A quieter coffee morning but a lovely sunny day. We celebrated the golden wedding anniversary of Jane and Goff as well with a cake. The raffle was also held. A total of £80 was raised for the Birmingham Dogs home.
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Ellen Dryden, the eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs. R. Dryden and sister of Sue Wagg, died Wednesday July 27th.
She attended Nether Whitacre school and then King Edwards before going to Oxford university. After gaining her degree, she went on to acting and won a scholarship for writing. Many of her plays were performed in London and at Birmingham Reparatory theatre. "Harvest" was one that was set in a village chapel and was obviously Nether Whitacre chapel where she had been brought up. Other plays were recorded for the radio. She married Don Taylor, who died in 2003, and they had two children, Jonathon and Lucy. We send our condolences to all the family. A lovely afternoon, with delicious sandwiches, scones, strawberries and cakes. Pots of tea, excellently served by two young waiters Xavier and Frank. Despite a very slow start we managed to raise £82 for the Open Doors Charity which supports Christians who suffer for their beliefs. It is hard for us to understand this when we are usually faced with indifference rather than persecution when speaking of our faith. There were many raffle prizes and we welcomed a couple of new faces and it was nice to see Arthur Edwards there with his family. Thanks to Chris and Sue for their work and home made cakes. Our old boiler has reached it sell by date and so a new one was fitted today to make sure we are warm and comfortable over the coming winters. Simon Oakley fitted and tested the new one today completing the list of larger expensive jobs we know needed doing in the church. BeforeGary and Chris has made a great job of rubbing down, primer painting and then top coating the windows and roof woodwork. Something that has not been done on the roof timbers since the mid 1990's when the old windows were still in the building and it is the first time the windows have been painted since they were put in. After
We met today in jubilee festive mood to support the work of MAF. Many flags were to be seen both in the church and on our journeys to the chapel. Good conversation and a raffle complimented the lovely sunny day. Even found time to put a massive flag up on our scaffolding in support of the platinum jubilee. Several familiar faces were missing today but those who came had a laugh and enjoyed the company. We collected £105 for our Methodist Church. This total was greatly helped by Sue, who brought her tomato plants for us to sell.
In June we shall be celebrating the Queens Platinum Jubilee on coffee morning day so be prepared to bring your crown and wave a flag!  Preparations for the external repaint started to appear today in the shape of the scaffolding needed to reach the eaves of the main church building. The whole external woodwork is going to be repainted. This area has not been properly done since the early nineteen nineties.
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