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...with God all things are possible... In the last five years (with quite a few other things already happening) it became clear to us at Saint Aidan’s that our Parish Hall was going to need yet another quite significant injection of money to renew and restore so many things about it which had fallen into disrepair. It would be lovely to think that there was some kind of super structure in the Church of England that helped in situations like this, but with that being only a pipe dream, we as a congregation had to just get on with the job of raising that kind of money by ourselves with no outside help. The situation was brought to something of a head with an infestation of squirrels in the roof - not only damaging the outside of the building where they had ‘broken in’ but also in their eating away at some of the structures that held the roof together! This meant that the Hall had to be closed for the best part of two weeks with Step by Step Childcare taking up a temporary home in the New Parks Community Centre a little further up Saint Oswald Road. Our Parish Hall is such a useful resource to us (to say nothing of the people from the Estate who use it) and to lose it was unthinkable. In the last 5 years we have put in all new windows, a new heating system, new security doors, new lighting, new soffits and fascias, new downspouts, new guttering and at the end of 2016, half a new roof. This work has totalled a little over £100,000 - money that has been raised by the enterprising congregation at Saint Aidan’s (along with not a little help from the National Lottery and the Coop Community Dividend, to whom we are very grateful indeed). We are still working on finding the £3000 needed to finish the Hall roof, but we are confident that this is something that we will find from our normal budget and for the time being, no longer need to be fundraising. This has perhaps been quite a valuable lesson for us in New Parks - both in terms of how we are to be the custodians of what God has given to us, but also to whom we can look for help when the chips are, proverbially, down on the table. 6
We are thrilled that the New Parks Estate can still have a hall within which may happen many community initiatives and social enterprises and that the Church may once again find itself at the centre of the community that it strives to serve. We’d like to thank everyone who has helped to get this project not just off the ground but also seen to its completion - not simply by the hosting of coffee mornings, social events and other fund raising endeavours, but by the enormity of prayer that has accompanied this remarkable effort, reminding us all at Saint Aidan’s that with God, nothing is impossible. We hope soon to be unveiling plans about the extension to the Hall and most excitingly, a new car park. 7
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Page 3 and 4: From the Clergy People often don’
Page 5: But seriousness in our Lenten praye
Page 9 and 10: starting Friday 5rd March at 12 noo
Page 11 and 12: Cabaret Night An Evening of music f
Page 13 and 14: Method Bring the milk to the boil,
Page 15 and 16: Quotes for Lent “The proof of lov
Page 17 and 18: APLUS Holy Week Play Scheme ring Je
Page 19 and 20: Down 1 Totally destroyed (Genesis 7
Page 21 and 22: Saint Aidan’s Parish Church Satur
Page 23 and 24: Simnel cake is a light fruit cake w
Page 25 and 26: Quotes for Easter “Never abandon
Page 27 and 28: Corpus Christi Festival with the Gu
Page 29 and 30: IN THE NEWS 29
Page 31 and 32: Who’s Who at Saint Aidan’s, New

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