friend and his dad on my last weekend)!

Freddie Chambers

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God’s perfect timing and purpose

Approaching the end of 2023, I was on the preaching Rota to deliver a sermon on New Year’s Eve. Having free choice of Bible passages, I wanted to reflect the time of year, so chose two popular texts:

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-4, (A time for everything…) and Romans 8: 28-38. (verse 38:“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”)

When I had finished my preparation, I read it through again and was surprised, and in a way reassured, that I had written a sermon - to myself. I will explain: a week before I celebrated my 70th birthday, I received a diagnosis of breast cancer. This wasn’t a complete shock, having had quite a barrage of tests. But then came the waiting…

Hoping to have a treatment plan, I saw the consultant a few weeks later, only to find out that they wanted to do more tests, scheduled just before Christmas, after which I was told the results would take three weeks. Pre Christmas concerts and preparations were a slight distraction, but on Christmas morning I woke with a horrible thought that everything would be held up during the “dead” period between Christmas and New Year: would my results get lost, would the pathologists be in holiday mood and not concentrating, and meanwhile, the cancer would be spreading, spreading…

I truly believe that the Holy Spirit spoke to me during the low, dark week following Christmas Day. The following is a direct quote from my sermon: “Some seasons are difficult; we may not understand what God is doing.

“Why did God let this happen?” is a question often posed, and one of the hardest to answer. Our lives consist of a mixture of joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, harmony and struggle, and life and death. Some seasons are difficult, and we may not understand what God is doing. In those times, we must humbly submit to the Lord's plans and trust that he is working out his good purposes."

How could I not trust in God’s perfect timing? The delay to my treatment meant I could attend a school friend’s 70th birthday; I could enjoy a planned treat with my closest friend, and at the time of writing, I have just found out that my fears were groundless: my operation was successful, and the cancer has not spread. And yet…at my pre-op assessment, my blood pressure was found to be dangerously high. I started medication immediately, which was effective. Now if I hadn’t had the cancer, I could have been at risk for all sorts of health problems, despite feeling extremely fit.

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Jean Hook

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The topics have been wide ranging and have included ways to resolve issues that arise between Christian belief and science. The notion that Britain isn’t a Christian country anymore, how the church can become a more hospitable, welcoming place and concerns regarding the increasing number of armed conflicts around the world.

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Personal reflections by a new member of St Michael’s

I started attending St Michael and All Angels in the summer of 2023. Scottish born and bred; life took me to South Africa in 2003 where I ended up spending 19 years as an exploration geologist. During this time, I had the great privilege of experiencing different cultures, life purposes, religions, politics and of course the minerals and mining industry and academia.

Academic and work-related travel took me to North America, Australia, Russia, Scandinavia and many Southern African countries as well as to all provinces within South Africa. My career is one of success but my personal life has been a cyclic journey of hig hs and lows. My faith in God was mine not to share and I lived by the principle of 'work hard play hard'. My faith in Christianity had been brief as a child, but became marred by sectarian clashes in Scotland. This was compounded later in life by those of faith who refuted geological and scientific theory. And so, while I was always praying to God I remained obstinate ly self-relian t.

I returned to Christianity in the years following the Marikana massacre. Protests and strikes had become regular occurrences where riot police, armed guards and security personnel worked daily for the safety of others. Sometime around 2017 I started to take comfort in watching and listening to Morning Prayer from The Deanery Gardens at Canterbury Cathedral with Dean Robert – and friends on Facebook or YouTube. This daily worship reconnected me with the Christian faith and guided me to pray for the things I cannot change. It also gave me the gift of fellowship by joining Dean Robert in daily prayer, something I took great comfort in during the Covid pandemic. I believe a veil was lifted from my eyes during the pandemic and I started to gain a selfawareness I had not experienced before. I had sought to understand myself through spirituality but instead I experienced first -hand the words of St Francis "that it is by self-forgetting that one finds". I am now grateful to have St Michael and All Angels and the c hurch family led by Rev. Carl as part of my life, teaching me the Gospel, and warming my heart. Fiona, a member of St Michael’s

St Michael’s House Groups

As part of the group looking at Loving the Church we gave thanks to God for the many ways we can show His love to our Church family by supporting each other. One such way which I would like to talk about here are house groups.

Gerard and I have been involved in our House Group since 2007, . We have had a strong core membership for the past 10 years with one longstanding member very recently leaving as she w as moving away from the area. However, we are always on the look -out for new membersthis is by no means a closed shop. The more people, means more views, more sharing and more learning.

Since Covid and indeed during Covid we moved our meetings to online. Zoom is great for this and particularly in the Winter months and inclement weather an hour (we keep to time) is a right amount of time to study God's word and pray.

We have supported and loved and prayed with each other during life's difficult times. Illness, bereavement, Covid, raising children, supporting family, becoming grandparents, depression but NEVER forgetting to laugh, joke and celebrate all of the good things that come our way

We are about to start studying well known hymns. The admin for the House groups is beautifully co-ordinated by Robert Vanderwindt and each of the other many House Groups broadly follow the same study sessions.

Please see Robert or Carl if you would like to join a group. Many groups meet in person, either in the church or round at people's houses on different days and times during the week.

Janice Hennessy

A busy robin …. always welcome in our garden.

Photo taken by Jacqueline Williams, ‘The Bungalow’ Barn End Farm

Bluebell woodland