Honouring those who died in Tunisia

This morning the town of Tamworth came to a standstill as people crowded into St Editha's church and the town centre to pay their respects to those from our town, and nation, those who died on a sunny beach just a week ago.

We prayed for all those who had been injured and for those who were distressed and troubled by the events that cost, and changed, so many lives - praying especially for:

Allison Heathcote                         Cheryl Mellor      Tony and Christine Callaghan

Tom Richards Mathew James and Saera Wilsson

Ross Thompson and Rebecca Smith

And we remembered, and commended to God:

Christopher and Sharon Bell

Patrick Evans, Adrian Evans and Joel Richards

John and Janet Stocker

John Stollery

William and Lisa Graham

Carly Lovett

John Welch and Eileen Swannack

David Thompson

Bruce Wilkinson

Lisa Burbidge

Claire Windass

Jim and Ann McQuire

Trudy Jones

Stuart Cullen

Stephen Mellor

Denis and Elaine Thwaites

Philip Heathcote

Chris Dyer

Angie and Ray Fisher

Sue Davey and Scott Chalkley

May they rest in peace: and rise again in glory

To hear the short service: CLICK HERE

Remembering them - "We did our best!"

Yesterday afternoon we crowded some forty-two infants into our little church building for a remembrance assembly. During this we talked about poppies and poems, battlefields and the various elements, explaining where they come from and why we do them.

When we got to the words of the Binyon poem, "We will remember them," and went into the bugle calls and a minute's silence, the children were amazing - they stood perfectly still and quiet throughout (well, as still and quiet any five or six year old can). At the end, when I told them how impressed I had been with them and their behaviour, questions, answers and, most of all, how they did the silence, one of them piped up, "Well, we did the best we could!"

What more could those who have gone before ask for?