Derby gets a new banner
At the Christmas service on 23rd December 2007, Rev Chris Goacher (seen on the left) from
Friar Gate Chapel, Derby was presented with the Chapel's new banner by congregation member
Janet Granger. The banner's design had been agreed upon a few weeks earlier by the
congregation, but Janet, who made the banner for the Chapel, had expected it to take a lot
longer than the ten days that it actually took to stitch. Chris said "I have wanted a banner for Derby Chapel for a long time, but as I am not very good with a needle myself, the idea has never before come to anything!" The banner is now displayed in the Chapel on its special stand (made by Janet's husband, also called Chris), and will be used 'in public' for the first time at the banner parade at the GA annual conference in March.