On Sunday 9th August, Congleton Deanery MU groups joined with other groups from the Diocese to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Mothers’ Union, started by Mary Sumner, on Mary Sumner Day, in a special service of Evensong.
Our final meeting of the summer was held on an unusually hot Wednesday afternoon. After a short service we began thinking about plans for the coming year.
On 10th June we held our annual Strawberry Tea and fundraising meeting for overseas MU branches. Our speakers were Christine and Brian Donlon who recounted tales of an amazing African holiday.
During our May 20th meeting, David Shaw gave us a fascinating talk about the History of Eloping and Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act of 1753.
Chris Land engaged the April meeting with an interesting talk about Chair Yoga. Our next meeting is our annual Strawberry Tea on 10th June (2nd Wed. this month) at 2pm in the Hall.
On Wed. 21st January we held our first meeting of the year. More than 30 members attended, and Canon Rob led an Epiphany Communion Service for us.
We always have our Christmas Carols meeting in December. We chose carols to sing and interspersed them with Christmas memories from years ago.
Our annual Strawberry Tea on 11th June 2025 raised funds in aid of the Summer of Hope 2025 and was well supported with 40 members and guests.
Our guest speaker, Revd David Shaw, gave an interesting and entertaining talk entitled: Ministerial Musings.
Unfortunately our planned speaker had been taken ill so at short notice it was decided to hold an ‘in house‘ meeting continuing our thoughts on ‘ Metamorphosis with our church community’.
In a change from the billed speaker, Councillor Chris Jackson, Chair of HC Parish Council, gave an interesting insight into the work of our Parish Council.