Reflections Blog

ST. IPPOLYTS CUB SCOUTS Congratulations to our Assistant Cub Leader Andrew Russell who has been awarded the Award of Merit by the Chief Scout in recognition of his significant contribution to Scouting not only in our own Group but to the District in general. Andrew is also an Assistant Explorer Leader in Hitchin, a member of the District Water Activities Team and a Climbing Instructor. A very well-deserved award for all that Andrew does for the young people in the village and the wider community. Jeff Phillips GSL

PAX SUBSCRIPTIONS Please don’t forget that annual subscriptions are now due and will be collected shortly. The magazine costs 40p. per issue, making the annual subscription £4. (Additional donations always welcome so that the printing cost can be fully covered.) If you live in the Benefice and don’t currently have PAX delivered and would like this to be arranged, please contact me on 01462-453541. Clare Larsen 5 

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER Friday 6th March at 2.00pm. This years’ service has been prepared by the Christian women of Zimbabwe and the theme is ‘Rise! Take up your mat and walk’. It is Great Wymondley’s turn to host this year and due to on-going building work on our church, the service will be held in the Village Hall next to the Green Man PH. We will be joining with people in over 120 countries and islands and we will all be taking part in the same service. This is a joint service for all the churches in our benefice and everyone is very welcome. Jackie Harding

MORNING PRAYER This year, during Lent, we will be meeting for Morning Prayer at 8.30am. - 8.50am. (Monday - Thursday) in St. Ippolyts Church. What is Morning Prayer, I hear you ask?!!! Well, it’s praying......in the morning!!! Seriously though (if I have to!) the Church of England has a short service called Morning Prayer made up of Bible readings, psalms and prayers which are said every morning often by the Priest alone but, on a good day, with others too! We also pray for our own communities, those who have asked us to pray for them and any important events that are happening around us. During Lent, I’m really hoping that more of us can gather together to pray so perhaps you would consider committing to join me for one or more morning a week? Sometimes we will use the formal Morning Prayer service but sometimes we will have a more casual style of prayer, depending on who is leading the service. Either way, everyone is welcome to join us - no praying experience required!!! We begin on Thursday 27th February - hope to see you there. With love - Ginni

On 11th July 1987 St Ippolyts Church celebrated  900 years. The village held a Pageant to mark the day and these are three photos from the event.

You can see the programme for the day in "About us" History Section of this web site.