Scaffolding going up around the tower of Camber Church
Upcoming work on Camber church
Sometime in the autumn you’ll see scaffolding going up around the tower of Camber Church. We’ll be restoring some of the wood weatherboarding cladding on the tower along with other work. We also hope to renew and restore the tower clock and move it to a position more visible from the road.
Accessing the church building when it’s locked
Sadly, Camber church remains locked most of the time except when I’m in the office or when there’s a service. We’ve not been able to organise a regular rota to keep it open during the day.
If you wish to enter the church, ring one of the Churchwardens (07808 21122) or me, Jacques, (07931 217458) and we will give you the code to the key safe of the front door key.
The key safe is just to the left of the front doors. This gives you access to the main body of the church only.
Jazz Concert
We’d hoped to organise a jazz concert at Camber church on September 5th but sadly we had to cancel that date. We may return to this sometime in the future, but we’ve not decided if and when.
Summer Experiment
With the promise of extra warm weather (repeated heat waves even), we again experimented with changing the times of service during the summer months. We moved the time to 9.00am.
This was partially to avoid the traffic chaos that sometimes arises at Camber, coming to and going from Church. I think some appreciated the earlier time so they could come to church and then get on with enjoying the day, especially on those lovely warm days we enjoyed this summer.
Most weeks we welcomed visitors and they probably appreciated the earlier time. But some might have found it harder to get to church. From September, the time of the service returns to the usual time of 10.30am.
Lammas
On the first Sunday in August, at East Guldeford, we celebrated Lammas, an ancient tradition (Anglo Saxon probably) of giving thanks for the first wheat harvest of the year by blessing a loaf of bread.
It should have involved local wheat and locally made bread, but we could only manage the latter. But we’re pretty sure the flour was at least British, maybe even English. At the service, we read the following poem which many appreciated.
Be gentle…when you touch bread.
Let it not lie…uncared for, unwanted.
So often…bread is taken for granted.
There is such beauty in bread;
beauty of sun and soil,
beauty of patient toil.
Wind and sun have caressed it.
Christ often blessed it.
Be gentle…when you touch bread
Discovered next to a loaf of bread, tucked in an alcove at Cartmel Priory.
