Our February meeting was the A.G.M. and Wave of Prayer Service. Heather was unable to attend due to an operation on her hand, so we welcomed Lydia Munday to help with the meeting and the enrolment of two new members. Rita welcomed Lydia and everyone and explained to those present why Heather was not there, and it was suggested we pray for her during the wave of prayer (which we did).  During the A.G.M. we had an enrolment ceremony. We all renewed our commitment to Mothers’ Union with the two new members and they were presented with their certificate and a badge. We then we moved on to the wave of prayer written by the diocese.

To begin, we held an outline of a butterfly, and were asked to write one thing God has changed in our lives for which we were thankful. This led to a silence as we all thought what to write (maybe not so easy?).  Do you know that a group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope? Then we started the wave of prayer entitled “Transforming Lives”.  The gospel reading from Luke 19 was the encounter between Jesus and Zacchaeus. After the reading we had a short discussion about the love of God for EVERYONE. We then moved on to pray for the link dioceses, False Bay in South Africa, Shinyanga in Tanzania, Umuahia and Ijebu in Nigeria, Vellore Church of South India, and Bath and Wells, read by different members. We finished the wave of prayer with the grace. Then we had tea enjoying some cakes that Pam had made. Our best wishes to Sylvia Barrett, our indoor member.

Hopefully we will see everyone at the March meeting when Rev Georgina Vye will be talking to us about Shrove Tuesday.

Rita Bagg