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Update from The 3 Churches Benefice

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Since June, a new rota of services has been in place for The 3 Churches Benefice of Great Amwell with St Margarets and Stanstead Abbots. Details are as follows:

June also saw the start of some important new groups and regular meetings.

NEW REGULAR MEETINGS

Monday Coffee Morning
A weekly coffee morning for those who have arrived from Ukraine and their hosts. Meeting every Monday at 10.15am for 1hr 30m at The Wilshere Hall, St Andrew’s Church (on Cappell Lane).

Community Hub Drop-in
Are you struggling financially?
Are you worried about how you are coping?
Do you just need someone to listen and point you in the right direction?

Come and have a cuppa with us and we’ll see how we can help. Meeting 10.30am every Wednesday at St Mary’s Church, St Margarets (on Hoddesdon Road).

UPCOMING EVENT

Outdoor Service – 31st July
On 31st July, The 3 Churches Benefice will be holding an outdoor service at The Glebe Field (behind the Parish Hall), Great Amwell. Starting from 10.30am, the service will be followed by a summer picnic. Please do come along and join us – all are welcome!

If you would like to learn more about what is going on within our local churches, please visit the website (www.3churches.net) or go to the A Church Near You page (from the Benefice landing page you can click on a specific church).

If you have any questions or would like to be in touch, please email vicar@3churches.net or admin@3churches.net.

Review: This is My Theatre – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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‘To see a rabbit is nothing remarkable… To hear it comment upon the time is quite remarkable… To follow it down a rabbit-hole into a strange new world not knowing how you’ll get out again is something extraordinarily remarkable indeed!

As Alice encounters the weird, wacky and wonderful characters who live in the world at the other end of the rabbit-hole, she’ll experience an adventure like never before! Finding her way home again won’t be an easy task and it will definitely make her rethink all the thoughts she has previously thought!’

~

This promotional introduction to the performance of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by the touring group This is My Theatre certainly gives a flavour of the story. It doesn’t quite indicate how very slick and fast-moving the cast were in each successive scene. The props and costumes were minimal but suggested clearly which character was being portrayed whether it was Alice’s family, the White Rabbit, Dum and Dee, or The Queen of Hearts. The shrinking and expanding of Alice were cleverly portrayed with props that were identical apart from their size and a table, which one of the actors held aloft at a moment when he was fulfilling a stage manager’s role. Another clever device was when two of the actors held a blue cloth representing the tears Alice had shed that she nearly drowned in.

The production fitted so neatly into the hay barn at Stanstead Bury that it would seem to have been created expressly for it. This is the fourth production that they have brought here – I for one look forward to the next one.

The performance lasted approximately one hour and 20 minutes without an interval and kept the audience completely rapt.

Review by Julia Davies

The 3 Churches Foodbank Hub: donation request

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Can you help? We have had a request for help from The 3 Churches Foodbank Hub.

They are in need of the following:

  • Jam
  • Marmalade
  • Chocolate spread
  • Honey
  • Toiletries

 [Please ensure all food items are sealed and in date. Thank you]

Donations can be made to Sue at 8 Millers Lane or contact The 3 Churches Foodbank Hub (07487 350918). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The 3 Churches Foodbank Hub
A local Hub of the Hertford & Ware Foodbank based at St Margarets’ Parish Church

Job Vacancy: Project Director

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We are a small Christian charity that has been working with young people aged 11–19 in Hertford and Ware over the past 19 years. We work in schools, leading group sessions and one–one mentoring, and we also take a mobile youth centre out in the local area. More information about our work can be seen on our website:  www.fhhw.org.uk

We have a vacancy for a Project Director starting in September.  Full information is in the attachment or can be viewed online HERE.

FUTUREhope – Hertford and Ware

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Have you picked up your copy yet?

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In case you missed it, Issue 2 of The Three Villages Magazine published on 1st June and is available to purchase for just £1 at various locations including:

St John the Baptist, Great Amwell
St Mary the Virgin, St Margarets
St Andrew’s, Stanstead Abbots
The Village Pharmacy
The Red Lion
The Maltings Coffee House
Stanstead Abbotts & St Margarets Village Club

Have you picked up your copy yet…?

We’re busy working on the September issue!

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We are now busy working on the September issue of The Three Villages Magazine and our copy deadline is looming.

Do be in touch if you have a item you’d like to submit. We are particularly looking for:
* A short poem (to fit a half page)
* Autumnal photographs of the local area for the front cover
* Tried-and-tested baking recipes

Please send items to print.threevillagesmagazine@gmail.com by 4th July.

The Three Villages Team

St Margaretsbury Tennis Club Open Days

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Have you thought about picking up the racket again and enjoying a social, open air sport at your local tennis club?

If so, come along to the St Margaretsbury Tennis Club Open Days between 12 and 4 on Saturday 16th July and Sunday 17th July.

Try your hand at tennis and find out about the range of competitive memberships and activities on offer.

St Margaretsbury Tennis Club, Stanstead Abbotts

Great Amwell Village Stocks

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The previous stocks in the St John the Baptist’s Churchyard had deteriorated and the specialist advice was to replace them. Great Amwell Parish Council have employed the local building firm, Between Time, and the stocks have just been put in place.

BEFORE
AFTER

The children from St John the Baptist School had a first look in, as the carpenters were installing them just as the school visited church for their Pentecost Service. There were some very wide eyes as the children walked past and they were beautifully behaved in church! As they always are… nothing to do with the stocks, I’m sure!

Rev’d Dr Sarah Forrest
Priest in Charge, The 3 Churches Benefice

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