JUNE / JULY 2020 - Newchurch Culcheth + Christ Church Croft
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JUNE / JULY 2020
CHURCH DIRECTORY
CHRIST CHURCH, CROFT - WITH - SOUTHWORTH ,
Lady Lane , Croft. WA3 7AU
INTERIM
Can be contacted through the church Wardens
Cover Photo Credit: E Tan
PRINTED BY PPM LTD., 415 WARRINGTON ROAD, CULCHETH
TEL: 765995
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SUNDAY SERVICES
Services suspended for time being
The Archbishops have written to churches asking us to suspend our public
worship services for the time being in light of the Government’s recent advice on
tackling the spread of Coronavirus. Therefore we will not be holding services or
formal church meetings until the suspension can be lifted. The church wardens
are hoping to put in place arrangements for the church building to be open for
private reflection and prayer at regular times during the week, please keep an eye
out for these.
Clearly this is a very unusual and challenging time for all of us. We are grateful
that our networks of support are strong, but if there is someone you are aware of
who you think might appreciate practical or emotional or prayer support then
please don’t hesitate to let someone in church know and I (Rev Ian) or Rev Alan
will give you a call. There are also some prayer and worship resources available
on the Church of England website to help maintain a rhythm of worship through
this period.
I wrote at the end of my new year message that: “God is our strength and our
refuge, an ever-present help in times of trouble”, from Psalm 46, little imagining
what lay ahead. If you’re anything like me, it’s easy to feel vulnerable and fretful
at the moment, but in our prayers we can at least recall what God has brought us
through in the past, and take His loving hand again for the next day ahead.
Please be assured of our prayers at this time
Ian & the ministry team
Updates can be found on Facebook and the church door and noticeboards.
https://www.facebook.com/ChristChurchCroft/
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REFLECTIONS
At this time of global pandemic, we live with stark reality of death and life. Ezekiel’s
vision of the valley of dry bones (37:1-14) was given when God’s people were in exile in
Babylon. They felt dead, being separated from home and God! The vision answers God’s
question: ‘can these bones live?’ We can also feel cut off from God, facing the loss of
job, business, home or health, with churches unable to meet on Sundays. This vision
assures us that God has power over death and can breathe new life into what is hopeless.
When Ezekiel is told to ‘prophesy to the bones’ (4), God brings them back to life: the
bones come together and are covered with muscles and skin, and then filled with God’s
breath to bring new life, by the life of His Spirit.
The Covid-19 virus robs people of their life by suffocation, so that they can’t breathe.
Our hope beyond the pandemic is that the gift of God’s Spirit will bring new life to our
lives, churches and world. Life will certainly look very different in the future, but we can
be assured that God is with us and that we are safe in his hands.
‘I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then
you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’ (14).
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We continue to hold in our prayers all
those who are in need at this time.
Those who are sick, those who are
struggling and those who are
mourning the loss of someone
dear to them.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
FOR YOUR DIARY
2nd WI
Croft Carnival 2020 Craft and Produce Show
Cancelled - See Page 17 September 20th 2020
Sunday
Croft Memorial Hall Open Church
Committee 100 Year
Celebrations Suspended until further notice
Cancelled, please see page 11 for
updates
NEWS AND UPDATES
The Annual Meeting
This should have taken place in April but because of the lockdown has had
to be postponed.
The Diocese has said that for the time being the existing church officers
should continue with their roles. The AGM will take place once we are
allowed to gather again.
Coronavirus and Lockdown
The well-being of our congregation and wider community is always our
absolute priority, never more so than now as the uncertainty surrounding
Coronavirus spreads around the world.
We wish to reassure you all that we are following the Church of England
guidelines very closely, making sure we are implementing the updated
advice and protocols as appropriate
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A PRAYER FOR ALL THOSE AFFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS.
Lord Jesus Christ,
you taught us to love our neighbour,
and to care for those in need
as if we were caring for you.
In this time of anxiety, give us strength
to comfort the fearful, to tend the sick,
and to assure the isolated
of our love, and your love,
for your name’s sake.
Amen.
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A PAGE FROM THE PAST
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DONATIONS.
We have received with gratitude donations from :-
Anon
Baptism or
Wedding?
To make a booking for a Baptism or Wedding:
Please visit
Newchurch Parish Church,
Church Lane, Culcheth
WA3 5ET
on Wednesday evenings between 7pm and 8pm
200 CLUB
Because of the current situation the draws have not taken place in the usual way
and we are unable at present to organise the prize money cheques.
We want to assure members that as soon as we are able, the winners will be
notified and their prizes sent out.
Thank you for your understanding
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POSSIBLE (MAYBE) HARVEST SUPPER
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY - IT MAY NOT HAPPEN!?
This is a plan that will only work if we are out and about and able to
sell tickets It depends on circumstances at the time!
I have just had the date secured by pencilled in bookings
(that may never happen)
The possible Event would be---
A Hog Roast Supper with Entertainment by The Celtic Fettlers
to be held in The Memorial Hall Mustard Lane Croft at 7.30
Cost £10
Please help if you can by collecting raffle prizes
Details from Barbara Laycock
01925 763142
10Croft Village Memorial Hall
Committee - 100 Year Anniversary
On behalf of the Croft Village Memorial Hall
committee, please look after yourself and others in
these challenging times.
We will cancel the afternoon tea in May and Beer
Festival in June - they can wait whilst we all focus on
other priorities, and can still happen another day.
The committee was formed in 1920 and so it and the
hall has been through a lot in the last 100 years and will
prevail again now. So, please consider this a ‘pause’ in
our relationship with you, and we look forward to re-
engaging when it is all over.
Love, Peter McCartney (chair)
11CROFT BOWLING ASSOCIATION
As you know this yeae we are all on lockdown, not how
we expected the bowling year to start, so nothing really
to report. The green is being well maintained by our
greenkeeper and our Monday morning volunteers are all
doing their best whilst observing safe distancing.
The green is open for casual play, but distancing rules
must be obeyed.
The committee hopes that everyone is keeping well and
stay safe
New members are always welcome. Contact our
Membership Secretary, Janet Bevin on 01925 764633.
Don’t forget to have a look at our website
www.croftbowling.co.uk for all the latest information.
Joan Stott 01942 679840
12Birchwood Repair Centre Cafe is located at the Birchwood Youth and
Community Centre, Delenty Drive WA3 6AN, opposite the old police
station is open from 10am - 12noon every 3rd Saturday of the Month.
Very knowledgeable and friendly people there mended my printer
free of charge. They just want a donation. They also sell tea, coffee
and home made cakes. Delicious. They will advise you on the part
you need to buy for your item, if they cannot mend it, and then they
will put it in for you. They will always try to mend it rather than you
throw it away. They have people who mend bikes, radios, lights, deck
chairs anything.
Recommended by Barbara Laycock.
CHRIST CHURCH PARISH HALL, Lady
Lane – Croft
Make this your venue for a
Christening, Funeral, Party, Meeting etc.
Contact Liz Rimmer for Prices and Availability
or to make a Booking.
Tel No: 07552740766
13Croft WI – April 2020
Obviously during the Corona virus pandemic Croft WI have been
unable to hold their monthly meetings. In spite of this members have
been keeping in touch via social media, e-mails, Facetime, etc.
The Croft WI monthly Newsletter has still been in circulation and many of the ladies
have been sending updates of their daily lives, contributing poems, photographs and
general suggestions of how to pass the time during lockdown.
Like most of the country they have also been catching up on those household tasks that
had been on hold to do at some time in the future! Lots of members have been very
industrious with their crafting skills and some are even making scrubs from old quilt
covers for the NHS frontline.
President Anne Lamming contributed this lockdown version of Jerusalem:-
And did our feet pre-Covid times
Walk upon England’s mountains green
And were our children out at play
In England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did those rainbows so divine
Shine forth upon our window sills
For NHS much needed here
Amongst towns, villages and hills!
Bring me my soap to wash my hands
Bring me my shopping I require
Bring me my health and my household
Bring me strength that I desire
We will not cease to fight the blight
Nor spread this virus by our hand
Till we have stayed six feet apart
To free our green and pleasant land!
(Anne sent this with apologies to William Blake!)
14Croft WI – 2020 Diary Dates
16th - 17th June: Cheshire Show
Readers Group – Last Tuesday of month | Christ Church Hall 10.00 am
Darts – Tuesday | The General Elliot 7.30 pm
Luncheon Club – 4th Wednesday of month | Horseshoe Inn 12.30 pm
Singing for Fun – 1st Wednesday of month | Christ Church Hall 2.00 pm
Scrabble & Dominoes – 1st Wednesday of month | The General Elliot 7.00 pm
Bridge Club – Tuesdays & Fridays | Doris Friars House
Busy Bakers - 2nd Tuesday of month | Christ Church Hall
A prayer for Trinity Sunday…
Shield me
O may God shield me, and may God fill,
O may God watch me, and may God hold;
O may God bring me where peace is still,
To the King’s land, eternity’s fold.
Praise to the Father, praise to the Son,
Praise to the Spirit, the Three in One.
From The Creed Prayer, poems of the Western Highlanders
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CROFT CARNIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT
It is with great regret that given the Government instructions, and
wanting to try and ensure public safety surrounding the coronavirus
outbreak, we have sadly come to the decision that this year’s Carnival
will be
CANCELLED
On behalf of the Committee, I would like to thank everyone who has
been involved so far in helping us set up what would have been another
great carnival this year.
We look forward to seeing you all next year on Saturday 3rd July 2021
when Croft Carnival will return. Until then, stay safe and well in these
very testing times.
JIM WILKS
On behalf of the Committee
17Becky McKinnell
Mobile Hairdresser/ Bridal and Occasion Hair Specialist
Mobile - 07540 969949
Email- coppertophair@yahoo.com
Please look at some of my work on both Instagram & Facebook at Coppertophair
Fully qualified friendly hair stylist, who specialises in colours, cuts, the must have
blow dry and bridal/ occasion hair. Child friendly!
Please contact me for any further information/ to book an appointment!
Daily Hope offers music, prayers and reflections as
well as full worship services from the Church of
England at the end of a telephone line.
A Church of England initiative in partnership with
CONNECTIONS at Holy Trinity Claygate, and Faith in Later
Life
The line – which is available 24 hours a day on 0800 804 8044 –
has been set up particularly with those unable to join online
church services during the period of restrictions in mind.
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Architectural &
Design Services
Planning & Development
Consultant Ian Nash
6 Croft Heath Gardens, Croft
Building Design
Telephone: 01925
Architectural Illustration
Residential work a speciality
AC Accounting
A complete accounting and tax service.
Tony Craddock A.C.M.A.
Chartered Management Accountant.
74 New Lane, Croft, Warrington WA3 7JL
07932 640070
tonycraddock1@outlook.com
KNOX & SON LTD.
Independent Family Funeral Directors.
43 - 45 ORFORD ROAD - WARRINGTON - CHESHIRE - WA1 3TD
TEL - 01925 633388 - WEB www.knoxfunerals.co.uk - EMAIL knoxfunerals@live.co.uk
20“Blooms by Sarah”
Quality Flowers for all occasions
Weddings and funerals a speciality
By local, professional florists
Sarah 07818 518 244
01925 765691
Sarah.hughes@gmail.com
Facebook, Sarah Hughes Flowers
Please contact Sheena regarding Church Flow-
ers on
01925 762233
21Driving Golf
range lesson
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ESTABLISHED 1938
QUALITY & HONESTY
ASSURED OPEN SEVEN DAYS PER WEEK
Orchard Cottage
in a secluded corner of an organic
Dairy farm on Kenyon Lane
For holidays, business travellers, family visits or
Long term let
3 bedrooms (sleeps 5 + cot)
contact: Julia Rigby 01942 671020
www.johnsonsorchardcottage.co.uk
22S TANSEY
HEATING &
PLUMBING
SERVICES
All domestic plumbing & gas
work
Boiler Servicing
Kitchens & bathrooms
Everything from an outside tap
to a full central heating
system.
Commercial Work Undertaken
LOCAL, GAS SAFE REGISTERED, EX-
BRITISH GAS FITTER
Call Ste on 01925 762970 or
07398958123
LOCAL PLASTERER,
WAL MCNICHOLAS
20 years experience,
no job too small.
Competitive rates.
All types of plastering work
undertaken.
01925 365238 / 07946303666.
23FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT
Julie Boon (Building Manager) 07833 702686
Pete McCartney (chair)
(mobile: 07703 363201)
Monumental Masons
Original & Beautiful Memorial Specialist
Additional Inscriptions
Cleaning & Renovations
Monday to Friday
Tel: 01925 635100 10.00am to 4.00pm
Email: info@roughleys.co.uk Saturday
www.roughleys.co.uk 10.00am to 2.00pm
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