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Articles by Alison Whiteley

Meltham Community Open Day

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As many of you know as you’re already involved, there is a ‘Meltham Community Open Day’ on Saturday 29th April from 11am-3pm in both the Carlile Institute and the Crossroads Centre. There will be a stall with information about our Parish.  If you could spare a little time to be there to chat to people, that would be great.  Can you let me know if you can help?   

Thanks

Alison

alisonwhiteley@ntlworld.com

Housegroup

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The housegroup at Dawn and Matt’s (6 Woodland Walk) will begin again on Monday 9th January at 8pm.

The meetings are very relaxed and give you the opportunity to share thoughts, questions and experiences.   

Everyone is welcome and you don’t have to attend every week.

Christmas is coming!

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So here is the plan! Friday morning 10.00 working party at Parish hall and St Barts to do 2 things. 1 set up parish hall for fayre and 2 install the nativity scene and lights, then round to St James’ to do the same.  

Saturday morning there may be some finishing off jobs to do as well as help needed for the Christmas fayre.  We know people are working etc. but if you can prioritise some time it will be really appreciated. My guess is we need about 6 people at least.  

 Thanks

Mike Still

Thank you!

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Thank you to everyone who contributed our ‘Crisis’ coffee morning yesterday.  It was the busiest yet and we appreciated the support from all our friends and the community. We are delighted to say that £4870 has been raised.  

‘Crisis’ coffee morning

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Please join us at our coffee morning to raise funds for ‘Crisis’, the Welcome Centre and Teams4U.

There’ll be lovely handmade crafts, lots of amazing gift hampers at bargain prices, AH Creations (wax melts, candles etc), the silent auction (with some great ‘lots’), cards, homeware, jams, pickles, sweets, win a bottle, tombola and a raffle. Not forgetting a chance to catch up with friends. Hope to see you there!

Reverse Advent Calendar

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A couple of years ago here at St Mary’s Wilshaw we decided to do a Reverse Advent Calendar.  We would buy an item of food, tins or non-perishable goods and instead of opening that cardboard door in our calendar, each day we would put a food item away and bring what we had saved to Church on Sunday.  After Christmas, everything that we had collected was taken down to the Food Bank in Meltham for distribution.
 
Judith Moore
 
The PCC has agreed that it would be good for all the churches in the Parish to take part in the Reverse Advent Calendar this year.  The Food Bank would be very grateful of your support as stocks are often low in January. It has been requested that Christmas themed food is not included.

Housegroups

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Evening House Group – Follow The Star – The Great Invitation

Over the summer and early part of the autumn some folk expressed an interest in getting some more fellowship time together to explore God’s word, to reflect on it together and to get to know others better in the Meltham church community.

From 28th November for four successive Mondays we’d like to give you the opportunity to join us in a new House Group where we will spend an hour or so working through some reflection materials that the Church of England has come up with – called “Follow The Star – The Great Invitation”.  We’ll aim to start at 2000hrs each Monday and finish by no later than 2130hrs.

There is absolutely no forward commitment and if you can’t do all the dates that’s fine too.  After Christmas we will take stock and hopefully there will be enthusiasm for carrying on and we can discuss frequency, format etc.

As the long winter evenings draw in and there is less and less daylight time we hope the idea of meeting up is attractive to you!