
Advent starts this week!
We all watch our Advent Calendars, as we countdown to Christmas! Sunday’s service of Holy Communion led by the Rev Alex Wheatley, was a little unusual. It followed the normal service pattern until after the morning’s sermon. At this point the service changed over to become a meeting, a meeting called to appoint a new Church Warden. One of our current Wardens, Brendan Moore had to resign from his post for personal reasons, this left a vacancy and one new candidate stepped forw

A Murder Mystery in Potton? Surely not so don't be alarmed!
After a few busy weeks at St Mary’s with Remembrance Sunday last week and other unusual events, we were back to a normal Sunday Morning Service of Holy Communion this week, led by the Rector, the Rev Alex Wheatley. The Choir were in good voice and as well as leading the hymn singing, they also sang a beautiful anthem, the Song of Mary, during Holy Communion. This means that the choir are almost back to their pre-Covid level. The choir is also now rehearsing for various Christ

Potton Remembers - 14th November 2021
The Reverend Alex Wheatley with Opening Words at Potton's Annual Remembrance Day Service Last Sunday saw our morning service joining with other churches and members of the public, in the Town Centre, to take part in Potton’s Annual Remembrance Day Service and Parade. The service was ably led by two newcomers to Potton, Major Christine McCutcheon of the Salvation Army and our new Rector, the Rev Alex Wheatley. As usual, the service started on the Market Square with readings a

The Potton Benefice pays Tribute to the Fallen of Two World Wars and other Conficts
This report usually starts with our morning service but this week the first item has to be a report on the success of Saturday’s Bonfire and Firework evening arranged by St Mary’s as we do every year. Actually the evening nearly didn’t even go ahead as it was very borderline for a while because of gusting winds and our firework professional working to the guidelines, thought the winds were too high, but minute by minute forecasts were saying that between 6pm and 7pm, the win

This week in our Benefice, with Fireworks on November 6th in St Mary's Field
Our Fireworks in 2019 Sunday was a busy day for our Rector, the Rev Alex Wheatley, he conducted three services at St Mary’s and one at Sutton. The Morning Service at St Mary’s had no music and singing this week as members of the Choir and our organist, Nick Wilson were deployed to Sutton church to lead the singing for their Patronal Festival service. Back at St Mary’s we had a word only service of Holy Communion. In the afternoon, the Rev Alex was back in action with the annu