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‘Churchwardens’ Chat’
We are now in an interregnum following the retirement of the Vicar and so the monthly letter for the Parish News is written by the Churchwardens
July 2021
We want to begin with a huge Thank You to ‘team St. Chad’ for the help, from the PCC and from so many individuals, who have worked to support us in making vicar Maureen’s last few weeks go smoothly.
There are so many of you: tidying our Church, helping with cleaning, organising money-counting and dealing with treasury matters, advising and sharing expertise on building maintenance, IT and streaming issues, ringing our church bells, organising our church music and developing our choir, dealing with rotas and reaching out to people in need of comfort and support. The list could go on!
Some of this work is weekly, but other is more infrequent or one off. The more volunteers we have, the less often people have to do the tasks individually; that is why in the forthcoming months we shall be asking if you have any time or talents to share with us.
It will be anything, for instance: could you play a musical instrument with our Youth Band once a month? (people of any age can join!); can you join a rota to help operate our streaming service?’; would you consider being a Server at a Holy Communion service once a month? amd not forgetting, of course, the often most pressing need: would you bake a cake’ for our various future events!
We are looking forward to holding more services but also to show and share how we are ‘building’ our Church beyond the beautiful building. One of the ways is to ask you to tell us what you would like to see St Chad’s doing – with you and for you; another is to help us with our continuing work. which could be supporting ‘Open the Book’ at St. Chad’s School, helpiing to organize ‘Who’s for Lunch’ or helping us on our ‘Eco Church’ journey, in which we share our love for God and the creation of our wonderful world, by caring more for our environment.
God is at the heart of all we strive to do, and we ask that you continue to share with us this wonderful path.
If we get it right – tell us and we will understand what works; if we get it wrong – tell us and we will try to do things differently!
Most of all, we pray we can live joyously in the light of Christ; we must get over our disappointment in the delayed lifting of Covid-19 restrictions and carry on with God’s work in hope.
We look forward to seeing you at the tea party farewell for Maureen on the hastily re-arranged date, 8th August, at 3 pm in Pattingham Village Hall. All are very welcome!
Finally, we would like to express our thanks to visiting Reverends Henry Morris, James Makepeace and Sue Watson who have led services and communion for us during the past few weeks.
Stay safe and keep in touch,
Clive Pendrell and Dorothy Steel
Churchwardens