NEW EDITORIAL TEAM FOR MAY’S EDITION AND ONWARD - WHO TO CONTACT
For all main editorial purposes contact Heather Piper (left) on 07900 828059 at 20 Breakspear Road South, Ickenham, UXBRIDGE, Middlesex UB10 8HE or Email: Editor@ickenhamchurchnews.co.uk
Advertising - Edwin Lee on 01895 622182 or Email: Advertising@ickenhamchurchnews.co.uk
‘Forthcoming Events’ - Patricia Lee on 01895 622182 or Email: Events@ickenhmachurchnews.co.uk
All magazine distribution enquiries and problems - Joyce Arnold on 01895 672987 (from June). David still for May. Karen & Gavin McArtney-Roberts will call main distributors to collect their bundles. 01895 633522
Receiving a mailed copy of ICN - Alan Grove on 020 8868 9220.
Audio tapes for the blind and partially sighted - Jenny Simmonds on 07710 892201
ST GILES’ CHURCH MONTHLY STREET PRAYER LIST
Each week at St Giles’ Church we pray for all the people who live or work in a particular road in the Parish. During April we will pray for the following roads: 1st April - Warren Road. 8th April - Willowtree Close. 15th April - Woodstock Drive. 22nd April - Windrush Close. 29th April - Witney Close.
If you live in one of these roads why not join us at our 8 a.m. or 9.45 a.m. services. You will be most welcome.
URC at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday 22nd April. There will be no 9.45 a.m. service at St Giles’ Church or Junior Church in the Hall.
The next Sunday when volunteers are needed to collect patients from wards for Communion services in the hospital chapel is: Mount Vernon Hospital on 22nd April. More dates will be published in future months. This small service is very much appreciated by patients who have no family available to help them. To continue this service we need to supplement our regular team with more volunteers to provide cover for unavoidable absences. Anyone who is prepared to spend a couple of hours on occasional Sunday mornings, please contact Alan Grove on 020 8868 9220.
The next in this series of very interesting talks, and well-attended breakfasts, is on Saturday 28th April at 8.30 a.m. in St Giles’ Church Hall. The Mayor of Hillingdon, Cllr. David Routledge MBE will be with us to speak on “My Year As Mayor”.
We hope to see you there. Tickets are £2 on the door, which covers the cost of a continental breakfast, but please advise Don Gwilt, in advance on 01895 673704, that you are coming.
As you will have read from last month’s magazine, this is the final edition that I am producing before handing over to the new, and much expanded, team in May.
In addition to wishing all the new editorial group the very best of good wishes I would like to pay a special tribute to those who have helped me out over these past seven years. Can it be that long ago when I took the plunge without the faintest idea of what I was doing? Some would say that still applies, while others have been kind enough to send their good wishes.
There is Joyce Hodt who has worked very hard to ensure that those who deliver ICN get all their bundles on time. David Keites has done a tremendous job as Advertising Secretary. Michael Burton has helped out by editing some of the online files. Alastair Fischbacher has been our recent Webmaster, taking over from Adam Guthrie and Martin Rader. Alan Grove has tucked endless copies of ICN into envelopes and posted them to readers far and wide. Sue Crane has done all the proof reading. Jenny Simmonds has masterminded, and produced, the recording of our audiotapes for the blind and partially sighted. To help her we have eight teams of readers. In addition there is a small army of around 120 volunteers who actual make sure your copy of the magazine pops through your letterbox every month.
Not to be forgotten either, although they are no longer with us, are Daphne Kissane who did a wonderful job as Advertising Secretary for very many years and guided me through my first editions when our former Editor John Hillier passed away so suddenly. Both were inspirational. Walter Davies was Distribution Manager for a great many years and his sudden passing was a great shock as well. It would not be right to forget the huge contribution these lovely people made to our publication.
So with a multitude of thanks to our readers, advertisers, correspondents, local clubs and societies, those who have written and sent articles, and our printers at Stanley L Hunt Ltd of Rushden near Northampton (Linda and Ray have been just brilliant), I’ll leave you in the capable hands of Heather Piper and her editorial team. I look forward to a great future for Ickenham Church News. It’s been a pleasure and privilege to bring you the good news of Jesus and the good news about our wonderful community in Ickenham.
Goodbye and God bless you all.
David Crane
