This month marks a shift that we have anticipated for a very long time. Death reigned until a vaccine provided protection. Those vaccinated still get infected, since we can’t eradicate the virus from the world in which we live, but it is not an infection that leads to death. I touch on this watershed moment...
It is with great sadness we record the death of Christine Burslem. She had been for many years a member of the congregations up first Christ Church and then in more recent times Oulton. Christine was born into a family of potters in December 1948. She moved to Stone in the 1970s to be close...
Egg Sunday. Another record! April 23rd resulted in the collection of 2,635 eggs from Christ Church parish, of which total 1,887 were contributed by Meaford, largely through the untiring efforts of Mrs Lindsay, to whom out cordial thanks are due. These eggs were subsequently distributed between the N. Staffs Infirmary and the Stafford General Hospital,...
How have you occupied yourself in the long dark days of winter lockdown? Over the last year we have done a few jigsaw puzzles, mostly 1,000 piece puzzles. However, the hardest puzzle we did had a mere 500 pieces. Even putting the edge pieces together was difficult, so many pieces seemed to fit in more...
PENTE is Greek for the number 50. So what is Pentecost? Leviticus 23:15-21, describes a ‘Feast of Weeks’ or the ‘Counting of the Omer’ starting after the Passover, on the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and lasting 50 days, or seven weeks, ending with Shavuot - the second of three major Jewish...