Methodist President of Conference visits Burton-in-Lonsdale 2013

Pictures from the day we went to Burton-in-Lonsdale to take part in a service with the president of conference. Videos will be put at end

On the Bibby's bus  (meanwhile J.A. gives geology/history commentary over loudspeaker)

Burton-in-Lonsdale Chapel

See snow-capped Ingleborough in the distance

Before the service the kitchen team are preparing the cups for the coffee

It's a tad cold outside

But warm inside

Mr Robinson, (Rev Wakelin's father-in-law) is welcomed

Upstairs in the gallery

Rev Roger Walton (left) and Rev Mark Wakeln (right)
 present Martha Bainbridge and Maurice Walters
with Long Service Certificates

After the service we go out of the church and into ..

into...

the schoolroom

Margaret has a word with John...

Martha is wearing her red hat

 I get the opportunity to go back to the church to take some photos:

Holding the long service certificates for 50 years and 70 years

Judith shows Rev Wakelin some Blue Moor-grass - a speciality of  N Yorks/Lancs/Cumbria

..and a copy of Green-Christian
See the letter I gave Rev Wakelin about
"Green" Activities at St John's, Settle

On the way home we notice some of the snow drifts

More drifts - some people along farm tracks had had to walk to get in to the Service



 Video of President of Conference presenting
70 and 50 year certificates for local preaching -
at Burton-in-Lonsdale

 

The President gives final words and the blessing 

A memorable day.

Fungus Foray above Settle

Waxcaps, Puffballs, Blushers, Mottle-gills and Stinkhorns!

20th of September might be the "penultimate day of summer" but it was one of the warmest. Twenty five of us plus dog set off on a Craven Conservation Group walk up out of Settle in sun hats and shirtsleeves to walk the round tour of four miles to Cleatop Park Wood.

Archie, our knowledgeable leader was able to name not only the bright coloured fungi such as red waxcaps and yellow Russula but also the little brown jobs as well.

Scarlet Caterpillar Club (Cordyceps militaris) was the first good find - It parasitises caterpillars, - so if you find one and dig it up you will find it is growing out of a (now dead) chrysalis.

.. a Fungus Foray in A Rainforest blog/church motivated. site?

1. Fungi are fun and it is good to walk in the countryside.
2. Archie was actually collecting some specimens to use in the Children's Talk at the Harvest Service he would be giving at Malham Methodist Chapel the following day.
3. If we value our wild habitats in the UK - perhaps people in countries with more important habitats will value their wildlife too.

Name Change

Wed 5 March 2008:

Some visitors to this blog may have noticed a subtle name change.

When the project started on 1st January the provisional name I gave the project was: the St John's Methodist Church (Settle) Rainforest Fund Project. However this was a name that would have to be passed by the Church Council which normally meets twice a year. The 5th March was the date of the next church council meeting.

At the meeting they (a majority) said that they did not want it to be called The St John's Methodist Church (Settle) Rainforest Fund Project, but they said they would support the project. One lady said "You may be glad in the long run that we said this."

So now it is called The Rainforest Fund Project.