and, as we welcome new members, we must say goodbye to Paul Ambrose as a full-time member. Business commitments five-and-a-half days a week leave little time for other activities, and choir membership is quite a full time job, involving regularly two services on Sundays and one evening a week for practice. In these circumstances Paul finds it impossible to continue. Hopefully, we may see him on occasions.

Incidentally, Paul has been a member of the choir longer than I have, and I know that the Vicar will join me in expressing thanks to Paul for all his time and work so freely given for many years.

... and finally ... a big word of thanks to all parents, whose co-operation during Holy Week and Easter enabled all our choristers to achieve virtually a one hundred per cent. attendance.

N.C.

WHERE THERE'S LIFE LET THERE BE HOPE

Christian Aid Week this year is from 16th to 21st May, and once again churches of all denominations will be campaigning for a deeper understanding of world poverty and greater participation in development.

For the next two years the British Government will be spending less on overseas aid, so unless more is done by voluntary organisations like Christian Aid the world's poor, who lost out during our own development, will now bear the brunt of our economic recession.

The greater challenge which Christian Aid Week 1977 thus presents to the general public entails renewed effort by the churches to increase their educational and fund-raising coverage of their own neighbourhoods. By so doing they will also be extending to the wider cotrmunity an awareness of the Christian Church as an agent and advocate of justice.

That role is increasingly accepted by churches and missions in areas of human need. In all the variety of their development programmes among both the rural and the urban poor - in which they call upon Christian Aid for the financing of agricultural, educational, vocational and social welfare schemes - they have, first and foremost, stimulated among the poor themselves a spirit of self-help and determination.

So, grim though the statistics of deprivation may be, the message of Christian Aid Week is not one of unrelieved gloom and doom, but of hope based on the recognition of past achievements, on the proven capabilities of the poor, and on the inspiration of the Christian faith which sustains us in our continued work of compassion and justice.

SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS — HARTLIP
SUNDAY, 5th JUNE, 1977

11 a.m. - In the Parish Church, a Special Service of Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the protection afforded to the Queen's Majesty for the 25 years of her auspicious reign.
MONDAY, 6th JUNE, 1977
12 noon - Street Party. Ploughman's Lunch. Wine, beer and soft drinks. Boys and girls on decorated bicycles. Prizes for best decorated. Fancy Dress : Up to 5 years, 5 - 11 years, 11 - 14 years. Three prizes for the prettiest.
Adults in Fancy Dress-prizes will be awarded.
3 p.m. - Sports on Recreation Ground. Programme of events below, including Presentation of Crowns. Teas will be served during sports.
8 p.m. - Barbecue on Recreation Ground, including Music and Dancing. Bar.
10 p.m. - Bonfire.