Our now annual village rogation walk saw the Methodist church once again host the start point of the event. Over 200 walkers set off around the parishes after enjoying tea, coffee and toast. Many thanks to all the servers and setting up to make such a lovely start.
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The May coffee morning was held to support Christian Aid and many people were encouraged to gift aid their donation so they are able to be gift aided so that they can support even more people. The cakes combined with the tea and coffee led to a good attendance and £300 is ready to be forwarded to Christian Aid.
 Caught part of our gardening team strimming and mowing today. He was snapped with his strimmer in action. Our thanks goes to Mike and the rest of our team who work, weed, plant and cut often without ever being noticed.
Our busy Easter service was lead by Rev Chris Giles and the church was decorated complete with the annual Easter Lilies - which are in remembrance of those who have passed. A bright sunny warm day saw us raise £186.65 for the Leprosy Mission who concentrate on diagnosing and treating people with leprosy, and transforming lives through care, research and advocacy. Easter and its holidays was often a topic of discussion with friends.
As part of our service today led by Arthur the Open the book team put on their Zacchaeus show for our congregation.  The story was Jesus and the Tax Collector Zacchaeus, who hid in a tree. Jesus made him change his ways and said would pay back all the taxes he had stolen. A lovely morning and some delicious home made cakes from Evelyn. It was good to see her and Mike. Pauline and Phil worked hard to keep people’s cups continually refreshed and £137 was raised for Hillside Animal Sanctuary. There was a bit of trouble getting into Cottage Lane but people were very patient and the lorry driver came inside to make a contribution to our charity because he said we were so pleasant compared to some who had verbally abused him!
The daffodils on the tables were very pretty and cheered everyone as they came inside. Peter and Chris celebrated with us their diamond wedding anniversary this morning. A cake was shared with all with our post service tea and coffee. Once again our annual fish and chip supper quiz turned out to be a success. Vince our quizmaster supremo did a "tremendous" job of keeping the quiz teams in check. His "horrendous" questions kept all the contestants working hard and even the "hazardous" waste from the fish and chips was swiftly dealt with making the whole evening a "stupendous" success. We even had to deal with a question like "which are the only four commonly used words which end in DOUS?" Can you guess the answers yet? Many thanks to all who helped set up, wash up and keep the punters happy with particular thanks to Vince our quizmaster. The winning team "Aint got a clue" clearly did; with a winning score of 48. However the other teams mostly kept them very honest. The Mensa rejects, Dream team, The cottagers, Pennys gang, The odd bods, Been here before and the 5% club all enjoyed themselves immensely. |
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