It was a huge joy to welcome Key Stage 2 from Woodhouse Primary Academy to the church on Thursday 20th December to hear readings and carols telling the Christmas story. They did a fantastic job singing and reading beautifully and were a credit to the school
Christmas is coming the goose is getting fatplease put a penny in the old man's hat.Come and join us for Festive Fun
The service was attended by 485 Squadron of the Air Training Corps with many of their families and friends as well as other local people and church members.We heard words of peace, reactions to war by the young people and the reading of the names on the war memorial which hangs in our church.As a symbol of prayer for peace a cross of mud was filled with poppies to recreate the fields of FlandersIn Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields. John McCrae 1915Some pictures from the event can be seen in the Gallery
