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'ADVENTURE CRUISE' Holiday Bible Club -
Monday 20th to Friday 24th July 2009
We had a great week during the summer holidays when we opened the doors to
over 60 children for our 'Adventure Cruise' Holiday Bible Club. Each day the
children enjoyed games, crafts, stories, drama, puppets, songs and time with
friends. Through all of this they also learnt how much God loves them and
something about what it means to follow Jesus. At the end of the week
families joined us for the Sausage Sizzle and the Celebration service both
of which were lots of fun. A fantastic team of helpers worked really hard
all week - serving in a variety of ways including:- leading & helping in
the groups, making coffee, cooking at the BBQ, operating the sound &
laptop, registration, praying from home, washing up, face painting, running a
creche, organising games, performing puppet sketches and drama scenes,
leading the singing, mopping tables/floors baking cakes and serving food. I
was especially impressed with our teenagers who helped all week, they worked
so hard, with enthusiasm and with energy, giving up their time and often
being 'fools for Christ'! We are so blessed to have these wonderful
and gifted young people in our Church. It really was fantastic to see so
many children in the church and so many people working together and I would
like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped and supported the
Holiday Bible Club in any way - YOU were part of sowing seeds of God's love
and truth into the lives of many children this summer, let's continue to
pray that those seeds will bear much fruit.
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Across
Hemel - 1st May to 3rd May 2009
Three to four thousand people attended the Across Hemel family fun day on
Gadebridge Park on Sunday 3rd May. The fun day was part of the
three day Across Hemel event organised by twenty-four churches from around
the town. Click here for a full report . We
hope to do more events like this in the future – for details see www.acrosshemel.co.uk”
or for further information contact Justin Thacker, j.thacker@eauk.org,
07879457708
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Spring Harvest - 25th
to 30th March 2008
This year a large proportion of our
young people and leaders went to Skegness for Spring Harvest, and as they
all came back completely shattered, I think they must have enjoyed it!!
Click here for a full report.
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'AWAKENING 2008' - 3
Day Youth Event - 13th
to 15th February 2008
This
was three
fantastic afternoons of dance, drama, music, guitar workshops, sports, games and other
activities and three 'loud' evenings of live bands . It was open to all young people in secondary
school. Many churches across the town were involved in this event,
and many of our Christian young people invited their non Christian friends to an exciting Christian
event that gave many young people the chance to hear about Jesus -
which can only be a good thing! For a full round up of what happened during
the events, visit www.awakeninghemel.co.uk
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'WASTEWATCHERS' Holiday Bible Club -
Monday 23rd to Friday 27th July 2007
What
a wonderful week we had – 87 children came along for 5 mornings of fun,
games, crafts, drama and stories. Almost 40 helpers gave their time to help
– and they seemed to have as much fun as the children, particularly the
teenage helpers who were fantastic this year!
The drama was the highlight of the morning and was well co-ordinated by Gill
Griffin; set in a park the week saw a transformation from a messy place,
which no one could enjoy to a beautiful welcoming place where everyone was
welcome. The stories were all from the gospel of John this year and were all
about transformation too – how Jesus can change things. We saw how Jesus changed nothing into something when he created the world,
how he turned water into wine, darkness into light, how he overcame death
into life and how the sadness at his death was changed into joy when he rose
again. A memorable moment was when one little boy left at the end of the
morning excitedly telling his parent that Jesus really is alive! The games, the crafts, the leaders challenges and the singing filled the
mornings too and by the end of the week everyone was tired but happy. The
annual Sausage Sizzle was well attended again and the bouncy castles and
face painting went down well with the children – well done to Dennis
Chang, Steve Groome and Jonathan Lee who BBQ’d all the food beautifully. Then to finish the week on a high we had a Waste Watchers Celebration on the
Sunday where we took the church through a whirlwind tour of our week –
Joseph Beadle, (aged 6 yrs) played the piano as the children sang Our God is
a Great Big God which was superb! All in all it was a brilliant week and my thanks go to all the helpers who
were a fantastic team and who worked so hard, and my prayer is for the
children who came along that the things they learnt and experienced this
week would stay with them for a lifetime.
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Friday 4th - Sunday 6th
February 2005
St George's 50th Anniversary Weekend
St George's recently celebrated
it's 50th Anniversary, with a weekend of events which were attended by
many of the existing congregation and also many old members and friends |
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