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FairTrade
The PCC has approved a request to seek FairTrade status for the church. This involves seeking to promote the use of Fair Trade products and to use them whenever possible for church activities.
A barbecue will be held in the Memorial Hall and playing fields area on Sunday 22 June. This will be a chance for all residents of the village to share in a time of food and fun. There will be games for all the family as well as the usual fare. Soft drinks will be available - alcoholic drinks will have to be provided yourselves as a drinks licence is not available for this occassion.
The event is being organised by the social committee of Breadsall church and invitiations will be sent to all residents of the village as well as church members and friends from Oakwood.
Open from 1pm to 4 pm - come and go as you please.
The pudding evening and quiz night on Friday 9 May raised the sum of £341.40 to be donated to Christian Aid. The evening was well attended and enjoyed by all. Many thanks to the girls of y:pig for organising the event and to David Wright from Oakwood church who acted as quizmaster.
The Annual Meeting was held in church on Monday 21 April. At the meeting, Mavis Collins and Ray Dennis were elected as Churchwardens for the coming year. Joyce Hufton was thanked for all the work she had put in over the last year. Ray will officially start in this role at the Archdeacon's visitation in May. Date to be advised. Also elected to Deanery Synod were Jane Williams, Fran Monahan and Chris Prior. One vacancy remains if anyone is interested. Elected to the PCC were Amy Rees, Kate Somerfield and Mike Allwood. Lizzie Paish agreed to take on the role of PCC Secretary.
During the Good Friday service, we took the unusual step of transforming the Christmas Tree into an Easter Cross, symbolising the wholeness of the Christmas and Easter stories as together displaying God's purpose for Christ on earth.
The tree was adorned with a crown and the letter INRI - Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews Presents of the peoples' prayers were brought to the foot of the cross. Ribbons representing Christ's blood outpoured were added to 'decorate' the tree.
In this photo, Amber is adding her ribbon. The tree was kindly donated by her parents last Christmas
The 2007 Remembrance Day service was attended by Brownies, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts from Breadsall and Oakwood troops. As usual, wreaths were laid to remember the dead in the 2 World Wars, with names of the dead read out by Roy Ling on behalf of the Parish Council.
Photographs from the ceremony are now available in the Breadsall Galleries on line.
Photos from the Harvest lunch are now available in the gallery. All involved had a good time with excellent food as always (thanks to Joyce and all the cooks) and also some wonderful entertainment thanks to Adrian and all those who sang, read or performed.
At the Annual Meeting on 23rd April, Mavis Collins and Joyce Hufton were elected churchwardens for the coming year. Thanks was given to Heather Prior for her service over the past 3 years. Mavis and Joyce will be formally sworn in on Wednesday 2 May.
On the PCC, we welcome Sue Massie and Marion Morris to replace Pat Lunn, Jenny Greene and Sir Richard Morris. There is a vacancy so if you wish to be co-opted, please contact the PCC Secretary or the Rector
