Reflections Blog

All of your wonderful shoeboxes have now left on their journeys to the people who will receive them but, when I drafted this article for PAX, I was surrounded by all 68 of them stacked in my living room for safe keeping.  It really is quite amazing just how much room 68 shoeboxes take up.  (Many more and I would have been in danger of losing sight of Christine)!!

A huge thank you to all of you who have contributed in so many ways by knitting, donating and actually doing all of the boxes. This year roughly ⅔of the boxes were for families and ⅓were for the elderly.  What a huge difference they are going to make to so many people (both young and old) once they arrive this Christmas.  So, on behalf of Link to Hope, THANK YOU EVERYONE.

                                                                                         Arthur Sibun

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Anne Steel, our intrepid Director of Music and PCC member, volunteered to be framed as a Saint during todays service. Well done Anne it was well deserved!

CHRISTMAS FAIR TOMBOLA St. Ippolyts Church will be running a Bottle and Jar Tombola at the Parish Hall Christmas Fair on Saturday 24th November. We would be very grateful for any contributions of bottles or jars of food or preserves, or why not fill a jar yourself with toys, sweets, stationery etc. Contributions can be brought to church or given to Jane Veasey. Thank you. The PCC

Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd December - 11.00am. till 5.00pm. Could you help in any way? If you could help with stewarding on the days or if you could bake a cake, keep your eyes open for sign-up sheets at the back of the church. If you have a crib set that we could borrow (the church is always manned or locked when the cribs are there) please contact Barbara on 01462-421647 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please 'spread the word'. Word of mouth is the very best advertising so tell everyone you can about how wonderful it is. Finally, come along over the weekend and try to work out which cribs are new! Barbara Thomas