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Robin Dawson, in a sermon recently, said we should find out something about an activity in church and the people involved that we knew little or nothing about. Your editor has taken what Robin said to heart and has been (with his camera) to see who is in the Flower Arranging Team and what the team do. The pictures are of the team arranging the flowers for our Easter 2011 services. The Flower Team was formed in the early 1970's by Gill Watts-Jones. There have been many loyal and long serving members in the team since then. The current team is Margaret Taylor, Jean Townend, Dorothy Murkin, Pauline Simmons, Liz Weir, Pam Brimelow, Margaret Stoppard, Barbara Inger and Shirley Slack. The latter two, Barbara and Shirley, were founding members with Gill. Margaret joined the team in 1994 taking over as the co-ordinator from Enid Sheldon twelve years ago. The team work on a rota week by week and as a team for Christmas, Easter, Harvest and church family weddings. The only time when they are ‘off duty’ is Lent and Advent when there are no flowers in church. They also hold the occasional coffee morning and plant sale. New members are always welcome. No flower arranging skills are required as full training will be given. On behalf of all our readers can I say a big thank you to all the team members who make our church look so beautiful every week.
To raise money for the Mayor’s Appeal the Team held a coffee morning and sale of cakes, jams and flower arrangements. The picture shows the Mayor and Mayoress, Keith and Pat Morgan, perusing the cakes.
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