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Category: St.Mary’s News
Fete 2018 – ‘The Wash-Up’
An amazing sum of £3483.49 was the profit announced by Adrian, the fete’s outgoing treasurer for the village’s very successful fete in August. All expenses have been paid and the church and village amenities are set to benefit. In future there will also be a small project fund for which individuals could bid. At the […]
Looking Back – The 2018 Fete
A lovely bright day, not too hot with a light breeze – perfect for setting up the 20 gazebos for our stalls and sideshows. Four hours later and the cars poured in, all 170 of them! The crowds milled, sat on hay bales to enjoy the hugely well supported dog show; had lunch – delicious […]
From the Rector: April 2017
Is going to church a necessary requirement to being a Christian? When I was a young man, I read the Diary of Edward Wilson. You may know Edward Wilson was the Doctor, Naturalist and Artist on Captain Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1912. He was one of the five who reached the […]
Lent soup Lunch
The annual Soup Lunch held in Sweffling Hut for the medical centre that we support in The Gambia raised £320.75. Jill and Geoffrey Abbott will add this to the money raised from the First Thursday Suppers in Sweffling White Horse and will arrange for the total (approximately £750) to be sent to The Gambia, directly […]
Baptism
On Sunday, March 12th, Katherine and James Loveridge’s second daughter, Anne Miriam, was baptized by the Rector, in St. Mary’s Church, Sweffling. The church was full of family and friends who came to welcome Annie into the family of the Church. Afterwards a celebratory tea was held in Sweffling Hut to which everyone was invited. […]
From the Rector – “Time to Retire”
After much consideration, I have decided that it is time that I retire. As most of you know that over the years I have struggled with illness, the progress of which leaves me very little remission. This illness that is troubling me is very difficult to overcome, even if God has Himself shown us that […]