tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56452404171356180682024-02-29T12:09:51.718+00:00Trees at the TowerTwinsplustwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14647701493165196509noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645240417135618068.post-31076085365831444152021-12-08T17:00:00.004+00:002021-12-08T17:00:00.190+00:00See you next year!<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>WHAT a week!!!</i></b> We've welcomed nearly 4000 visitors to our church this week! It's been our most successful festival to date, which after a tough couple of years is truly fantastic.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/HjwpUUVUgRw" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">MASSIVE thanks to our churchwarden Jo Jones, who coordinated the festival, and the entire T@TT team, PLUS the large number of volunteers. It's been a week of celebration, community and mission.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you are new to our church, we would love to welcome you back! Here are some of our plans for the New Year:-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyYlIp86gPU95eTSrRBFeGmCTY6Gd82hRMRcNNZOq8vsetKqJhHVlIOmzsx4GyLFkJPfZ7obAGSP3kazpg7cfdj3DCUTgKzCm38Ux-pRMQehbsrZKoJkRqHXUgkC_-JHOw6Pf2Sv8AGblkfDYYgLQAN8O_pLN2LPwCNrP4ik91JvKYob8Bp6QlUviXBw=s940" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyYlIp86gPU95eTSrRBFeGmCTY6Gd82hRMRcNNZOq8vsetKqJhHVlIOmzsx4GyLFkJPfZ7obAGSP3kazpg7cfdj3DCUTgKzCm38Ux-pRMQehbsrZKoJkRqHXUgkC_-JHOw6Pf2Sv8AGblkfDYYgLQAN8O_pLN2LPwCNrP4ik91JvKYob8Bp6QlUviXBw=w640-h536" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">There should be something for everyone, and you are guaranteed a warm welcome at YOUR civic church.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And as Christmas approaches, don't forget our Christmas services!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyozMrNfyh1H0_gp-l2-6K-SQ_Yx1P8MvtCczCKVvLKQgX0DQe52KJNwOfeE8MPV1SOKW1Mlk_w_-3eC949AO4PGK2ZuMRbqMzhjxtUAzVKTSItXoy5fvM4xVwbOKdsH9ZYX9lmt8hgP-L5rv4VUCOQ1rtKczvIG5_OTYdgweuGO1YCdd9t38Y3EF7fw=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyozMrNfyh1H0_gp-l2-6K-SQ_Yx1P8MvtCczCKVvLKQgX0DQe52KJNwOfeE8MPV1SOKW1Mlk_w_-3eC949AO4PGK2ZuMRbqMzhjxtUAzVKTSItXoy5fvM4xVwbOKdsH9ZYX9lmt8hgP-L5rv4VUCOQ1rtKczvIG5_OTYdgweuGO1YCdd9t38Y3EF7fw=w640-h429" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/OfE23wQ1eSM" width="480"></iframe></div>Twinsplustwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14647701493165196509noreply@blogger.comIpswich, UK52.056736 1.1482223.746502163821155 -34.00803 80.366969836178839 36.30447tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645240417135618068.post-12742372545828464712021-12-02T10:27:00.003+00:002021-12-02T10:40:44.882+00:00The Festival is now OPEN!<p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Following a wonderful opening ceremony last night, Trees at the Tower is now OPEN!!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The festival programme is available to <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/597ujrg2qxsosc0/T%40TT%20BrochureFINALFINAL.pdf?dl=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">download here</a> via Dropbox or here from <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AG9_FWPyYcPgqDQtsCcY7ULcZtetVL5E/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Documents</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AG9_FWPyYcPgqDQtsCcY7ULcZtetVL5E/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="482" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwPBAtCDsYhBi6ejyOCilVkMwEXsm9lytTUpuIfrSg_L27KHAoLQcKCoAq3ueLY6_KztuUACr5pQWEWm8z6JAj-6378ZtYEDx9aLJ_kAo0JRB2JNe-uMCPvoVulYis1ajRI9bKLPI3Wt38Gs-PLCL3Elr0TnwrnN6mT-NeWZC_t9Nl_W85GJM-Ml7VpA=w290-h400" width="290" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Come and visit us over the next 7 days, hear our choir's new CD, <a href="https://www.stmaryletower.org.uk/choir/cd-sales/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Road to Bethlehem"</a> and see all the wonderful trees. The popular café is providing hot and cold drinks, savoury and sweet snacks and there is a children's activity corner. There is something for everyone!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/6tSL08Cw24g" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you enjoyed this virtual tour, but are unable to visit us in person, please consider <a href="https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/13436#!/DonationDetails" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">making a small donation</a> to help support our choral ministry. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/13436#!/DonationDetails" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="310" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgT-18UB0qwVjgf7289qQgFzBoJCsK9b3e9yTdID-onn-KW1q0xZ-EtieZi68kxJJJmSsD1QMhqRh4Sv0ovc9s9Wjvk056PP2TT4ppCAOnd3J1E4MANb6jiC_ybx5MCLUYbWFspA2qjnFM2fogsXthIw29_r9hdGEulg9KLNcK9nSRFEAlFTqnxaDwJkA=s320" width="196" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p>Twinsplustwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14647701493165196509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645240417135618068.post-77115553063763888342021-11-29T19:17:00.004+00:002021-11-29T19:17:33.822+00:00The Tree Festival springs to life!<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/v6g2v1wOy6Y" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The pillar trees went up last week, and today the sponsor and participant trees started to go up! Here's a sneak preview of our progress. The large tree, sponsored by <a href="https://www.coes.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Coes</a>, is also now up. We can't wait for you to see it!</div>Twinsplustwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14647701493165196509noreply@blogger.comIpswich, UK52.056736 1.1482223.746502163821155 -34.00803 80.366969836178839 36.30447tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645240417135618068.post-1361790395911232522021-11-22T09:00:00.004+00:002021-11-22T09:00:00.187+00:00Last year's "Virtual Festival"<p>If you are getting impatient waiting for this year's festival "Trees at the Tower" to begin, last year's Virtual festival is still available online! Recipes, activities, articles and lots of Christmas trees!</p><p><a href="https://smltxmastreefestival.blogspot.com/p/welcome.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It's all here! </a></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/GNACI6dONAc" width="480"></iframe></div>Twinsplustwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14647701493165196509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645240417135618068.post-9774701976388037862021-11-15T18:48:00.002+00:002021-11-15T18:48:22.468+00:00Trees at the Tower on the Radio!<p>Our new vicar, the Rev'd. Tom Mumford was on the radio earlier today talking about the Christmas Tree Festival. If you want to listen, click the picture below, and scrub to 1:39:40 .</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b04vzd" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="1370" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-kqXrvRbYRYZ3oF2zvy9pxQ4zizmiydH4D066qPr7SDpoFJyVpBO_T3qBCYj9vc58FTcULS3UHleSfrtSoPq5VA73hrlvsLyphi-QKkhuFGfgajB4rwQTDF3S9FqaZQQRZt2JuJZL_oxAp8YYSUIvyxwPujazXgMlqiPb4OaeJUjspA9iGhRBKu7cIQ=w640-h298" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Twinsplustwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14647701493165196509noreply@blogger.comIpswich, UK52.056736 1.1482223.746502163821155 -34.00803 80.366969836178839 36.30447tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645240417135618068.post-25268411320897016752021-11-14T18:17:00.002+00:002021-11-14T18:17:33.939+00:00Not long now!<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/0Sq5IZMPRiM" width="480"></iframe></div>Twinsplustwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14647701493165196509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645240417135618068.post-14829175096271219162021-11-03T09:21:00.005+00:002021-11-03T09:21:46.063+00:00"Angel bombing" Ipswich!St Mary le Tower is working with other Ipswich churches this Advent and Christmas seasons to “Angel Bomb” Ipswich. <div><br /></div><div>There will be all sorts of Angel projects going on, and as part of our preparations for the Christmas Tree festival: "Trees @ the Tower" we have chosen to try to make a chain of Angels holding hands and encircling our church. We will be able to display these around the boundaries of the St Mary le Tower. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7NB-QrFcLjpNVFmNI9MCAganpQ8eMMdKRiigB5h5AughntPqKY_4DT-etzTDsqo6eeAydbv2vz_LvGyoono5TMPwvUfHMPkBwBgGP37hJ11BI63FT7mH2FydN0NxsszDh4GiSIZAgpdp-8ioqS42C3GPSWztZp9weWW5-2r-uvbdy51nSLk4rT9UMGA=s1254" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1254" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7NB-QrFcLjpNVFmNI9MCAganpQ8eMMdKRiigB5h5AughntPqKY_4DT-etzTDsqo6eeAydbv2vz_LvGyoono5TMPwvUfHMPkBwBgGP37hJ11BI63FT7mH2FydN0NxsszDh4GiSIZAgpdp-8ioqS42C3GPSWztZp9weWW5-2r-uvbdy51nSLk4rT9UMGA=w400-h284" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>The Choristers and Choral Scholars will be getting involved, but we wanted everyone who can join in to make some. We will laminate them to make them weatherproof and join them all together in a continuous chain. The hope is that we can make enough to go right around the boundary! <span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div>We hope that the Angel chain will be a joyful symbol of caring and unity and say something about how we can work together to bring God’s peace and joy to others. Please do pick up a set of instructions and some paper from church, (available from this Sunday 7th Nov) or <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/pk9y2pm0uk39zjp/A%20Chain%20Of%20Angels%20holding%20hands%20around%20St.docx?dl=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">download a set of instructions here</a>. </div><div><div><br /></div><div><i>Vicky Faull on behalf of Trees @ the Tower.
</i></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqHCrdG3RzOnBlE-NVwP2mSIuv9yRpSLt91fVc3lnfnVhBM0lYoSTcb3LLPFfzZk8nbR_AEKKg_pMUuv71nYtx0xsvMLNgER3KapQoeXRZN7tDepeKDNRoEwpFVzlBTPqTT0Kei_-YxZNl4ObEF9Lll0aYBR3OWRhLElEtjR0_sApz3Rrm3nP4bEHKJg=s860" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="860" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqHCrdG3RzOnBlE-NVwP2mSIuv9yRpSLt91fVc3lnfnVhBM0lYoSTcb3LLPFfzZk8nbR_AEKKg_pMUuv71nYtx0xsvMLNgER3KapQoeXRZN7tDepeKDNRoEwpFVzlBTPqTT0Kei_-YxZNl4ObEF9Lll0aYBR3OWRhLElEtjR0_sApz3Rrm3nP4bEHKJg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Twinsplustwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14647701493165196509noreply@blogger.comIpswich, UK52.056736 1.1482223.746502163821155 -34.00803 80.366969836178839 36.30447tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645240417135618068.post-66864618589470581032021-08-28T14:17:00.004+01:002021-11-03T09:22:10.104+00:00Trees at the Tower!<p>St Mary le Tower has been running its Tree Festival at the start of the Advent season for over ten years. It is a celebration of the life and community of Ipswich, in 2019 we had more than 115 real and artificial trees placed by a whole variety of businesses, charities, community groups and individuals, and over 3,500 visitors to the church to see the trees, visit the cafe and enjoy the events and activities which are part of the Festival! </p><div><span>Last year, due to the COVID-19 crisis we sadly had to cancel our real-life festival</span>, at a time when the need for community and belonging had never been more important. We went ahead with a slimmed down virtual festival instead, which you can still visit <a href="https://smltxmastreefestival.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here https://smltxmastreefestival.blogspot.com</a>. <span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div>The past year has seen several changes at the Tower. As we have implemented Covid-safe practises we have moved out of Church House; and the Lady Chapel has become our robing area and temporary Song School. We have installed up to date live-streaming equipment in the church to enable more of our local (and not so local!) congregation to participate in our services and increase the outreach for our concerts. This has altered the available space for our Tree Festival and precipitated new ideas, which also build on the increased use of technology the pandemic has brought in. </div><div><br /></div><div>We are really excited about our plans, and can't wait to see you at this year's Christmas tree festival! Do check back regularly, this site will be updated to keep you informed.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitL5FWBie2TYNDriSnCqLKOzOWZWAUYwCS6WTsZrCB1nvebkyHbOUbaDJcdjRym1FZAf6Q8QQBY6IQ8QAMC1kOXVkNy7eYL6jniFF0VkRMHfdgj1L6VDWS-OFbxjs4s_3XkkAK62rqlheA/s1080/TreesattheTower2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitL5FWBie2TYNDriSnCqLKOzOWZWAUYwCS6WTsZrCB1nvebkyHbOUbaDJcdjRym1FZAf6Q8QQBY6IQ8QAMC1kOXVkNy7eYL6jniFF0VkRMHfdgj1L6VDWS-OFbxjs4s_3XkkAK62rqlheA/w320-h320/TreesattheTower2.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Twinsplustwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14647701493165196509noreply@blogger.comIpswich, UK52.056736 1.1482223.746502163821155 -34.00803 80.366969836178839 36.30447