Season’s Greetings I would like to wish you all a very happy, healthy and peaceful Christmas. We look forward to welcoming visitors old and new to our Christmas Services. Our thoughts and prayers this month are with The Children’s Society, for all the good work they do. We pray particularly
Christmas is very important in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, as it contains Bethlehem, the town in which Jesus was born. Bethlehem is about six miles south of Jerusalem. Bethlehem means ‘house of bread’ in Hebrew/Aramaic ®†®בֵּית†לֶחֶם†and ‘house of meat’ in Arabic ©بيت†لحم®Æ†The Hebrew/Aramaic name predates the Arabic
We read that the shortage of driver manpower means there will be a national shortage of fresh turkeys this year. Delivery drivers have abandoned their loads of cholesterol-laden Christmas fare to deliver Amazon packages. If you didn’t order your Harry Potter merchandise by July there is no hope whatsoever of
Winners of the November 50Plus Draw 1st Prize £103-50 – number 50 – Liz Hastings. 2nd Prize £51-75 – number 23 – Steve Green. 3rd Prize £17-25 – number 14 – John Saunders. From the Ryhall registers Sunday October 24th Baptism of Poppy Amelia Goodliffe Sunday October 31st Baptism of
CARLBY BOWLS CLUB: October was a busy month for the Bowls Club with Wednesday evening bowls and the club presentation dinner in the village hall plus the AGM in the Club pavilion. The Club Committee was re-elected little changed except with Iris Clarke retiring as Corgis Team Captain after many years
DO YOU LIVE IN GLEN CRESCENT OR STATION ROAD? We have had no offers to deliver the newsletter to these roads, so sadly they will not receive copies after this issue unless volunteers come forward. Neither road is large—could you spare 10 minutes once a month to deliver to one of
APPOINTMENT OF PARISH COUNCIL CLERK AND RESPONSIBLE FINANCIAL OFFICER Salary £11.08 per hour Part-time (4 hours per week) Home Based If you have a genuine interest in helping our forward-thinking and energetic Parish Council, have a familiarity with Essendine and its surroundings and wish to develop and deliver timely, quality
We are extremely proud of the children from Ryhall CE Academy’s Ethos Council who attended St John’s Church for a special Service of Remembrance, in common with thousands of people across our nation. This followed the whole school marking Armistice Day on Thursday 11th November 2021, led by Reverend Jo.
December promises to be an exciting time for restoration at St. John’s. We are hopeful the building works for the roof replacement will be underway before the end of this year. Fund-raising, grant applications and community engagement on the restoration project started in March 2020. We are delighted that approvals are now
