ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS CHURCH, GREAT WOLFORD

The Clergy covering the Group are :

Priest in Charge

Reverend Richard Smith

The Vicarage, Long Compton, Shipston on Stour, Warks CV36 5JH

Telephone:- 01608 684207

E-mail; swarks7@tiscali.co.uk

House for Duty                                                            

Reverend Richard Burn,

The Vicarage, Great Wolford, Shipston on Stour, Warks, CV36 5NQ

Telephone: 01608 674909

 Church Officers are:                                                                                                                                                                                 

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

Secretary:  Jane Gordon Banks, 01608 674122

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

To submit copy by E-mail click here

Distributor Tony Back, 'phone 01608 684645

Editor Martin Hornby, (to whom material for inclusion should be sent)

Old Coach House,  Great Wolford, CV36 5NQ

'Phone 01608 674152

To submit copy by E-mail click here

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

 CAR BOOTING IN COMFORT

 Have you done your spring cleaning but getting up at dawn to set out your stall at the local car boot sale is not exactly your sort of thing?  Maybe you've sorted out several boxes of stuff you no longer need and you'd be glad to get rid of it all?    We've got the answer.  Wolfords church will take it all off your hands and convert it into much-needed funds to maintain the church.  We'll be going to the huge car boot sale in Moreton in September and we're starting to collect stock now.  All you have to do is contact one of those named below and we'll arrange to pick up from you, or you can deliver to us yourself if you prefer.  Anything saleable will be welcome - china, ornaments, books, garden tools, household goods, toys, pictures, any kind of bric-a-brac, etc, etc.  In the past we've even sold elegant fur-trimmed rubber washing up gloves!  If your contributions are ready now that's fine, ring us straight away, or if you're intending to have a sort-out during the summer contact us later when you've had time to clear out your loft or garage.  We look forward to hearing from you.

Contacts: 

Janet Piller (674396)        Marc Lymbery (685805)       John Wrench (674389)        

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.