Ketton and Tinwell Benefice
Welcome to the Churches of St Mary’s, Ketton and All Saints, Tinwell. All are welcome at our events and services.
The benefice is currently in an inter regnum (since our last vicar Olwen Woolcock retired in November 2023). Please click “inter regnum” for news of progress towards getting a new vicar.
In the meantime, please contact the churchwardens with any queries.
Ketton:
Sara Mann saramann50@gmail.com
Alex Woodfield alex@ketton.org
Lay Pastoral Minister – Julia Freeman at juliafreeman@tiscali.co.uk
Tinwell:
Bryan Yule bryan.yule766@gmail.com
Please see the notices below for current information.
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Plenty on at our churches this week and in the world of the recruiting a new vicar.
St Mary’s Ketton
Sunday 14th April – 10.30 Parish Communion with a Baptism – Hayley Teresa-Ann Rawlins – led by Rev Simon Aley
Wednesday 17th April – 12.00 noon – funeral of Christine Sharman
Sunday 21 April- 10.30 Morning Worship led by Christobel Price
All Saints Tinwell
Sunday 14th April 09.30 – Morning Worship
Sunday 21 April 09.30 – Holy Communion
I have also been asked to let all know that the Tinwell APCM is to be held on Wednesday 17 April at 7pm in All Saints to which all are welcome. Ketton is holding its APCM the following week on Wednesday 24th at 7.00pm in the Congregational Hall. For those who are planning to put their names forward for posts, please make sure this is in your diary and you can attend.
Spire Lighting
One item to note please is that Terry Chadwick is passing on the reins of dealing with sponsorship of the church lighting. This has been an excellent facet of the church’s open engagement with the community and those who sponsor the lights are given a great deal of comfort and delight in seeing St Mary’s lit so beautifully in the celebration or recollection of lives of loved ones or special events. Terry has been looking after these dedications for many years now and we thank him whole heartedly. Temporarily, this has come back to me to administer but it is something where I would be keen to find a volunteer. I also strongly encourage everyone to consider sponsoring the spire lighting at some point in the year and to get your booking in early. I am setting up a new email for this purpose – lightmyspire@kettonandtinwell.uk but if I haven’t got this up and running yet then use my normal email address for the time being. We are looking to increase the sponsorship fee (currently £10 per week), but we will honour the current price for all existing bookings placed before the end of May.
Our Vacancy
The vacancy has taken a great deal of time out of the life of Sara and me over the past months and the news and updates to the congregation over those months have been many and varied but we are so pleased to say always positive and progressive. We are due to have the formal meeting of Ketton and Tinwell PCCs on Tuesday 16 April which will formally appoint representatives to the interview panel and will approve the Benefice Profile which, all credit to Sara, is a magnificent (and lengthy) advertisement for the full time post. We hope that the role will then be advertised very soon after and we are looking to interview candidates in June. I don’t get too spritual in these weekly newsletters, but let us pray that our wonderful parishes can attract a similarly fantastic candidate (or two) to lead us into the next part of our journey.
PRAYERS FOR ST MARY’S KETTON AND ALL SAINTS TINWELL –
Prayers will be held in St Mary’s on Saturday 13 April at 9.00am (for half an hour) for the future of St Mary’s, Ketton and All Saints, Tinwell.
Weekly prayers this week on Thursday 18 April at 2.30 at 8 Braithwaite Close.
Please pray this week for:
If you do need to get in touch then please do so at alex@ketton.org or 07712 043 282.