Sunday May 13th was the final Sunday the cadets were at Hadleigh Temple. It was fitting as it was Candidates’ Sunday and the theme of the day was letting your light shine. Shelley led the morning meeting with Mark and Katrina taking the platform in the evening. Both meetings overran a bit, but it didn’t seem that they were long because both meetings were very powerful.
They sang ‘O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing’. And it probably could have happened had the Temple been big enough.
27 Members took part in a special, extra Club evening workshop on Tuesday 8th May 2012. We had seven “Logan” mount cutters on separate tables for members to work at.
The Club owns one machine and six members provided their own equipment for all to share.
Everybody who came to the evening successfuly mounted at least one photograph on mountboard being supplied in most cases by the owners of the cutters.
Refreshments were provided, as usual by Myrtle who was assisted by Hilary with the evening being introduced by John with a brief account of how he uses his own cutter. Tuition during the evening was given by the various cutter owners.
Ralph finished the evening by thanking John and delivering the closing prayer.
The Camera Club has now completed its first inter-club battle / competition which was against the Hereford SA Photographic Club. This battle consisted of 20 photographic images from the Hereford and 20 photographic images from Hadleigh being judged anonymously.
The members of our Hadleigh Camera Club have again come up trumps with the latest exhibition in Hadleigh Library.
Assistant Officer Major Geoff Ashdown is feeling a bit chuffed about a feature article he wrote that has appeared in a national magazine. The publication in question is the March 2012 edition of British Railway Modelling and it is a description of his own layout, called ‘Tower Pier’.
Salvation Army bandsman John Willson has received a surprise honour. He has been chosen to part of the 8000 strong relay team team to carry the Olympic torch for part of its journey in July. John said ‘It came right out of the blue; it was a real surprise to me. It is indeed a great honour.’
A group half-weary Christians arrived at Temple on a wet Saturday lunchtime. Under the leadership of Castle Point’s More Than Gold co-ordinator Avril Betts-Brown the group was on a prayer trek of all churches in the borough.
After a successful ‘Fun Day Sunday’ the week before a party was held on March to which the previous week’s newcomers were invited. It was the YP Annual and YPSM Elaine Johnson said:
The corps secretary is urging members and friends to get up early and pray. In his latest NCD report (published on the news sheet for 4 March) Wayne explains that the corps’ minimum factor is Holistic Small Groups. The approach is in two parts:
