St Andrew's Church
Rev. Mary Edwards
01264 852693
Making a
Donation to
St Andrew's Church
The children from Collingbourne School make the figures and animals for the Nativity Scene
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Remembrance Services
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Our two Remembrance Services were as usual well attended - firstly on Armistice Day itself at the War Memorial with the School children and those who did not have to be at work, and then the following Sunday when St Andrew was full. The collection from Sunday went to the Poppy Appeal. Many thanks to all the people and the Brownies and Beavers who tidied round the Memorial itself, to those who cleared the leaves and litter from the War Memorial Green and everyone who helped tidy round the graves in the churchyard which has Commonwealth Graves from both World Wars. |
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At our October Family Service Poppy Hudson was baptised into the Church. |  |
Harvest Festivals
| Pictures from the School Harvest Festival | |
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The 2011 Village Show Robert East and the Team are to be congratulated on their predicting the weather - and very much so on another really successful show with everything from Candy Floss to donkey Derby and Army Weaponry. |
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Jazz at St Andrew's The following week we had our Jazz@St.Andrew's concert in St Andrew's with Helen Barrett - once again Helen treated us all to a brilliant performance and a really good night out. This time we were a bit earlier in the year and managed not to freeze her as we did in October 2010! |
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Harvest Festivals
| Pictures from the School Harvest Festival | |
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Our Parish Picnic Once again our thanks to Dick and Mary who hosted the annual Parish Picnic in their garden. The weather was good, What a perfect way to spend a summer lunch time. |
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Calling all toddlers and Mums, Dads, Grandparents or Carers. Come along and enjoy an informal service especially for you. Pictures from our July meeting. |
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And from this month We are meeting alternate weeks at 10.30 in September 7th & 21st |
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Our Parish Picnic Once again our thanks to Dick and Mary who hosted the annual Parish Picnic in their garden. The weather was good, What a perfect way to spend a summer lunch time. |
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At our June Family Service we welcomed Keira Louise Hill and Natasha Alice Crapper into the Church family. |  |
Flower Festival - 20th - 22nd May
| Our Flower Festival weekend at the end of May seems ages ago now. But the memories linger on - the scent of the flowers, the coloured brilliance of the blooms, the many and varied magnificent floral displays, the ingenuity of interpreting parables in flowers, the range of organisations who took part and, not least, the sheer range of people who contributed - from three year olds at the pre-school right through to pensioners whose age those same children cannot imagine. And on Friday morning, the electric thrill for those lucky enough to be there when our St Petersburg choir popped in for a quick recce of the church before lunch - one faint ting of a single tuning fork and then six glorious male voices shook the roof. |  |
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The Friday evening concert was everything we hoped it would be - some sacred Russian church music, some folk songs and - yes - a bit of Beatles. The roof timbers shook. It could have been much, much longer and we would have stayed spellbound. The weekend closed with a superb Songs of Praise amongst the flowers and then a delightful supper. Our thanks to all those involved - and there were many of them, from designing publicity, through organising the contributors, working out a timetable, arranging the flowers and watering them, driving the Russians, being B&B host and right through to providing refreshments and the supper. The whole weekend raised over £800 for church funds. |
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Easter Services
Easter Day
| The Church was full for our Easter Sunday celebration of the risen Christ. The younger members of the congregation enjoyed the traditional Easter egg hunt in the churchyard. | |
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| Good Friday's Walk of Witness | |
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The Walk of Witness started with readings from the Stations of the Cross at St Andrew's Church in Ducis and made their silent way in beautiful spring sunshine along the path to St Mary's Church in Collingbourne Kingston to complete the service. Many cars and lorries slowed down as they passed us in recognition of the events of the first Good Friday. Even the cows were curious about the walk! Our thanks to all the ladies who provided the hot cross buns and coffees in Kingston Village Hall after the service |
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Lent Lunches
| The weather decided to be kind to us for our Lent Lunches and people were even to be seen having lunch on the grass in the sunshine. Many thanks to all who came - £240 was raised for Naomi House who so impressed us with what they achieve when they came to us at the end of last year. | |
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Latest Baptism Lelani Dorich During the Family Service in March the congregation welcomed little Lelani into the fellowship of the church at her baptism. |
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| School Pancake Races | |
| Here are a few photographs of the School Pancake races and I think the pictures depict the children's feelings but I think they were relieved to find that the pancakes they tossed in the playground were not the ones they ate!! Thanks to Marion, Phyllis, Pauline, Carol, Mike and Anna for cooking the pancakes and dishing them out. |
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Christmas happenings at St Andrews
Come To Bethlehem 2010 This children's service again
proved very popular and was full to capacity
with people standing all around - reminiscent
of Jesus' birth when there was 'no room at
the inn'. These pictures tell the story. |
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Christmas
has arrived and the congregation enjoyed a glass
of mulled or fruit juice Our thanks to all those who helped in any way to make this service and Christmas such a success. |
| Collingbourne School top year organised their Advent Services in St Andrew's Church. These were enjoyed by pupils, staff, parents and friends of the school |  |
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| This year we tried something different - Carols and Brass. This proved a popular evening which unfortunately had to be held in the church rather than outside on the War Memorial Green due to the low temperatures and wind chill outside. Nevertheless those who attended enjoyed the singing together with mulled wine and roasted chestnuts. | |
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A merry band of helpers gethered to make up around 140 Christingles prior to the 'Come to Bethlehem' service where they are handed out to all who wish them. |
| St Andrew's looking particularly suitably 'dressed' for the Christmas season. |  |
Dragonflies Pre-School
visit
We were delighted to welcome some of the Pre-school
members and their leaders to St Andrew's on
the last few days of term. The little ones
braved the sleet and walked down to church
bringing with them a beautiful sheep and donkey
for our crib scene for Christmas. They also
made and brought with them their own tree decorations
which they put on the tree. |
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SCAMPS Our mother and toddler group met in December for a pre Christmas meeting when we welcomed our newest member who was only a few weeks old. Mothers and grannies enjoyed the coffee and mince pies while the children had squash and biscuits together with bubbles, balloons and dancing to some of their favourite songs. |
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| Licensing of Pewsey Deanery Lay Pastoral Assistants | |
| Once again St Andrew's Church
hosted the Deanery this time on 1st of December,
for the new Pewsey Deanery Lay Pastoral Assistants
to be commissioned on what proved to be a very
cold wintry evening. Our own Rural Dean Rev Mary Edwards presented the candidates and Archdeacon, John Wraw commissioned Jan Hunt-Watts from Pewsey Vale, Ann Yates from Marlborough, David Hughes from Pewsey Swanborough and Mike and Anna Cox from Savernake. Sadly two members of the group were unable to be present because of ill health. |
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Beth
Gordon's Baptism |
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Commissioning of Rev Mary Edwards St Andrew's was delighted to host
the commissioning of Rev Mary Edwards as our
new Rural Dean. Bishop Stephen officiated over
the commissioning, ably assisted by Archdeacon
John Wraw. Despite the raw evening many clergy
and parishoners from all over Deanery joined
us to celebrate Mary's appointment. |
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Remembrance Service 11th November 2010 |
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| Our thanks to Laurence McGowan for his moving poem and the photographs below. | ||
At the eleventh hour
of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, November, No bowed head Portland statue,
forever keens the village loss, The lucky quick are there, those
who've known and those who've seen, Please God no. |
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