A lovely sunny day saw us meet to raise money for our own chapel. It was busy with people and the raffle was closely followed with prizes all around. In addition to the raffle there was an abundance of vegetables from our gardens which were appreciated with many taking bags away with them. The cakes of course were enjoyed and a total of £240 was raised.
 This lovely display of dahlias adorned the chapel today for the funeral of Jean Whitehead. She was our longest standing member of the Chapel and will be greatly missed by all. Jean was evacuated to Nether Whitacre and married Bert a local chap. They had two boys who attended the village school. Jean served in the Post Office for many years and loved dancing and singing. Over a hundred came to say farewell all wearing bright colours following Jeans wishes. Jean was always ready to sing the hymns with a bit of go in them and was quick to be dancing away as she enjoyed these songs. A friendly comment and a delight in meeting others particularly the younger members of the church was typical of Jean. 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. 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. |
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