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all this month’s content online · loads of Wrawby information past magazine issues · photos and picture gallery Dec 2018/Jan 2019 Scan for Google Diary facebook.com/wrawbynews (twitter) @Wrawby See inside for details of Santas visit to Wrawby, Also the Christmas Crossword, The Black Horse re-opens, Wrawby Remembers and much more ... CHRISTMAS 2018 SERVICES Glory to God in the highest, and peace to His people on earth 19th December Wrawby tbc School Carol Service Christmas Eve Wrawby 3.00 p.m. Crib & Christingle Service Christmas Eve Wrawby 5.00 p.m. Crib & Christingle Service Christmas Eve Worlaby 11.30 p.m. Midnight Mass Christmas Day Wrawby 9.30 a.m. Eucharist 30 th December Worlaby 9.30 a.m. Group Eucharist

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all this month’s content online · loads of Wrawby information

past magazine issues · photos and picture gallery

Dec 2018/Jan 2019

Scan for Google Diary facebook.com/wrawbynews (twitter) @Wrawby

See inside for details of Santa’s visit to Wrawby,

Also the Christmas Crossword, The Black Horse re-opens, Wrawby Remembers

and much more ...

CHRISTMAS 2018 SERVICES

Glory to God in the highest, and peace to His people on earth

19th December Wrawby tbc School Carol Service

Christmas Eve Wrawby 3.00 p.m. Crib & Christingle Service

Christmas Eve Wrawby 5.00 p.m. Crib & Christingle Service

Christmas Eve Worlaby 11.30 p.m. Midnight Mass

Christmas Day Wrawby 9.30 a.m. Eucharist

30th December Worlaby 9.30 a.m. Group Eucharist

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Wrawby Directory

St Mary's Parish Church

Clergy

Fr. Owain Mitchell 653989

10 Glanford Rd, Brigg

Assistant Curate

Trudy Hobson 656573

Licensed Reader

Nigel Good 658883

Churchwardens

Nigel Good 658883

Peter Dale 408135

Treasurer

Peter Townsend 656817

Wrawby Methodist Church Minister

Rev Nichola Jones 632148 Church Steward

Jim Marr 650114 Church Treasurer

Jonathan Dibdin 655277

Wrawby St. Mary’s C E Controlled Primary School Head teacher Mrs. M Potterton 655579

Chair of Governors

Mrs R Hoyle 01469 561071

Other Organisations

Roman Catholic Representative

Marie Owen Brown 653579 Wrawby Pre-school 07960 021517

North Lincolnshire UA Councillors Rob Waltham 652021

Nigel Sherwood 657882

Carl Sherwood 655202

Parish Council - Chairman

Ian Smith 652084 Parish Clerk

Graham Foster 651250

[email protected]

Community Police 101

Wrawby Neighbourhood Watch

Mrs. Julie Smith 652084

Wrawby Windmill

Mrs. Susan Day 653699

Wrawby History Group

Mrs. Kay Rothery 653315

Wrawby Playing Fields Assoc.

Mr. Paul Dalton 654665

Village Hall Committee Chairperson and Bookings

Mrs Susan Day 653699

Village Hall Secretary

Mrs. Kirstin May 658206

Wrawby Women's Institute

Sue Baldwin 657569

Wrawby Community Choir

Chiara Griffiths 07840407590

Sue Rawlings 07846676991

Ladies Afternoon Club

Barbara Green 653039

Wrawby Horticultural Society

Treasurer

Mr Paul Coult 659088

Wold Court Residents' Association

[email protected]

Wrawby Wrigglers

Kirby Stephenson 781404

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

CHRISTMAS FAYRE MENU STARTS ON 4th – 22nd DECEMBER Tues-Sat 12 – 2 & 5-9pm BOXING DAY MENU 12 – 4pm 3 SITTINGS WEDNESDAY 5 – 9pm -TWO PASTA MEALS FOR £15 inc small wine TUES-SAT 12-2pm TWO PASTA MEALS FOR £15 inc small wine TUESDAY NIGHT 5-9pm - TWO 8OZ SIRLOIN STEAKS FOR £25 inc small wine CHILDRENS MENU £5 SUNDAY CARVERY FROM £8.95 12-3pm

RESTAURANT TIMES : Tues - Saturday 5-9pm & Sunday 12-3pm BAR FOOD Tues – Saturday 12 – 2pm BAR OPEN: Mon-Thurs 12-2pm 4pm til late

Fri – 3pm – late Sat & Sun 12 – late

WRAWBY COMMUNITY CHOIR - WEDNESDAY 12th DECEMBER @ 8pm IN THE BAR 40’s DINNER DANCE & CARVERY Friday 18th JANUARY 2019 6pm £20 each BURNS NIGHT FRIDAY 25th JANUARY AT 7pm £25 VALENTINES CHEFS SPECIAL FULL MENU £29.50 each MONTHLY MUSIC QUIZ WEDNESDAY 19TH DECEMBER 16th JANUARY @ 8.30pm BOXING DAY KARAOKE AT 8pm FOLK NIGHT – LAST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH SUNDAY-QUIZ NIGHT IN THE BAR AT 9pm SUNDAY-SING A LONG IN THE RESTAURANT

5 ENSUITE ROOMS STARTING FROM £30

BEER GARDEN AND CHILDREN PLAY AREA OPEN ALL DAY FROM 21ST DECEMBER NO FOOD ON MONDAY STUDENT DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE

See us on Facebook: Jolly Miller Wrawby Website: www.jollymiller.co.uk

Brigg Road, Wrawby 01652 655658

Please contact any of the editorial team with news etc. for next month’s magazine: Pete Townsend 656817, Diane Coult 659088,

Emma Rowson 327318, Liz Hirst 651371, Jim Flewker (website) 656446,

You can also e-mail to [email protected]

Advertising: Sheila Wright at [email protected] Tel: 652229

Distribution: Susan Day 653699

Deadline for the next magazine - 18th January 2019

Please note that events advertised in this magazine are the responsibility of the organisers. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information in Wrawby News, neither the Church or the

Editors have any control over the events or information supplied by others.

How They Forecast a Cold Winter One day in early September the chief of a Native American tribe was asked by his tribal elders if the winter of 2011/12 was going to be cold or mild. The chief asked his medicine man, but he too had lost touch with the reading signs from the natural world around the Great Lakes.

In truth, neither of them had an idea about how to predict the coming winter. However, the chief decided to take a modern approach, and the chief rang the National Weather Service in Gaylord Michigan.

'Yes, it is going to be a cold winter,' the meteorological officer told the chief. Consequently, he went back to his tribe and told the men to col-lect plenty of firewood.

A fortnight later the chief called the Weather Service and asked for an update. 'Are you still forecasting a cold winter?' he asked.

'Yes, very cold', the weather officer told him.

As a result of this brief conversation the chief went back to the tribe and told his people to collect every bit of wood they could find.

A month later the chief called the National Weather Service once more and asked about the coming winter. 'Yes,' he was told, 'it is going to be one of the coldest winters ever.'

'How can you be so sure?' the chief asked.

The weatherman replied: 'Because the Native Americans of the Great Lakes are collecting wood like crazy.'

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B O S House

23 Old Courts Road

Brigg

North Lincolnshire

DN20 8JD 01652 650277

[email protected] [email protected]

Office supplies – Laminating – Colour copying to A3 plan copying - Binding – Bespoke stationery – Office design and furniture

installation - Craft supplies for card making and scrap-booking .

Santa will be visiting Wrawby on Sunday 23rd December 2018, following the route above. The

map can be downloaded / printed from the village website http://www.wrawby.org.uk/events.html

and also Santa's progress will be updated on the Wrawby Sleigh Group Facebook page.

Do come out to see him!

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Ophthalmic Opticians and Contact Lens fitting service 43/44 Wrawby Street Brigg North Lincolnshire DN20 8BS

Tel/Fax 01652 653595 Half Price Frames : Home Visits : Now open Saturdays

Resident Optometrist Sheeraz Janjua BSc (Hons) MCOptom Practice Manager Jane Palmer

Black Horse Re-Opens! New managers Jeff and Mo would like to extend a warm welcome to the re-opened Black Horse in Wrawby. Jeff and Mo have been in the pub trade for 30 years, working in Northampton and Milton Keynes and have come out of retirement to run this classic country pub. Recognising its previous popularity Jeff and Mo are working to make the Black Horse return to being the heart of the community.

Home-made food will be on the menu Monday to Saturday 12–8pm and Sunday Lunch will be served 12–4pm. Vegetarian and children’s menus are available. Parties can be catered for with the catering to suit your occasion. Tuesday nights you can get a Curry and a Pint and the popular Quiz Night is back on Thursdays, starting at 8.30, with all old and new teams welcome. Christmas opening at the Black Horse will be Christmas Eve 12–12 midnight, Christmas Day 12–2pm and 7pm–10pm, Boxing Day 12–11pm and New Year’s Day 2-11pm.

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Take a look back over 50 years of Christingle This is a very special year for Christingle, as it marks 50 years since we held the first Christingle service in this country at Lincoln Cathedral on 7 December 1968. But Christingles themselves actually date back even earlier, and began in the Moravian Church in Germany.   At a children’s service in Marienborn in 1947, Bishop Johannes de Watteville looked for a simple way to explain the happiness that had come to people through Jesus. He decided to give the children a symbol to do this. This was a lighted candle wrapped in a red ribbon. At the end of the service, whilst the children held their candles, the bishop said the prayer, ‘Lord Jesus, kindle a flame in these children's hearts that theirs like thine become.’ 

How Christingle grew

In 1968, John Pensom of The Children's Society, known as ‘Mr Christingle’, brought Christingle to this country and introduced it to the Church of England. This involved children decorating an orange with a red ribbon, dried fruits, sweets and a candle to create a new visual representation of Christ, the light of the world, celebrated by the lighting of the Christingle candles.   The event is now celebrated in hundreds of churches, cathedrals, schools and communities up and down the country.

1968 – First Christingle service in the UK, Lincoln Cathedral  1970 – 20 churches hold Christingle services  1974 – The Children’s Society works with 4,500 children  1980 – First Christingle in Westminster Abbey  1986 – ‘Christingle’ appears in the Oxford English Dictionary  1990 – The Children’s Society works with 11,000 children  1995 – 5,400 Christingles held across the country  2003 – 1 million people attend Christingle services  2010 – The Children’s Society works with 48,500 children  2018 – Celebrate 50 years of Christingle 

Christingle helps children who feel unsafe

 For 50 years now, Christingle has played a vital role in supporting vulnerable young people. And since Christingle first began, the money raised from donations at services has helped over one million children get the one-to-one care and support that they so urgently need. The money you raise through your church’s Christingle service will help our project workers be there for the next 50 years, and help thousands more children.

SAVE THE DATE!!!! FRIDAY 1ST MARCH 2019

The Wrawby Windmill Society will be hosting their first ever windmill

drive! Based on the traditional game of Beetle but with a windmill twist. An evening of fun and frolics is guaranteed with a supper of pie, peas and a pud, and of course a raffle. For more information and to reserve your place

please ring Susan Day on 01652 653699.

Would you be interested in joining the editorial team for Wrawby News? We are looking for someone else to join the fun. It is not an onerous task, with an hour long monthly meeting and the need to produce the content on a rota (currently every 4th month). If you would like to know more then please talk to any of the current editors or contact us on [email protected].

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Crossword: Christmas Around The World

Clues Across

1. (and 8 Down) In parts of Germany the Christkindl (Christ Child) brings the presents. When immigrants took the Christkindl to the USA, other Americans misheard and turned him into this name for Father Christmas. Hint: sounds vaguely like “Christkindl”! (4,7) 4. Australians living near Sydney often celebrate Christmas in this famous place. Hint: Watch out for sharks! (5) 7. Carnival parade in the Bahamas on Boxing Day, featured in 1965 Bond Film Thunderball. (8) 9. We decorate our trees with canes made of this - a German tradition. (5) 10. (and 5 Down) Name of the very last day of the Christmas season in England. Hint: also the title of a Shakespeare comedy. (7, 5) 17. The American country the Poinsettia plant originally comes from. (6) 19. In the American country named in 17 Across, this is a procession acting out the journey of Mary and Joseph to Beth-lehem in search of an inn. Hint: a Spanish word for “inn”. (6) 20. Christmas in France (and French). (4) 21. German Christmas tradition which Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert brought to Britain. (4) 22. The spruce in Trafalgar Square is the gift of this city to the people of London, in thanks for help in World War 2. (4)

Clues Down

2. (and 6 Down) Saint said to have worn a wreath with candles in, her festival is cele-brated in Scandi-navia and parts of Italy in mid-December. Hint: first word is also the main man. Hint: also a popu-lar Italian song (5,5) 3. This Grandfa-ther brings Christ-mas presents in Russia and some other Eastern Eu-ropean countries. (5) 4. This saint brings children gifts in Greece on New Year’s Eve. Hint: His name is herby but not Herbie. (5) 5. See 10 Across. 6. See 2 Down. 8. See 1 Across. 11. Scottish New Year festival. (8) 12. Boxing Day is this saint’s feast day, as the carol says. (7) 13. Where Ger-man and Dutch children find presents from 14 Down on the morning of 6th December. Hint: not a stocking. (4) 14. He was Bishop of Myra and is patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students. (8) 15. (and 16 Down) This Dutch name for the main man at Christmas also got misheard by Americans, who turned it into “Santa Claus”. (6,5) 16. see 15 Down. 18. Name for Christmas in Scandinavia. (3) Answers will be published in the February 2019 Wrawby News

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND THANK YOU…

Wrawby Church and Community News is delivered monthly (except in January) to every household in Wrawby. The village website is also updated monthly. The Editors and web master are volunteers, as are the people who deliver it to your door. We would like to thank everyone involved for their commitment. All the costs of printing are covered by our generous advertisers who offer a wide range of services that we all need from time to time. Many are owned by, or employ Wrawby residents. We would also like to thank them and urge you to support their businesses:

The Jolly Miller Harrisons Plumbing and Heating

Wrawby Roofing Services Brigg Office Supplies Vicarage Motors Ltd The Accolade Clinic

Wrawby Hall– Trust Care Ltd MG Joinery

O’Brien’s Optician R and E Aggregates

Rusty’s Cycles Skylarke Aerials

J.C. Davis Plumbing B W Shrimpton Ltd.

Brigg Launderette & Ironing Services Ashbridge Roofing Solutions

S Christian Painter and Decorator J Naylor

Redwood Services Lincs. Ltd.

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WRAWBY REMEMBERS

The hundredth anniversary of the end of World War 1 was commem-orated with due respect in Wrawby. A group of volunteers dedicated their time to create a wonderful display of poppies outside St Mary’s Church and to decorate the inside of the Church. Around 50 people attended the Remembrance Service on the 11th November to pay homage those who have given their lives in the two world wars and various other conflicts and to observe the two minutes silence. This was followed by refreshments.

A big thank you to all involved.

BE VIGILANT There have been a number of criminal incidents recently in Wrawby. Fly-tipping has taken place on Brickyard Lane and at Vicarage Motors, whilst a further theft of lead has occurred at St Mary’s Church. Please keep an eye out for anything suspicious taking place within the village and contact the police, using either the 101 or 999 numbers, depending on the seriousness of the situation. Remember to keep your home safe using the following advice from Humberside Police:

• Make sure your doors and windows are

closed and locked when you’re not in the

room. Nearly half of all burglaries are down to

someone leaving a door or window open

• Make sure nothing of value is left on show

to tempt thieves into breaking into your

property.

• Take your keys up to bed with you at

night. This prevents thieves stealing your car.

• Think about fitting a burglar alarm and

security lighting – both to your home and

outbuildings. It may be expensive, but they are

very effective deterrents and can bring down

your insurance costs.

Further advice is available at

www.humberside.police.uk/information-advice

ARE YOU READY FOR WINTER? Be prepared in case you have a power cut or gas emergency: Know your free emergency numbers In a power cut dial 105 or, for a gas emergency dial 0800 111999 Prepare your home: Keep a torch handy Get your appliances serviced by a Gas Safe registered engineer to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning. Vulnerable households can get extra support by signing up to the Priority Services Register. Contact your gas/electric network to find out more. Visit www.energynetworks.org to find out who your network operator is Keep your eyes open. Keep an eye on the weather forecast. In the event of a power cut or a gas emergency, check on your neighbours BE WINTER READY!

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All grades of aggregates supplied

Sand and gravel

Screened topsoil

1 Tonne to 20 Tonnes

For a competitive quote telephone Simon on

01724 487040

Wrawby Wrigglers

Wrigglers run every Thursday in the term time in the village hall, 1.15 pm - 3.15 pm. Everyone is welcome to join us.

Any questions contact Kirby on 077098 42373 or join our Wrawby Wrigglers Facebook page.

Make & Sale Craft Group

Wrawby Make and Sale Group are currently engaged in creating 3 collage pictures for the Windmill. However, they will also have a table of craft items for sale at the Methodist Coffee Morning in Church on the 1st December.

TUESDAY SOUP

The final lunches of 2018 will be held on the 4

th and 11

th of

December at 12.30 in the Village Hall

Come and join us for homemade soup, bread and cheese, plum bread and chat!

Notes from Parish Council Meeting Tuesday 6th

November 2018

1. The Parish Council has received a number of recent advices on the subject of inconsiderate car parking, particularly on pavements and some roads being blocked. When parking, please take account that pedestrians need to be able to pass and that access could be needed for emergency vehicles.

2. Council was advised that of the village’s 177 lighting columns, 158 have been converted to LED lighting, the few remaining will be converted before March 2019.

3. Advance notice has been received that sections of Wrawby Road in Brigg are programmed to be resurfaced over the winter, December 2018 – March 2019.

4. N Lincs Council is introducing a “Safe and Sound” Grant system to assist over 70’s with up to £250 towards improving their security - locks, cctv etc. Full details (applications etc.) will be to hand shortly. New fire doors and the replacement of the shutter between the Hall and Kitchen at the Village Hall have now been completed and as previously advised, funding is being sought so that a new ceiling and lights can be installed. Graham Foster Parish Clerk

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We have a wide range of experience, and carry accreditations from many

major manufacturers of plastering, dry lining and floor screeding.

All new/ private dwellings.

Plastering & Partitions. All Specialised Colour through Systems,

Specialised Screeds and Ceramic Tiling.

Unit 2, Island Carr Industrial Estate, Brigg, North Lincolnshire, DN20 8PD

t: 01652 656813 e: [email protected]

w:www.bwshrimpton.co.uk

Around Wrawby The editors are happy to include details of villagers’ births, marriages and funerals that are held in venues other than Wrawby church. Please inform them using the details on page 2.

Ella Clark would like to send her grateful thanks to all her friends and family, who sent cards, flowers and kind wishes after her recent fall and hospital stay. She is on the road to recovery but wishes everyone to understand that she will not be sending out Christmas cards this year. She will donate some money to charity instead and wishes everyone a Very Happy Christmas!

Brigg Singers have a Winter Concert in Hibaldstow Village Hall on Saturday 1st December and a Christmas Concert in Brigg Methodist Church on Monday 10th December. Both events start at 7.30 p.m. with tickets available from Grandad’s Shed or choir members.

Singing for Pleasure have a Winter Concert in the Diamond Jubilee Hall, Kirton in Lindsey, on Wednesday 12 December at 7.30 p.m.

Monday Walks: Meet at the Village Hall Car Park at 10 am. The walks last for an hour or so and finish with refreshments. You can check with Sheila in advance by e-mailing her at [email protected]. New people are always welcome! There will not be a walk on Christmas Eve, but they will continue all other Mondays throughout December and January.

Wrawby Village Hall is a great venue for parties, meetings etc. with very reasonable hire charges. Please contact Susan Day on 01652 653699 to book or discuss what the hall can offer.

J. C. DAVIS PLUMBING ALSO PROPERTY MAINTENANCE INCLUDING:

Plastering, Rendering, Guttering, Drive-ways, Drain Clearance, Fencing, Patios, Tiling, Painting, PVC windows and Fascias fitted.

Home: 01652 657095 Mobile: 07712 045137

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“No job too big, no job too small”

Please remember to send any items you want including in the February 2019 edition to

[email protected] by the deadline date of 18th January 2019.

27th November Funeral at Woodlands Crematorium

Jason Paul Arkwright

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REDWOOD SERVICES Lincs. LTD Quality Wooden Gates, made to measure.

Replacement wooden doors for garages, sheds, stables, etc.

Timber buildings replaced and refurbished, e.g. new roofs/cladding.

See website for further information.

http://www.redwoodservicesltd.co.uk/

Telephone 01652 408324 07817 847076.

J. Naylor

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Brigg

01652 650520

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24 hour Personal Service - Private Chapel of Rest Own Hearse and Limousines

Email: [email protected]

S Christian Painter and Decorator

All aspects of painting and decorating Indoor and Outdoor Friendly, reliable and professional service

01652 651345 07568 440919 [email protected]

Thought for the Month

I’m not very good when it comes to meals. The idea of breakfast doesn’t appeal to me; I can rarely face food before lunch time. The exception is my day off when I occasionally enjoy a Full English at about 10.30. But I also skip lunch most days, because of other commitments I don’t get the time or opportunity to stop and grab something. So, when it gets to dinner time, typically 9 p.m., I’m ready for something to eat, and I really enjoy it because I’m hungry. Some people I know, when they’re going out for a celebration dinner, skip lunch so that they can better enjoy their meal out. It seems to me that when we go without a meal, we appreciate the next meal more, and for some reason it often tastes better. The four weeks leading up to Christmas are called the season of Advent. Advent is a time of dual preparation and at its heart is hope. Obviously, like the world around us, during Advent Christians prepare for the celebration of Christmas, recalling the first incarnation of Christ in the Nativity. But we also look forward to the promised time when Jesus will come again. Because this is a time of anticipation, we keep our churches sparsely adorned, so there’s no flowers. It’s a little bit like the season of Lent in that respect. Again, like during Lent, we omit the Gloria. But this isn’t a time of morbid anticipation, it’s joyful watching and waiting to greet Christ when He comes. It’s a kind of simple self-disciplining. Many of us find Christmas a joyful time, and if we gain so much joy from our celebrations of an event which happened over 2000 years ago, imagine the joy we’ll experience at Christ’s Second Coming! And so, the Church, having been sparsely adorned and with our simplified worship during Advent, bursts into joy and fullness of life on Christmas morning, with an abundance of flowers, and with her rich worship. We once again sing or say the Gloria, the Church’s joyful hymn of praise, which opens with the

words of the Shepherd… Glory to God in the Highest, and peace to His people on earth. Advent, the season of hope, is a little like skipping a meal the day you’re going out for a slap-up celebratory meal. It’s a time of going without in order to appreciate better the things to come. Some of you will be able to remember the time when Advent was more of a focus for the Church and for society. The eager anticipation building daily as you opened your Advent Calendar window, or lit your Advent candle. The joy of the family coming together on Christmas Eve to decorate the tree and put up the trimmings, visiting relatives to exchange presents, and enjoying time with family and friends over the twelve days of Christmas. The excitement slowly building through the season of Advent, and the joy and wonder of Christmas lasting way beyond the moment the last present was opened, but through the weeks which followed. Advent symbolises our slowing down from the daily busyness as we focus on what is important; its simplicity builds our excitement for the forthcoming Christmas celebrations which last for several weeks; it reminds us of the Christian hope that when Christ comes again, He will make all things perfect. Our joy each year at our celebrations of the first Nativity pale into insignificance as we anticipate the day we shall seek Christ face to face. May your preparations for Christmas deepen the excitement and anticipation, the hope and the joy of the coming season of Christmas, and may your Christmastide be a truly blessed time. With my prayers and every blessing, Owain

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Diary for Dec 2018/Jan 2019 Dec All services in St Mary’s unless otherwise stated

1 Saturday 10am-12 noon Methodist coffee morning in Church

2 Sunday 8am Eucharist 11am United Family Service

3 Monday 10am Walk from Village Hall

4 Tuesday 12.30 Soup Lunch-Village Hall

5 Weds 9am Eucharist

7.45-9.00 pm Community Choir

6 Thursday 1.15 pm Wrawby Wrigglers

9 Sunday 11am Eucharist

10 Monday 10am Walk from Village Hall 2pm Ladies Afternoon Club

11 Tuesday 12.30 Soup Lunch-Village Hall

12 Weds 9am Eucharist

8 pm Community Choir Carols at the Jolly Miller

13 Thursday 1.15 pm Wrawby Wrigglers

16 Sunday 11am Morning Praise

17 Monday 10am Walk from Village Hall

19 Weds 9am Eucharist Mobile Library

20 Thursday 1.15 pm Wrawby Wrigglers 3 pm School Breaks Up

23 Sunday 11am Eucharist

4.30-7.30 Father Christmas

24

Monday No Walking Group 3 pm Christingle 5 pm Christingle 11.30 pm Midnight Mass St Clements’, Worlaby

25 Tuesday 9.30 am Christmas Eucharist

30 Sunday 9.30 Group Eucharist

St Clements’, Worlaby

31 Monday 10am Walk from Village Hall

Jan All services in St Mary’s unless otherwise stated

1 Tuesday HAPPY NEW YEAR

2 Weds 9am Eucharist

5 Saturday

10am-12 noon Methodist coffee morning in Church 10.30-2.30 Doughty’s Roadshow Village Hall

6 Sunday 8am Eucharist 11am United Family Service

7 Monday Back to School 10am Walk from Village Hall

9 Weds

9am Eucharist Mobile Library 7.45-9.00 pm Community Choir

10 Thursday 1.15 pm Wrawby Wrigglers

13 Sunday 11am Eucharist

14 Monday 10am Walk from Village Hall 2pm Ladies Afternoon Club

16 Weds 9am Eucharist 7.45-9.00 pm Community Choir

17 Thursday 1.15 pm Wrawby Wrigglers

20 Sunday 11am Morning Praise

21 Monday 10am Walk from Village Hall

23 Weds 9am Eucharist 7.45-9.00 pm Community Choir

24 Thursday 1.15 pm Wrawby Wrigglers

27 Sunday 11am Eucharist

28 Monday 10am Walk from Village Hall

30 Weds

9am Eucharist Mobile Library 7.45-9.00 pm Community Choir

31 Thursday 1.15 pm Wrawby Wrigglers

Feb

2 Saturday

10am-12 Methodist coffee morning in Church 10 - 12 noon