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Priest in Charge
We
are very pleased to announce that Canon
Noelle Hall (Rector of St Martins and St
Pauls, and Area Dean of Canterbury) has
been appointed as Priest in Charge of
St Cosmus
and
St Damian in the Blean for
an initial period of 2 years. The Churchwardens
have been able to play a full part in the
discussions which led to this decision.
The PCC and MLT have welcomed the decision
most warmly and are pleased to welcome
Noelle into our midst.
Noelle
was formally licensed on Sunday 23
December 2007. In the meantime she has
already begun to attend meetings
of the PCC and MLT and will normally attend
our services on the fourth Sunday in each
month.
Colin Routh and Roger Vickerman
The Church
comes to the rescue of the East Kent W.I.
The church was an unexpected
venue on 18th October for the group meeting
of the East Kent WI.
This meeting involved
60 or more delegates reporting to each
other and receiving reports of the official
business of the area and was arranged
to take place in the village hall.
The
President,
Mrs Audrey Swain, arrived at the hall
to set up at 1 o'clock only to find another
group had taken it upon themselves
to use
the hall at that time.
Rescue
arrived in the form of David Blackmore
who suggested
transferring the event to the church
and
this was done reasonably smoothly,
although it involved posting someone
to direct
visitors to the church.
What a success! The church looked even
more beautiful than usual, filled as it
was by the displays from the Flower Festival
a few days earlier and with autumn sunshine
streaming in.The talk was on the treasures
of Maidstone Museum and the ancient setting
of the church seemed highly appropriate
for hearing about artifacts from the past.
The
entertainment was provided by music students
from The Archbishops School who
sang some wonderful new settings of favourite
hymns- again the peaceful beauty of the
church enhanced, and was enhanced by
the lovely voices.
End
result? lots of admiration
and praise from the visitors who commented
on the seamless transfer to this unusual
venue. What is the phrase? snatching
victory from the jaws of defeat? Well
maybe it
was a small victory and our knight
in shining armour was David, but it certainly
introduced
the church to a lot of new people.
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