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St James, Holburn Junction Branch News
Provincial President at St James
Our visit from Hilary Moran, our Scottish Provincial President on Tuesday, 8th May went very well. Three members from St James and four from Ellon met her at the railway station for lunch before the meeting.
I was very pleased that 18 people came, including members from the Cathedral branch and diocesan members too. It all went very well and Hilary gave us an overview on the Mothers' Union and gave a presentation on MU projects. She also encouraged people to go to the Scottish MU gathering to be held later this year.
Our next meeting is on Tuesday, June 12th at 2.30pm and one of our members, Mrs Ann Penhale will give us a talk entitled ‘Titanic remembered’. This is an alteration to the written programme.
Branch AGM 2012
We had our AGM on Saturday 14th January 2012. Eight members attended and two sent their apologies. It took place in one of our member's homes which was considerably warmer than it would have been in the church vestry. She also treated us to a lovely lunch afterwards.
The new programme was distributed. Our next meeting is our opening service in the vestry on Tuesday 13th March and will be a communion service led by Revd Max Paterson.
Christine Horrocks
Branch Leader
November 2011 Branch Meeting
Unfortunately, we were unable to have a communion service at the home of one of our member's as our minister could not make it. However, we had the very beautiful service of Compline which was much appreciated by all. Janet, our host did us proud with refreshments and we were all grateful to her for allowing us to meet there.
On Friday, 25th November, there was a service to lay the issue of domestic violence before God, held at St Mary's, Carden Place, Aberdeen. It was led by our MU chaplain, The Rev. Graham Taylor.
There was a Diocesan Quiet Day for Advent at St Mary's on the rock, Ellon on Saturday 3rd December.
For our next meeting on December 13th, we are going out for a Christmas lunch.
Our AGM will take place on Saturday, 15th January 2012 in St James' vestry at 10.30am
Christine Horrocks
Our Indoor Members Book
This book now has a photo of our each of our two indoor members and a resume of their journey in the Mothers' Union. It has already been taken to a diocesan service on Mary Sumner day at St Mary on the Rock, Ellon.
October 2011 Branch Meeting
Our meeting on Tuesday 11th October saw a very select group of five members meet to discuss articles of interest. We had a good, far reaching discussion and put the world to rights.
Our next meeting is to be a home communion at the home of one of our member's. Anyone wishing to come should get in touch with the branch leader for the address.
There is to be a Diocesan Quiet Day for Advent at St Mary on the Rock, Ellon on Saturday 3rd December from 11am to 3pm. Some of our members are hoping to attend.
For our December meeting, we are going out for a Christmas lunch.
Christine Horrocks
Branch Leader
September 2011 Branch Meeting
A small group of us met to see and hear about our branch leader's trip to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau last year. The official book of the play has some stunning photographs in it and we listened to a CD of the choral music which is exquisite too.
The next meeting on Tuesday 8th October is a discussion and members have been asked to bring a suitable cutting/article for this discussion.
July 2011 Branch Meeting
The meeting on the evening of Tuesday 12th July 2011 with Rev. Canon Graham Taylor, our Diocesan Chaplain, and his Musing on South Africa went well and was very revealing about conditions in Mthatha.
He showed us the fairly wealthy Cathedral and a rather poor church out in the wild. They were so pleased that he had visited them to preach, he was given their collection and told to buy something to remember them by. The Mothers' Union were in great evidence. We were told amongst other things that unless a woman is a Mothers' Union member, she could not be ordained!
Next month's meeting is another alteration to our programme as there is to be a service
at St Mary-
The September meeting will be the postponed talk on Oberammergau and The Passion Play.
Christine Horrocks
A Scrapbook of Memories
A member of our branch, Mrs Mary Byars has gifted to the diocesan Mothers' Union a scrapbook she has kept since the centenary of the Mothers' Union in 1976. She has in her time been, secretary, enrolling member as it was in her day and treasurer.
It contains photos of gatherings, Christmas meetings in one another's homes, outings to places like Stirling and Haddo House and General Meetings plus overseas cuttings amongst many other snippets of news and photos.
It is available for anyone to look at and maybe identify the different people in photos and cuttings. Please make inquiries to St James' branch leader, Mrs Christine Horrocks at MUeChristine@aol.com.
Members in Our Thoughts
Our Faith and Policy unit coordinator, Mrs Olga Robertson who is a member of our branch, has given each branch in the diocese a book to record members who are unable to get to events. The idea is to keep a record of any visits, letters etc and to take the book to any diocesan services we may have. This is so they can be kept in our thoughts and prayers in spirit at least.
At St James, we have decided to give a short history of their MU careers and with it a photograph of them. We are currently trying to organise this.
Mrs Christine Horrocks
Branch Leader
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