St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 1...ontribute at [email protected]...

24
Contribute at [email protected] READ ABOUT HALLOWEEN ON PAGE 13

Transcript of St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 1...ontribute at [email protected]...

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 1

    READ ABOUT HALLOWEEN ON PAGE 13

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 2

    CURRENT SERVICES AT ST PAUL’S CHURCH

    As Coronavirus Restrictions change, we will gradually be restarting Church Services – please check our website, Facebook page or noticeboard for latest information

    SUNDAYS

    10am Parish Communion

    In church and on line As we have limited numbers in the church building, we ask people to book ahead! To attend please call the Parish Office for the Booking Number. This service will also be livestreamed on our Facebook page: facebook.com/stpaulsstockingford

    8pm Compline (Night Prayer) Livestreamed on our Facebook page

    WEDNESDAYS

    10am Service of Readings and Prayers Live streamed from our Facebook page

    For Baptism & Marriage arrangements please call the Parish Office on 024 7632 5359.

    SMILE LINE

    There was a preacher who fell in the ocean and he couldn't swim. When a boat came by, the captain yelled, "Do you need help, sir?" The preacher calmly said "No, God will save me." A little later, another boat came by and a fisherman asked, "Hey, do you need help?" The preacher replied again, "No God will save me." Eventually the preacher drowned & went to heaven. The preacher asked God, "Why didn't you save me?" God replied, "Fool, I sent you two boats!"

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 3

    EDITORIAL

    I have been the editor of the St Paul’s magazine since February

    2018. It was then that Kate asked me to be part of a team con-

    sisting of herself doing the Vicar’s Letter and the church diary,

    Anne Murray responsible for the registers, printing and stapling

    and distribution and joining us later Keith Chambers doing the im-

    portant job of proof reading. As a team effort it has worked very well.

    COVID made the production and distribution of the magazine more

    difficult and that was when Andy Gazely was added to the team to en-

    sure that it became accessible on the St Paul’s website.

    Kay and I started worshiping at St Paul’s approximately four years ago

    when, for personal reasons, we needed to move from our own church

    of St Giles’ Exhall. We now feel that the time is right for us to return

    to the church we were married in and we attended for nearly thirty

    years. We will be sorry to leave behind all the friends we have made

    at St Pauls over our time here but we feel that this is the right decision

    for us now.

    I plan to continue to do the magazine until the end of the year, by

    which time I am hoping that Kate will have found a new editor to join

    the existing team. Should this person need any help in getting started

    then they only need to ask.

    Pete Aldersley

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 4

    VICAR’S LETTER

    Dear All,

    As November begins, we are into our eighth month of restrictions trying to

    control the spread of coronavirus, protect our NHS and save lives. Over this

    time, we have been challenged to “love our neighbour” in costly ways -

    giving up so much of our freedom to care for one another in this challenging

    time. If these restrictions were hard-going over a remarkably good British

    summer, they are going to be even harder this winter. How can we support

    our community in these dark and difficult days? How can we safely offer

    hope and joy this winter?

    It is out of this desire to bring something hopeful and fun to Stockingford

    that our #CommunityInCovid plan emerged. Basically, faced with a dreary

    winter, we wanted to offer our community things to look forward to: things

    that were beautiful, fun or meaningful. Our Scarecrow Festival, pulled

    together in no time at all by Jo, really captured peoples’ imagination, and the

    streets of Stockingford were buzzing as people hunted for scarecrows on foot

    and in cars. This weekend, we will light over 90 candles in our churchyard

    for three nights to remembered loved ones of congregation and community

    members. The following weekend, members of our community will place

    decorated Remembrance stones at a cross in the churchyard as their way of

    marking Remembrance when so many other community events cannot

    happen. And of course, we have ideas brewing for Christmas...

    But what has this to do with Jesus? I am reminded of how much time Jesus

    spent feeding people. He showed he cared by meeting their most basic

    needs. In the middle of a pandemic, which keeps us apart from those we

    love, people are hungry for connection and community. As a church which

    cares for our community, we can help with that. And maybe as we show our

    love through meeting our community’s needs this winter, they might

    experience a little of the love of God.

    Blessings,

    Kate

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 5

    CHRISTMAS ANGELS

    You may have seen on our “coming up this Christmas” no-

    tice, that we intend for tiny knitted* angels to land again in

    Stockingford in late December. In a year where so much will

    seem different, this will be a familiar event and a way for St

    Paul’s to send a greeting and Christmas blessing to our com-

    munity. There is a Facebook page where people who find an

    angel can name it, send a photo and share a story. There

    were some really lovely comments last year!

    Several people have already started to make their angels, but

    there’s plenty of time to get involved. If you would like an

    angel knitting pattern or would like to hand over any angels

    you have made, please contact me.

    Julia Gazeley

    *crocheted/sewn also welcome!

    SMILE LINES On their way to get married, a young Catholic couple is involved in a fatal car accident. The couple found themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven. While waiting, they began to wonder: Could they possibly get married in Heaven? When St. Peter showed up, they asked him. St. Peter said, "I don't know. This is the first time anyone has asked. Let me go find out,'" and he left. The couple sat and waited, and waited. Two months passed and the couple were still waiting. While waiting, they began to wonder what would happen if it didn't work out; could you get a divorce in heaven? After yet another month, St. Peter finally returned, looking somewhat bedraggled. "Yes," he informed the couple, "You can get married in Heaven." "Great!" said the couple, "But we were just wondering, what if things don't work out? Could we also get a divorce in Heaven?" St. Peter, red-faced with anger, slammed his clipboard onto the ground. "What's wrong?" asked the frightened couple. "OH, COME ON!," St. Peter shouted, "It took me three months to find a priest up here! Do you have any idea how long it'll take me to find a lawyer?"

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 6

    Picture 6b

    Picture 7

    POETRY IN THE WAITING ROOM

    F or some years I’ve been sponsoring Poetry in the Waiting Room – cards of poems sent out to GP surgeries and hospitals every quarter, for patients to pick up and read, and take home, to take their minds off their situa-tion. People who support it get a copy of each card, and I’ve just received

    issue 89, with the unwelcome news that number 90 (Winter 2020) will be the last. I’ve occasionally sent poems from the cards to be included in the maga-zines. The last few issues have only been sent to supporters, because they couldn’t be left in waiting rooms for people to pick up in case they spread Covid-19 and that, and not being able to predict if and when proper distribution can restart, is the rea-son for the decision. They are using remaining funds to try to explore doing some-thing online. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed receiving the poem cards and knowing they were giving comfort and distraction to people – such a simple idea, but well loved. Below is one of the poems from card 89 (Autumn 2020).

    Marian

    SEPTEMBER by John Drinkwater (1882-1937) Wind and the robin’s note today

    Have heard of autumn and betray

    The green long reign of summer.

    The rust is falling in the leaves,

    September stands besides the sheaves,

    The new, the happy comer.

    Not sad my season of the red

    And russet orchards gaily spread

    From Cholesbury to Cooming,

    Nor sad when twilit valley trees

    Are ships becalmed on misty seas,

    And beetles go abooming.

    Now soon shall come the morning crowds

    Of starlings, soon the coloured clouds

    From oak and ash and willow,

    And soon the thorn and briar shall be

    Rich in their crimson livery,

    In scarlet and in yellow.

    Spring laughed and thrilled a million veins

    And summer shone above her rains

    To fill September’s faring;

    September talks as kings who know

    The world’s way and superbly go

    In robes of wisdom’s wearing.

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 7

    A prayer for the wearing of masks by Richard Bott, Moderator of the United Church of Canada

    Creator,

    as I prepare to go into the world,

    help me to see the sacrament in the wearing of this cloth –

    let it be “an outward sign of an inward grace” –

    a tangible and visible way of living love for my neighbours,

    as I love myself.

    Christ

    since my lips will be covered, uncover my heart,

    that people would see my smile in the crinkles around my eyes. Since my voice may be muffled,

    help me to speak clearly, not only with my words,

    but with my actions.

    Holy Spirit as the elastic touches my ears, remind me to listen carefully –

    and full of care – to all those I meet.

    May this simple piece of cloth be shield and banner,

    and each breath that it holds, be filled with your love.

    In your Name and in that love,

    I pray.

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 8

    KATHLEEN LUCY ANNE NORTON (nee Sidwell) born 13 November 1925

    Some things that have happened locally during Kathleen Lucy Anne’s years in Nuneaton. Lots of interesting facts have been submitted from 1925 – 2005. These will be published in the magazine in ‘bite size’ chunks.

    1949:

    The Royal Cinema, Stratford Street closed.

    5 June – 25 yards of the Arley railway tunnel collapsed during reconstruction work.

    1950:

    The electric pump installed to replace an old steam submersible pump at the closed Haunchwood (Nowells) Collier caused the closure of a short branch railway from the Nuneaton-Whitacre branch line near Stockingford station.

    1951:

    Construction started on Nuneaton Technical College. The overall cost was to be £1,000,000.

    1952:

    The Intalock Co Ltd moved to a new factory in Caldwell Road, Chilvers Coton.

    Nuneaton Congregational Churches in Bond Gate and Coton Road amalgamated. The old church in Bond Gate became a printing works and was reputed to be haunted.

    1953:

    Montague Moreton senior, founder of Monty’s Bus Co of Attleborough died.

    The Arley tunnel fully re-opened to rail traffic but still needed constant attention due to mining subsidence.

    1954:

    Mr Samual Fennell, founder of the well-known drapery business in Queen’s Road, died aged 87. Born at Galle Common in 1866 he opened his first shop in 1897.

    October – Stockingford Parish Hall opened after 20 years of fund raising.

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 9

    THE GUNPOWDER PLOT OF 1605

    T he Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.

    The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605,[a] as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. His fellow plotters were John and Christopher Wright, Robert and Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham. Fawkes, who had 10 years of military experience fighting in the Spanish Netherlands in the failed suppression of the Dutch Revolt, was given charge of the explosives.

    The plot was revealed to the authorities in an anonymous letter sent to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, on 26 October 1605. During a search of the House of Lords in the evening on 4 November 1605, Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder—enough to reduce the House of Lords to rubble—and arrested. Most of the conspirators fled from London as they learned of the plot's discovery, trying to enlist support along the way. Several made a stand against the pursuing Sheriff of Worcester and his men at Holbeche House; in the ensuing battle, Catesby was one of those shot and killed. At their trial on 27 January 1606, eight of the survivors, including Fawkes, were convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered.

    Details of the assassination attempt were allegedly known by the principal Jesuit of England, Father Henry Garnet. Although he was convicted of treason and sentenced to death, doubt has been cast on how much he really knew of the plot. As its existence was revealed to him through confession, Garnet was prevented from informing the authorities by the absolute confidentiality of the confessional. Although anti-Catholic legislation was introduced soon after the plot's discovery, many important and loyal Catholics retained high office during King James I's reign. The thwarting of the Gunpowder Plot was commemorated for many years afterwards by special sermons and other public events such as the ringing of church bells, which evolved into the Bonfire Night of today.

    Copied from Wikipedia

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 10

    FEMALE MATHEMATICIANS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

    E mmy Noether was one of the 20th Century's most influential mathematicians. Her work was critical in helping Einstein understand some of the issues of general relativity and Noether’s theory underpins much of our understanding of both modern physics and algebra.

    However, as a woman working in early 20th Century Germany, she faced many professional hurdles and overcame many barriers.

    EARLY YEARS

    Noether was born in Germany in 1882. She was born to a prosperous Jewish family. Her father, Max Noether, was a professor of mathematics

    Her schooling was typical for girls of her time - including German, English, French, Piano, Arithmetic. She showed surprisingly few signs of early genius - the only early indication of her abilities was a talent for solving logic problems. After finishing school, she trained to be an English and French teacher. But after qualifying, decided to continue her studies at the University of Erlangen.

    LIFE AT UNIVERSITY

    In 1900, changes in the law meant it was possible for women to audit classes at University, meaning they could attend with the permission of the lecturer, but couldn’t sit any formal exams. Noether became one of only two women among nearly 1000 students. During this time, she transitioned to studying mathematics, earning her PhD in 1908.

    Upon completion, she couldn’t get a paid teaching post. While even at this stage she already showed great promise and her PhD work was well regarded, she was barred from teaching at University because of her gender.

    Instead, she resorted to teaching under her father’s name and supervised PhDs under other academic’s names. But she wasn’t paid for this work.

    (Continued on page 11)

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 11

    WORKING WITH EINSTEIN

    Despite the barriers she faced to working, Noether was greatly respected by other mathematicians. When a problem emerged with Einstein’s theory of general relativity, she was invited by mathematicians David Hilbert and Felix Klein to the University of Göttingen to help resolve the problem.

    The problem with Einstein’s theory was that it didn’t follow the physical principle on the conservation of energy, which explains that energy can change forms but cannot be destroyed. Work that Noether did, developing her theory, overcame this problem by demonstrating “that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law.” It was a hugely significant breakthrough for both Noether and physics.

    LATER LIFE AND LEAVING GERMANY

    Even after her major breakthrough, Noether still wasn’t immediately offered paid work. After years of working essentially as a volunteer, Noether was finally appointed to a paid position in 1922 at Göttingen, where she was allotted a modest salary. But she was sacked from her job 11 years later because she was Jewish and had to leave Nazi Germany.

    Noether, along with many other Jewish academics, found work at Universities in America. However, not long after the move, she was diagnosed with cancer and died in 1935.

    NOETHER’S LEGACY

    Noether’s theorem has been described as a corner-stone of subatomic physics.

    Einstein wrote on 4th May 1935 that: “In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.”

    Contribution by Mark Magee

    (Continued from page 10)

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 12

    DWYERS REWIRES (Find us on Facebook)

    Robert Dwyer

    Electrician Call for a free quote on any electrical work you need doing including

    complete rewires!

    T: 024 7592 1969

    M: 07570 542 456

    E: [email protected]

    Established 1986

    DEVALL & SON NUNEATON

    Family Funeral Directors & Monumental Masons

    When you’re ready call us for more information on 024 7637 5665

    1-2 Wembrook House

    The Green

    Attleborough

    NUNEATON

    CV11 4FJ

    Memorials

    Pre-paid Funeral Plans

    Floristry Service

    Catering

    Jaguar Fleet

    Bereavement Support

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 13

    HALLOWEEN

    H alloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of Hallows' Even or Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in many countries

    on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.

    One theory holds that many Halloween traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain, which may have had pagan roots and that Samhain itself was Christianized as Halloween by the early Church. Other scholars believe, however, that Halloween began solely as a Christian holiday, separate from ancient festivals like Samhain.

    Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising and souling), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, as well as watching horror films. In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows' Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular, although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration. Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows' Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain vegetarian foods on this vigil day, including apples, potato pancakes, and soul cakes.

    Copied from Wikipedia

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 14

    ‘Let our family help yours’

    Available 24 hours

    Horse Drawn Hearse

    Jaguar Fleet

    Rolls Royce Fleet

    On site Catering

    Avenue Road

    Nuneaton

    Warwickshire

    CV11 4JT

    Telephone: 024 7638 2124

    Email: [email protected]

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 15

    RD ELECTRICS

    ELECTRICIAN

    Free Quotes & Advice

    No Job Too Big Or Too Small

    Special Rates for OAP’s

    Emergency Call Out

    Replacement Light Fittings

    LED Security Lighting

    Consumer Units & Upgrades

    Full/Part Rewires

    Electric Showers

    Immersion Heaters

    CCTV/Alarms/Cat 5e/6e

    CALL ROB

    Telephone: 024 7664 1522

    Mobile: 07970 421 380

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 16

    Collyhurst Residential

    Care Home

    31/33 Nuneaton Road

    Collycroft

    BEDWORTH

    CV12 8AN

    Telephone (024) 7631 9092 www.collyhurst.info

    Email [email protected]

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 17

    ADVERTISING IN ST PAUL’S MAGAZINE

    (2020 RATES)

    A half page costs £50 per year and a full page £75. We publish 10 issues a calendar year. We also accept adverts for shorter periods pro rata. More info from Parish Office on 024 7632 5359.

    READERS - If you use any of our advertisers please tell them where you saw their advert! Also if you receive excellent service from one of our advertisers send us a review so that we can add an endorsement to the advert.

    SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE TO THE MAGAZINE

    We want St Paul’s magazine to contain as much church and community news as possible. If you would like an article included in the magazine, please

    email it to [email protected].

    Alternatively hand written articles must be handed to a member of the magazine team for typing up.

    Your article can be about anything - a recent ‘different’ holiday, what brought you to St Paul’s in the first place or it could be about an activity you

    run at Church. Or maybe even a joke you’d like to share! Please include your name with your contribution!

    Last date for copy for the December magazine is 25th November.

    Many thanks - St Paul’s Magazine Team (Pete Aldersley, Kate Massey, Anne Murray & Keith Chambers).

    MAGAZINE NOTICES

    Follow us at St Paul's Church Stockingford

    Find us at stpaulsstockingford.org.uk

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 18

    WILDLIFE WATCH - November 2020

    I couldn’t understand what was making the pretty patterns on the leaves of my Euonymus and Japanese shrimp plants Leycesteria Formosa in the front garden. I didn’t notice it until there was an awful lot of damage, and inspecting the bushes then gave no sign

    of the culprits. At first I thought it might be leaf cutter bees, but they are never so numerous as to achieve the amount of damage here, and the ‘part-circles’ cut from the leaf margins were less precise in shape and a little smaller than bees would produce. Some damage extended further into the leaves, too.

    Eventually, after consulting books and my friend Google, I discovered the culprits - adult vine weevils (see picture). Now the leaf damage isn’t enough to seriously affect the shrubs, but these weevils will have laid eggs which burrow into the ground and feast on the roots of many plants, cyclamen corms etc, and the first you know about it is when there is so much damage that the plant

    wilts and collapses. Unfortunately, the leaves eaten by the adults are often not the same species as the roots that are gorged upon, so you don’t know where to look for signs of the more serious problem. Often there won’t be enough of the white grubs with brown heads to seriously damage large plants in open ground (though the large amount of leaf damage on my shrubs, shows so many adult weevils in a small area, that I fear a heavy infestation of the grubs will result. Many eggs and quite a few of

    the grubs will be eaten by predators in the open ground,, but vine weevils can quickly kill smaller plants and particularly shrubs in pots, or plants in greenhouses, where they are protected from predators. One pot may have a lot of eggs laid in it; all trapped there until they pupate and things that would eat them can’t get in. So I must watch

    (Continued on page 19)

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 19

    out in the spring, and take measures to protect any affected plants. Pots should be emptied, the grubs found and squished or there is a biological control, but one needs to know where to put it for maximum effect. So next spring, my eyes will be peeled for wilting plants not short of water!

    I’ve been wondering what happened to the fish, as I’ve seen none since a couple of days after putting them in the pond. We run a fountain to keep the water well oxygenated all summer, but turn it off in the winter, because if it the weather turns really cold, the well-mixed water would all freeze at once, killing everything. A temperature gradient develops in still water so only the top layer freezes and the ice insulates the water below it, allowing life to continue. Within a couple of days of turning the fountain off, last week, I’ve seen Fred, the golden fish, once with one small black companion and once with two, cruising near the surface in the middle of the day, presumably to get a bit more light – or oxygen!

    My full size quince tree has had a wonderful year – it had myriad white flowers in the spring producing a heavy crop of fruit (see picture). Apart from quince jelly, and the occasional apple pie made tastier by adding a quince, I have no good recipes for them, so most go to waste – I did try a quince cheese, and what passed for the equivalent of marmalade before oranges were common in England, but neither appealed to our taste. I shall keep looking! Meanwhile, they smell wonderful, warm and spicy, so I keep a few on a dish indoors to enjoy the scent of Christmas, early.

    Marion Griffith

    (Continued from page 18)

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 20

    STOCKINGFORD

    COMMUNITY CENTRE Telephone: 024 7638 8508

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 21

    FROM THE REGISTERS September

    HOLY BAPTISM

    “Every good and perfect gift is from above…” James 1:17

    None

    WEDDINGS

    What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

    None

    FUNERALS

    Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

    None

    It is worth viewing this chart at https://tinyurl.com/y4jb9thf where

    it can be read more clearly and much more information is available.

    Pete Aldersley

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 22

    PARISH ORGANISATIONS

    ALL ARE SUSPENDED DURING THE

    PRESENT CRISIS

    OASIS: Meets in term time Thursdays 10 am to 12 noon. A Support Group for those struggling with problems of stress, depression and in need of listening support in a safe group. Contact Gina on 7674 4860.

    STAY AND PLAY: Thursday mornings in Church Hall 9.05 am to 11 am – all welcome at this Toddler group.

    SPOGS YOUTH GROUP: This group provides a place for young people (11+) to meet. They meet every Sunday evening in term time; at 7.15pm. For more information, contact Sarah and Steve Marsden 7634 4233

    RAINBOW GUIDES : (pre-Brownies) 2nd Arbury (St. Paul’s) meet Thursdays between 6.15 pm to 7.15 pm in the Church Hall Contact www.girlguiding.org.uk/interested.

    BROWNIES: 1. Meet Tuesdays in the Church Hall between 6 pm and 7.15 pm.

    Contact www.girlguiding.org.uk/interested. 2. Meet Wednesdays in the Church Hall between 6pm and 7.15 pm.

    Contact www.girlguiding.org.uk/interested.

    GUIDES: Meet Tuesdays in the Church Hall from 7.30 pm to 9 pm. Contact www.girlguiding.org.uk/interested.

    LUNCH CLUB: Meets the 1st Tuesday of each month in the Parish Centre at 11.30 am until 2 pm. Contact Parish Office 7632 5359.

    MOTHER’S UNION: Meets every 2nd Thursday of each month in the Parish Centre at 2 pm. Contact Frances Ray on 7634 6505. New members warmly welcomed.

    St. PAUL’s PASTORAL CARE GROUP: Meets 2nd Tuesday at 2 pm in the Parish Centre. Contact Jo Male on 7632 8668.

    PENSIONERS’ DROP-IN: Meet every Wednesday in the Parish Centre 2 pm - 3.30 pm. All welcome. Drop-in for a chat and cuppa and a game of bingo!!

    SEWING CIRCLE: Meets Tuesday afternoons at various homes in the Parish. Contact Iris Seagrave on 7632 8091.

    ST. PAUL’S READING GROUP: Meets monthly. Contact Church Office.

    BREAKFAST JOB CLUB: Meets Monday mornings 9 am to 11 am. A “drop-in”

    for those who need help in searching for work. Excellent advice and help on CVs,

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 23

    CHURCH DIRECTORY

    Vicar

    Revd. Kate Massey (Day off Friday)

    Tel: 7637 2089

    Email: [email protected]

    Curate Revd. Jo Joyce (Day off Friday) Tel: 07588 576351.

    Email: [email protected]

    Readers Colin Udall, Tel: 7674 5171

    Emma Kennedy Tel: 07960 970 061

    Parish Administrator

    Anne Murray

    Email: [email protected]

    Churchwardens Susan West Tel: 7639 5490

    Andrew Godfrey Tel: 7634 3492

    PCC Secretary Joanna Boughey

    Email [email protected]

    Treasurer Gary King Tel: 7674 8126

    Email: [email protected]

    Gift Aid Secretary Paul West Tel: 7639 5490

    Email: [email protected]

    Deanery Synod Reps.

    David Spiers Tel: 7635 1108

    Chris Smith Tel: 7637 3900

    Organists Geoff Cowley and Andrea Godfrey

    Music Group Andrea Godfrey Tel: 7634 3492

    Parish Office:

    Mon & Tues: 10am to 12noon Tel: 7632 5359

    Fri: (By appointment) 7pm to 8pm

    Parish Administrator: Anne Murray

    Email: [email protected]

    Baptism Enquiries Please contact the Parish Office (see above)

    Marriage Enquiries

    Please contact the Parish Office (see above)

    Parish Centre & Church Caretaker

    Jane Udall

    Tel: 7674 5171

    Safeguarding Officer

    Ann Pipe Tel: 7639 4655

    Website Administrator

    Andy Gazeley

    Tel: 7638 5354

    Email [email protected]

  • Contribute at [email protected]

    St Paul’s Stockingford Parish Magazine ~ Page 24

    Please still do this even though SPOGS is suspended until further notice. They will

    definitely need YOU when they start up again. Please offer your help!

    READ ABOUT THE GUNPOWDER PLOT

    ON PAGE 9