Of course the main event in June must be the Summer Fair. It’s our main fund-raising activity and takes over our lives for a couple of weeks [if not longer in some cases].
The date?
Saturday 11th June
The time?
10.30am-2.30pm
I would say we have all the usual stalls but in fact, this year we have two changes. There is NO plant stall but there is an Egg Cup stall – so if you have any egg cups you want to get rid of bring them along or, if you’ve always been meaning to buy more, this is your chance.
There’s also a magnificent Raffle – TWO weekends in Paris, 2 £50 vouchers from HMV and a meal for 8 served in your own home. Tickets are available every Sunday so buy now. The raffle will be drawn at the close of the Fair.
Otherwise we do have many of the usual attractions which you’ll find listed on page 12. Help is always needed and we particularly want Bottles for the Tombola, Toys, Cakes, Bread, Biscuits, bric-a-brac and Good, Clean, Clothes for the Tip Top Shop. If you have electrical items please bring them well in advance because Mark doesn’t sell anything he hasn’t tested.
There are other things this month.
The children are having a special day on 26th June: an All Age Eucharist, Sunday School Open Day with displays in the church and lunch in the Crypt [outside if fine] and the Junior Choir Prom at 1pm. The Junior Choir have been working on this for weeks so do come along and hear them. Proceeds of the lunch will be divided between the Sunday School fund and Samaritan’s Purse Walter Filter project. We take water so much for granted in this country, buy it in bottles and then abandon them still half full, drink as many litres a day each as many people have for their entire family and moisturise our skins as if we expect them to shrivel up and drop off, so it’s salutary to remember places where water is a precious commodity and as likely to kill as cure without such projects as these.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been experimenting with the layout of the pew sheet, in accordance with the directive in the Mission Action Plan, and during the next few months we’ll be printing amended [and temporary] Orders of Service. It makes sense to do this during the long weeks of Trinity as it gives us plenty of time to try different ideas. The Worship Group will then take all the samples and your comments and try to come up with a definitive Order of Service that pleases everyone!
People are travelling
Robert Trigg joined the Study Centre outing to Brussels and Stella Greenall has been Among Arabian Sands; they have both written about their experiences.
The PCC Secretary has been busy
We have two reports this month – from the Annual Parochial Church meeting and from the first meeting of the newly-convened PCC.
And finally a big Thank you to everyone who helped during Christian Aid Week. We all got soaked collecting in the High Street!
June
Judy East