Reflections Blog

With the fitting of the new church lighting almost completed, we decided to go ahead with the annual spring clean on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th January. Five men turned up on Thursday afternoon to carry out all the cleaning requiring ladders. More dirt was brought down from the rafters and ledges than in previous years and on Friday afternoon nine members of the Friends (and two extra volunteers!) arrived to sweep, vacuum, mop and polish. By the end of the afternoon a lot had been achieved but three members returned on Saturday morning to continue the hard work polishing, cleaning the baptistry and returning everything from the vestry to the church.

Thank you to all those who gave their time and worked so hard to make the church look spic and span again!

An advertisement for a new vicar has been added to this web site in the 'About" section under Parish Profile.

Vicar for the Benefice of St Ippolyts with Great and Little Wymondley

Together the three parishes form the attractive green cushion between Hitchin, Stevenage and Letchworth Garden City. Though close to these centres, this is a semi-rural benefice with a strong feeling of community. The joint PCCs look forward to welcoming a new vicar to our Benefice.

We are looking for someone who can -

• Lead us joyfully, thoughtfully and wisely into our future worship and community life.
• Engage, stimulate, teach, challenge and work within a framework of central churchmanship.
• Build upon our foundation to widen our age profile and attract and maintain the interest of young people in our churches.

We offer our support, commitment and hard work, plus well established teams that work well together.

A modern 4 bedroomed vicarage is located in the village of St Ippolyts and there are excellent schools in the area together with good transport links to London.

The Parish Profile can be found at:  http://www.stalbans.anglican.org/diocese/vacancies/

For application details please contact the Archdeacon of St Albans Office at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. tel: 01727 818126.

Appointment to this position is subject to satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The closing date for applications is Friday 12^th February 2016 with interviews on 9^th March 2016.

Following the installation of new lighting it has been decided to give the church a jolly good spring clean especially to remove thoise out of reach cob webs

A high level cleaning will take place Thursday 21st January at 19:30 and a general clean at ground level on Friday 22nd January at 12:00 noon.

Many hands make light work so all are welcome!

This week during our benefice vacancy we welcome the following clergy

Revd Adrian Hinksman

Revd Austin Smith

Revd Dr Jane Mainwaring

rvd Elizabeth Bunker

Jeni Mc Quiad

Thank you to you all for helping and supporting us this weekend

Thank you to everyone who purchased a quiz sheet this year, I hope you all enjoyed the challenge.

The winner this year was Phil Byford from Waterdell Lane with Malcolm Parker, last years winner, as runner up. Clearly they both have warped minds like the setter!  Phil had every answer correct and Malcolm had one incorrect

The answers are shown below.