News from the Pews - 28 August 2025
Dear Friends
An assortment of things this week, including yet another change to the advertised What's On programme!
Beginning with that:
Due to confusion over the date of a Diocesan meeting I need to be at, the trip to St Andrew's Church Chesterton (meeting there at 10.30am), where Equiano's infant daughter Anna Maria Vassa is buried, will now take place on Saturday 18 October (rather than on 11th)
In case you've not caught up with other date changes, the 'Equiano's Cambridgeshire Family' talk is on Wed 8 Oct. 7.30pm in church, and the harvest supper will take place on Sat. 4 Oct. 5.45pm for 6pm in church. Sorry about all this...
Something that hasn't changed (perhaps as I didn't include it in the What's On leaflets?!) is that we'll have a church and churchyard clear-up 10.30am-12 noon on Sat. 6 Sept. (preceding the 3.30pm organ recital the same day).
Closer at hand... This coming Sunday's 10am service will be 'All Age'. Last month's generated a lot of positive feedback, so here's to endeavouring to repeat a success!
And next week, from Tuesday- Thursday/Friday there will be a number of contractors working in the church building, doing surveys and making assessments necessary for our forthcoming National Lottery Heritage Fund bid. Such assessments are ongoing, as are regular site meetings with buildings' specialists, and will continue until we submit our next bid (hopefully in August 2026). This just so you're aware of what's going on. We are extremely fortunate in the professionals we have working on this: they are great people and keen to listen, as well as being experts in their respective fields.
And finally: here's a link to the latest edition of Jigsaw, Soham Community's magazine: https://online.fliphtml5.com/jdagj/nlch Many thanks to those who distribute hard copies. If you don't get one through your door, there'll be stacks in church, the library and local shops, so please help yourselves.
That's all for this week. Perhaps see you Sunday.
Very best
Eleanor