Each month a YouTube video is created with members of the team and it is sent out with the Monthly Newsletter.This month it is all about Mothers Union - the national picture, the local programme and celebrating its 150th Anniversary. To join or to find out more, contact:Westbury Branch - Jean JaneDilton Marsh Branch - Jocelyn Short (narrator of the video)
WHAT IS WHCH? Westbury Parish Hall is the home of the White Horse Community Hub. They are a new charity which has been set up to focus on making improvements to the hall; to increase the bookings, its useability and implement a modernisation plan. The overall aim is to care for and secure the hall for future generations to come! The trustees are members of the general public who have kindly stepped forward to volunteer and work together. There are also four church trustees on the WHCH committee, which includes Rev’d Rebecca.GRANT: The charity has received two grants in the last few months from Westbury Lions and the Westbury Town Council. These funds will support the ongoing renovation activities.CURRENT USAGE: WHCH is working with the Team Administrator (in the Parish Office) to increase the number of bookings, as it is an underused space in the community – which still needs to pay for itself.HALL BOOKINGS: Contact the Parish Office.
This year the Church of England authorised a new ecumenical special day in the Common Worship calendar - The Festival of Creation in Christ to be celebrated on the first Sunday of September. The Feast of Creation in Christ serves to reminds us that we are not called to worship the created order nor merely to offer lament for ecological crisis. Rather, the Festival is an opportunity to:come before God to give thanks for the divine act of creation,behold all things as made through Christ the Word, andtreat the world as gift, covenant, and responsibility.The Festival connects the liturgical celebration of creation with the Church’s calling, expressed in the Fifth Mark of Mission, to ‘safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth’.Creation must be cherished because it is created in Christ, sustained in Christ, wounded by human sin, and destined for renewal in Christ.General Synod 2408ZBoth All Saints and Holy Trinity Church will be celebrating this new Festival - why not come along and join in?
