Mothers' Union Peterborough
I met Mary on my previous visit to Kenya when she showed me the Solar Stove, which she was introducing to Mothers’ Union members. When I went this time I gave her the money which you had donated so that she could provide families in need with a solar stove.
She showed me the beads and the wires which she had bought in Nairobi. These will be used by the members to make jewellery which will then be sold to fund a variety of projects to support widows and orphans in Bungoma diocese.
Sue Tringham
Six new members enrolled.
New members were enrolled at the morning service which included a baptism. The new members were supported by their children and grand children. Altogether a very happy occasion.
MU Kettering – Mothers’ Union game
Meet the new member.
A different type of Beetle Drive for MU members.
We decided to have some fun at our November meeting. The game differs from a conventional Beetle Drive because “we are all heart” so to get started we need to throw a six for a heart and off we go.
If any branch is interested I still have the poster and the game is available in a PDF file. You can contact me by phone on 01536 522269.
Against a declining membership roll in this country it is exciting to report that on Sunday 24th November 2013 at All Saints’ Church, West Haddon, The Right Reverend John Holbrook, Bishop of Brixworth, enrolled twenty-four new members into Mothers’ Union. Together with one member already enrolled and two members transferring from another branch they will form the Ridgeway Branch, named for our closeness to the Northamptonshire ridgeway.
The Branch will serve the united parishes of St Lawrence, Long Buckby with St Peter and St Paul, Watford, and All Saints’, West Haddon with St Michael & All Angels, Winwick. Their aim, as with all Branches of Mothers’ Union, is to serve the benefice as directed by the Vicar in matters concerning family life, which is apt because the Vicar, The Revd Graham Collingridge, was enrolled at the service! The service was attended by Mothers’ Union officers from around the Diocese of Peterborough.
Photos taken at Kettering Deanery Festival in the summer – you can click each image to enlarge.
Just a reminder that I would like to send cards on behalf of the MU in the diocese if I know the circumstance. These might be ‘thinking of you cards’ to the very poorly members and Golden Wedding Anniversary cards and every five years after that. Also 90th birthday and every five years after.
Please contact me with a name and address and date for the card to arrive giving me as much notice as possible in case I am away.
If you have other requests for cards I am happy to consider those too.
Many thanks – Pam Handley tel 01604 714560 .
On Sunday 8th September during the Family Communion service in St Mary Magdalene church, Helmdon, I enrolled our new rector Reverend Carole Peters and Celia Terrey as new members of the Astwell Branch.
Ann Smith- Branch leader Astwell MU
There was a great variety of stalls to browse over and many different items, from cakes to books and toiletries to be purchased on 6th September. The atmosphere was excellent and for the members it was so good for each of us to be working with and getting to know members of each branch in the deanery. Funds were raised for branch and diocesan work and Mothers’ Union promoted. In all a very good morning.
Oundle branch have always been strong supporters of the A.F.I.A. holiday project, both by fund raising and also with prayer.
On 6th August they invited Jean one of our project coordinators [Joy was on holiday] to their meeting. Jean told them about how the scheme runs and showed them a picture graph of makeup of the families who went away last year. I was able, also, to tell them of some of the variety of the holidays that had been held in the past.
Coincidentally, there were three coordinators, past and present, there. Please see the accompanying photo. Rachel, who was coordinator in the early 90s, Barbara from the late 90s and of course Jean our current coordinator.
The afternoon concluded with lots of chat, catching up and many delicious cakes and tea.
Thank you, Oundle.
Barbara Haynes.
On Monday 15th July I attended the summer fayre and lunch at St. Benedict’s, in Hunsbury. There were stalls where we could buy some early Christmas presents or plants or we could chance our luck on the tombola, yes, I won a Christmas pudding…that’s a job I won’t have to do this year! Mothers’ Union cards were also being sold.
After an entertaining 20minutes or so listening to some of Pam Ayres poems and prose we were provided with a feast of a buffet lunch.
It was lovely to meet lots of members from Northampton deanery and to enjoy the chatter and fellowship with them.
The money raised, £419.19, will be used for Mothers’ Union work at home and worldwide.
Well done and thank you, St. Benedict’s.
Barbara Haynes, President.