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In November 2006, after the evening service, a
group of members were discussing starting a new group at Sale Moor. We finally
decided to just "go for it" and see what happened! The night chosen
for our first meeting was the first Thursday in December, hence the name First
Thursday Group. It was decided the
format should contain both religious and secular items and should have an
element of fun, also the evenings should be led as far as possible by our own
members with an occasional visiting speaker. Recent Meetings: On October 8th,
Jean Booth talked about things which made her laugh. After giving a few examples
she invited the rest of us to tell about the things which made us laugh. November brought
Peter Worrell to talk about his recent trip to Nigeria. Peter also invited
Judith and Albert Graham along. They had stayed at the same place but some forty
years earlier and they arrived resplendant in the robes they had been given on
their first visit
Between them they gave us a wonderful talk, with slides, on their
seperate visits. Judith started it off followed by Albert
then we were brought right up to date by Peter. It was a really great
evening. Joan Smith The December
meeting was a Happy First Birthday and Christmas party. Happy Birthday because
it celebrated twelve months of "First Thursdays" and December
reminding us of Christmas. The New Year began
with a talk by Rev. Lawrence Copley about the village in Nicaragua where he
spent some time helping to build a school for the children of the village. He
showed slides taken more recently showing how the school and the village have
developed since he was last there. February brought us
another Rev. This time it was Malcolm Lorimer who talked about "Humour and
the Clergy". Malcolm brought
his collection of funny postcards all featuring vicars
in humorous situations. A lot of them he
had transferred so they could be shown on the overhead projector and they caused
lots of laughter. He also told us
about taking them to the Methodist Conference where he almost got into trouble
because of them but fortunately quite a few ministers bought
copies from him! We are now looking forward to our March meeting when Corin Travis will be with us, presumably we shall see some dancing then! Next to April when we have Sheila and David Marsden to entertain us and then we come full circle in May as Mavis Barker was one of the people started who First Thursday off and she will be back to lead us again. Everyone is welcome
to these meetings which are held on the first Thursday of every month at Sale
Moor Methodist Church, Northenden Road. We start at 7-30pm and finish around
9-15pm. Joan Smith
May 1st - Mavis Barker June 5th - Jane Wharley - Team Maverick July 3rd - Eric Roth - The Legend of the Sarayevo Haggadah August - Closed September 4th - Sally Willshire - Holistic Therapies October 2nd - Audrey Law November 6th - Margaret McCormack - Beyond the Garden Hedge December 4th - Peter Worrell - Music & Magic
"I love to tell the story"
Text: Katherine Hankey, 1834-1911
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