Have a go at our next caption competition (above). Send entries by email only to captioncompetition@churchtimes.co.uk by 9 a.m., Monday 2 March.
We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide a credit and confirm that those pictured are happy for the photo to be used.
Here is the winning entry for the previous competition:
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“We know it’s Lent, but please can we have some custard pies?” (Janet Stockton)
A SELECTION of this week’s entries:
“Michelle was checking the congregation carefully for water devices before saying, ‘Let us pray,’ lest it be misinterpreted” (Sue Chick); “When the sermon gets serious, but you’re here to bring the joyful noise” (Theresa Thomas); “The newly elected churchwarden had big shoes to fill — but luckily they were used to that” (Philip Lickley); “Jester nother chorus of ‘This Little Light of Mime’, they cried” (Alison Woods); “‘A joyful heart is good medicine’ (Proverbs 17.22)” (Helga Brandt); “The children’s face-painting activity had gone too far” (Michael Doe); “He’s getting rather used to being greeted by people waving their palms” (John Saxbee).
“The congregation was told to come as they are; some took it more literally than others” (Phillip Lendon); “Via media — ‘Stuck in middle with you’” (David Isaac); “I said crown of thorns, not clowns with horns” (Deborah Yallop); “I got the feeling that something ain’t right. . . Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck with a V-sign to view” (Julian Ashton); “The servers were told to brighten themselves” (Bill de Quick); “The eight-o’clock Prayer Book communion was more colourful than usual” (Patrick Irwin); “Welcome to the House of Lords annual church service” (Ken Wilkinson); “When planning this service, there was a lot of discussion whether the responses from the congregation should be ‘Ha, ha, ha’ or ‘Ho, ho, ho’”(Richard Hough); “When Synod meets, the clowns come out to play” (Mark Edwards).
“The Speaker of the House had to warn the backbenchers to keep the noise down” (Adrian Crook); “Let us play” (Richard Strudwick); “Having been called a bunch of jokers, the PCC decided to up their game at the next meeting” (Jeannie Chamberlain); “The DDO wished she had opted for a different diocese when she met the new ordinands” (Chris Coupe); “They came for the sermon, stayed for the fellowship . . . and possibly the balloon animals after benediction” (Catherine Taylor); “Let the one who is without sin throw the first custard pie” (Martin Kettle); “The ‘Fools for Christ’ committee vociferously object to a member being inappropriately dressed” (Paul Vincent); “Next up was the Vicar’s famous juggling act with the six candlesticks” (Brian Stevenson); “It was the new Archbishop’s first day at General Synod” (Cortland Fransella); “When the PCC failed to agree on the parish share again, the Vicar decided to send in the clowns” (Paul MacDermott); “A group of parishioners complain that, after lending the minister their car, now the doors won’t fall off” (Rob Falconer).
As ever, the winner receives a prize of Fairtrade chocolate, courtesy of Divine Chocolate.
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