Letter From The Vicarage - September 2011

Dear Friends,

With the return of the schools early this month everything seems to be getting back into gear again after the summer holidays.  We look forward to the first of our Harvest Services at Cookley, to be followed on the first Sunday of October by Wolverley Harvest.  It’s good at least on this occasion to show our appreciation for all of life’s excellent gifts and for an abundant amount of food.

We are all too aware that many people in the world suffer from starvation. Unfortunately this is not only because of drought or poor harvests but because of political agendas and by a failure to provide sufficient means of distribution.  We can do little to alter such circumstances but we can keep up pressure on the Governments of the world to put feeding their populations at the top of their programmes. 

Why not write a letter or send an email to your Member of Parliament expressing concern?

September 25^th is also ‘Back to Church Sunday’ at both churches.  We hope that many people will come to church or come back to Church and find the experience a worthwhile and a lively one and decide to reconnect with the local church from which they may have become separated.  This may happen as a result of different factors.  Perhaps people have moved, perhaps they just had a negative experience once, or perhaps they have just got out of the habit of going.  We are all subject to the changes that happen in life and sometimes we just need a bit of encouragement in the right direction.

With all good wishes

Yours sincerely,                                                                   

Geoffrey 

From the Parish Registers

          

Christenings 
Willem Luke Copson - 23^rd July at Cookley

Leandro Michael Curty-Pitt - 24^th July at Cookley
Shannon May Jones, Chanelle Charlie Jones and Tia Marie Jones  - 31^st July at Cookley
Chloe Elizabeth Weaver - 6^th August at Cookley
Connie Anais Valerie Hall - 7^th August at Wolverley 

Weddings 

Antony James Woods and Jamie Rodina May Harbron - 6^th August at Cookley 

Funerals 

Hilda Furnell - 19^th July at Cookley
Graham Gwilliam - 29^th (Cookley) at Stourbridge
Harriet Lucy Ross-Tuffey  - 2^nd August at Cookley
Pamela King - 11^th August (Cookley) – at Stourbridge