Your Old Newspapers

Will be received and welcomed by Mrs. Faussett-Osborne, Queendown Warren, in aid of Church Funds. Newspapers, magazines and cardboard (if folded flat) are all acceptable, preferably tied and bundled. If notified, Miss Danby (Lenacre, Hartlip; Newington 262) will be pleased to collect from anywhere in the village. Please take advantage of this encouraging offer. It will help you and Church Funds. It will also presumably help our lone R.D.C. refuse collector!

A Small Change

In our services will begin as from 1st November. The 12 noon Holy Communion (hitherto on the 1st Sunday in the month) will now be on the 2nd Sunday in the month.

A Distributor

For our Parish Magazine is urgently needed for delivering to subscribers in the Lower Road.

Money Raising

Our Magazine Account was credited £30 17s. 7d, from the Jumble Sale. Our Heating Fund benefitted by £22 15s. 7d, from the Vicarage coffee morning and by £21 10s. 0d. from the Rose Cottage morning. Well done and thank you, all who helped in any way.

Harvest Offerings

Were distributed as usual to Keycol Hospital, St. David's Children's Home, Broadstairs, and several house-bound parishioners. All expressed obviously sincere thanks. A few items were retained for my Samaritan's Cupboard.

Our Sincere Sympathy

Goes to Mr. Divers and his family on the passing of his mother. One of the earlier smallholders, Mrs. Divers had been able to spend most of her last year or so of life on the holding, where she had once been so active and in Hartlip, where she was married and of which she was so fond.

St. Michael & All Angels Day 1965

This was for me a happy, memorable day. It began in a sense the Sunday before, when Morning Prayer was followed by a recital by Antony Bussell (bass), assisted by Leonard Norton, of Holy Trinity, Sittingbourne, on the organ. We all enjoyed some sensitive singing, from early and modern composers; there was a message, too, in most of the songs, Bullock's "I love my God" and Schubert's "To Music" in particular. 27 made their Communion on St. Michael and All Angels Day, 10 at 7 a.m. and the rest at the 9.30 Day School Eucharist, when the children, as always, helped to lead our worship competently and reverently. Afterwards over 50 people had coffee and conversation at the Vicarage in the course of the morning. The day was completed appropriately by several methods being rung on our church bells in the evening. The ringers, led by Mr. Naylor, came mainly from Sittingbourne but included one each from Sheppey and Faversham.