CEFAA Magazine April 2019

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Reflections from C.E.F.A.A.’s early days. I was delighted to receive the following poem and extract from the first Newsletter from Naomi. The Ministry of Flowers. God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough -enough For every want of ours, For food, and medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. Then wherefore, wherefore were they made, All dyed with rainbow light, All fashioned with supremest grace, Up-springing day and night? Springing in valleys green and low, And on the mountains high. And in the silent wilderness, Where no man passeth by? Our outward life required them not; Then wherefore had they birth? To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth. To whisper hope, to comfort man, Whene’er his faith is dim; For He who careth for the flowers, Will much more care for him. 18
From the Chairman In the beginning... These words described the first tableaux of our Flower Festival in September 1979 and therefore it is appropriate that those same words should start the first Newsletter of our Association for it was from the Festival that the idea of this venture blossomed. It was a small band of workers with little experience that contemplated a major festival during the celebrations in Rainhill for the “Rocket 150” year. The experience of working together in the church over this project indicated to me that I wanted to join other communicants in a nationwide society of church flower arrangers. I made enquiries locally and in London only to find there was no such organisation. This to me was a challenge which called for further action. My husband put on paper for me a rough draft of an association which I could take to my Vicar and ask if I might have permission to go forward to higher authority with my idea. So it was that the Rt.Rev.Michael Henshall, Bishop of Warrington, gave his blessing to the formation of the Church of England Flower Arrangers Association. St. Ann’s, Rainhill, was to be the founder church. During the ensuing three months whilst the Diocesan solicitor put legal wheels in motion, my Flower Guild helped me to raise the necessary monies for the initial expenses. With the money raised we had to turn our thoughts to the design of an emblem for the stationery and badge. Many thoughts and drawings were submitted but it was the one by Alan Owen, the husband of a Guild member, that was finally chosen for it seemed to encompass the thoughts and work of a church flower arranger. Although the Association was known locally in the Autumn of 1981 it was not until December that insertions in the Diocesan Newsletter and the Church Times announced it nationally At the end... It is interesting to note that although this seems a short story, two years had elapsed between the first idea and the first member. 19
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Page 8 and 9: Obituary - Eileen Lynn It was with
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Page 12 and 13: Map & Directions for the CEFAA AGM
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