THE PARISH CHURCH OF STOKE DAMEREL
(ST. ANDREW & ST. LUKE)

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Please note: Stoke Damerel Church does not divulge
personal information to third parties.

Sunday 10 May                6th Sunday of Easter
 

Merciful God,
we entrust to your tender care
those who are ill or in pain,
knowing that whenever danger threatens
your everlasting arms
are there to hold them safe.
Comfort and heal them,
and restore them to health and strength;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

PLEASE PRAY FOR:-
The sick:-
Maureen, Margaret W, Graham, John S, Kathy, Mo, Matt,
Bertie, Morwenna, David J, Wendy.
The long term sick and infirm:-
George, Diana, Liz & Keith N, Rob, John and Shirley.
The recently departed:-
We give thanks for the life of Reverend Peter Warland.
We pray for his family and friends at this sad time.
The Ministry Team:-
Wendy, Ruth, Marilyn.

BLESSED SACRAMENT CANDLE

If you would like to have the candle lit for a week
for a particular prayer / thanksgiving /
commemoration, etc., please send a £5 donation to
Debbie Smith, clearly marking your donation as
being for the candle. Details of your intention can
be emailed to:- sarah.lundstrom@virginmedia.com
so that a mention of the commemoration, etc., can
appear in the Sunday Sheet.

SERVICES THIS WEEK
Stoke Damerel Parish Church is a hybrid church
open for public worship and private prayer and all
services will be live streamed.
By attending a live streamed service, you give
implied permission to have your image captured
on CCTV and to be broadcast as participant in the
liturgy.

Watch our livestreamed services
Please follow the link to make your way to our YouTube page: 

 STOKE DAMEREL YOUTUBE CHANNEL 

Sunday 10 May        6th Sunday of Easter
0800 Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Sue Nicholas
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist with Confirmation
Celebrant: The Right Reverend James Grier,
Bishop of Plymouth

Wednesday 13 May
1000 Morning Prayer
1100 Funeral of Reverend Peter Warland

Sunday 17 May          7th Sunday of Easter
0800 Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Brian Wood
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Sue Nicholas

WELCOME
To the Bishop of Plymouth, the Right Reverend
James Grier, who joins us to preside and preach
today and to confirm the six candidates: Will and
Ellie Brown; Lemmy; Nicola Chapman; James and
Jonathan Salhurst. We welcome the families and
friends of the candidates and hope you will join us
for refreshments after the service.
Welcome also to Stephen Trehair, our organist and
pianist today.

MARILYN'S MEMOS

CONFIRMATION of 6 candidates
on SUNDAY 10TH MAY
Bishop James will be with us this coming Sunday
and he will be confirming three candidates from
Stoke Damerel and three from St. Aubyn’s.

CAKE REQUEST FOR THE
ABOVE SOCIAL GATHERING
Please would you be so kind as to
bring cake to share (not necessarily
home-made) after our very special Sunday
Eucharist. Thank you!

MORNING PRAYER
Morning Prayer on Wednesday 13th May will be
held in the office above the Parish Centre kitchen.

FUNERAL OF REV’D PETER WARLAND
Wednesday 13th May at 11 am.
Details of Peter’s life will be published next week.

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR ROBIN
We can now confirm that the service in
Celebration of the Life of Robin Tugwell will
be on Saturday 23rd May at 1.00pm.

WATERCOLOUR OF OUR CHURCH
We have recently received the following email:

Hi,
I have recently come across an image in a box of
belongings which I believe may be of your church.
I live in Essex, and as far as I know, we have no
family connections near you, so I am baffled as to
how it arrived in my possession!
It is a watercolour circa late 18th century and
there is an inscription on the back of the frame
‘Stoke Church, Mount Edgecumbe’
The image resembles an engraving by W. Read
‘Stoke Church Yard, Gibbet’.
I wonder if you would be able to confirm if this is
indeed your church in the image? I have had the
image and frame sympathetically restored. The
frame is believed to be original, it was in terrible
condition! There is unfortunately no signature on
the picture to be able to identify the artist.
Kind regards
Teresa Little


After confirming that it is indeed our church, this
was the reply:

Hi Marilyn,
Thank you for your response. I had to rely on the
IT skills of my 14 year old son to track down the
location!
We would love you to have the image for your
church.
We are planning to take a trip down in the first
weekend of June and we would be honoured to
deliver it to you.
Many thanks
Teresa

We look forward to welcoming Teresa and her
family to Stoke Damerel next month and showing
them over the church (minus the gibbet which
might disappoint her teenager!!)
Marilyn

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN MAY
Fiona Lang, Diana Cooke, Lorna Bartlett,
Margaret Bibby, Elaine Cresswell, Ruth Sayers.

REVEREND PETER WARLAND

I am sure that everyone who knew him would have
been very saddened to read in last week’s Sunday
News Sheet about the passing of Reverend Peter
Warland at the age of 90. He had been ill for some
time.
After the rector, Reverend Gordon Cryer, retired
just over 24 years ago, I was one of the
churchwardens tasked with organising priests to
conduct services during the ensuing Interregnum.
Gordon kindly gave us a list of names, and we
were very fortunate with those who were willing
to come on a regular basis. Amongst them were
three former naval chaplains, Reverend Rodney
Baxendale, Reverend Richard Sigrist, and Peter.
We got to know them all well over two years, until
the new incumbent was appointed, and continued
even after that. The new rector did not wish to
include the 8.00am Sunday service anymore,
although the dozen or so regulars certainly wished
to continue. Thankfully, Peter and others
volunteered to keep these services going, and they
are still on the weekly rota in 2026.

Some will know, but many may not know, that
Peter was a very accomplished musician. His
chosen instrument was the Recorder, and not just
the one instrument children try to learn at school.
Many years ago, he gave a solo performance at the
chapel of St. Nicholas in H.M.S. Drake, to which
Stoke parishioners were invited. We all thoroughly
enjoyed his performance on almost every variation
of Recorder you could think of.
Over the years Peter continued to serve, and
support Stoke Damerel parish church and was
frequently present at celebrations and money-
raising events, as can be seen on the left of the
photograph below. Some parishioners may
recognise themselves, as well as the recently
departed Janet Vickers, at the head of the table
and, behind his raised arm, the Reverend Canon
Gordon Ruming, another departed priest and very
good friend of Stoke church.

My wife and I were surprised when visiting the
Chapel of St. Peter & St. Paul at the Old Royal
Naval College at Greenwich in London. To one
side of the entrance lobby is a board listing
chaplains associated with the chapel, and Peter’s
name is on that list.
Whenever Peter took a service at Stoke church, he
would invariably share an amusing reminiscence
with us, and everyone eagerly looked forward to
his short story. Unfortunately, I cannot remember
any of them and wish I had written them down at
the time.
Once, he and I were in conversation and he
commented that he had been a friend of the late
Reverend Donald Peyton-Jones, who was a very
interesting character. I feel sure they are, even
now, both laughing and enjoying each other’s
company. Peter was a truly a wonderful person and
will be greatly missed.

Tony Barnard