St. Margaret’s branch of Mother’s Union meets in St Margaret’s Hall on alternate Wednesdays, usually the first and third of the month. We have speakers on a variety of subjects and of course, finish with tea and biscuits.
Membership of the M.U. is open to all who have been baptised in the name of the Holy Trinity- men as well as women, married or single, with or without children.
We are friendly caring group supporting each other, St. Margaret’s church and the World Wide work of the M.U.
If you are interested contact M. Pouch on 0113 2584898.
Tradecraft
The principle behind Traidcraft is that things are geared to give the workers at the “coal face” a decent living. (The spelling “Traidcraft” is deliberate, incidentally.) There is much effort in trying to cut out chains of middle men each taking a cut & living off the back of the worker in the field.
At St Margaret’s a stall was set up in 1982 on the initiative of Linda & Graham Fergusson. A grant was made by the P.C.C. to provide the initial stock. The idea was to introduce people to the principle of fairly traded goods with the hope that the idea would “catch on” & that eventually the goods would be available widespread.
Initially there were problems with the quality but these have been sorted out over the years & quality is now pretty good & items bearing the Fair Trade logo are available in the most shops & supermarkets. (The Co-op stores are a particularly good outlet for Fair Trade products.)
The stall in church is mainly for eats & drinks, biscuits, tea, coffee, chocolate, cereals etc. many other items are available including clothing & and paper goods. Even wine is fairly traded but we would need a licence to sell this in church. (The co-op usually has Fair Trade wine.)
The stall “ticks over nicely, making a small profit to enable to enable buying of replacement stock.
It beats the supermarket prices consistently with “geobars” & usually with the “cookies”.
The chocolate is of particularly good quality although not cheap. The tea and coffee, & cereals are particularly good.
Anyone who would enjoy playing shops would be welcome in helping on the stall rota.
Action for Mission
A message on behalf of the former members of Action for Mission (A4M): Thank you to everyone who has supported Action for Mission fund raising efforts over the years. Without your support we couldn't have achieved anything.
Although A4M is no longer active, individually we shall continue to support the various charities:
Joanne Hoare will look after the Children's Society boxes
Jean & Harry Rhodes will look after Children in Distress boxes, Leprosy Mission boxes, stamps, cartridges etc.
The carboy will no longer be used for general funds as in the past but will be a collecting point for the work of Church Army, in the care of Peter Green & Muriel Thorpe. Please continue to put your small change into the carboy to support the excellent work the Church Army does, going out to take the gospel of love to people, wherever they are.
Boxes for all the charities are available from any of the above people. New supporters are always welcome. Small amounts given regularly do make a difference to the charity concerned.
The Leprosy Day service at St Margaret's will be on 19th February 2012, when we hope to have a visiting preacher to tell us a little more of their latest projects and news.
Sponsoring the Floodlights
St Margaret’s Church is a major feature of the Horsforth skyline and its award winning floodlighting enhances the attractiveness of the village at night. However, it costs us around £5 to run the floodlights for one evening, as an average over the year.
You can help us to keep the floodlights on by sponsoring the running costs for an evening and using that to commemorate some personal or family event or anniversary. We shall print ant short dedication you choose in the church magazine- but your sponsorship can be anonymous if you wish. Don’t forget that you need to make your request by the beginning of the month before your chosen date for the dedication to appear in the appropriate magazine.
If you would like to sponsor the floodlighting, please contact Harry Tripp (0113 2583517) for further details.
