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

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Sunday 24 May                Pentecost

  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 George Sayers.
We pray for Ruth and 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 

TEMPORARY UPDATE
Sunday 24 May           Pentecost
0800 Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Dr Sacha Pearce
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Dr Sacha Pearce

Wednesday 27 May
1000 Morning Prayer

Friday 29 May
1400 Memorial Service for Janet Vickers
Conducted by Rev’d Tim Buckley

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

WELCOME BACK
To Rev’d Dr Sacha Pearce, who will be with us
for the next two weekends.

MARILYN'S MEMOS

A glimpse of Rev’d Frances French

Some of the PCC and both churchwardens met
Rev’d Frances. We are very much looking forward
to welcoming her in a couple of months.

Plymouth Brest Twinning Weekend
This is the reason I was not in church last Sunday.
I was with this large group of Bretons and hosts in
Dartmouth last Friday which was the start of a
very hectic weekend.

The return match will be around the 3rd week of
September so sadly I will miss the pilgrimage to
Walsingham, as the date for the latter has been
moved forward and now coincides with the French
trip.

Stoke Damerel tower roof
The architect (Simon Crosbie of Le Page) met
the contractor and team on Thursday May 21st.
The supporting steels are all in and they are
starting the timber carcassing later in the day,
with the new sarking boards fitted Friday / rest
of Monday. It will be about a week for the
leadwork, so the target for completion is the
beginning of June. Simon will check next week
before the lead starts going down so we can
expect a further report.




An Appeal from The Harbour Centre
We have received the following appeal from The
Harbour Centre:
Myself and my colleague Linda, work with the
street homeless, veterans and people suffering with
severe mental health concerns (that result in
hospitalisation) and addictions in hospital.
We support them to stay in hospital by getting them
on prescriptions for drugs and alcohol and
supporting them to stay on them when the return
back to the community.
Many of our clients arrive at hospital with nothing
no clean clothes, toiletries, visitors and so forth
many try and leave before getting the right
treatment.
We have a small clothes bank; toiletries draw in a
cupboard in our office that is increasingly in
demand. Staff top it up as best we can however, we
always struggle to provide for the demand even the
emergency staff nurses come up to see us for items
if there has been a patient admitted during the
evening or in a car crash, fire etc. Some patients
stay for weeks or months.
We are writing to local churches to see if we can
get any support from the community to collect
toiletries for the hospital patients, at their local
fundraising events. We as a team can collect items
also. A majority of our patients are street homeless
males about 80% male.

If you can help provide any items, please bring
them to church and we will start a collection.

Delamore and Beryl Cook
Just in case you have not yet had time to visit
either of the above: Delamore House at Cornwood
holds an art exhition and sales in the house itself
and the beautiful gardens are open during May.
Similarly the Beryl Cook exhibition closes at the
end of May. It really is a lot of fun and you will
come out smiling!
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.

MAJOR THE REVEREND DONALD PEYTON JONES, DSC
Two weeks ago, when I wrote my tribute to
Reverend Peter Warland I made mention, toward
the end of the article, of Reverend Donald Peyton
Jones. He liked to be known as PJ and I have no
doubt that some parishioners will know of this
man, but others may not. Therefore, I thought I
would make him the topic this week, as I consider
his life story is certainly worth telling. Even
though he does not figure amongst the priests who
have had close association with Stoke Damerel
church, members of his family have lived nearby,
in Acre Place, for many years.

Reverend Donald Peyton Jones
painted by Geraldine Mead in 1960
(Royal Marines Regimental Museum)

Although I never met him, we knew one of his
sons, and my wife sailed with him in the 1960’s
when he was chaplain aboard the Sail Training
Association schooner, Malcolm Miller, and she
was a member of the first all-female crew on the
vessel. Additionally, both my sons, as teenagers,
were friends of his grandson.

Sail Training ship Malcolm Miller

Donald was born in Sydney, Australia in 1914.
His great-grandfather had been a captain in charge
of a settlement of convicts on Tasmania and his
father, Lewis Tobias Peyton Jones, served in both
the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Navy
before retiring to grow tomatoes on Guernsey.
Knowing that Stoke Damerel’s Captain Tobias
Furneaux was responsible for naming locations in
Tasmania when he had sailed there with Captain
Cook, 67 years before the convict settlement,
perhaps the middle name, Tobias, was in homage
to Furneaux.
Donald’s brother, Loftus, won a DSO in 1942 and
his cousin, Loftus William had been awarded a
posthumous VC at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
PJ was commissioned into the Royal Marines in
1933 and became a founder member of the Special
Boat Service in 1941. At the outbreak of war, as a
specialist in gunnery, he had served on HMS
Coventry for three years.
In 1938, or 1939, Donald had married Anne
Carlyon Coode in Sussex. Is it just an intriguing
coincidence that we have memorials to members
of the Coode family each side of Stoke’s chancel
arch? More research is needed here, perhaps. He
was then attached to the 8th.army and at D-day, in
1944, was assistant beachmaster on Sword beach.
After the war he commanded the Small Raids
Wing and created new training methods, still in
use many years later. In 1959 he left the marines
and trained for the ministry. He served as a curate
at Wythecombe and Salcombe Regis, where he
stood up for the hippies, and was elected to the
local council, where he defended them, then
serving as vicar of Appledore. As well as his
association with the Sail Training Association, he
was honorary chaplain of the Royal Navy Sailing
Association. On retiring he went to live in
Cawsand with his family and became involved in
The Mission for Seamen.
He sadly lost both his wife in 1984, as well as
two of his sons. However, his spirit was not
diminished, and he lived out his last years in
Nazareth House. Although he had to have both
legs amputated, he was still to be seen, in his
electric wheelchair, heading for his local
Stonehouse pub. Many years previously he had
commented that there was more fellowship there
than in a church.
In many ways he echoes the character of Reverend
Robert Stephen Hawker who had been baptised at
Stoke church in 1803 or 1804.
When Vicar of Appledore, Donald had worn his
green Marine beret with white cassock and
sandals, visiting on his horse and leaving
hoofprints on parishioners lawns.
Tony Barnard