from THE PIONEER our Church Magazine….

HOLY BAPTISM

Dear Friends

Ruth and Simon would be delighted for you to join them

at the Baptism of Liberty Frances Green at 3pm on Saturday 30th April 2011. And afterwards for refreshments in the Church Hall.

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Equipment for the

Disabled

We have recently given some walking sticks and walking frames, left behind at Chaseview, to Pauline McNally (one of our regular Saturday Shop customers). The simple reason is that her son - a fireman in Basildon - goes out with other volunteers in a lorry to Romania to distribute these basic mobility aids to Romanian children. It is a registered Charity (number 1048780) called Firefighters Aid for Children.

If you have any similar items, or wish to see photos of their work, please let me have them or ask Pauline McNally.

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Spectacular Annual

May Fair

Saturday May 7th 2011

from 10.00 to 12.30.

So far so good. All stalls look like they have willing workers. I will always need extra pairs of hands and if the weather is nice we will have tables on the front lawn along with a stall from the local police.

At the moment I doubt we will be able to get in on the Friday evening. The Scouts will not have met for a few weeks before (due to Easter) and they will almost certainly want to meet that evening. However, as I am asking them to do a few games, we may find they will be OK with setting up on the Friday. But you should plan for the worst which will be an early start on Saturday morning (I’ll be at the Hall at 8.00 a.m.) to set up on the day. Sorry, but it would be unfair to evict our Scouts when they always struggle for members.

Leaflets will be available for local distribution the week before and there will be some printed earlier for handing out to visitors in the Hall.

All other arrangements are much as they normally are but, if this is new to you just have a chat with me - soon. Please provide your own floats.

As you can see we are having a Tombola AND a Raffle. The Raffle will be low key and really only on the day unlike the Winter Bazaar Draw.

Geoff.