Newsnotes

We should have known better than to choose a date at the beginning of Wimbledon! Still, it could have been a lot worse, the rain kept away and the clouds and winds let the sun through. The Martlets Choir sang a beautiful set for us all, Maggie, John and Mark ran a tight ship on the bbq front, Donald on drinks and Lai, Gloria and Vera on cakes. Thanks to everyone who turned up on the day, it was a lovely community event. We even raised £600 for the church which is great and more.
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Chatty Café on Friday was quite emotional apparently; Sue Jacobs, as part of her training course to become a Minister, has to do a project on evangelising (usually one of the least popular topics), and she shared it with the café-goers. Rachel said “We had an emotional chatty cafe, Sue shared her video of her coming to faith and into the ministry training. It was a wonderful story, heartfelt and touched everyone who was there. Gloria was sobbing! Hope you get to see it.” Hopefully we will all get to see it, possibly at a Sunday service and more.
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Street party 1 July
Can you blow up a balloon or string bunting up? Rachel is still looking for people to help set up the street party tables, put up bunting, blow up balloons etc from 10am onwards on 1st July. We generally have sufficient bods at the end to help with take down. Cakes for the cake stall would be very welcome as well and more.
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While at the Big Church Festival, Jackie and Sue were both interviewed by one of the group planning the Wall of Everlasting Prayer monument and more.
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Our two lovely Labour councillors, Julie Cattell & Leslie Pumm joined us for breakfast and chatted with our guests.
Thanks to Maggie, Jenny, Lai and Donna for volunteering their time on Saturday.
It was good to come together after a wonderful thanksgiving service and wake on Friday for our beloved Jacqui xxx and more.
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Big Church festival
Sue, Mark, Woody, Dotty, Lou and Jackie were all at the Big
Church festival this weekend.
Judging from the photos, a
good time was had by all and more.
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Any who wish to join friends and family of the wonderful Jacqui Edwards in a service of remembrance and celebration led by Rev Andy Lowe. Dress code is informal and no black please. There will be refreshments in the hall after the service.
No flowers please but donations to Jacqui’s treasured Food and Friendship will be greatly appreciated which you may do by following this link: https://www.givey.com/foodandfriendship and more.
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Our beloved Jacqui passed away during the early hours last Friday morning. We could not have wished her to linger on, but she has left a huge gap in our lives. She was a beautiful soul, an example of love in action; flowing, laughing and dancing. She joined us as a pillar of lunch club, then quickly became a pillar of this church and Rachel’s right hand at Chatty Café and church events. The outpouring of love following her passing is the best testament to her and more.
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Paul, lifelong member of this church, musician and founder of Stay Up Late is starting his training to be a local preacher. We are overjoyed to welcome him to the preaching roster alongside Sue, Stella and Andy, with tutor support from Jonathan and more.
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Jubilations kicked off in style with a wonderful lunch from Food & Friendship; we had Coronation Quiche, bubbly and scones and more.
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