JUNE
14th-15th: Willpower Youth Theatre Production: A Local Tale
17th : Rev'd Paul Robinson - visiting preacher
23rd: Up Holland Pageant and Festival

THURS-FRI 14-15th JUNE: WILLPOWER YOUTH THEATRE
"A LOCAL TALE"
About Willpower Youth Theatre - Caroline Joynt and Tim Smith were working in Theatre in Education, touring in local schools and frequently asked by pupils where they could do drama outside school. As a response to this, Caroline and Tim started a series of Summer Schools in Wigan, which then developed into regular weekly classes for children from 6 - 18 years.
"Our sessions are quite relaxed," says Caroline. "We include teaching the formal techniques such as stagecraft and voice projection but we try to get the children involved in actually performing as soon as possible."
Caroline and Tim were also both successful actors in their own right before founding Willpower and still pursue careers in the business. Tim is a professional musician and Caroline has her own actors agency, Intercity Casting. It's through this that Caroline has brought many young Wigan actors to our television screens.

It was a GREAT pleasure and privilege to have Willpower performing their premier production of "A Local Tale" on Thursday June 14th & Friday June 15th 2007. It was specially written to celebrate our 700th Anniversary - watch this space for a review very soon.

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JUNE 17th: REV'D PAUL ROBINSON - VISITING PREACHER

This was the fourth in the Anniversary series of past clergy visiting us to preach.

Paul still keeps smiling despite having to get to St Thomas's for 7.30am!

Paul (or 'Revrob' as he was known by The Crusaders) was clearly delighted to be back in Up Holland. Paul joined for his spell as Curate at Up Holland in 1997 and shared with us his nervousness about moving into the Curate's residence in Beacon View Drive just before being ordained. He was instrumental in building and supporting the Crusader Group will still exists today, although, as he remarked, "some of that first group can now legally drive, and one of them is even married!"
The day's Gospel was very appropriately about 'welcome' and he recalled how welcome he was made to feel, and was delighted to see so many faces he did not recognise - a reflection of how the community of St Thomas's continues to grow. Finally, we could not leave out his thoughts that so many people had not changed in looks over the years...although he had suspected our very own Archdeacon might have visited the botox clinic!!
The large turnout at all our services, especially from our younger members, was a great testimony to how well respected Paul was. He is now Vicar at St Thomas The Apostle, Downholland, near Maghull.

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JUNE 23rd: UP HOLLAND PAGEANT AND FESTIVAL

We have dedicated several pages to this very special event in the history of Up Holland. Click on the banner below to go to the main page.

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