Welcome to the double July/August summer edition of the magazine of Walthamstow parish!
Last month’s edition was the biggest we’d seen for quite a while, but this issue is bigger still—but it will have to last us all until September!
And that September issue will be a special edition for St Mary’s 900th Anniversary—read the latest update about what looks like a very full programme, and a special request to anyone married or baptised at St Mary’s. (There is also an article which brings us up to date on how the C of E has made the rules on who can marry where more flexible to reflect the more mobile society in which we now live.)
And around that time, the parish will be welcoming two new CareForce volunteers—Lucy Clutterham and Christian Onah.
Before then, we’ll have started getting to know our new curate, Ken Ashton, and his family. There has already been a working party to help get St Gabriel’s Vicarage in Shernhall St ready and a chance to meet the Ashtons informally at a welcome buffet party in St Mary’s Rectory Garden. There’s also a picture feature about Ken’s ordination, and those of three more old friends: Sarah Hayward, Sally Lynch and Lesley Mattacks.
Your editorial team wish all of you, our readers, a restful and refreshing summer break before the next issue of this magazine is in your hands!
From: Lou Henderson Editor, Shirley Anstey, Dave Baker, Tony Cant, Ruth Edwards, Khadisha Gerald and Gwyn Williams
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