Dear Friends,
What a difference the sunshine makes! It’s been wonderful to have some warm spring weather at last after what feels like endless rain! The Churchyard has benefitted from both the warmth and the rain, and it is looking very pretty with the long grass areas dotted with buttercups, forget me nots, and nettles, which are a magnet for insects. We recently held Café Church in the Churchyard and conducted a survey, discovering lots of different flowers, wildflowers, shrubs and trees including wild primroses, forget-me-nots, daisies, buttercups and violets. We even host our own rookery! And the rooks are very busy nesting and feeding their young. We also spotted beautiful orange tip butterflies, bumble bees and ladybirds. We have a resident population of bats, and undoubtedly are visited by foxes, badgers and hedgehogs. We are very keen to encourage wildlife and are working hard to increase our biodiversity. No mow May has been observed in the hope of encouraging wildlife to flourish! We will also be looking into the Eco Church awards run by the Christian environmental organisation A Rocha, with the aim of trying to achieve the bronze award. Do keep an eye out on our website as we move forward with this exciting project! I hope you have a wonderful June and I look forward to seeing you soon.
God Bless,
Clare
Clare Coates,
Lead Minister for Caldecote with Childerley, Dry Drayton and Hardwick
clarecoates@lordsbridge.org
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Services in June
2 June
11:00am Holy Communion, with Revd Clare. All welcome.
9 June
11:00am Morning Prayer in the Church, with Stephen Coates. All welcome.
16 June
3:00pm Evening Prayer at St Michael and All Angels Church. With Revd Clare. All welcome.
Zoom
Worship at Home – All Lordsbridge Zoom Service
Every Sunday, 11.00am. Join any time from 10.50am: https://zoom.us/j/82311473640.
On Sundays where there is no service in our church, you are most welcome to join any of our services across the team: please see our website www.lordsbridge.org for further details.
Notices
Hamper Scheme
Caldecote Church partners with our local primary school to offer a supermarket voucher to Caldecote families who might appreciate some help through the holidays. If you would like to donate to this scheme, please see the link below:
Donate to Caldecote’s Summer Hamper Scheme
What’s On
Useful Contacts
Churchwarden: Stephen Coates; caldecotechurchwarden@gmail.com
Revd Claire Robertson, Lead Minister for Coton, Barton, Harlton and Haslingfield: 01223 874194; clairerobertson@lordsbridge.org
Revd Charles Fraser, Lead Minister for Little and Great Eversden: charlesfraser@lordsbridge.org; 01223 264974
Team Administrator: Becca Herrick; rebeccaherrick@lordsbridge.org