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From Reverend Claire Rose-Casemore:
It must be amazing to live in a village with so much history to it. This month we celebrate 800 years of recorded worship in Ashby church. If walls could talk then I am sure they would tell us a thing or two about the comings and goings of congregations through the ages! As our Team Reader, Angela Squires, reminded us the other day: if the Gunpowder Plot had been successful, perhaps there would have been quite a different tale to tell!
Bruce Turton, our Churchwarden, has worked on a manuscript listing chronologically all the historic events of the past 800 years. The manuscript has yet to be typeset and printed, but we will let you know when it is available to buy.
Also in celebration of the 800 years of worship, do join us at the Patronal Festival on Saturday 3 October from 11.15am. The new Team Rector, Canon Michael Webber, will be preaching and the Archdeacon of Northampton, the Venerable Christine Allsopp, will be taking the service. The service will be followed by lunch in the village hall. After the Friends’ short meeting, there will be a lecture by Ken Surman rather intriguingly entitled ‘History under the carpet’.
If, to mark this wonderful occasion, you would like to become a Friend of the Church, then please pick up a form from the table in the church. For only £5 a year you will be kept in touch with church life and be contributing to the upkeep and maintenance of such a beautiful building.
Every blessing, Revd Claire
From the Parochial Church Council:
A final reminder that the annual Patronal Festival and Friends’ Day will take place on Saturday 3 October. There will be a service in the church at 11.15am followed by a buffet lunch in the village hall. Please contact Janet Weaver on 899170 for tickets (£6 for members, £7.50 for non-members).
Also, on Sunday 4 October the gospel singer, Denise Gordon, will be returning to our church in concert in memory of our departed friend and neighbour, Adrian Weaver. Tickets are limited and are £9 in advance – please contact Sue Brooks.
October 2009 - dates for your diary
Saturday 3rd:
Patronal Festival and Friends’ Day – service at 11.15am
Sunday 4th:
Holy Communion at 9.15am; Denise Gordon concert at 6.30pm
Sunday 11th:
Holy Communion at 9.15am
Sunday 18th:
Morning Prayer at 9.15am
Sunday 25th:
Family Service at 4pm
Every Wednesday:
prayers at 4.30pm
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