The Tuesday morning services of Matins on 8th, 22nd and 29th August are cancelled – services will resume again in September. However the scheduled service of Holy Communion will take place on Tuesday 15th August at 8am.
Just a reminder that the Gidding Gobblers Café is open every Sunday in the Village Hall from 10.00 am to 2.00pm.
Come along for delicious homemade cakes, rolls and coffee.
Read the Sunday papers and catch up with Gidding gossip!!
Great Gidding’s new Cycle Café selling coffees, teas, homemade cakes and filled rolls opens this Sunday. Open to cyclists and non-cyclists every Sunday 10.00am – 2.00pm.
Starting on Sunday 30th July 2017 in Great Gidding Village Hall.
Julie and Krystyna look forward to welcoming you!
Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/giddinggobblers
Great & Little Gidding Community Public Access Defibrillator (CPAD) APPEAL
We as a Parish are currently trying to raise £2000 to purchase and site a Defibrillator and Cabinet.
Cardiac Arrest or Heart Attack claims 150,000 – 200,000 lives each year in the United Kingdom. If a person’s heart has stopped the only thing that will get it working again is an electrical charge passed through the heart muscles. The first few minutes are the most vital and often an ambulance will be over five minutes away.
If you would like to help fund raise or donate towards this worthwhile equipment please contact;
Lydia James
22 Main Street, Great Gidding
07962 099922
lydiajames2010@hotmail.co.uk
Thank You
The Induction of Revd Mary Jepp took place at Holy Trinity Church, Kilmarnock on Thursday 15th 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
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
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
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.
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 16th 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.