From somewhere:
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were. - Anon

HOSPITAL VISITING

A Ministry for you?

Have you a few hours to spare a week? Do you like meeting people, listening to their stories and encouraging them on their spiritual journey? Then you might be able to help the Chaplaincy Department at Kettering General Hospital. We are looking for volunteers who will come in, adopt a ward and visit the patients on a weekly basis.

The Hospital Chaplaincy Department is organising a ten week Training Course for new volunteers starting on Thursday morning, 23 September 2010.

For further details and an application form please contact Rev Phillip Staves, Lead Chaplain at,

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,
Rothwell Road,
Kettering
NN16 8UZ
Telephone: 01536 492609
or e mail: chaplaincy@kgh.nhs.uk

August Messages From the Vicar

Dear Geddington friends,
Thank you so much for hard work at the Flower Festival. A wonderful offering to God, a wonderful welcome to our visitors, and a wonderful £1,500 for our funds. I am writing to each of the flower-team, and to those who took the lead on organising stalls - but there is a great number of you who did one or more stints on all the various duties. Thank you so much.

Kettering Hospital ignored our timetable, and whisked Brian Leaton in just when he's normally giving so much support - and amazingly he still helped in the background.

Please let Margaret have your suggestions for improvements next year, while they are still fresh in your mind. Well done everyone.

Giles

Dear Weekley friends,
At the time of writing, (22nd July,) a man is working on the outside of the Church building. It would appear that the long-awaited lime-washing operation has begun. (He is reducing damp penetration from the outside before sorting out its effects on the inside.)
By the time you read this, more may have happened…I hope so!

Weekley Thanks
The Mayflower concert raised £250, and was a very happy occasion.
The last village tour raised £40
Thank you to all concerned.

Giles

Dear Geddington and Weekley friends,
There is a Deanery Quiet Day planned. See the information below. It is for anyone, including first-timers. If you'd like to take part, book as indicated - I am sure we can share lifts. It clashes with the Harvest Sports in Geddington - so you have a straight choice, do you prefer Quiet or Noise?

Giles

Mission Seminar with Miles Baker

Miles is the Mission Enabler for our part of the Church of England, the Diocese of Peterborough. He
preached at the 9.45 service on April 25th, then spent some hours with the Church Council (PCC.)

Miles led the PCC through 3 exercises. The first pictured a sailing ship - the good ship "Geddington
Church". PCC members had "post-its" and could put up their ideas about what was the Sunshine,
the breeze blowing us forward, things we are encouraged by… Other "post-its" were The Sea on
which we sail, things we just have to live with… The final collection of "post-its" were The Rocks
beneath, things we feel threatened by…

Of course one person's Rock, (eg "traditional music") might be another person's Sunshine!
Gradually we built up a picture of where we are and of who we are. After sandwiches for lunch,
(Thank you, Frances,) work resumed.

Exercise 2 was very positive. 2 groups had to write the headlines for the 2015 Annual Report,
as it will be if we do everything God is calling us to do. Even though they were separated, both
groups had similar ideas:
All bills paid and surplus given to Third World Christians,
New heating system almost too efficient,
Every house in Geddington visited
Etc

It was no surprise that Exercise 3 brought us back to earth. If we are here (Exercise 1) and we know
God is calling us to go there (Exercise 2) what goals will we set ourselves for the next 12 months?
Expect to hear more after the next PCC meeting.

Miles made us think. We let him go home to his wife and children, took a moment to focus, then conducted
the AGM. (The AGM Report can be found on the 'Events and Organisations' page)