Category Archives: Ministry Team Blog

Rector’s Video Letter 30th April 2020

Posted on 30th April 2020 by Revd Alex Pease

Here is this week’s video letter Winchester Villages Trust referred to in the above video letter Tim Clapp’s video introduction to Sunday’s Family Service This is one of the songs to take a look at before the service  

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Changing habits during lockdown by Revd. Alex Pease

Posted on 26th April 2020 by Revd Alex Pease

This article first appeared in Itchen Valley News May 2020 Nicky and Sila Lee the founders of The Marriage Course say that it takes eight weeks to change a habit.  It is for this reason that their course lasts eight … Continue reading →

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Rector’s Video Letter 22nd April 2020

Posted on 22nd April 2020 by Revd Alex Pease
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Rector’s Video Letter Wednesday 15th April 2020

Posted on 15th April 2020 by Revd Alex Pease
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Alex and Lucy Pease – house move

Posted on 13th April 2020 by Revd Alex Pease

Alex and Lucy Pease are moving house over the next two weeks. It’s possible that you may see removal vans in Chilland Lane.  Many of you will know that we exchanged contracts on the purchase of a house within the … Continue reading →

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Video Letter from the Rector 18th March 2020

Posted on 18th March 2020 by Revd Alex Pease

Please do follow this website by putting your email details in the box in the bottom right hand side of our home page so that you can be kept up to date on what the church is doing to respond … Continue reading →

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Lent by Revd. Alex Pease

Posted on 29th February 2020 by Revd Alex Pease

This article was published first in Itchen Valley News March 2020 Lent So, New Year’s Resolutions – how did that go then?  That determined resolution not to drink alcohol or to cut down on your sugar consumption or to go … Continue reading →

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Letter from the Rectory- Optimism in the New Decade by Revd Alex Pease

Posted on 25th January 2020 by Revd Alex Pease

This article first appeared in the February edition of Itchen Valley New The word which came to me as the year turned was ‘optimism’:  optimism both as a personal aspiration and as a hope for a new decade!  I think … Continue reading →

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Parish Ministry Team 2020

Posted on 1st January 2020 by Revd Alex Pease

Happy New Year to all our parishioners, I prepared this message before Christmas and as you read it, I should be falling over on the ski slopes! I return on Wednesday 8th January. During the Autumn of 2019 a number … Continue reading →

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It’s happening soon – we all have a part to play by Revd Alex Pease

Posted on 30th November 2019 by Revd Alex Pease

This article first appeared in Itchen Valley News December 2019 It’s all coming very, very soon.  All the preparations are being made.  Everyone is going through their time-honoured rituals.  We all have a key role to play.  A role which … Continue reading →

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1642: King or Parliament – it was one or the other then, let’s not make it binary now by Revd. Alex Pease

Posted on 1st October 2019 by Revd Alex Pease

This article first appeared in Itchen Valley News October 2019 October 2019.  When you read this, we are either staring in the face of leaving the European Union at Halloween or something has intervened to extend the deadline or even … Continue reading →

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Unbelievable?

Posted on 8th May 2019 by Revd Alex Pease

As many of you know, Lucy and I have just returned from a holiday in the United States and we have had a wonderful time.  But one the things which struck me about the US (and this will not come … Continue reading →

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Dying Well by Revd Alex Pease

Posted on 25th February 2019 by Revd Alex Pease

This article first appeared in the March 2019 edition of Itchen Valley News “You are the best granny a girl could want.  I love you so much”.  These were the last words that my mother in law, Cherry Slater, read … Continue reading →

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Letter from the Rectory December 2018 by Revd Alex Pease

Posted on 29th November 2018 by Revd Alex Pease

Letter from the Rectory December 2018 This letter first appeared in the December edition of Itchen Valley News As I write this letter, I am still rather reeling from the emotional overload of Remembrance Sunday this year.  The film They … Continue reading →

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God Pod – enjoy theology with a cup of coffee in the garden

Posted on 13th July 2018 by Revd Alex Pease

I thought that you might enjoy this.  The God Pod is a series of podcasts (normally just audio but this one is video as well) in which Graham Tomlin, Mike Lloyd and  Jane Williams talk on theological subjects sent in … Continue reading →

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