SPECIAL EVENT

    A service for `Back to church Sunday` is being planned on Sunday September 26th -11am

  We hope this will encourage folk who for any reason` just stoppped going` to give us a chance to make them feel comfortable about coming to see what it`s like these days in church.

REGULAR EVENTS:-

COFFEE MORNING at Old Station House Mill Lane

 No meetings in July/ August--to allow for Grandparenting holiday enjoyment

P.C.C.

7.30 pm  Wednesday 8th September at Catsbrain Farm

Church Clean-up and Barbeque  

Saturday 4th September

 Come in old clothes bring cloths, dusters,spades and shears (old tooth brushes are good for rubbing oil into the wood), anytime between 9.00am and 1.00pm

work for an hour or two and stay on for a BBQ lunch.

   Talk to Roger any time you are prepared to volunteer there is always something to do.

Highlights of the past year

To celebrate 25 years of the Coffee mornings there was an informal servce in St Leonard at 11am on Wednesday 16th June. the speaker was Bishop Lee of Swindon. Buffet lunch afterwards at Old Station House.

Baptism on Sunday 18th April when Rhys was welcomed into the church family and Paul and Sarah celebrated his first year.

Baptism on Palm Sunday-welcomed Henry and 

Amelie           Twins born to Gavin and Clare on 8th March who married here in 2008

A dedication by Bishop Lee of Swindon in October 2009 to celebrate a £20,000 project to repair and renew the 1891 South Porch .

This is part of our `keep the building safe for the future` project

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 A Grant from theThomas Freke and Lady Norton Charity enabled us to pay for this      -we are very grateful to the trustees

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Patronal Festival-November

A special service to mark St. Leonard`s day-- this church was dedicated to St. Leonard in the 14th century.He was noted for his kindness to prisoners.

Christmas Eve- Carols by Candlelight