The Pink Sheet February-March 2010

ALDWINCLE : CLOPTON : PILTON :  STOKE DOYLE :

  THORPE ACHURCH :  WADENHOE : TITCHMARSH

CHURCH WARDENS

Aldwincle, John Pawlyn, 720038 

Clopton Stephen Brandon 720346 and Jane Wood 720282

Pilton, Carew Treffgarne, 720448 and Sue Thomas 720188 

Stoke Doyle, Harry Faure Walker, 273543, and Alan Knight, 272214 

   Achurch, Carolyn Brawn, 720790, and Tricia Farnsworth, 720076 Titchmarsh, Jean Bussens 732510 and Stephen Barber 734435  Wadenhoe,  Rodney Sinclair 720218 

 

From the Rectory

 

In the January issue I explained our intention to broaden the scope of the Pink Sheet now we have a little more space available. In this issue we are glad to include notices of Village Hall events. And there are also the Stoke Doyle Concert and the 7 Parishes Fete at Wadenhoe House which should be of widespread interest though organised by the churches.

 

But there is also another dimension. Although the focus of this newsletter is unashamedly the geographical area of the 7 parishes it serves, some events further afield deserve our special attention. The article about the two bishops is included for this reason.

 

I’ve often been struck by the way the Christian faith is rooted in a story attached to specific geographical locations – and yet has a concern for the entire planet. May we have a similar balanced outlook.

 

With all good wishes

Jim Mynors 60 Main St. Aldwincle   720613 (Day off Friday) Jim@Mynors.me.uk

Joyce Bird would like to thank everyone who so kindly offered, or gave, assistance during her recent illness.   She has now recovered and is back in circulation.

 

John Smith would like to thank everyone who sent cards and helped during his wife’s illness and since.

 

Gordon Watts died on 31^st December aged 72.   His funeral was in Titchmarsh on 14^th January

 

Aldwincle W.I.  – 4^th February, 7.30pm for 7.45pm, in the Village Hall.   Talk:  Chickens  by Helen Strode-Willis.   Competition:  egg cup.   Hostesses: Helen Thompson and Tricia Newton

 

THE SEVEN CHURCHES

 

From the Registers

Forthcoming wedding (by popular request we are now

giving advance notice of these):

Stephen Esler & Rachel Buckingham are to be married at Wadenhoe on 13^th February

 

Church annual meetings:

Wadenhoe 6.30pm February 28^th Church

Aldwincle 7.30pm March 16^th Village Hall

Pilton 7.30pm March 22^nd Pilton Manor

Stoke Doyle 7pm April 8^th Mill House

Thorpe Achurch 6.30pm 18^th April after Evensong

Titchmarsh 8pm April 21^st

 

Clopton  to be arranged

Lent Bible Study

 

Lent Studies

This year during Lent we will be looking at six Old Testament Characters. We live in a world that is transfixed in following the lives of celebrities. These so called modern day heroes are sometimes the most unlikely personalities to be held up as role models for which we should aspire. Yet in the Old Testament we meet many examples of real flesh and blood people, real “characters”, mirroring our own strengths and weaknesses. They can provide us with a genuine example to follow.

Each Wednesday evening will be a stand-alone study of one character. You may wish to attend all the evenings but feel free to attend one or two if you prefer. Each study deals with a different biblical character linked with a theme relevant to our following Jesus today. We will read a particular biblical passage and then discuss it.

We shall meet at 7.45pm for an 8pm start and end at 9pm.

 

Date	OT Character	Venue
24 Feb	Hannah	The Rectory
3 March	Samuel	Rectory Farm, Achurch
10 March	Abraham	27 Main St., Aldwincle
17 March	Esther	Rectory Farm, Achurch
24 March	David	Rectory Farm, Achurch

 

 

 

The Seven Churches are holding their Fête at Wadenhoe House on  May 31^st.

There will be a barbeque from 12.30pm.   The main fête from 2 – 5 pm.   Produce stall:  cream teas:  games for all ages:  plants:  bar.   Contact reps for all seven villages via churchwardens (see above).

We do still need help with publicity drawing on the experience of previous fêtes – please ask Jim Mynors for a simple job description.

CLOPTON

Family Service reminder – January 31^st 4.30pm

 

ALDWINCLE

 

 Community Prayer Time at  Trinity Lower School.   Everybody welcome. 9 am on February 1^st and March 1^st.

 

Cheese and Wine at All Saints June 19^th.

 

Church Floodlighting – The Roberts family have sponsored the weeks of 7^th and 14^th February in memory of Ian Roberts, Simon’s father, who died in September and also Julia’s grandmother, Enid Littler, who died in June, aged 102.

Pamela Sykes has sponsored the week of 7^th March, in memory of Roy.

Mr and Mrs Winnett of Kettering, have sponsored the week of 21^st March, to celebrate their 46^th Wedding Anniversary.

 

Aldwincle Village Hall 200 Club draw result:  1st  R. STOKES:  2^nd  I. CURTIS:  3^rd   B. SKEY:  4^th   C. LAWRENCE

 

Aldwincle Village Hall - Forthcoming Events

Horseracing Night – Saturday 27^th March 2010

Tickets priced at £5 per person, to include a hot meal.  Check the notice boards

Once again, we are organising a Garage Sale to be held on Saturday 15^th May, from 10am until 2pm.  There will be a £5 charge per garage taking part.  

Tickets  & Further information available from Helen Grout (720199), Grace Chung (720730), or any committee member.

ALDWINCLE (continued)

The Sunflower Competition will be held again this year.  Sunflowers, priced at £1 per plant, can be ordered now from any Committee Member for delivery towards the end of May.  Measuring to take place at the end of August.  Prizes to be awarded at the Flower Show in mid-September.

 

STOKE DOYLE

 

The November jazz evening at Stoke Doyle raised around £1000. Many thanks to all involved.

 

ST RUMBOLD’S CHURCH

STOKE DOYLE

OPERA

DELIGHTS

 

An evening of operatic excerpts from

 

Cosi fan Tutte

 La Traviata

Madame Butterfly

The Mikado

 

SATURDAY 6^th MARCH 2009

7.00 pm

 

Proceeds in aid of Church Restoration Funds

Tickets £12.50 (students £6.00)

 including a glass of wine and refreshments from:

Oundle Tourist Information 01832 274333

Harry Faure Walker 01832 273543

 

PILTON 

In July 2010 a group from Oundle School will be visiting a small community in Mozambique. We aim to build a bridge across a mangrove swamp to the clinic, help the women start up a sewing collective and the men, a fishing cooperative. We held a successful cake sale in September which many of you kindly supported and we are having another on Thursday February 18^th at the Oundle Market. If you are unable to come, please feel free to donate on the website www.justgiving.com/KK-Jordan-Rosa-Rachel-Charlotte.

Many thanks           Rachel Thomas

TITCHMARSH

 

Pancake Party 16^th Feb Clubroom 6-8pm for young families

 

 (Aprés)Ski Evening - Saturday 20^th February 2010. Come and enjoy all the fun of aprés ski without the broken bones! There will be an evening of fabulous food & drink, games & quizzes in the Titchmarsh Village Ski Hut (aka Clubroom) at 7.30 p.m. Tickets £12 to include 3 course supper and welcome drink. There will be a bar with appropriate beverages, a raffle and a silent auction of some interesting promises. Ski/winter wear appreciated but not obligatory and there will be a prize for the daftest ski hat.

Can you afford to miss this exciting evening? Your friends will be talking about it on 21^st!  Contact Jackie Rowe 734435 or Anita Dunn 732426 for more information or to reserve your tickets.

27^th March Titchmarsh Barn Dance – see church noticeboard for details

 

WADENHOE

 

Wadenhoe Village Hall has been fantastically maintained from the proceeds of 25 years of homemade cream teas.  These were provided by a devoted group of ladies who fronted this operation and also were hugely involved in other fundraising activities for the hall.

   After this length of time, they have decided, quite understandably, to pass the responsibility on to the next lot. I was hoping that we could ask you to be willing to offer a small amount of time each year and do your bit.

   This wonderful hall is the village hall of not only Wadenhoe, but also Pilton, Stoke Doyle, Achurch, Lilford and Wigsthorpe.  It is YOUR hall.

   If you are interested to talk about how you could support this hall and the committee, please feel free to telephone me on 01832 72071, I am Catherine Belton the Chairman

   Or, consider these options :

-          Support the fund raising functions put on by the committee

-          Consider booking the hall for your family events

-          Give us your fundraising ideas

-          Be willing to run a fundraising function

-          Be prepared to put aside one Sunday during the summer months to help serve the cream teas.

(nb. Please don’t feel daunted by the prospect of what the cream tea option involves.  You will be fully supported, but we are in need of helpers.)

 

 

Wadenhoe Village Hall – Forthcoming Events

 

Friday 12 March – live theatre -  Those Magnificent Men - Captain John Alcock, dashing WW1 fighter pilot, and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, navigational genius with a gammy leg, huddled together in the tiny cockpit of their converted Vickers Vimy biplane.

   Well known comedy writing duo Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon have turned the story of the race to conquer the skies over the Atlantic into a fast and furious performance.  It is a tale of plucky British pioneers. New Perspectives have captured the spirit with 2 actors and a crate full of props.

   The tickets are £6 for adults and £3 for children. The play starts at 7.30pm on Friday 12^th March, with the bar open from 7.pm.   

A TALE OF TWO BISHOPS

George Machumo the new Bishop of Bungoma. A link between the Anglican Dioceses of Peterborough and Bungoma in Kenya was formed by their two bishops following the Lambeth Conference of 1998. Bugoma’s first bishop-Eliud-has just become the Archbishop of Kenya presiding over 29 Dioceses. Around 30 individual churches and schools in the Bungoma diocese are linked with us for mutual support and encouragement, spiritually, socially, materially and financially. There have been several exchange visits. Bungoma is  close to the Ugandan border, and is the name of the main town of 20,000. The undulating countryside is mostly lush and fertile, and three times the size of Northamptonshire.

Donald Allister the new Bishop of Peterborough. Meanwhile, following the death of Bishop Ian, Donald Allister will be installed just after Easter. His appointment will be especially welcome on account of his unusually long experience working at parish level.