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Donations stolen 21.07.20

On Tuesday evening the church donation box was broken into and the money taken. Damage was also caused to equipment left in the church. The poem below was written in response.

Poem – A Redundant Church

The night was eery, ghosts in the stillness
No owls, just stars scattering their brilliance….
A world alone, alive only in memory.
No congregation in more than a century
the Location to blame, the building is guiltless,
No money, no need, no shouting peremptory
Demands, just strength and a quiet resilience,
Open to All, time’s stillness not in jeopardy
A day-time serenity, a retreat for everybody.
But last night, in the quiet a man and his buddy
Slipped through the door and crept into its dullness.
They broke open the safe and stole all the money
Stuffed in by strangers from summer to Christmas.
They stole the webcam, set to catch their treachery,
No devotion, maybe greed, the pain of their penury
But loud in the air now a shrillness
A centuries old smell of catastrophic illness
Neglect, no love, a futile hope of fulfilment
A church and its people share sorrow and darkness

Written by Christine Sanderson 24.07.20

Send us your Church Photos

For July 2020 we are sending out an appeal for your photos of the church, past or present, so we can add them to this website. If you have any you’d like to share please email to wolfhampcotechurch@gmail.com.

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Visit the church Facebook page to view a daily Haiku poem that will be posted each day in June 2020. Contributions are most welcome.

Carol Concert Success 2013

Seasons greeting to everybody who participated or helped in any way with this year’s Carol Concert!

This year’s was the best attended ever with every seat taken, people in the lady chapel and the belfry and some sitting in the porch.
The donations taken on the door were down a little but with no outgoings for candles [ No, I didn’t say Fork Handles!] thanks to the generosity of Avril and Mick from the cafe boat Gongoozlers, we made £416 for the St Peters fund.
The overwhelming feedback that I’ve had since the concert is that people couldn’t hear very well especially at the back.

I’ve always been anti amplification as in the past, with smaller audiences, the acoustics of the church worked well but in recent years with the place being packed the sound is being damped down and I think that we need some speakers at the back of St. Peters. We will have to try something and I like the idea of some sort of wireless application.

We also over-ran our nominal one hour by about 20 minutes so I’ll be reminding our readers to try and keep their pieces to 3-4 minutes next year, it makes for a crisper and more enjoyable event!
Having said that, there were some excellent recitals………Well done everyone!

Finally a big thank-you to the Braunston Singers who filled in the gap left when our accompanist was unable to attend, it was literally “last minute” stuff with Jacqui and her crew improvising as the evening progressed!

See you all next year, don’t eat too much Christmas pud!

Happy Christmas to all,

Jim

Concert Pictures

Thanks to Tony Ward for the pictures. The church was full and overflowing.