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Church House, Churchyard, Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 1HP
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News and Views Archive 2005
Rhythms of the World 2005 at St Mary's The choir were pleased to be part of the Rhythms of the World festival on 10th July. We performed a selection of anthems from Tallis in the 16th century to Childs in the 21st century on the St Mary's stage at the end of the festival on Sunday.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ HARVEST FESTIVAL 2005 A glorious sight awaited the congregation on the morning of 2nd October when we gathered to give thanks to God for our harvest. Our grateful thanks go to Margaret Khinmaung and Wendy Zimmerman for orchestrating such a marvellous display of flowers, fruit and vegetables. The All-Age communion service started with the rousing hymn Come ye thankful people, come which aptly illustrated the thanks of the Pilgrim Fathers on their first successful harvest in the New World. This was ably acted out by our vicar Michael and the children (with excellent sound effects from them and the congregation), sailing their make-shift ship around the church. The first lesson had been read by Lizzie and the intercessions were led by Hazel and Jasmine. At the offertory the congregation brought forward their gifts of flowers for the sick and elderly, packets and tins for the North Herts Sanctuary and money for the Send a cow to Africa appeal (we raised £460). The John Rutter anthem For the beauty of the earth floated across the church during the distribution of communion and the service finished with us all singing the hymn Now thank we all our God. At Festal Evensong later in the day the choir sang the much-loved Stanford in Bb canticles and, having read the Old Testament lesson, Michael Attwood was the tenor soloist in Thou visitest the earth by Maurice Greene.
‘Send a Cow’ to Africa The really good news is that we’ve reached, and even surpassed, our target of £750 to ‘Send a Cow’ to Africa. We’ve raised £810 some of it gift-aided, and that’s enough to send not only a cow and a flock of poultry, but possibly enough to send a couple of sheep too! Very grateful thanks to everyone who responded so generously to the appeal.
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