Easter is upon us yet again, the most important time of the year in the church calendar. The weather was distinctly poor compared with the glorious March but this did not deter the visitors, with well over one hundred people through the door between 11.00 and 2.00 o'clock when Karen Bond took over from me as duty steward for the afternoon session, not including around fifty singers who had come to practise for the evening concert. This event was a "Come and Sing Day" featuring highlights from Handel's "Messiah" sung by the church choir and accompanied by:
John Jenkin (Organ)
Elizabeth Ryder (Soprano)
Thomas Arnold-Haynes (Counter tenor)
Wilhelm Theunissen (Tenor)
Hedd Owen Griffiths (Bass)
Conductor: John Swindells
It was good to see a number of regular church folk in attendance, including Ian & Mary Holland, Dr. Paul Johnson and Angela Snow, with whom I had lunch in the tearoom, helping to keep Gill and her husband George and their children and the staff going at full speed. I even had my photograph taken by Kate Roberts who kindly e-mailed me the shot. Dr. Johnson appraised me with regards to future plans for the church which I have to keep under my hat until things become official - watch this space.
Easter Sunday, 8th April.
A service at the church in the morning. The previous day I was in mid-Wales paying a visit to Ruth and returned to Great Witley today around lunchtime. Angela was already there and we shared the duties in the afternoon and in total there were over 260 visitors to the church on what was not a particularly good day weather-wise - but people kept us very busy, as was the case in the tearoom. The church was nicely decorated with spring flowers.
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