QUALITY SUMMER READING MATERIAL?
We can’t guarantee you a Quality Summer, but we’ve got the reading material all sewn up. We’ll be displaying our Quality Book Stock for sale during the Saturday Coffee Morning at the URC on 6th July (10am – 12 noon).
We’ll be outside if possible, indoors if defeated by the weather. But come and join us either way.
ICKENHAM BITES BACK AT HUNGER
Over £9700 (including gift aid) was collected in Ickenham during Christian Aid Week’s house-to-house collection in May. Thank you very much to everyone who contributed. If you have any comments about the collection please contact Juliette Guthrie, the coordinator on 01895 622970 or email her at julietteguthrie@gmail.com.
DONATIONS
This month, receipt is acknowledged, with grateful thanks, for donations from:
Mrs Dorothy Edgley; Revd Bernie Collins.
Please note that there is no separate August issue of ICN, as the team takes a summer break. Items for the September issue should be with us by 12 noon on August 13th. Have a good summer!
A VISIT TO OUR PATRON
Every parish in the Church of England has a patron. This is the person or body that retains the historical right of appointment of the minister, although nowadays this is done with the consent of ecclesiastical authorities. In times of old, this was often a local landowner who was also responsible for the church building. (Think Lady Catherine de Bourgh, providing a ‘living’ for Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice!) With changes that have occurred over the last 40 years, Bishops now hold the patronage of roughly half of all parishes, but St Giles’ Ickenham is one of about twenty parishes under the patronage of Eton College.
Recently, the College extended an invitation to visit to representatives of all its parishes; so Adrian, and Churchwardens Naomi Webb and Keith Arnold and their respective spouses joined around a hundred other guests at the College in Windsor for a highly interesting day.
They were met and welcomed by Revd. Canon Roger Royle, one-time chaplain of Eton College, and well known to many from his religious broadcasting on the BBC. There followed an interesting and informative conducted tour of the Eton Museum and its historic buildings, and then afternoon tea. The group enjoyed dainty sandwiches, cakes and pastries and during this time, each table of guests was visited by the current Provost of Eton College, Lord William Waldegrave, who introduced himself to the group and chatted.
At the end of tea, Lord Waldegrave made a general address to the audience, before the visit concluded with Evensong in the College Chapel, sung by the College Choir – a grand occasion for all concerned!
