A BIG THANK YOU to all the contributors,collectors, helpers and breakfasters who made our Christian Aid Week fund-raising so successful, netting a record £1,941. The mainstay is still the door-to-door collections which yielded £1,598. While a bit down on last year’s total of £1,815, it was more than made up for by the achievement of…
A huge (belated) thanks to all who helped with and attended the Burns Night Ceilidh, all the way back in January. It was a lovely evening with 70 people from the local community and church congregation enjoying a ceilidh in the Hall. We can now confirm that a total of £459.19 was raised from ticket…
Our Annual Parochial Church Meeting will be on Sunday 29 April. There will be the usual chance to relive the past year through photos (please send any photos to Nick, (vicar@standrews-chesterton.org). The business part of the meeting will begin at about 11.30am and will include a presentation of the accounts, some backward and forward thinking…
The Church of England has a calendar for reviewing your use of plastic – see http://www.churchcare.co.uk/images/Plastic_Free_Lent.pdf
The charity Compassion, which we supported through a gift day in November have developed some free resources for families for Lent. See https://www.compassionuk.org/blogs/lent-2018/
From 21 to 25 June, the weekend of the Chesterton Festival, we will be hosting a group of young people from Joldelund, Germany. They are Confirmation candidates, 12-14 years of age, and will be visiting with their church pastor, Jan Petersen, whom Nick met last year when he was visiting the church Diocese in Hamburg. …