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Leaving present for Methodist Chaplain at Nottingham University (1998)
Quite possibly the worst photo of a cross stitch sampler in the world!
I was a member of the Methodist Society (Methsoc) at university - in my final year (1998), the Chaplain left in order to take up his ministry in Manchester. One of the society's leaving presents to him was this sampler which I designed and stitched and then everyone signed a message on the reverse.
The little pictures are difficult to see on this photo, but they are :
- very top right-hand corner a picture of the chaplain's beloved golden retriever
then starting middle top and working clockwise :
"50" - the chaplain celebrated this milestone with us during his time at the university. Now I look back at this and wonder whether he'll want the constant reminder!!!
Fairy - one notable Christmas fancy dress party, he turned up in full fairy regalia. Nice!
Coracle - One Christian Aid week, David built his own coracle, seemingly from blue tarpaulin, lots of Christian aid pamphlets and some pea sticks. He sailed it on the university lake and amazingly it didn't sink...immediately.
Loaf of bread - together with the chalice of wine diagonally opposite, the elements of Christian communion
Voting card - a memory of the 1997 general election
Candles - always an important part of our worship
Tree and bee - representing Attenborough Nature Reserve close to the university
Music stand and notes - again music always an important part of worship and basically nearly everything we did!
Chalice of wine - see my comments on the bread above
Footsteps - a reminder of our journey with Christ
Green pamphlet - David produced a series of weekly prayer leaflets for us to use
Man in rags - there is a legendary story of one service David was to lead in a church local to the university (before my time there) when he and another lady from our group turned up dressed as two homeless people in order to emphasise their message
Finally, in the bottom left of the sampler, it reads
"The King will reply; I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me." Matthew 25:40
Leaving present for Methodist Chaplain at Nottingham University (1998)
Quite possibly the worst photo of a cross stitch sampler in the world!
I was a member of the Methodist Society (Methsoc) at university - in my final year (1998), the Chaplain left in order to take up his ministry in Manchester. One of the society's leaving presents to him was this sampler which I designed and stitched and then everyone signed a message on the reverse.
The little pictures are difficult to see on this photo, but they are :
- very top right-hand corner a picture of the chaplain's beloved golden retriever
then starting middle top and working clockwise :
"50" - the chaplain celebrated this milestone with us during his time at the university. Now I look back at this and wonder whether he'll want the constant reminder!!!
Fairy - one notable Christmas fancy dress party, he turned up in full fairy regalia. Nice!
Coracle - One Christian Aid week, David built his own coracle, seemingly from blue tarpaulin, lots of Christian aid pamphlets and some pea sticks. He sailed it on the university lake and amazingly it didn't sink...immediately.
Loaf of bread - together with the chalice of wine diagonally opposite, the elements of Christian communion
Voting card - a memory of the 1997 general election
Candles - always an important part of our worship
Tree and bee - representing Attenborough Nature Reserve close to the university
Music stand and notes - again music always an important part of worship and basically nearly everything we did!
Chalice of wine - see my comments on the bread above
Footsteps - a reminder of our journey with Christ
Green pamphlet - David produced a series of weekly prayer leaflets for us to use
Man in rags - there is a legendary story of one service David was to lead in a church local to the university (before my time there) when he and another lady from our group turned up dressed as two homeless people in order to emphasise their message
Finally, in the bottom left of the sampler, it reads
"The King will reply; I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me." Matthew 25:40