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St James the Great Wrightington with Heskin PARISH MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2020 - MARCH 2020 Useful Numbers https://www.stjamesthegreat.net https://www.facebook.com/StJamesWrightington VICAR Stef Dnistrianskyj 01257 451332 email: stjamesthegreatwhgmail.com CHURCHWARDENS Anne Sharples 01257 424105 email: [email protected] Geoff Barlow 01257 367765 email: [email protected] ASST. VERGER Syd Johnson 01257 450310 PCC SECRETARY Sue Crawford 01257 453171 ORGANIST Pauline Chapman 01257 453087 HALL BOOKINGS Anne Sharples 01257 424105 SUNDAY SCHOOL Rachael Green 07921 854810 ST. JAMES PLAYERS Roger Rowlandson 07703 529392 MOTHERS’ UNION Marie Taylor 01257 424919 GIFT AID Colin Moulton 01257 453073 STEWARDSHIP Margaret Morris 01257 452569 RAINBOWS Sarah O’Neill 07480 350850 BAPTISM SECRETARY Marie Taylor 01257 424919 HESKIN SCHOOL Jayne Carrier 01257 451365 SAFE FROM HARM Sue Crawford 01257 453171 Material for inclusion in the magazine should be emailed to Sue Crawford at: [email protected] by the 16th of the month to ensure inclusion in the next issue. COVER SHOT: Signs of Spring 2 | ST. JAMES THE GREAT WRIGHTINGTON WITH HESKIN PARISH MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2020 - MARCH 2020 ISSUE | 3 Vicars Message A happy new year to all our readers – those who thumb through the pages, as well as those who click or swipe through the text on screens of various sizes. We begin this year with our new church hall room taking shape. It has been a pleasure to see it built so carefully, and it has inspired us to want to carry on and follow through with the other stages. There will be more fund-raising, of course, to see our dreams fulfilled, but after a year here now, I know that those activities are a vital element in what holds us together as a community, and enables us to grow and celebrate, alongside our worship. Please don’t stop being generous and taking part! We have other dreams too, which are afoot. The new room will give us more scope for Sunday School activities, but how about something during the week for our young people as they move towards their teenage years? And would there be interest in bringing church to Heskin School once in a while? An interactive, all age, never-know-what-to-expect kind of worship? If that thought has made you raise your eyebrows and smile, then you might well be one of the ‘bricks’ we need to build this fresh part of church. I want to hear from you!! (No experience necessary, other than a willingness to learn, to serve, love, and have fun) There will be Lent Studies of some kind to try this year – possible even in the parish room! I promise there will be something to whet your appetite. Try it at least once! We never got round to opening up the vicarage for festive fun this Christmas, but we intend to do that later on this year – you won’t need your Santa Hats – you can safely pack them away. It does feel like Ann and I have been here for much more than a year – and I mean that in a brilliant way. You are very welcoming, and not just to us. And now that we have shared in many baptisms, a few weddings, and of course some deeply felt goodbyes to such well-loved people (and you’ve kindly let me play with my temperamental technology) we inevitably have become more properly part of Wrightington and Heskin life. And I’ve learned quite a few of your names – most of them correctly!! And finally, a special new year welcome to those of you who found your way in to church this year and have enriched us by your presence and belonging. Bill and Linda Sloane are no strangers to us, but have decided this is where they want to worship this past year. My challenge for 2020 - for you newly settled in, alongside everyone else - find opportunities this year to take part in at least one new thing, and realise you can take responsibility and shape our common life together. With love and appreciation Stef 4 | ST. JAMES THE GREAT WRIGHTINGTON WITH HESKIN PARISH MAGAZINE Mothers’ Union A very Happy New Year to all our readers, did you have a nice Christmas? December started with our Christmas Party. Members from Mawdesley and Eccleston were invited and we had our usual Jacobs Join and “Santa Sack”. We did our own entertainment at this party as the group who were going to entertain us couldn’t make it. We had an ongoing Quiz during the evening and entertainment by Margaret Singleton from Mawdesley (The Return of Albert and The Innkeepers Wife), Eileen Gerrard gave us a rendition of “The Messiah”!!!!!!!, and, at great expense we had a visit from Hylda Baker and Cynthia (well done if you remember them). This act brought the house down when we realised that Cynthia was in fact Eric France – and very fetching he looked too. Hylda was played by Muriel Fox. Thanks also go to Pauline who played a selection of songs and carols for us to sing. (a practice for the Carol Service!) Thanks also go to my neighbours for the loan of their keyboard. Our over 80’s members went home with a table decoration and they were also delivered to our over 80’s who couldn’t attend. Thanks to all our members who made up the Mothers Union choir at the Nine Lessons and Carols, the new format seemed to go down well and was a nice change. Unfortunately 2019 came to a very sad end when we lost our friend Margaret Walters. Margaret had been a member of the Mothers Union since 2009 and in the past few years as a member of the committee, had taken on the roll of making sure our over 80’s members received a card and some flowers or a plant on their birthdays. For many years before that she was a Sunday School teacher and was very much loved by the children she taught. She was a great asset to both Mothers Union and the Church and will be very sadly missed. January 2020 (how the time flies) started with our AGM and Hot Pot lunch and was attended by 20 members and 1 new recruit. We started the meeting with a minute’s silence in memory of Margaret and with prayer. The meeting took its usual course through the minutes of the 2019 meeting, the Branch Leaders report of attendance and activities during 2019, and our financial status at the end of 2019. Once again the Branch Leader and the remaining Committee were re-elected for a further 12 months. Members were informed of the date and time of Margaret’s funeral and we hope to have most of our members in attendance. Our February meeting on the 11th is a talk by Marilyn Gregory on the History of Hairdressing. The World Day of Prayer this year is at 2pm on Friday March 6th at All Saints Church Appley Bridge. March 10th we have Eric and Audrey France at our meeting telling us about their trip to Jerusalem. Everyone is welcome to our meetings and a full list of them is on the Notice Board at the back of Church and also on the Play & Praise notice board in the Church Hall. God Bless Marie FEBRUARY 2020 - MARCH 2020 ISSUE | 5 From our Remembrance Book for February In Loving Memory of 1st Elizabeth Ivy Walkden 1st Thomas Anderton Blackburn 1st Ellen Silcock 4th Francis Richard Sharrock 5th James Strange 5th Joseph Walker 6th Harry Rutter 6th Jean Chapman 6th Evelyn Peggy Waugh 7th Ellen Clementson 7th Ellen Hilton 8th Bessie Norris 8th Margaret Taylor 8th William Allan Carr 8th Richard Stringfellow 8th Elizabeth Stringfellow 10th Ernest Westhead 11th Christine Smith 13th David Owen 14th Gordon Earl 14th David Littlefair 15th Alice Jolley 16th Sheila Blacklock 16th Alice MarianTattersall 18th Beryl Shaw 18th Peggy Norris 21st Vera Turner 21st Susan Lancelotte 22nd Betty Taylor 24th Margaret Walker 25th Doris Alice Gregson 27th James Rushton 27th Hubert Bryan Taylor 27th Beatrice Rose Bowling 28th David Rowley 6 | ST. JAMES THE GREAT WRIGHTINGTON WITH HESKIN PARISH MAGAZINE From our Remembrance Book for March In Loving Memory of 1st Eveline Miles 17th William Lawrie 1st Philip Anthony McKinnon 18th Tom Green 2nd Walter Rothwell 20th Robert Green 2nd Peggy Kinder 22nd Rev. John Andrew 3rd Margaret Johnson 22nd Ronald Slater 3rd Wilfred Gregson 22nd Beatrice Wilcock 4th Helen Curtis 22nd Claire Hodgson 5th Gene Rogers 25th Ethel Wadsworth 5th Harold Taylor 25th Francis Arthur Hailwood 8th Ann Holding 26th Elizabeth Clayton 10th William Allan Sharples 27th Fred Spedding 10th Lilian Spedding 29th Michael Bullivant 11th Peggy Bibby 29th Robert Ross 12th Norman Jones 12th Stanley Wright If you would like a name added to the Remembrance Book, please contact the Vicar 13th Peter Ashworth or Churchwarden. 13th Christopher Harper 14th Harry Stringfellow 17th Joseph Wilcock 17th William Fiddler 17th Marion Goulding FEBRUARY 2020 - MARCH 2020 ISSUE | 7 36 Club Draw November 2019 PRIZE TICKET NO NAME £50 33 Jean Dunsby £40 35 Catherine Hall £30 118 James Sharrat £20 36 Alex Makinson £20 51 Eileen Gerrard 36 Club Draw December 2019 PRIZE TICKET NO NAME £75 31 Cathy Pass £50 105, 12, 67, 90, 111 Ann & Stef Dnistrianskyj, Alan Carr, John Burton, Frank Johnson, Christine Gray £40 124, 30, 79, 74, 24 Jim Rowley, Keith & Joanne Green, Lorraine Gilder, Teri Rowlandson, Helen Orme £30 104, 56, 2, 39, 112 Christine Richardson, Sue Crawford, Liz McAvoy, Alan Lancelotte, Mary Swire £20 34, 4, 25, 54, 73 Evelyn Grundy, Doreen Gaskell, Janet Marsh, Syd Johnson, Eric France Rainbows had a very short jam packed half term just before we broke up for Christmas.