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In January 1991 Gordon Sleight Was Still the Vicar of Crosby with Joanna Anderson As Curate In January 1991 Gordon Sleight was still the Vicar of Crosby with Joanna Anderson as Curate. The Youth & Community Worker was Mick Maskell with Pat Newcombe as his assistant. The Parish Clerk was Janice Brader and the Church Wardens were Barbara Scott and Norman Jackson. Tim Savage was PCC Secretary and Steve Barker was PCC Treasurer. Lesley Sleight, the Parish Magazine Editor, recorded that 1991 would see some changes in the magazine as a new team would be taking over during the next few months. Subscriptions remained the same at 15p. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was marked with a series of services in the Town Centre Parishes between 18-25 January. The Speaker for the Lent United Services and discussions, scheduled for February and March, would be the Right Reverend David Tustin, the Bishop of Grimsby. Pat Newcombe wrote that the St George’s Credit Union, which was set up during the summer of 1989 with 30 members, now had funds of £2,000, and it should become registered this year. To join this Credit Union a member had to live within the Parish of Crosby or be connected with the work of the Church or Community Department. All members had a say in how the Credit Union operates. A Credit Union was useful for many reasons; it kept local money in the local area. Loans were made from the savings pool and repayments allowed this money to be re-loaned and so on. No one was exploited and interest rates are set by law and are the same for all members. Morfudd Arrand’s funeral took place on 18 February. Morfudd and her late husband Eric had been founder members of Group 62. Morfudd was also a member of St Luke’s Guild and visited hospital patients regularly; even when in hospital she did her round of the wards. She was also a founder member of the Young Wives group started by Margaret Laurence. She was one of the young mums who dug the trenches for the Greeson Hall heating and also scrubbed and cleaned the church for Easter Day many times. Madge Smales paid tribute by saying that St George’s had lost a good friend and a true Christian. Also in February, Olive and Norman Rimmington celebrated their Golden Wedding. A very successful Ceilidh was held in the Greeson Hall on 4 May. The entertainment was good and amusing with Martyn Whitehouse as compere and Norman Jackson on the fiddle. The group and singing group also contributed to the proceedings which raised £116 for church funds. St Michael’s Family Circle held their Anniversary on 20 May when the chairman was Sylvia Bibb. Barbara Parker and Elsie Welch were thanked for the new altar cloth which was first used on Easter Sunday. Linda Pollard’s funeral took place on 16 May. She was a much respected member of the congregation and £157 was donated to the Mothers’ Union Centre in her memory. As from 4 June the Co-operative Women’s Guild, which had recently celebrated its 67th Anniversary, started meeting in the Greeson Hall on Tuesday evenings. They were an active group, helping wherever they could and sent delegates every year to the Guild Congress. Their current national project was Aid for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council to provide funds for research. 2 Peter Anderson recorded that the Traidcraft Initiative had now been running for 12 months. At the end of July there was about £200 in the bank with a further £150 worth of stock. As the potential for fundraising was considerable he urged everyone interested to join the scheme. The magazine editorial team were hoping to produce a supplement to the Crosby Magazine consisting of new poems about the Christian faith and budding poets were invited to send in their submissions. Lillian Jackson celebrated her 80th birthday on 6 September and Kath Atkin also attained 80 years. In October, Toni Clark was congratulated on obtaining her degree and finding work in Copenhagen. Samantha Barker obtained her ‘A’ Levels and won a place at Hull University. Gary Clark obtained his degree and Hugh Sleight passed his ‘A’ Levels. Peter and Joanna Anderson had a new daughter, Fiona Mary. Finally, Cliff Barnard retired. The Family Circle Autumn Fair took place on 11 October. The Churches Trust Sponsored Cycle Ride was held on 14 September and three intrepid cyclists from St George’s took part, Judy Leggott, Margaret Dyke and Chris Cockerill. St George’s Fellowship lost yet another member with the death of Freda Taylor who would be greatly missed. The Christmas Fayre took place on 30th November. In 1992 Britain entered the Common Market. Pauline Oakley said that there were vacancies in both the Cubs and Scouts which met in the Barnes Crescent Headquarters. On 31 January the Town Centre Parishes held a Ceilidh at All Saints Church. At the beginning January Mandy Talbot and Julie Savage took over the running of the Sunday School from Jan Neale. There were 20-25 children with an age range of 4-11 years attending and several members of the congregation gave regular help with this important work. In February the afternoon Mothers’ Union Group decided to unite with the Evening Mothers’ Union Group as they had so few members. Olive Stephenson passed away on 23 February. Margaret Abbot recalled Olive’s work with the St Michael’s Family Circle which first started in 1942 when Olive, along with the late Nurse Andrews, ran it with about 25-30 members. A service for the Women’s World Day of Prayer was held at St George’s on 6 March when the theme was “Living wisely with creation”. The women who prepared the service came from Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Switzerland. Gordon Sleight had completed 22 years as an ordained minister and eleven years as Vicar of Crosby and was now entitled to a Sabbatical which he took from 4 May to 31 August. All work matters were to be referred to the Curate, the Church Wardens, or the Readers. Rachael Patterson was congratulated on gaining a teaching post at St Augustine Webster Junior School, to commence in September. The May magazine changed its size and shape, the reason being the increasing cost of professional printing. From now on the Editorial Team, which comprised Jack Scott 3 (Convenor), Barbara Scott, Chris Baldwinson, Janice Brader, Carol and Steve Barker, Betty Baker, Sue Whitehouse, and Chris Baker, would produce the magazine “in- house”. St Michael’s celebrated its 60th Anniversary on 21 May with a nostalgic evensong lead by Frank Barlow. At midnight on 22 May, 45 intrepid travellers set off for a marathon journey to Iona. This was our second visit and marked the beginning of another remarkable week of fun and fellowship. On 4 June the St George’s Fellowship visited Southwell Minster at the invitation of David Leaning, the Provost, and a long-time friend of the Fellowship. At the end of June the Anderson family left Crosby for Iona. The PCC therefore set up a Vacancy Working Party to make some plans for the time when the church would be without staff. In July, 1st Crosby Guides said goodbye to Pat Marshall, their leader for the past 12 years. Pat ended in style. After a barbeque and presentations from both Guides and Guiders, the Unit went off to camp at Poacher 92 together with 5,000 other Guides and Scouts from around the world. A perfect finale to Pat’s enormous contribution to Guiding in Crosby District and beyond. Janet Sheddon took over as leader, ably assisted by Sue Threadgold. On 25th July a cake stall was held in the entrance to the Market. Everyone was very generous and baked lots of cakes. Approximately £106 was made for church funds. On the evening of the same day a barbeque was held in the gardens of St Francis House on Normanby Road. A good evening was had by all and another £72 was raised. Donations towards the cost of buying a Christmas Tree for the church were now being requested by Mary Markham. Congratulations were given to Rebecca Patterson on gaining three ‘A’ Levels and a place at Reading University to study Biochemistry. Betty Baker had obtained an ‘A’ level in English Language. Hugh Sleight had obtained three ‘A’ Levels and a place at Cambridge. Emma Sleight had also obtained three ‘A’ Levels, and Carol Barker a Distinction in Word Processing. Ann Lawrence expressed her thanks to everyone for their kindness and offers of help after the death of her husband Fred. Another Cake Stall was planned for 12 December and the price of the magazine would be increasing to 20p in the New Year. 1993 started with a decision to have a fresh look at church life bearing in mind we had declining numbers, vandalised and scruffy buildings, jobs that never get done, etc, all making for frustration and despondency. A series of meeting were convened to take place during the next three months with the theme “Fresh Start” The Family Circle continued to meet every Wednesday afternoon in the Church Vestry. Sylvia Bibb and Madge Smales recorded that their stall at the Christmas Fayre had raised £225 for church funds and thanked everyone for their hard work. 4 A Town Centre Parishes Supper and Dance took place at the Polish Club on 11 February. This featured The Boot Leggers Ceilidh Dance Band. In April Gordon Sleight wrote about the new six unit Deanery groupings and noted that we would need to explore local lay ministry much more in the next few years as there will be fewer and fewer paid clergy.
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