St Luke’s Women’s Fellowship
Our two meeƟngs before our
Christmas break were excellent. We
are very grateful to both Walter
Johnson and Robert Wheatley for
their talks; both were most
interesƟng and very enjoyable.
We met on 10th January when I took
along my CD player and some of my
most loved CD’s; fortunately
everyone agreed with my choice and
we had a lovely aŌernoon.
We look forward to an aŌernoon with
Linda Cronin on 24th
January and on 7th February we are
going out for our late Christmas
Lunch! There will be no meeƟng on
Thursday 14 February as we will have
been to Church on Wednesday, 13
February, for the Ash Wednesday Holy
Communion Service.
On 21st and 28th February, as well as
7th, 14th & 21st March. there will be a
series of Lent meeƟngs on Thursday
aŌernoon at 2 pm at St George’s,
which we look forward to. Our Lent
meeƟngs are always interesƟng and
enjoyable and are open to all—why
not come along!
Pat Hughes
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St Luke’s Mother’s Union
On 17 January Gary, our Team Rector,
gave an extremely interesƟng talk and
showed beauƟful slides of his and
Julie’s visit to Laos where the Paton
family are serving with the Church
Mission Society. Laos is a beauƟful
country bordered by Vietnam, China,
Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar
(Burma). The old name for Laos was
’Land of a million elephants’ but there
are only 2000 today. Gary showed us
slides of the country which is very
diverse with elaborate Buddhist
temples and much poverty.
ChrisƟanity is a minority religion and is
restricted by the communist
government. Even so ChrisƟans are
making a real difference among real
people.
The Lenten meeƟngs (see page 5) are
always very good and are for the
whole parish not just the Mother’s
Union. Finally, the MU Tribute £14.15
is now due—please give to Eileen
Jones as soon as possible.
Doreen Finch