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

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Sunday 31 May                Trinity Sunday

  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.
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 Wendy Pezzey.
We pray for her husband Charles, her daughter
Sara and all her family and friends at this sad time.

The Ministry Team:-
Ruth and 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 

TEMPORARY UPDATE
Sunday 31 May            Trinity Sunday
0800 Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Dr Sacha Pearce
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Dr Sacha Pearce
1130 PCC Meeting

Wednesday 3 June
1000 Said Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Brian Wood

Sunday 7 June            1st Sunday after Trinity
0800 Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Brian Wood
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Fr David Watson

WELCOME BACK
To Rev’d Dr Sacha Pearce.

MARILYN'S MEMOS

Wendy Pezzey

I do hope that you have all received the very
sad news that Wendy died last Sunday.
I understand that her funeral will take place in
church at 11 am Monday 8th June.

Memorial Service for Robin 23 May
We celebrated Robin’s life and significant
contribution to our weekly worship last Saturday.
Rev’d Sue presided and Robin’s sisters and niece
and great niece contributed. Richard Line played
the organ and a choir from Dartmouth joined us for
the occasion. It was a heartwarming occasion.
I feel “we did him proud”!

Martial Arts Convention
John Piket held a very successful gathering of
martial arts exponents last weekend in our Parish
Centre.

Janet Vickers

On Friday afternoon we celebrated the life of
Janet, who very sadly spent her last decade in
various care homes in the area. Rev’d Tim Buckley
led the service which featured many bible
readings, hymns and tributes from family
members.


Divertimento
We are looking forward to our concert next
Saturday afternoon at 3pm.

Congratulations to Rev’d Sue
It has been announced that Rev’d Sue is to take
the role of Chair of a new Pride of Place board,
which has a programme of £20 million grant (?)
over a 10 year period to give neighbourhoods
direct control over local high streets, green spaces
and community safety. The areas concerned are
Devonport, Morice Town and Mount Wise.
My goodness, Sue, that is some tall order!!
Many congratulations and very good luck in
chairing such an auspicious project.

Lost property

I believe a charming hat and a jacket were left
behind in church after Rev’d Peter Warland’s
funeral service.

A piano cover
Many thanks to Oly for making a piano cover
for our Bechstein. Much appreciated. Her creative
skills are boundless.


Little Doves pre school
Sarah and Jamie Dove are delighted at the progress
in creating their own space for their preschool.
Details of the programme will follow.
Marilyn

FIONA’S ORDINATION
Although I will get some tickets for the ordination,
there is also a facility for booking tickets via the
link below:

https://www.ticketsource.com/exetercathedral/t-oeerdnl

The service will be streamed live, via either the
Cathedral’s website or the diocese or Cathedral
YouTube pages. Links to these below:

Exeter Diocese YouTube page:
https://youtube.com/@cofedevon?
si=mNb3X57tl8NHu-gH

Cathedral YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@exetercathedral?
si=azOFHyvpk5AkUbXp

Cathedral website:
https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/
If, on going onto any of the YouTube pages, you
can’t find the service, try looking on the ‘live’ tab
as that’s where you might find it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN JUNE
Mac Armstrong, Lesley Morris, Steve Baker,
Terry Hewitt, Marlene Schuster, Margaret Wright.

Reverend Donald Peyton Jones
Having received comments from three people
following my article last week, I had intended to
write a second item giving more detail of his very
interesting life. However, as I felt it absolutely
necessary to formulate my tribute to Wendy
Pezzey for this week’s Sunday Bulletin, my
intended additional article has had to be put off for
a week or two.
I thank those who have already commented on
Donald’s life, and hope the delay gives them and
anyone else with additional memories of his life,
time to communicate them to me.
Tony Barnard

Memories of Wendy

Two wonderful people who, for many years, have
been a large part of our lives have now departed
this world. Both Wendy Pezzey and Reverend
Peter Warland had been very ill recently and, in
both cases, it was certain that the inevitable would
not be long in coming. I still cannot believe that
Peter is no longer to be seen chuckling as he
recounts one of his amusing tales. Also, I am still
in shock after hearing of Wendy’s passing last
Sunday. However, it is comforting to know that
Father Keith was with her at the end. A very caring
priest for whom Wendy had great respect.
The last time I saw Wendy was back in March on
the day when some members of the PCC met with
Reverend Fran French. I volunteered to collect
Wendy from her home. I shall cherish that day, not
just for having had the opportunity to meet our
new priest but because Wendy was still her normal
gentle, thoughtful, and caring self. She was
determined to meet Reverend Fran even though
she was very ill and needed to be taken home again
before the day’s events were over. She was very
much looking forward to when our new priest joins
us later in the year but will now only be there in
spirit.
Having been associated with Stoke church for
nearly fifty years now, I can recollect that, as a
Reader, Wendy was always there and a very hard-
working member of the Worship team. She is
pictured at the start of this remembrance in her
robes, about twenty-five years ago. Being a Reader
was a role which she was always so happy to be
carrying out. She was very sad (and a little
annoyed) when she had to retire from the role,
solely because of her age.
We worked together most when Reverend Gordon
Cryer was Rector, Wendy was the Reader, and I
was one of the Churchwardens. The total number
of parishioners was larger than nowadays and there
were many social events held on a regular basis,
such as nights out organised by members of the
church choir. The photograph below was taken on
a cold February evening back in 2004 at one of
these events, held in the warm restaurant of the
Crooked Spire Inn in the village of Ermington.
Wendy and choir member Jean Farrar were
obviously enjoying each other’s company.

When the weather was forecast to be good, and for
those with enough energy, we often enjoyed a
ramble, generally over different parts of Dartmoor.

Wendy (in red) and Charles can be seen in the
photograph above, in August of the same year, on
a typical Dartmoor hill, with John Mitchelmore
and John Steere in the lead, setting the pace.
Inevitably, all the walks would follow a circular
route, back to where the cars were parked, and,
essentially, near to an establishment where food
and drink could be found. After our exertions this
was very welcome and helped the social
atmosphere enjoyed by all.

One summer, the ‘Worship team’ of Rector,
Reader, Churchwardens, and spouses joined
together for a short holiday boating on the Thames,
motoring from Reading to Oxford and back again.
Gordon ensured that priests would be available for
the Sunday services whilst we were all away from
Stoke, and other parishioners covered the
Churchwardens’ duties. Everyone thoroughly
enjoyed the week, although Wendy is not smiling
in the photograph below. I am not sure, but this
might be because she was a big fan of the Archers
radio series and Judith might have been
monopolising the headphones on the radio set,
listening to Wimbledon.

Even though she is no longer here, we will all have
many very happy memories of Wendy’s time with
us and remember her calming companionship, plus
her cheerful outlook and gentle sense of humour.

As she wrote herself in her entry on the Stoke
Damerel parish church website:

“Plymouth has a lot of rainfall, but it is a
consolation that some of it ends up as gin!”

Tony Barnard