ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS CHURCH, GREAT WOLFORD

Assistant Clergy are covering the Wole Benefice during the present interregnum

 Church Officers are:                                                                                                                                                                                 

Churchwardens; Janet Piller, 01608 674396 & John Wrench, 01608 674389

Secretary:  Diana Watson (Acting)

Treasurer Marcus Lymbery, 01608 664480

 ANNUAL CHURCH MEETING

The Annual Meeting for 2008 was held in April at in the Church.

 Click here to view Annual report and Accounts presented at the Meeting  

LINK - THE CHURCH MAGAZINE

The SW7 Group publishes "The Link", a monthly Parish Magazine

The Wolford contacts are:

Editor Bob Large, (to whom material for inclusion should be sent)

Charlecote Barn, Little Wolford, CV36 5LZ

'phone 01608 684371

E-mail; littlewolford@link.sw7.org.uk

Distributor Tony Back, 'phone 01608 684645

Editor Lawrie Thompson, (to whom material for inclusion should be sent)

The Retreat,  Great Wolford, CV36 5NQ

'Phone 01608 674 200

E-mail: greatwolford@link.sw7.org.uk

Administration: Diana Watson administers subscription list and the distribution of the Great Wolford Link,

Local Distributors: Taylor. Thompson, Watson and Wrench families

FORTHCOMING SERVICES AT ST MICHAELS

There is also a Weekday service of Morning Prayer at 9 a.m. each Tuesday

FROG RACING EVENING

An evening of fun at

LONG COMPTON VILLAGE HALL

In aid of St. Michael & All Angels Church, Wolford

SATURDAY 28th NOVEMBER

(minimum age 18 - sorry no children)

starting 7.30 pm

SPECIAL PRICE: only £5 per person

HOT SUPPER INCLUDED

Bring your own drinks

Call John Wrench 01608 674389

or Janet Piller 01608 674396 for tickets

COMMMENCEMENT OF UNITED SERVICES IN THE LITTLE WOLFORD VILLAGE HALL

There is a long history of Christian worship in The Wolfords, the presence of a priest having been recorded in The Domesday Book of 1086. The Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels, although re-built in 1835, occupies the site of its thirteenth century predecessor. Although the established Church has thus had a presence in The Wolfords for many centuries, Nonconformism has also attracted strong support in our villages.

As our Community website (www.warkcom.net/wolfords) records, attempts to establish "a place of religious worship for Protestant Dissenters" in Little Wolford date back to 1800, by which time the Nonconformist community was already being served by a visiting preacher from Stratford. In 1866, a nearby Congregational Church established a "station" in UttIe Wolford, which appears to have been served by an itinerant Village Pastor, followed by the establishment in 1895 of a formal Branch Church. Services were held in a variety of locations, including Tower Farm, the Great Hall of UttIe Wolford Manor and, until the end of the War, in Little Wolford Village Hall.

We shall seek to re-establish the tradition of Christian worship in the Village Hall, with a service supported by both the Anglican and the Methodist Churches. We hope to hold services on the third Sunday of each subsequent month, led alternately in the Anglican and the Methodist traditions, but with a preacher from a different denomination. Members of all faiths are welcome.