![[Mark Restall]](../by/Mark_Restall.jpg)
For many people, volunteering conjures up pictures of worthy self-sacrifice, or ladies who lunch doing their bit for the lower classes every second Thursday. But this is an image that has never been valid, and, through the work of organisations such as the National Centre for Volunteering and events such as Volunteers' Week, it is an image that is being shattered. There are volunteers in every sphere of life - sport, politics, the environment, healthcare, the arts, religion; of all ages, from every class, culture or ethnic background.
![[First Aid]](June/First_Aid.jpeg)
Relatively free from bureaucracy and commercialisation, volunteering is separate from the public and private sectors, but can work in and with both. It is an expression of mutual aid, a concept used by two misunderstood thinkers, Adam Smith and Peter Kropotkin. Both saw voluntary involvement as an unseen glue that binds society together, Smith as part of the 'invisible hand' he hoped would counter the potential destructiveness of the market, Kropotkin as a phenomenon hindered by the state.
Whether or not you accept this, there are an estimated 22 million volunteers in this country. You may be one yourself without realising it. Your neighbourhood will certainly be full of unseen volunteers. Perhaps your elderly neighbour is visited by someone who does her shopping and spends an afternoon or two chatting with her. Or there's the volunteer who runs the football team your children play for. And what about the people painting the mural on the community centre wall? People have always come together to meet needs, help their community, and help themselves.
Volunteering is not all about selfless altruism. It can help people learn skills, gain confidence, improve their CVs, get valuable experience that they may not be able to gain elsewhere. But it's still true that the most that some volunteers want is the knowledge that they are doing something worthwhile and recognition of their efforts. There are nearly as many valid reasons for wanting to volunteer as there are volunteers.
What gives volunteering its potential is the goodwill of those involved, the desire of individuals and communities to take direct action - to be, in the words of Tony Blair, 'active citizens'. Ultimately, the only people who can ensure that volunteering remains a positive force for social change and individual development are you and me.
![[Joye Rosenstiel]](../by/Joye_Rosenstiel.jpg)
"Go in peace to love and serve the Lord" are the words with which the communion service ends and after which the congregation goes out to face the wider world. In this issue of Majestas, the Wider Concerns Committee has chosen to focus on 'serving the Lord' in the wider community by looking at the involvement of volunteers within the city and further afield.
Each of the articles presents the author's personal account of why he or she has chosen to volunteer, and they include a range of remarkable personal stories from inside and outside Great St Mary's. From within, readers will recognise many of the contributors, ranging from Patrick Colquhoun's story of his life's work as a volunteer to Jane Hunt's experience of teaching in Peshawar. From the wider community we are indebted to the group from St Barnabas' Church for sharing their experiences of prison visiting as a church group and to Rachel Muers for talking about her voluntary work for the student charity, Contact, in Cambridge.
Many of the contributors have chosen to work with people who are dispossessed and forgotten by much of society, including the mentally ill, prisoners and refugees. In reading the articles I felt that two themes stood out. First, the contributors felt that they had received so much from the people they had chosen to work with and, secondly, there was the degree to which their faith nourished and sustained their work.
As a church Great St Mary's has a reputation for looking out into the wider world, both by providing a forum for the issues of the day and through the involvement of members of the congregation in the wider community. May this issue of Majestas help you to focus on how you can use your time and talents within the wider community and make the words "to love and serve the Lord" a living manifestation of the faith we all share.
![[Rachel Muers]](../by/Rachel_Muers.jpg)
Rachel Muers is at Clare College studying for a PhD in Theology. Before she came up to Cambridge she helped at a day centre for the mentally ill in Rugby. She said,"I realised after a couple of weeks in Cambridge that I really needed to make contact with some people who were not students. I needed to find a footing in the city which wasn't entirely based within the university, otherwise one gets hopelessly claustrophobic and you get a narrow view on life. So I went along to the Contact office and was put in touch with a lady; the main reason she wanted a visitor was so that she could be taken out in her wheelchair. I went along and on my first visit I found out that she hadn't been outside her flat for a year because the lady who used to take her out had become rather infirm and couldn't push the wheelchair any more. I still visit that lady: she is now in Chesterton Hospital and will probably be moving into a nursing home. I don't take her out any more but just go along to chat."
Contact is a small charity which was set up by students about 20 years ago. It is run by a management committee of students, with Trustees to provide continuity, and employs one part-time administrator. As Rachel explained, "It basically provides a volunteer visiting service for elderly and housebound people. The main aim is just to put people who are lonely in touch with someone to talk to. Most volunteers visit once a week and usually it's just for conversation but sometimes volunteers do odd jobs as well: some of the people we visit are blind, so there is reading to do and occasionally a bit of shopping and so on.
"Besides the visiting service there is a party organised three times a year for all the people who are visited. It's run by the students and is held in one of the colleges and is very popular. The students tend to enjoy it as well because they meet other volunteers; otherwise it's something you do on your own."
![[Contact]](June/Contact.jpeg)
Contact is trying to re-establish a system of college representatives as part of a support network for volunteers. It also organises occasional meetings with speakers, such as someone from Camsight talking about understanding people with visual problems, a speaker from Cruse and a doctor from the geriatric unit at Addenbrookes. The volunteers can also contact the part-time administrator if problems arise.
Numbers fluctuate and at present 50-60 students from Cambridge University and Anglia are involved. Some of those visited are retired academics, or bedmakers, porters and administrators who worked in the colleges. For them, a student visitor is another way of keeping in touch with the university. An increasing number of people are referred by Social Services, and Rachel said that when there is a reduction in state provision more come to the voluntary organisations. Rachel continued, "Students find Contact is a good system because it's an hour or two each week - it's not a major time commitment - but you know that you're making a difference to somebody's life."
The Great St Mary's bellringers will be celebrating their 275th anniversary this year. The Society of Cambridge Youths was refounded on 3rd August 1724 and is one of the six oldest associations of bellringers in the country. On 3rd August an anniversary peal will be rung by twleve past officers of the Society and a handbell peal will be rung by six past Masters of the Society. Members of the Society are elected at the Society's annual meeting each year: the names of members from 1724 to 1913 are recorded on boards in the tower and it is hoped to bring the boards up to date this year. In October up to 80 former ringers will meet for a 275th anniversary dinner.
![[Gregory: Wicked Deed Cover]](June/Gregory_Wicked_Deed_Cover.jpeg)
Susanna Gregory's historical crime books are based on Michaelhouse in the 14th century and she will launch her new book, A Wicked Deed, on Tuesday 22nd June at 6 for 6.30 pm in St Michael's. She will talk on her research about Michaelhouse for the books and will read from her new book. Heffers will have copies of the book and of previous books on sale in St Michael's, and Susanna Gregory will be available to sign them. It will be an interesting event: please come along if you can.
The GSM choirs will be making a CD this summer and the Junior Choir, Girls' Choir, Parish Choir and GSM Singers will all be involved. To help the funding of it, please consider buying copies in advance at an advantageous price: £15 for two, £30 for five (cheques payable to Great St Mary's). Orders may be handed to the Parish Office, at the bookstall or to Michael Haynes. The CD will be available before Christmas and there will be a concert including some of the CD music in July.
The choir will be singing Choral Evensong at Portsmouth Cathedral on 3rd and 4th June (during half-term).
![[Camel]](June/Camel.jpeg)
At 3 pm on Sunday 27th June a camel will enter Great St Mary's through the west door. A goodly number of two-legged walkers, some having completed the 85 miles from Oxford, will follow. The trek starts on the final day at Kingston, passes by Hardwick and Coton, then through Selwyn and King's Colleges. Why not join in at some point, and help raise money for church schools in the desert areas of northern Kenya? For more information contact Bridget Le Huray (354579) or Peter Hilken (356371). Choral Evensong at 6.30 pm will celebrate completion of the walk and the 200th anniversary of the Church Missionary Society. It will include a liturgical dance by Sara Savage and the preachers will be the Revd Canon Graham King and the Revd Joseph Galgalo. Everyone will be welcome.
The camel walk has its own web pages, at http://www.etransfer.com/camelwalk.
The Bremen Cello Ensemble from Germany will be playing at a concert in church on Thursday 24th June at 7.30 pm to raise funds for the Tom Acton Memorial Trust to provide a bursary for young musicians in Essex. Tickets (£7.50; £5 concessions) are available from Brian Jordan Music Books, at 10-12 Green Street, Cambridge.
The Magog Trust is holding its Downland Fair on Magog Down on Saturday 5th June from 12 noon, with displays, stalls and children's activities. For more information phone 842504 or 842227. On Sunday 6th June there will be a Family Communion Service in the marquee on Magog Down at 10 am.
![[Kerry Ramsay]](June/Kerry_Ramsay.jpeg)
In July we will be welcoming the Revd Kerry Ramsay MA as curate at Great St Mary's. Kerry was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), where she went to primary school. She moved to South Africa, where she went to high school and then trained as a teacher. She taught for ten years in a primary school before training for the ministry at St Paul's Theological College, Durban, and Westcott House, Cambridge. She was made deacon in the Cathedral of the Nativity, Pietermaritzburg, Kwa-Zulu Natal, and was ordained as a priest in Southwark Cathedral in 1996.
Kerry spent one year in a parish in a suburb of Durban and is at present a curate at St Luke's with Holy Trinity in Charlton, south-east London - an urban priority area not far from Charlton Athletic Football Club. Her work there has included a training programme for the admission of children to communion, a theological discussion group and developing an alternative form of evening worship.
Kerry is single and will be moving to Cambridge at the end of June. She said, "I know the city and I am looking forward to my ministry in Cambridge."
Kerry will be licensed at a service on Tuesday 6th July at 8 pm, to which everyone is invited to give Kerry a warm welcome to Great St Mary's.
![[Pauline Davison]](../by/Pauline_Davison.jpg)
"Jaw-jaw," Churchill said, "is better than war-war", and this applies to all types of conflict, including that which occurs between neighbours. Disputes arise over noise, children, boundaries (the top three causes) or numerous other matters, often apparently trivial but, if unresolved, leading to discomfort, estrangement and even enmity. Mediation is a way of helping people resolve conflict, in which disputants meet voluntarily, in the presence of an impartial third party, to settle their differences. The mediator's role is not to give advice, opinions or solutions, but to facilitate the process and enable the parties to reach their own agreement. Six and a half years ago I was among the first batch of volunteers to be trained for the Cambridge and District Mediation Service, which operates from a tiny office in Llandaff Chambers. There is one part-time, paid worker, but the service is managed by the 35 mediators, who range in age from 23 to 75 and are all volunteers. Typically, people contact the service by telephone and are then visited by two mediators, who encourage them to give their account of the dispute and what has led up to it. The mediators then visit the neighbours and listen to their side of the story. If both parties agree, a mediation will be arranged on neutral ground. In a safe and structured meeting the parties are enabled to talk and listen to each other, to sort out misunderstandings and, if possible, to come to some resolution of their differences. Sometimes the causes of conflict can seem incredibly petty or completely unreasonable. They may say more about the complainant's attitudes and situation than the neighbour's behaviour. I once visited a woman who was complaining about the noise made by the neighbours on one side of her terraced house when there was the sound of boots stomping up and down the stairs in the house on the other side. When we asked her if she was bothered by that noise she said, "Oh no, I know them." While the lack of a relationship sometimes underlies a dispute, there is often the vestige of one which can be revived if people can speak openly and listen to each other. When people reach an agreement, they are encouraged to put it in writing and each party keeps a copy. It is not legally binding, but is a token of their hard work and good will. The process of mediation, however, is far more important than just reaching an agreement. A successful mediation can transform a relationship and turn the 'neighbours from Hell', if not into friends, at least into good enough neighbours. It is the satisfaction of facilit-ating that which keeps us working for the service.
![[Jane Hunt]](../by/Jane_Hunt.jpg)
What is a Christian doing in a country which is predominantly Moslem? Jane was offered a teaching post in the International School in Peshawar, which is in northern Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan. After much prayer and thought she said, "Yes!" She wrote, "I look back with amazement and gratitude at the way in which God has guided me since the suggestion to teach in Peshawar first came."
"I am aware that I shall be teaching more privileged children [belonging to aid workers] but I'm determined to be involved with those in need as well - and there is such need in this city."
![[School in Peshawar]](June/School_in_Peshawar.jpeg)
She would love to be involved in a primary school run by Sister Elizabeth, of the Sisters of Mercy, in whom she finds a soul mate. It is in an appalling slum area of the city with open drains, rubbish heaps, wretched overcrowding, unemployment, drugs and high mortality. "Imagine my overwhelming joy when we walked through the school gate into a clean attractive playground where brightly coloured flowers and beautiful green plants were growing." A happy place for these undernourished, often abused and desperately poor children.
The conditions in the local prison present another challenge. "Recently we [the school staff] had a talk from Kelly, an Australian volunteer working in the prison. She described the life and living conditions of the inmates and these were horrific. We were particularly upset to hear that 30 children live with their mothers in the women's section because there is no one else to care for them. Three-quarters of the women [and men too] are in for drug offences. Some are in simply because their husbands want to get rid of them and they are innocent of the charges brought against them. There is a desperate need of soap among the inmates to wash themselves and their clothes."
Then there are the 'street' children, the scavengers of Peshawar: "It's all too easy for our children to get used to the sight of these poor children, who are often hungry, thirsty, tired and sad, scavenging in the rubbish heaps and weighed down with their heavy bags. They earn a pitiful amount from the junk dealer. I feel a deep concern and anguish when I see these children. With my class I talk about the differences between their lives and the lives of the 'street' children."
The B.B.C. World Service provides a link with home, particularly the religious broadcasts. "These crumbs of spiritual nourishment are so precious to me here in Peshawar, which quite often feels like a spiritual desert."
![[Patrick Colquhoun]](../by/Patrick_Colquhoun.jpg)
"Is Patrick a spy?" asked one Romanian doctor of a friend. He, like many in the former communist world, has scant experience of people voluntarily working without being paid - unlike the millions in Russia forced to work for months on end without pay because there is no money.
This article focuses on those who give their services rather than those who do excellent work in charities but with salaries, sometimes substantial ones. Increasingly, charities provide services and bid to be the supplier for local-government and government projects. In such cases, an unpaid director of a charity can be a handicap, as the charity is automatically regarded as being less professional than one with a paid director. However, the remarkable charitable infrastructure in the UK grew from quite different roots - people seeking to meet perceived needs and being prepared to give their time. There is still room for that kind of service today.
![[in Romanian Hospital]](June/in_Romanian_Hospital.jpeg)
Stephen, a British X-ray engineer, on returning from his first two-week visit to Romania to install an X-ray room at Salaj Hospital (for which he had taken unpaid leave), said, "I have never done anything like this before. It has changed my life and I will go again as often as you want me to." To his surprise, he was out again within a month. Within a year he had made four visits to Romania, all without a cent of pay. It changed his life, but it also transformed a hitherto lethal X-ray department into one that gives a seven-times lower dose than the Transylvanian norm. He made a huge impact on the department, as did the services of Debbie, a 29-year-old radiographer who spent five months there giving training. She gave her time and raised her fare. Their actions were born of conviction, not affluence.
Kidnapping people to volunteer their time in Romania is one of my specialities. The greatest resource of our Health Service is the people who work in it. Some 83 have made 138 visits with MSR (Medical Support in Romania). They enjoy it. They make friendships that last, and their example contributes towards the eventual development of volunteering within Romania. In June 1995 a DoH letter to NHS Trust Chief Executives encouraged the release of staff for such volunteering, saying that their experience gained was a resource for the NHS.
One of the cons of having worked without salary since university is that I see labour as free, when it isn't. However, it has the advantage of making it easy to ask others to give their time! It is not always a 'dread summons', as Dr Mark Farrington once wrote in Microbiology Digest. Benita, a 26-year-old Australian, faxed from Australia her wish to give a year to train and practise occupational therapy in the Zalau. She has covered all fares and in May starts work in the paediatric department and in the nearby Speranta Centre for children with special needs.
![[Patrick with van]](June/Patrick_with_van.jpeg)
People sometimes ask how we manage. It is with difficulty. They also think that this kind of volunteering is rewarding, and they are right. But every career can be equally rewarding, as each responds to an inner calling. Either we do our best for those around us, or we don't. That kind of volunteering can be done by all.
When studying at Oxford I remember feeling like a grain of sand amidst millions of others, not really knowing how to be effective in a world that was in a huge mess. I was looking for glamourous escape routes when someone suggested I listen to God as well as pray to Him. An utterly new thought, but it changed the course of my life and gave clarity and direction to a long-held sense of calling. Years later, a few of us started a Christian and educational charity to fulfil a dream which still has some way to go. Then nine years ago came Romania - a sudden response to a need, in keeping with my long-term commitment.
Individuals should dare to follow their convictions, dream dreams and respond to needs. Such action builds faith.
![[Jenny Houghton]](../by/Jenny_Houghton.jpg)
Since I came to Cambridge in the early '70s I have been a volunteer, meeting people suffering from or recovering from mental ill health. I say 'meeting' as it is difficult to say 'helping': all one can do is to act as a friend, and sometimes share some of the pain and anxiety of clients or their families. You may ask why I chose this sphere. When I started a job here I knew no one and went along to the Volunteer Bureau to see what opportunities were offered. There was great demand for help with the physically and mentally handicapped, but I knew the need was equally great - and perhaps less popular - for help with those suffering from mental ill health, as my mother had been involved with the large mental hospital outside Oxford. Help was needed with the programme for the Monday Club for people coming out of Fulbourn Hospital and others referred by doctors and professional workers. Though I did not have the contacts to build a programme, I went along as a helper and gradually we got together a small group which plans the programme. We each take responsibility for the evenings we arrange. I coordinate and type the programme, which includes my holiday slides, and liaise with such voluntary groups and individuals who still remain and who provide the home-made cakes and sandwiches each week. (These groups were originally from the churches, but sadly have not been replaced as their members became elderly.) Cambridgeshire Mental Welfare Association, now Cam-Mind, also provides training for individual befriending, and I have had a series of such friends - and real friends they are - usually meeting them once a week.
![[New Friends]](June/New_Friends.jpeg)
There are now clubs most days of the week. All these are run by volunteers, who do not need to be skilled, and have continuous support and advice from people more experienced in helping those who, some of the time, are mentally unwell. Many of the 'clients' just need to meet friendly people who will accept them in a social context. Volunteers, of all ages and backgrounds, usually give one or two hours a week and can claim out-of-pocket expenses. What is needed is not specialised but is a very practical way in which Cambridge people can offer real 'Care in the Community', making new friends. It is encouraging that an appointment has just been made to research the need in the villages round Cambridge.
![[Archie And Jenny Ferguson]](../by/Archie_and_Jenny_Ferguson.jpg)
Once a month a group of eight people from St Barnabas Church in Cambridge visit Highpoint Prison. It started about five years ago, when we found that two of our churchgoers were in prisons quite independently of each other. Their Prison Chaplains were contacted by Archie, St Barnabas' Voluntary Community Worker. Through the telephone conversations we were invited to take a Thursday evening meeting, and this has developed into a regular feature of our church.
![[Highpoint sign]](June/Highpoint_sign.jpeg)
The visits are carefully prearranged and we travel together in one vehicle. We try to take a couple of musicians because the prisoners love to sing. We are escorted through the locked and barred gateways to the lovely ecumenical chapel, where we wait for the inmates to arrive. It is an informal gathering of an average of 25 people. We are welcomed by the Chaplain, who then hands over to Archie.
After the singing of hymns and songs requested, Archie (a recognised St Barnabas speaker) gives a talk, which is followed by a discussion. This gives prisoners the opportunity to talk openly while we listen and try to empathise. Then we often pray with individuals.
After an hour we all have a hot drink made by the Chapel orderly, who is a trusted internee. We say tearful and cheerful 'goodbyes', then the prisoners are escorted back to their cells and we are escorted out to the car park. On the way home we off-load our thoughts and feelings to each other and arrive back in Cambridge sure we have brought a little bit of hope and normality to some desperate lives.
What do we get out of going? A night out when we are not thinking of ourselves or what we can receive. It's very humbling, for we have nothing to give but we receive appreciation for just being there. We don't have to do anything, but we do sing, talk, read, play, listen, pray, discuss and give a talk. We are always 'surprised by joy'.
Each of us has different reasons for going into prisons. It is often through reading a book or article, having some contact or calling. We first went to distribute Gideon Bibles in several London prisons. Another of our regulars heard of the Prison Fellowship through a Mothers' Union Speaker years ago and, after coming on one of our jaunts, wanted to do more, so joined the local group. Yet another joined when she heard of the work done by a certain composer at a contemporary Musical Festival.
The Prison Fellowship is a prayer group organised by Prison Chaplains to pray for internees and staff by name. Members have to have police clearance and attend regularly for at least six months, then receive training. At the chaplain's discretion, they can take bible studies and some services and visit individual prisoners. It's a big commitment.
![[Louise Pirouet]](../by/Louise_Pirouet.jpg)
The young Ugandan with whom I was talking in Nairobi University suddenly said, "May I sit down somewhere, please? I haven't eaten for three days." This was 1977, and he had fled after being identified as a witness to the murder by Amin's State Research Bureau of a fellow student. Bewildered and traumatised, he had sat on Nairobi Station not knowing where to turn, until someone had told him that, as a student, he might find help at the university. He was one of hundreds helped by St Francis' Fund, to which Great St Mary's Church contributed.
I had previously spent eight and a half years at Makerere University in Uganda, and among those in Nairobi fleeing Amin's terror were former colleagues and friends. A retired British Professor of Education and several Ugandans - a dentist, a clergyman and a civil servant who, before he had to flee, had been responsible for Uganda's generous refugee policy - were among the architects of St Francis' Fund.
Before this, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, staff in the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Makerere had run an aid operation to the war-torn Southern Sudan, and refugees were among our students. If you ask me how I became involved with refugees, part of the answer must be simply that they were there, put in my way, so to speak. The human rights abuse which concerns Amnesty International often results in people becoming refugees.
A Ugandan painting entitled 'The flight into Egypt' shows an African family trudging along the road seeking safety. St Matthew's story of how the Holy Family became refugees speaks to many in Africa. Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya, once suggested that, had Egypt not offered them hospitality, there would have been no Christian religion!
Today it is Kosovars who need our help. Whilst people are sympathetic towards those in Albanian camps, some are less happy that Kosovars may come to Britain. With that story of the flight into Egypt in our minds, we Christians need to help dispel people's fears of refugees: by offering hospitality to strangers we may be entertaining angels unawares.
By Bridget Le Huray
A roomful of strangers: who would have guessed we all had one major life experience in common? The age range from early twenties to late sixties - Canadians, Brits, Dutch - every conceivable type, size and shape! Yes: all had been selected as suitable to go overseas on a two-year posting (usually) as a volunteer. Most of us had no idea at that stage which continent would be our destination, but each brought a skill, trade or profession and was keen to share it.
![[Bridget with rugs]](June/Bridget_with_rugs.jpeg)
Preparation was given - for culture shock, sensitivity to different values, ways to cope with the unexpected, health awareness in different climes, etc. All were encouraged to express their own personal anxieties. The variety of these was immense: "Will my friends have forgotten me?" and "What will I do with my cat / house ...."
Volunteer agencies are looking for people without dependents. That might limit folk to going overseas in their twenties before taking on family responsibilities, though I was surprised how many women and men were available during their 30s, 40s and 50s. Usually postings are for a single person, though occasionally a pair with suitable skills can be offered jobs in the same location.
I first made an enquiry to VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) some 35 years ago! It was a very young organisation then and turned down my offer of a general nursing qualification with the request I learn to teach my skills! Little did I anticipate offering myself again, but life is often unexpected and, with no dependents, early retirement from the Health Service gave me the freedom to try again. Some are lucky enough to get leave of absence from their employers.
There are a host of organisations out there looking for help - those who deal in emergencies; others for development; specialist health or education recruiters; but also a whole range of unexpected requests are sent in - even for a camel herder on one occasion! Their terms and conditions vary and the amount of support they can offer in the field, but the experience is amazing. To live alongside people from totally different circumstances and share their joys and sorrows has changed me for sure! I hope I was able to offer a bit to them too.
Contact:
Voluntary Service Overseas, 317 Putney Bridge Road, London SW15 2PN Tel. 0181 780 2266All events take place in Great St Mary's unless otherwise advertised.
| Sunday 6th June First Sunday after Trinity | |||
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| Monday 7th June | 6.00 p.m. | Choral Evenson (College Choir) | |
| Saturday 12th | 12.00 noon | Market Music: instrumental music | |
| Sunday 13th June Second Sunday after Trinity | |||
| Saturday 19th | 7.30 p.m. | Chorus 2000: Summer Serenade | |
| Sunday 20th June Third Sunday after Trinity | |||
| 11.15 a.m. | Family Service (Fathers' Day) | St Michael's | |
| Sunday 20th June Fourth Sunday after Trinity | |||
| 3.00 p.m. | Arrival of the Camel Walk from Oxford | ||
| 6.30 p.m. | Choral Evensong to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Church Missionary Society and completion of the Camel Walk. Preachers: The Revd Canon Graham Kings and the Revd Joseph Galgalo | ||
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