St. Leonard's C of E Church Langho Extracts from the  September 2010 Parish Magazine

Mother's Union Notices – September 2010  Mon    6th September         7.30pm Choir Practice at 87 Rogersfield  Weds  8th September         7.45pm Committee Meeting at 6 Coronation Terrace  Mon    13th September 3-3.30pm  Godzone – Refreshments P.Leyland & S.Scott  Tues   21st September       7.30pm Choir Practice at 87 Rogersfield  Tues   28th September 7.30pm Service in Church followed by a talk from Mrs. Garvey on Youth Hostelling in Alaska-Refreshments      J Barlow, P Leyland & S Scott  A reminder to please bring your overseas boxes to the September meeting.  Our social evening was held on Tuesday 22nd June 2010 at 77 Moorland Road (my house). It proved to be just as popular when we welcomed 22 members and 5 guests. We had a beautiful evening and most people sat out in the garden.  We started the evening with Pimms followed by an absolutely brilliant buffet which was a Jacob's Join. So much Food and such a variety!! Marjorie was our photographer for the evening and you can view our pictures on the MU notice board in church.  On Tuesday 13th July 2010 a coach of members and guests travelled to Trentham Gardens. The weather was fine but rather cool for a July day! We arrived about 10.45am when most people had a coffee break. Some went to look around the Italian Gardens and a walk around the lake. Others enjoyed the small unique shops where there were plenty of places for lunch if required. The large garden centre was also worth a visit and also housed a restaurant and coffee shop!  The day stayed fine but as we began our journey home at 4.30pm it begin to rain. Weren't we lucky? Everyone arrived back on the coach with bags and said they had run out of time to see everything so perhaps one day, another visit will be planned!! I thank Audrey & Betty for organising a super day out!  It is with very great sadness that I have to inform you of the passing of one of our much loved  Indoor Members. Mrs Lily Geldard was taken into God's keeping.  Her funeral was on Thursday 29th July at St. Leonards, the church was packed and it was a very fitting tribute to Lily and her family that so many people turned out to celebrate Lily's wonderful life and support the family.  She always had a smile for everyone and was such a lovely person to be around. Unfortunately, her quality of life was not what it was, although I still remember with fondness her joining us for our Christmas lunch in December. Lily thought the world of her family and she was an inspiration for the Mother's Union as she lived by all our standards. God Bless, Lily, job well done! I send, on your behalf, our sincere thoughts and blessings to all the family.  Finally, Kathy Pennington will be collecting orders for diaries and calendars for 2011 at the September meeting.  With love and blessings     Maureen Holden    From the Parish Registers  Holy Baptism Over the summer we welcomed into the Church family the following children:  July 18th - Cooper Baxter (of Ramsgreave, Blackburn)  August 22nd - Benjamin Turnock (of Little Chalfont, Bucks)   Luke Winstanley (of Old Langho)   Daisy Wilding (of Billington)   Marriage Congratulations and many blessings to: Gary Astley and Kerry Parker who were joined in Holy Matrimony on August 6th   Special thanks to Canon Rodney Nicholson for presiding at the ceremony.   Funerals Please pray for the family of: Lily Geldard (of Billington).  Her funeral was held on July 29th in church. Lily will be missed by so many in our community.  May she rest in peace and rise in glory.   Prayer Corner  At the start of a new academic year we focus our prayers for September on the life and work of our church primary school.   Monday:  Anne Pickup and Viki Mason Head and Deputy Head Teachers  Tuesday:  Anne Rogerson the Chair of Governors and the whole governing body  Wednesday: All the Teaching staff  Thursday: The children. Derek our crossing guard (lollipop man)  Friday: Parent helpers and members of the PTA  Saturday: All the ancillary staff.  Those who run the breakfast and after school clubs  Sunday: Links between the School and our church.  Those new to our school.   We thank you Lord for those who teach and care for our children. May your Holy Spirit increase in them the gifts and skills they bring to their work. Grant them patience, imagination and sufficient love for their tasks, And in the fullness of time, crown their service with true success. Amen.     Dear Everyone in the St Leonard’s Community!  Year 3 are writing to say thank you to all the members of our community who came along to our ‘Walk in the Woods’ on Thursday 24th of June in the afternoon. This was to celebrate our wonderful woodland and to share the activities each class had been doing connected with the woods. The ‘Walk in the Woods’ was officially opened by our Mayor, Lois Rimmer. Her sons used to come to our school and she remembered that the woodland area was ‘out of bounds’ at that time.  The vicar of St. Leonard’s, Langho, Revd David Noblet began with a prayer then Mrs Pickup spoke to everyone to thank them for making the day so special. The children along with the parents and visitors were sitting on our school field by the big tree listening to the opening ceremony.  Mrs Pickup then invited everyone to walk in the woodland. Refreshments were available from the school garden. In the woodland there were lots of activities for visitors to take part in including a leaf identification trail, a minibeast hunt, a sculpture trail and a reflection walk.  Year 2 had a Viking day and they were acting as Viking invaders, all dressed up weaving, cooking and telling us about different Viking names. Reception/ Year 1 made bamboo instruments and sang a song called ‘B-U-G’! They were dancing and singing  Year 3 had made some spider webs from natural materials and they hoped that people would spot all five spider webs and their pine cone spiders! Some of the spiders were at head height, hiding in the trees.  Year 1 invited everyone to sit and read their prayers on the prayer tree. People were then invited to write their own prayer on a leaf and then hang it on the tree. Year 1 had  made a natural cross on the ground from stones, pebbles and sand.  Year 4 had enjoyed making willow sculptures with the Creative Partnership’s artist, Julie Miles. A willow stream, willow tepees and bird nests were also there for us to see. Year 4 recited a poem called ‘The Birds’ and jumped out as people walked by.  Year 6 had made settings from The Gruffalo including a Gruffalo den, an owl house, a fox tunnel and snake logs. They read the story to the Reception children.  Year 5 enjoyed designing and making a beautiful decorative wall hanging which was seen by the many visitors to their classroom.  In the school hall a Winter project was on display showing poetry reading and photographs taken by the Year 5 and 6 children in the woodland earlier this year.  We would like to say thank you for all the wonderful comments people gave us at the end of the day. Our Mayor, Lois Rimmer told us that it was ‘absolutely fabulous! I would like to come back to school – it wasn’t this good in my day!’ The visiting author Antony Lishak said ‘ The happiest school in the country, with the bubbliest staff in the world!’  Parents told us ‘You should be very proud of yourselves! Your school is fantastic, what a lot of learning is going on at St Leonard’s Primary School!’ and ‘Well done – what a wonderful inspiring day!’  Thank you to everyone involved with this very successful event!  From Year 3     St. Leonard’s PCC Officers For 2010/2011  At the Full PCC Meeting held on the 10th May the following Officers were appointed for the year 20010/11:-  Chair - Mr. Brian Williams Secretary – Mrs Audrey Fox Treasurer – Mr Peter Staziker Electoral Roll Officer – Mr Alastair Pyke The Standing Committee to consist of: - The Priest – In – Charge, The Chair The Secretary, The Treasurer,  Mrs. Lilian Hargreaves.  Audrey Fox     News FromThe Ice Palace Workshop Norh Windchill Santaland 16th August 2010  Hello again to all our dear friends at Billington and Langho Dear all,  Please forgive me for writing to you all so early this year but we are really tremendously busy here at Santaland, do you know that some shops on England are already stocking up on presents? orders are flooding into our workshops and the Craftsmen (and Crafts ladies) are working round the clock to fulfill all these orders. So much so that I thought I should check with you to remind you that we are expected at your Christmas Fayre on the 20th November, which I know Father Christmas is so looking forward to, and we want to make sure that there will be lots of children for him to see and lots of fun and excitement at the Fayre (I know there usually is!).  So don’t forget, see you all on the 20st of November Lots of love from all here, and especially me  Trudy Tenderfoot  Chief Gofa in Chief (yes I have been promoted – isn’t it exciting?).  PS. We are already having a snow wave here in Santaland and the “experts” say that it will continue until well after Christmas – but we won’t let that put us off coming will it?     PCC MEETINGS  Please note that the PCC will meet on the following dates in 2010:-  September 16th – Full PCC Meeting October 21st – PCC Standing Committee November 29th – Full PCC Meeting  Should anybody have an issue they think would be in the PCC’s remit kindly approach any member of the PCC (the full list is pinned on the Notice Board at the back of Church)  Please do not be afraid to speak to one of us even if you consider the matter too trivial – it may help us and the wider congregation.  Brian Williams   CLEANING CHURCH  We are extremely fortunate here at St. Leonard’s Church to have a very loyal and hard working band from the congregation who are on a rota to clean our Church so that when you come in to worship on Sunday morning the Church is clean and the PCC would like to take this opportunity to thank all those helpers.  However we would like to ask the volunteers to ensure that they take any rubbish collected from the waste paper baskets to take it home with them and dispose it in the normal household way. The reason for asking for this further favour is so that we do not fill the waste bin at the back of Church with rubbish which can be disposed of in a different way.  Many thanks for your co-operation and your efforts in keeping our Church looking beautiful.  Brian Williams PCC Lay Chairman    Scrabble Genius  PRESBYTERIAN: When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER  ASTRONOMER: When you rearrange the letters: MOON STARER  DESPERATION:  When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT  THE EYES:  When you rearrange the letters: THEY SEE  GEORGE BUSH: When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE  THE MORSE CODE: When you rearrange the letters: HERE COME DOTS    ELECTION RESULTS: When you rearrange the letters: LIES - LET'S RECOUNT