Apuldram Around

MARCH 2024

Services in March

Mothering Sunday – Sunday 10th March
08.00   A special service when flowers will be distributed.

 

Good Friday 29th March:
10.00   Joint Apuldram and Fishbourne children’s service commencing at Fishbourne, with a story telling walk through the fields to Apuldram.  Arrival time there will be about 10.45 when the Apuldram Easter Garden will be blessed and refreshments served.
11.15 Solemn prayers

Easter Sunday 31 March:
08.00 Holy Communion celebration of Easter.  Following the service will be an Easter egg hunt so bring along your young ones for a half hour of fun in the churchyard.

Wet, wet and more wet……

A river with trees and bushes

Description automatically generatedThis is what Church Road looked like for most of February until the last week when WSCC’s contractors arrived with several vehicles and did some major pipe clearance.  The flood has now subsided, leaving even more potholes than before but at least they can be seen if not avoided.  We are grateful to Matt for allowing us to access the church through the farm – although this has not always been a successful route when the lower car park has been flooded.

Persuading WSCC to carry out the work has taken a great deal of tenacity and, among others, our thanks go to the Parish Meeting Clerk, the Chatwins, Marcus and Jamie for chasing up the council or being on site when the contractors were at work.

D-Day 80 6 June 2024

Readers will have seen that D-Day veterans, serving Armed Forces personnel and the leader of Portsmouth City Council met at the Normandy Memorial Wall in Portsmouth Tuesday 27 February to mark 100 days to go until the 80th anniversary. Here in Apuldram a commemoration of this anniversary will take place on the quay organised jointly by Apuldram Parish Meeting and the Dell Quay Sailing Club. The evening will follow the outline recommended by the five charities promoting this event which will culminate in lighting a beacon at 9.15pm. National Fish & Chip Day coincides with the 80th anniversary of D-Day so fish and chips will be served during the evening.  Full information will follow but go to https://static1.squarespace.com/static/640a0ac2b261e5337f7adb4e/t/6582c6c248c2d17b062d59d8/1703069437499/D-Day+80+Anniversary+Guide+v144.pdf  for comprehensive coverage of the commemoration.

Incidentally, at the Portsmouth event the names of 13 veterans from 12 allied countries were added to the Normandy Memorial Wall including that of Miroslav Moravec, of the Royal Air Force, Czech Republic.  He was based at RAF Apuldram and died when in poor weather conditions on returning home from a sortie during the D-Day Offensive his plane crashed in Birdham Pool.

USPG Lent Appeal

St Mary’s are supporting the USPG (United Society Partners in the Gospel) Lenten Appeal.  USPG is an Anglican mission charity, partnering with Anglican (and other) churches around the world in their mission endeavours.  The Society’s Lenten Appeal this year aims to help the Anglican Church in Brazil to provide care and to fight against the stigma surrounding HIV & AIDS.

If you would like to help please make a cheque out to USPG and pass it to our Treasurer who will forward it on after Easter.  Alternatively go to https://lent.uspg.org.uk/and donate online.

                              

 

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