A late start, but a good crowd. Christine, Vincent, Val, Colin, Sue and Malcolm hosted this month’s coffee morning raising a record £205.50 for Queen Victoria's Seafarers Rest (QVSR). This is a Methodist society that helps up to former seafarers in their care and retirement offering a total of up to 175 formal car home places in Poplar and a number of other centres at several major ports. The tables looked lovely decorated with flowers and there were lots of raffle prizes to be won. See you next month.
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Our garden team have noted that once again we have some orchids growing in the lawn area. As a result we have not been mowing the grass outsides to encourage them to flourish. So we have these special flowers which we are looking after even if you think we have neglected our lawns With thanks to Vince our quizmaster £225 was raised for the chapel. Seven teams fought it out bravely with the tie breaker demanding the need to work out how many red London buses there were! 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. 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. |
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