The Shepherd, November 2009
IMPROVEMENTS
We have also had security lights fixed around the old Mortuary Chapel, which we now use as our refectory-cum-parish hall, and guest accommodation, and which also houses the exhibition. This work was undertaken by Meredith Hutchins of Silver Tower Services, and was undertaken not so much for security reasons - there is nothing there particularly to secure - but so that the paths and parking spaces around the building are lighted for safety reasons.
GOOD NEWS
ONE of the parishioners at the Convent, who shall remain anonymous to spare her blushes, has complained (!!!) that, like the newspapers, we only carry bad news in “The Shepherd.” To redress this imbalance, we have pleasure in reporting that on Sunday 18th October (n.s.), Mrs Chrysanthy Lemos arrived early at church!
NEWS COVERAGE
WE ARE extremely grateful both to “Chrysostom,” the newsletter of the Society of St John Chrysostom, and to the “Brookwood Express,” that of the Brookwood Cemetery Society, for carrying versions of our Roof Fund appeal in their magazines. The “Woking Review” also carried an article with pictures of the church as it was shortly after our arrival in Brookwood in the early eighties, and now, with a mention of the re-roofing project.
BENEFACTIONS
THE Surrey Churches Preservation Trust has recently made the King Edward Orthodox Trust Company Limited a grant of £2,000 to help complete the work of re-roofing Saint Edward’s Church. This gift is particularly appreciated, as it is the second donation which the Trust has made to the project.
ALISA KNIGHT, the daughter of Galina Feigin, who is laid to rest in our cemetery, has kindly given us an enormous amount of her mother’s bookbinding equipment and materials.
A DONOR who wishes to remain anonymous has given the Brotherhood two antique ivory carvings.
NEW DOG
OUR PERKIN is now declining into a sometimes disgraceful old age, Albert is dotty, and so we are delighted to have been given a pretty little year old mixed breed puppy, Shayah. We traced her on the internet, and the Sahabandu family of Esher very generously gave her to us, only wishing that she find a good home.
PRACTICAL TIP
TRAIN even the youngest children to give alms, by giving them some money to put into the alms box in church and to other worthwhile charities, lest they grow up leaving all that to mother, and never learn to give, but only to take.
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