Friends of Woodthorpe Grange Park 2023
Annual Vestry Meeting 26 March, 1941
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The Vicar in his address pointed out that the War still continued to make conditions abnormal. We had had a thrifty year from the Church point of view. A year which opened so disastrously for congregations with blackout regulations, compulsory afternoon services and heavy winter conditions in the early months. Congregations and collections fell alarmingly. We have made a wonderful recovery in both and the experiment of gradually staffing Sunday Evensong has proved extremely successful. The day of National Prayer has been opportunities for crystallizing these crowded congregations into regular Sunday Worshippers to which the vicar introduced what he called the Sunday Service Roll consisting of people willing to pledge themselves to fulfil the Christian Obligation of Sunday Worship. The Vicar thought the Sunday Service Roll might be a truly evangelical instrument and asked the laity to use it.
Air Raid Precautions: The Chairman said he did not feel that we need fear to much at St. Martin’s from air raids. The church is a substantially built church with a concrete roof which would defy incendiary bombs. Nevertheless, provision ought to be made in the event of alters. His appeal (the chairman) for volunteer watchers has produced two where for sometime the vicar and the chairman had taken on the responsibility.