17 Nightingales and 3 from the Men’s group had a very enjoyable evening watching The Kings Speech at St John’s. We had a break half way through for a cup of tea and a cake. Hopefully this will help us with the Lent Course called ‘Finding a voice’ that is going to include extracts from the film - Liz Burton
I am delighted to announce that the PCC has appointed Julian Patching as our new “Community and Youth Pastor” starting from 1st February 2012. His duties will include various pastoral and Sunday worship duties as well as setting up new youth work in the parish. There will be a short act of commissioning for Julian during our services at both churches on Sunday 5th February. Read the rest of this entry »
Every year during Lent (the weeks leading up to Easter) we meet at St. John ’s for a short course about some aspect of our faith. (Some of our small groups will stop meeting and join together, along with others, for these weeks). This year we will be using a course called “Finding a Voice” which is inspired by the film “The King’s Speech”. The sessions will include worship, excerpts from the film, an introductory talk and led bible based discussion in groups.
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There were about 15 of us ladies and we went to The Artichoke at Brentwood on Wednesday 14th December for our christmas meal.
It was a lovely 3 course meal and we were all bloated after the 2nd course of the carvery but all managed to eat dessert, some of us even managed “Syryp pudding and custard” !!
Eulogy for a fiendI’m quite honoured this month. I’ve been asked to write a piece about a much loved yet much maligned (in this column) member of the Hopkinson family. Sox the cat. I first saw Sox as a kitten at the rectory. I wanted to pick him up then, but I held back as he wasn’t my cat. Mind you, he wasn’t the Hopkinsons’ cat either, He was no one’s. Cats own themselves. If anything, he would have owned a Hopkinson human once he’d chosen which one he wanted. Besides, he was far too busy jumping on the furniture and being curious about everything.
Rob Aley has kindly written about the men’s group outing on the 7th November evening to Wapping and recalls the evening’s events.
After meeting at Laindon and travelling to Fenchurch Street, where we met with others, we had a very interesting walk through the old East End to Wapping. This part of London has changed immensely and been refurbished beyond recognition, however many of the old landmarks still remain intact.
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Yaaaaay, it’s firework monthAt least, it seems like a month where I live. They can’t just have them on November the fifth or the closest Saturday, no. It’s every night for about the whole of November and sometimes the last couple of weeks of October as well. Mind you, we don’t appear to have had the October part this year, so maybe we’re in for a quietish November too. Times really are hard, aren’t they?
On Sunday the 16th October we hosted a Confirmation Service with the Bishop of Chelmsford, Stephen Cottrell. It was a great time for celebrating the commitment that all the candidates had demonstrate and the support they gained from there friends and family.
St John’s had 12 candidates from our own parish and a similar number from other parishes in our deanery so space was going to be tight! In total we believe we managed to pack in over 190 folks into St John’s Church.
My garden’s so bigThey’ve been teaching the Oak Wood pre-school kids hymns for the harvest service. One tiny was with a parent over by Lincewood primary school and was asked to tell mumsy’s friend about the garden song. It’s one of those dreaded action songs that Colin has us leaping up and down to now and again (hah, he wishes). Guess what the song is. Go on. Give up? You’ll kick yourselves.
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