CHURCH FAMILY NEWS

From Dot Fraser

I'm sure many of you know that among the building users at Trinity, there is a jazz choir that rehearses every Thursday evening. It is called Take Twenty (though membership is closer to 30 these days!) and includes Noel and myself.

The choir was started about 30 years ago as an evening class in Primrose Hill, and was then known as the Primrose Hill Singers. Under the directorship of their founder, Malcolm Abbs, the choir has built itself a considerable reputation, and has performed all over London. The repertoire largely consists of jazz and show tunes, almost exclusively arranged for the choir by four of the members.

Four years ago, Malcolm retired as director (though he still sings with the choir), and a young, dynamic choral conducting student was appointed. She has (in the nicest possible way) shaken us out of our comfort zone, blown out the cobwebs, and raised our self-expectation.

This year she entered us for the BBC Choir of the Year competition. About 280 choirs from all over the country performed to adjudicators in 10 days of regional rounds. The adjudicators had to select 16 choirs to take part in the category finals, due to be held in Birmingham Symphony Hall at the beginning of November. From those 16, 6 choirs will be selected to sing in the final in the Royal Festival Hall a couple of weeks later. To our surprise and delight, Take Twenty is one of the choirs who will sing in the category finals, highlights of which will be on Radio 3. We will keep you posted on our progress, so watch this space!!!

A New Arrival

Samantha Ahiator gave birth to a second daughter on Thursday 24 June. We send our love and congratulations to Samantha and all her family, her grandmother Elizabeth and the rest of the extended family. Thanks be to God.

From Gaby & Jurgen Zaers in Heiligenhafen, Germany

“Thank you for sending us the Newsletter and for the friendship you and the congregation always offer us when we are able to visit, now less often than we would  like as England is so expensive for us. Everytime the Newsletter arrives we are happy to hear about all your news and we imagine we are among you”

Gaby & Jurgen send the Church a donation and I have thanked them on everyone’s behalf.

Andrew Nowell [asnowell@gmail.com]

Andrew has been worshipping with us for the last year whilst he has been studying in London. His studies are almost complete and he returning home to Bolton to undertake a journalism course, starting in March.

He expects to be in London relatively often and to join us whenever he can and will be contributing to this newsletter!! We would like to thank him for being such an active member of our congregation and wish him well in his chosen career.

TJ

It was lovely to see TJ last week. He is almost always working on Sundays so we do not see as much of him as he or us would wish

HAMPSTEAD CHURCHES PICNIC
Hampstead Churches are holding a picnic on the Heath during July [probably on 18 July] after church.
We are invited and Ute will let us have more details on 11 July

Area Forum

The next forum will be at Kensington URC on Thursday October 14th at 7.30 pm. The main speaker will be Simon Rudiger , newly appointed CYDO [Children's and Youth Development Officer] for the synod.

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