St Andrew's Church, Girton
Priest
in Charge: Revd. Will Adam
Ely Diocesan Ecumenical Officer
email: wja@luxmundi.co.uk
Reader:
Mrs C Deacon, Mr D Wilson
Churchwardens:
Mrs C Barrow, Mr A Lorimer
Service times
Notices
Message from the Parish Priest
10.00 am Holy Communion
6.00 pm Evensong
8.00 pm Taize Worship
Sunday 13 July
8.00 am Holy Communion
10.00 am Family Service with Baptism
6.00 pm Evensong
Sunday 20 July
8.00 am Holy Communion
10.00 am Holy Communion
6.00 pm Evensong
Sunday 27 July
8.00 am Holy Communion
10.00 am Morning Prayer
6.00 pm Evensong
Services at 8.00 am and 6.00 pm are according to the Book of Common
Prayer
Other services follow Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the
Church of England
Wednesdays at 10.00 am: Holy Communion in the North Room
Blessed Bees
Blessed Bees
Wednesday 16th July 2008
2.30 pm in the North Room
Stories, craft and refreshments for children aged 0-5 and their
parents/carers.
All welcome.
Marriages:
21 June - Luke Baldwin and Rachel Tolliday
Baptisms:
Funerals:
10 June - John Long
St Andrew's Church Sunday Club
Sunday Club is for children aged 3 - 11. We meet in school term time during the 10 am Sunday service, starting off in Church and going either to the North Room or the Cotton Hall. On the second Sunday of each month there is a Family Service. Sunday Club this month takes place on 15th, 22nd and 29th June. New members are welcome.
Sunday Club is looking for new members, please come along on one of the Sundays, pick up a leaflet in the back of Church or speak to the Rector, the Revd Will Adam, on 276235.
Coffee Stop
Coffee Stop is a chance to come together to meet old friends and new for a cup of coffee and a chat. Beginning on Tuesday 10 June it will take place in the North Room at St Andrew's Church between 10.00 am and 11.30 am each Tuesday.
Do feel free to drop in. There is flat access to the North Room - follow the path around the church tower. For further details please contact Franziska Norman on 479236.
Searchlights
Activity for children aged 3-11 during the main Sunday Service.
Student on Placement
At the beginning of February we welcomed Mrs Franziska Norman as a student on placement for the next six months. Franziska is originally from Berlin and is a candidate for ordination in the Church of England. Having recently moved from St George's Church in Berlin, she will start formal training for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge in September. Franziska will be getting involved in all aspects of parish life and looks forward to meeting as many people as she can over the course of her placement. She will be based in the Parish Office at the Rectory.
Obituary: The Venerable John Sanderson Long John Long died on 4 June 2008 aged 94, having been a priest for over seventy years. He was well known in Girton, where he had lived since his retirement in 1981. Prior to retirement he was Archdeacon of Ely and Rector of St Botolph's Church, Cambridge. His ministry started with a curacy in the diocese of Canterbury and he was ordained deacon and priest by Archbishop Lang. During the second world war he served as a naval chaplain and laid claim to having been the first sea going chaplain of a Royal Navy destroyer. There then followed seven significant years as Archbishop's Domestic Chaplain at Lambeth Palace. The post-war years saw a number of significant events; the promotion of post-war reconciliation and reconstruction in Britain and Europe, the foundation of the Church of South India and, in 1948, both the Lambeth Conference and the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches. He was at Fisher's side at significant national and royal events starting with the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, going through the baptisms of Prince Charles and Princess Anne and the funeral of King George VI and ending, shortly after he left Lambeth, with the coronation at which he carried the Cross of Canterbury. Incumbencies at Bearstead, Kent and Petersfield, Hants, during the 1950s and 1960s grounded John in traditional parish ministry. The 'swinging sixties' did not completely pass him by and one family holiday on the Isle of Wight saw him accompanying his teenage children to the 1969 Isle of Wight festival to see Bob Dylan perform live - albeit from a distance. In retirement John served at Diocesan Retired Clergy Officer and helped out in a number of parishes including Girton. He was traditional by nature, kindly but shy, committed to his family and always seeking to promote the values of family life. He was deeply committed to the faith and to the discipline of regular prayer. He stopped taking services as he approached the age of ninety but remained active in the church (and continued to walk to the Co-op) until the week before his death. He met Rosamond, Archbishop Fisher's niece, at a party at Lambeth and they married in early1948 after John had negotiated suitable married accommodation and a wedding date that did not clash with the Lambeth Conference. In later life he took on the running of the house and cared for Rosamond before her death in 1999. He died peacefully after suffering a stroke and is survived by his four children and eleven grandchildren.
Will Adam
Rector
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