We welcome back the fabulous Warminster Military Wives Choir directed by Donna-Kate Hargreaves with a programme of favourites for a summer's evening!Tickets are £12 in advance and £15 on the door.They are available using this link or from Sue 07974 707 162Wine and soft drinks will be on sale.All proceeds towards the work of the Parish of Westbury.
Our next Baptism preparation session will be held at All Saints' Church on Sunday 26 April at 2.30 pm. This is for families who are thinking of having their baby/child baptised in one of the churches in the White Horse Team. If you would like to know more and book a date in for the baptism please contact our Team Office or Revd Rebecca as soon as possible to book your place. Or you would be welcome to turn up. We will discuss what’s involved in having your child baptised, what happens in the service, the role of godparents and how you can support your child in their faith and spiritual life. We usually book the date for the baptism in the diary at this service. Baptisms are usually held at Holy Trinity Church, Dilton Marsh on the first Sunday of the month at Praise & Worship at 9.30 am, or at All Saints' Church on the fourth Sunday of the month at All Age Worship at 10.00 am. Please be in touch to find out more.Revd Rebecca
The next meeting of the Disability and Inclusion Group is on Saturday 25 April at 10.30am. If you would like to come along and find out more about what we’re doing and support us, you would be very welcome. Please contact Revd Rebecca to find out where we’re meeting.You may have noticed that we have placed a suggestion box in the south aisle at All Saints (see picture attached). We would like your views about the different ways in which we can make our church buildings, events, services and activities more welcoming and inclusive to all. If you have an idea about this, please note it down on the suggestion card and put it in the box. We will collect these up and bring them to our meeting for discussion, and see what we can do. Some may be quite straightforward, while other ideas may be more challenging, but we will consider them. Thank you in advance.
We offer our congratulations to our Bishop Andrew who is to become the new Bishop of St Albans. There will be a farewell service at evensong at Salisbury Cathedral on Thursday 30 April at 5.30pm and everyone is welcome to attend. More information can be found here
The Little Lights Stay and Play Easter Party took place on Thursday 26th March and a fun time was had by all!The Easter card craft, seed planting and games were enjoyed by the children, and the party snacks were very popular. Many thanks to the families and volunteers who made the event so enjoyable. Happy Easter to everyone connected with the group!Little Lights will take a break over the school Easter holiday and will next meet on Thursday 16th April.
A message from Team Rector, the Revd Rebecca HarrisA big THANK YOU to everyone who supported the sponsored organ event last Saturday 28 February. It was wonderful to see so many people come through our doors, sponsor a hymn or two, sponsor Ian, join in with the singing, and purchase refreshments. And also to everyone who made and sold cakes and refreshments, and to the choir and all who helped to keep Ian going throughout the day. It was a wonderful community event and we are very grateful to everyone, and not least Ian, for undertaking this event and for persevering through to the end!We raised approximately £2000 last Saturday, which is a wonderful result! If you sponsored Ian but haven’t yet contributed your sponsorship money, please could you do so as soon as possible? You can do this through the QR code on the posters around All Saints, a direct bank transfer (use reference 'organ') or make out a cheque payable to Westbury PCC (Organ appeal), or bring the cash to church with you next time.So we are well on the way to reaching the target of £11,500 for the organ appeal. Ian was thrilled with this result and very grateful to everyone who supported him on the day.Coffee morning on Thursday 12 March for the Organ appealOur next event will be a coffee morning on Thursday 12 March from 10.00 am – 12.00 noon at the home of Wendy Wood. There will be coffee, cakes, and various stalls.Please come along and support this if you can.A message from our Director of Music Ian McManusPlease can you forward my personal thanks to everyone who helped out on Saturday? I am very grateful to everyone who helped to make the day such a success. I would like to thank the choir for their perseverance in singing for two and half hours of hymns! No mean feat and they did well on Sunday morning. I would also like to thank Caroline for providing the soup, quiches and cakes for lunch. Thanks to Ron and Chris for the Fish & Chips and for the wine! Thanks too, to Beth who came to sing along at the end and then to everyone else who came to see me through the last 20 mins. If you all hadn’t been there, I don’t think I could’ve got over the line. It really was a team effort and I am so grateful for the help and support. Thanks also to those who helped out at the back sorting the refreshments and providing me with tea!Overall, it was an incredibly successful day which far surpassed any of my expectations. I have at least £125 to come from sponsorship money and Stormore Baptist Chapel sponsored £100 which will come through the bank. That puts the total to over £2,000 and I’m sure more people gave online before the event. We should be somewhere around the £9,000 mark or more. But we cannot rest on our laurels. It would be fantastic to raise more than the £11,000 needed so that we can keep improving the organ for future generations to come.Again, thank you to everyone who helped and supported the event. I am humbled and very grateful for all of you.