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Saint Matthew's Parish Church, Church Road, Buckley
October 1963
BUCKLEY PARISH CHURCH MAGAZINE
1963 OCTOBER
Good Shepherd Mission. - The Harvest Thanksgiving Services have been arranged as follows:-
Sunday, October 20-9 a.m. Holy Communion
6.30 p.m. Evening Prayer and Sermon
The Church will be open on Saturday morning, October 19th, and gifts of flowers, fruit and vegetables will be gratefully received for decorating the Church. The help of the ladies to carry out this work will be much appreciated.
Caretakers.- It is with much regret we have received the resignation of the Misses Probert as caretakers of the Good Shepherd Church. For many years the duties were carried out by Miss M.J.Probert, but owing to her ill-health some six years ago, her sister took over the work. Now they feel that the time has come for them to resign the office. We are most grateful to them for all they have done and for their faithfulness in attending all the services.
This brings to an end a long family connection with the Good Shepherd Church because the late Mr.E.Probert was the first to act as caretaker some 50 years ago. The Church has been most fortunate to have been so well served by the family and we thank the Misses Probert for their share of loyal service.
Sunday School.- Mr. Frank Birtwistle has been in charge of the Good Shepherd Sunday School and after some 16 years he feels that he would like to have a break. His request is a reasonable one and it has been made possible. We are indeed most grateful to Mr.Birtwistle for his most faithful work which has been carried out conscientiously and faithfully for such a long period. He has not severed his connection with the Sunday School as he has assured us that he will be only too willing to help when he is wanted. We are glad of this and hope that he will be able again to take up the work which he has so ably carried on for the children of the Good Shepherd.
We welcome Mrs. Gwyneth Hodgson who has very kindly come along to help and so we know that with Mr.David Collins the Sunday School will be well served.
Jumble Sale.- Once again we draw your attention to the annual Jumble Sale organised by the Sunday School teachers and their helpers. Its purpose is to raise funds to meet the costs of providing suitable awards for faithful attendance to the children of the Catechism and the Sunday Schools and also to defray the cost of the Christmas Party.
The Sale with be held in the Gladstone Hut on Friday, 25th October, and we will be glad to hear of any jumble which you can give towards this effort. Any of the organisers will gladly make arrangements for it to be collected.
This effort has always been well supported and we look forward to the same whole-hearted co-operation from everyone this year.
Mothers' Union.- It was good to see so many members at the first service of the new session in September. It is hoped that the attendance will continue, and even improve, during the coming months. The place of such a fellowship of mothers is vital if home life is to continue and to be based upon Christian principles.
After the service, the members had a Bring and Buy Sale on the vicarage lawn. The weather was pleasant and sunny and helped us all to enjoy the afternoon. The financial result of the effort was that over £15 was raised and so enables the usual contribution to be made towards the Moral Welfare work in the diocese.
The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, 8th October when there will be a service at 2.15 and this will be followed with a meeting in the Gladstone Hut.
Scholastic.- Two young men from the parish have left to continue their studies in college - Mr. Gwyn Jones in Trinity College, Carmarthen, and Mr. John Mitchell at the University College of Wales in Swansea. We extend to them our good wishes for every success.
Christmas Bazaar.- It has been decided to hold the Bazaar on the first Saturday in December - the 7th - and we ask you to make a note of the date. This will maintain the established practice of holding the function on the usual date.
Preliminary arrangements are already being made for it and it is hoped that during the coming months there will be concerted action to make the occasion a splendid success.
Further details will be given in due course.
Church of England Children's Society. - The next meeting will take place on Wednesday, 16th October, at 7.30 and Mr.J.E.Ellis, our parish secretary, hopes that all boxes will be returned that night so that the contents can be emptied. We hope that all box holders will come along to hear of the work which they support and also to share in the programme which has been prepared.
Last year we had a very enjoyable evening of films and we want to do the same again - with different films, of course. We want you to come to be entertained in this way and to be assured that we appreciate very much the good work which is being done in the parish for the children of the Society.
In the Society's Journal we read: "……the calls which we answer are not so very different today from those which our founders set out to answer over eighty years ago. We can be thankful that no one in England is now so poor as the widow who struggled to keep her children out of the workhouse in the late nineteenth century. Yet there is still the poverty which comes to the children because a parent is a chronic bad manager, or because he drinks or will not work. There is poverty of desperate over-crowding of the slums, of eviction from the one precious, over-priced furnished room. But far more frequently in these sophisticated days, children come to us for more subtle reasons. Broken homes are more and more the cause of broken childhoods.
Missions.- During the recent months the following sums have been forwarded to the missionary Societies towards their work: - S.P.C.K., £18.14.5d; S.P.G., £18.14.6d; U.M.C.A., £18.14.6d; Jerusalem and the East Mission, £16.16.6d; Missions to seamen, £5.6.0d; Total £78.5.11d.
Sidesmens' Rota.
Oct.13 - Messrs. F.G.Millward and R.P.Millward
" 20 Messrs. D.Owen and P.C.Roberts
" 27 Messrs. R.V.Robinson and J.Thornton
Nov. 3 Messrs. T.Lloyd and R.Weigh
Altar Flowers
"To beautify the place of my Sanctuary"
Oct. 13 - Mr.J.W.Hewitt
" 20 Mrs.J.Hayes
" 27 Miss Lindop
Nov. 3 - Mrs.Peters
" 10 Mrs.J.E.Ellis
From the Registers.
Holy Baptisms
"Grafted into the Body of Christ's Church"
Sept. 1Amanda Jane, daughter of Dennis and Freda Humphreys, Collinwood, Meg's Lane, Buckley
" 1 Sara Louise, daughter of Edward and Gillian Dolores Morris, 2 Hawarden Drive, Drury, Buckley
" 8 Alison, daughter of John and Maureen Anne Griffiths, 8 Hawarden Drive, Drury, Buckley
" 10 Ceri, daughter of Kenneth and Ruby Groves, 6 Collier's Lane, Pren Hill, Buckley
" 22 John, son of Norman and Eva Mavis Williams, Ewloe Hall, Liverpool Road, Buckley. (Received into the Church)
The Faithful Departed
"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"
Sept. 14 Robert Williams, 117 The Highway, Hawarden, aged 79
" 20 Joseph Catherall, 2 Yelva Cottages, Ewloe Green, aged 73
" 28 Mary Arrowsmith, Elm Farm, Alltami, aged 80
Collections
Parish Church - Sept. 1st, £14.1.1d, Sept. 8th, £13.14.7d, Sept. 15th, £13.9.0d, Sept. 22nd , £20.12.6d,Sept. 29th, £12.18.6d, Total, £74.15.8d.
Good Shepherd Church - Sept. 1st, £1.18.0d, Sept. 15th, £2.7.3d, Total £4.5.3d.
Author: Buckley Parish Church
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Year = 1963
Month = October
Building = Religious
Document = Journal
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