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Parish News - July/August 2007
Our congratulations, best wishes and prayers go to Victoria Hobley & Andrew Lewis; Sarah Logan & Mark Gill; Katie Walker & James Dand; and Shelter Dangirwa & Tamuka Karawarwi, all of whom were married in June.
Three retired clergy died in June: Revd Bernard Baines, who with his wife June, worshipped in All Saints’, and led the Remembrance Day Service each year; Revd John Dunning, a regular worshipper in St Peter’s with his late wife Christine, until her death; and Revd Reg Hoye from Burton Joyce. Reg was Vicar of St Saviour’s Church from 1962 to 1982 and on retirement was the Widow’s Officer for the Diocese. Please remember them and their families in your prayers. Appreciations of Bernard and John are elsewhere in this magazine.
Finlay Nicholson was baptised in St Mary’s last month – his parents Melanie & David were married in St Mary’s a couple of years ago.
Ruth and Bruce Stephen are stepping down from leading ACORNS (our group for toddlers and young children). A big thank you from everyone for their enthusiastic commitment over the years. And thanks also to Carolyn and Derek, who helped out on many occasions. Our love and best wishes to them all. Future plans for the young people in our congregations are presently being discussed.
The Overseas Group, now operating jointly, held a very successful social evening at the home of Tony and Beth Mitchell. The weather was not very kind to them, but they still raised around £800 in support of Alexander Maclean and his African Prisons Project.
St Mary’s Choral Scholars have now left for the summer vacation, with the inevitable final farewells that come each year; to them all we say a very big thank you for the wonderful music they make through the year, and the fun they bring to the life of St Mary’s, and to those who are not returning, God bless them in their future careers.
Both St Mary’s and St Peter’s and All Saints’ PCCs have held their final meetings as independent bodies, and we are hoping that a new PCC will be elected for the new parish at a Special General Meeting to be held on Tuesday 10 July at 6.30pm in St Peter’s Church. It is vitally important that we have a good turn out for this and that the new PCC is elected with acclaim!
Peter Moore, as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, was the host for the Queen’s Birthday Service at Southwell Minster on Sunday 17 June, and a good number of people from our parishes were there. Andrew Deuchar, as High Sheriff’s Chaplain, preached the sermon.