A Baptist-Methodist Ecumenical Church in Leicester
The Summer Saturday art and crafts fair today was well supported and a great success. Despite being the first day of autumn (officially) it still seemed like summer. Members of the Wild Honey Tuesday group had been busy making knitted, crocheted and sewn goods for sale, also cakes, bread, jam, chutney and lunches. Other stalls had books, CDs and bric-a-brac.…
The church’s chosen charity this year is Toilet Twinning (toilettwining.org). We take flush toilets in our homes for granted but 1 in 3 people around the world have no access to hygenic sanitation. This impacts their lives in many ways: frequent illness, children missing school, attacks on women. The Toilet Twinning charity invites us to twin our toilets with a…
The Luncheon Club met last Tuesday – Shrove Tuesday – so of course they were served pancakes. Total cooked: 72. The target was 100, but we ran out of time, and there were enough for everyone. The cooks had plenty of practice tossing them. Then on Ash Wednesday Sarah and Shaun invited the crews from the Leicester Fire Station to…
Christchurch has had a Traidcraft stall now for 25 years. In 2016 it had a turnover of £9774. £6321 of this was from sales within Christchurch and rest from supplying other churches and a local college. A total sales of £200,000 is expected to be reached before the end of 2017. Traidcraft is not only a supporter of fairly traded…
A beautiful painting by one of the Wild Honey Tuesday Group’s regulars. Painting is very popular and we have some brilliant artists.
There was an excellent summer fair at Christchurch yesterday to raise funds for the Wild Honey project. There were stalls for craft work by the Tuesday Group, paintings by local artists, indoor plants, books and bric-a-brac; lots of wonderful home-made cakes, and really good lunches. £505 was raised, which will support the running costs of the project. Images
The Tuesday evening discussion group which has been meeting in the Cradock Arms for some years (and in Sansome’s Bar before that) has met for the last time. The group decided it was time to do something new. Just what, has not been decided – one decision at a time is enough. It’s all too easy to get stuck in…
It was nice to come in out of the cold this lunchtime and have a hot meal in Christchurch at the ‘Lunch Aid’ event in aid of Action for Children. There were also stalls selling homemade cakes, Traidcraft fairly traded goods, a tombola, children’s books, clothes… All the hard work of the cooks, servers and others was greatly appreciated.