50/50 February 2014

Congratulations to this month's winners

47 Maxine and Ray Bowden 

73 Rebecca French

27 Paul Beech

A few Church matters .....

Dennis Offer is retiring as Church Warden at St James’s.  A big thank you to Dennis for all his hard work in saving and looking after our Church.

To keep our Church going a replacement Warden is needed.  The duties are not onerous – just to keep an eye on the Church and to attend some meetings.  If this is something you would be interested in undertaking please have a chat with Dennis or the Rev Hancock.

Secondly, the Church needs an annual Spring Clean and this is being arranged for Saturday, 10 May at 10 am.  If you have a couple of hours to spare on that morning please pop along to the Church and help out.  There will be jobs inside and out so bring along rubber gloves or gardening tools!  Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided!

Future Church services  …..

Saturday, 1 March at 10 am with Pinewood School

Saturday, 5 April at 10 am – Mothering Sunday Service (cupcakes for Mums!)

Saturday, 19 April at 10 am – Easter Service (Easter eggs for children!)

Saturday, 3 May at 10 am (Coffee after the service)

Saturday, 10 May at 10 am – Spring clean (Tea, Coffee & biscuits)

Saturday, 7 June at 10 am (Coffee after the service)

Saturday, 5 July at 10 am – special service for St James’s Day (25^th July) and World War I Commemoration (Coffee after the service)

Happy 80th Birthday to .....

lovely Doreen Titcombe!  Hope you had a great day Doreen - we still miss you in Silver Street!

Dear Villagers ...

You will have seen the devastation of the floods in the West Country, in the news. Many farmers will not recover from this terrible situation and our vicar has suggested that the entire deanery’s church collections tomorrow are donated to the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institute, which supports farmers.

As our church doesn’t have another service this month, I am sending this to the entire village to ask if we could make our own donation as we live in a rural community with very close links to the farming fraternity. I am happy to co-ordinate this but will not be knocking on doors!! We have a post box before our gate, on the wall at The Manse and, if you would like to make a donation, small or large, please place any money/cheques in an envelope and put it in the box (it’s emptied a couple of times a day). I will send this on in the hope we can do our small part in helping these people get through this dire situation.

Regards,

Dennis Offer

First 50/50 winners for 2014 are ...

70 Alex Wallace £20
9 Carolyn Francis £15
26 Martin Bazen £10.50

Congratulations!