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Good Friday Parish Walk 2018 North Leightonstone Benefice

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Good Friday Parish Walk 2018 North Leightonstone Benefice

The Good Friday Walk is a legacy left by Mary which we want to keep in memory of her time here. On Good Friday, 30th April, there will be a walk between all the churches in the Benefice, a distance of approximately 16 miles.

On the next page is an itinerary for the day. At each church there will be a very brief service where we will listen to the Good Friday story and at Steeple Gidding there will be an opportunity to receive communion.

Those who have taken part before have made new acquaintances, felt a bond with other people in other villages, challenged themselves physically, joined in fellowship, heard the Good Friday story, marvelled at the wonderful churches and countryside in which we live.

We will stop for lunch at Winwick Village Hall. Please bring a packed lunch.

It has been arranged for us to use the facilities and purchase a delicious cake and a hot drink. Following the walk, tea and biscuits will be available for purchase at Ferrar House, Little Gidding.

Please join in. All are welcome to walk for as little or as much as you like.

Download the Good Friday Parish Walk – Itinerary

Service of Remembrance

By AmandaW on November 10, 2017 / Forthcoming events, Great Gidding, Great Gidding C of E Primary School, Home page upcoming events, St Michael's Church, Uncategorized / Leave a comment

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This year our Service of Remembrance at St Michael’s Church on Sunday 12th November takes place in the late afternoon at 5pm. The Sawtry Branch of the British Legion will be in attendance, and the service will be taken by Revd Mandy Flaherty. Before the service, the restored Roles of Honour will be re-dedicated. These were subject to water damage as a result of the lead theft from the roof.

There will be no morning service.

Mary Jepp begins her new life in Kilmarnock

By AmandaW on June 26, 2017 / Community, Great Gidding, Home page latest news, St Michael's Church / Leave a comment

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Mary Jepp begins her new life in Kilmarnock

The Induction of Revd Mary Jepp took place at Holy Trinity Church, Kilmarnock on Thursday 15^th June. A number of people from the Benefice travelled north to attend.

The church was packed for the service taken by the Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway. Besides Mary’s parishioners and members of other churches, the Provost (Mayor to you and me) of Kilmarnock and the local MP attended. After the service, there was an amazing spread in the church hall attached to the church, and we ‘Sassenachs’ were made to feel very welcome. We were left in no doubt as to the warmth of a community in very different surroundings from ours, and feel Mary and Mike will be very happy in this new chapter of their lives.

The two pictures reflect two aspects of the evening. The first might be said to show the formal Mary, with the Bishop. The second shows the real Mary with two of her new parishioners.

Michael Keck

Mary’s final service ends on a merry note

By AmandaW on June 26, 2017 / Community, Great Gidding, Home page latest news, St Michael's Church / Leave a comment

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Mary's final service ends on a merry note

The Revd Mary Jepp’s final service took place on Sunday 21st May at St Michael’s Church. The service was one of Choral Evensong. We were delighted to welcome back “Divers Voyces” to lead the music, and they sang settings by Bruckner, Morales, Holst and Peter Phillips. The organist, appropriately, was Paul Herring, one of Lois Jordan’s sons.

Before the service Mary re-dedicated the organ in memory of Lois, whose legacy paid for the additional work to be done. After the service, Mary Read made a presentation to Mary of a book on Icons and a cheque for £450. After the presentation, the two Mary’s were seen dancing down the nave together like the conclusion of a Morcambe & Wise Show. An appropriate ending, which highlighted the joy and happiness that Mary Jepp brought to her ministry in our community.

We wish Mary and Mike every success and happiness in the latest chapter of their lives, about to start in Kilmarnock.

Michael Keck

Bernard Foster

By krysia on June 2, 2017 / Community, Forthcoming events, Home page upcoming events, St Michael's Church / 1 Comment

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We have heard the sad news of the death of Bernard Foster. Known as “Bocky” to most people in the village, he worked in Trolove’s butcher’s shop in Main Street for many years. Our thoughts and prayers are with Betty and the family at this time.

There will be a Service of Thanksgiving for his life on Monday 12th June at 12 noon in St Michael’s Church.

Michael Keck

Talk and organ recital – CANCELLED

By AmandaW on May 8, 2017 / Community, Forthcoming events, Great Gidding, Home page upcoming events, St Michael's Church / Leave a comment

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DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THE TALK AND ORGAN RECITAL
ON FRIDAY 19TH MAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
THE EVENT WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED LATER THIS YEAR.

Friday 19th May 2017 at 7.30 pm in St Michael’s Church at Great Gidding

José Hopkins (Diocese of Ely Organ Advisor) will give a short talk about the organ builder Denman of York, following which Stephen Barber (Kings Cliffe Parish Church) will give a 50 minute recital demonstrating to advantage the work recently completed on our own organ.

Light refreshments

Free Admission – there will be a retiring collection.

Work is in progress on the Denman organ in St Michael’s Church to achieve what might be termed “the completion” of the instrument. When the organ was built in the late nineteenth century; like today, money was obviously tight for the then congregation (nothing changes!). Accordingly certain things weren’t included, and this work seeks to remedy those omissions.

The work – being carried out by E J Johnson & Son (Cambridge) Ltd – has three elements:

provision of the missing bottom 12 notes of the Swell Oboe, using full length Bassoon pipes
a new coupler mechanism, including a Swell to Pedal coupler – never previously installed
restoration of the Great Viola di Gamba rank, including new pipework

It is with thanks to Lois Jordan for her legacy which has enabled this work on the organ to be carried out.

Choral Evensong – Sunday 21st May 2017

By AmandaW on May 8, 2017 / Community, Forthcoming events, Great Gidding, Home page upcoming events, St Michael's Church / Leave a comment

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We welcome back Divers Voyces with their Music Director, Jeremy Jepson, to lead the music at this service.

The Introit will be by Anton Bruckner (Locus isti), and the canticles sung to settings by the 16^th century Spanish composer Christòbel de Morales and Gustav Holst. As Ascension Day falls in the following week, the anthem will be Ascendit Deus by the Elizabethan composer, Peter Phillips.

During the service the latest restoration work on the organ will be dedicated in memory of Lois Jordan. We are delighted that Paul Herring (Lois’s son) has kindly agreed to play the organ for this service.

This will be the Revd Mary Jepp’s final service before her departure to Scotland. After the service there will be refreshments, giving an opportunity to say farewell to Mary.

Service starts at 6pm.

Annual Parochial Church Meeting

By The Giddings Admin on March 20, 2017 / Forthcoming events, Home page upcoming events / Leave a comment

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Title: Annual Parochial Church Meeting
Location: St Michael’s Church
Description: A significant APCM for our parish this year as it will sadly be the last with Mary Jepp at our helm.
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2017-03-30

Dear Friends,

This will be a particularly significant APCM for our parish this year as it will sadly be the last with Mary at our helm. It will be held at 7.30pm on 30 March 2017 in the Church.

It is a time when we, in effect, all resign from PCC positions and then nominations for re-election are made.

We have a wealth of fantastic volunteers who help us in so many ways, without which things would not be sustained. The church is very grateful for these quiet and steadfast people.

Please have a think about whether there is anyone you know who would like the opportunity to become more closely involved in the “backstage” roles of helping keep things running smoothly at St Michael’s. If so, I can give you or them a nomination form and it can be brought to the meeting.

Please contact Mary Read or Mary Jepp if you wish to talk about this or have more information.

Mary Read
(Secretary for the PCC, St Michael’s Church)