News from Holy Trinity Church Formby
Darrell Gardiner
On
Sunday 27th June a special service was held at Holy Trinity Church
to mark Darrell Gardiner's retirement as a Reader after 38 years service
in the Parish.
Darrell was presented with a pair of binoculars and a gold watch and a cheque for £400 for them to put towards a holiday.
Messy Church
THANK YOU to all who helped and prayed for the two July Messy Churches. Over 50 children parents and grandparents came to Ravenmeols Community Centre on the 11th and over 60 came to Redgate School on the 18th. Most of these families came following assemblies at Trinity St Peter’s, Redgate, and St Luke's schools and the leafleting that people volunteered for. The families enjoyed the games and crafts, the worship and the picnic teas. Many thanks indeed.
Kath Rogers 870737 John Paton 0151 29 2502
Visit our new website at www.messychurchformby.co.uk
Good News Holiday Club 2010
Monday 9th August – Friday 20th August 10am – 12 noon
Preparations
for this year’s holiday club are well underway. As always we are still
on the lookout for helpers and volunteers for this year’s event. If
you have never helped at holiday club it is very rewarding and also
enjoyable. We still need juice makers, tea pot fillers, stickers,
cutters, painters, form fillers, putter uppers, taker downers, story
tellers, music makers…… the list goes on. It doesn’t matter if you
can only help for one or two mornings, a whole week or the fortnight
– every little helps!
As the old saying goes …‘ many hands make light work’
Our theme this year is ‘In the country’ and we are expecting around
100 children each morning to attend for fun, friendship and an opportunity
to listen and learn about the love of Jesus. Forms for volunteering
are at the back of church or available from the church office or you
can ring us for a chat especially if you have not helped before or
would like some more information about the club.
Holiday club is 37 years old this year and we are sure it will be
as popular and as successful as always.
Many thanks in advance for all your continuing support.
The Holiday Club Team
Items required: (a large box will be available
at the back of church or donations can be left in the church office)
Toilet roll tubes, kitchen roll tubes, cereal packets, small boxes,
egg boxes, plastic bottles, plastic milk bottles, ice cream tubs,
margarine tubs, yoghurt pots, large card board boxes etc – Any clean
recycled materials that could be used to make things. Thank you.
Car Park During the Holiday Club the car park will be closed each morning from 8.30am until 12.30pm, Monday to Friday 9th August to 20th August.
Churches Together Free Family Fun Day – Saturday 14th August.
The
theme is The Environment. Volunteers are needed to help in the famous
Trinity Tea Tent – please sign up at the back of church. We have been
asked to collect jam jar lids; McDonald’s type give away toys; party
bag left over toys and bubbles, plastic jewellery, shells and dried
flowers. For further information or offers of help please speak to
Kath Rogers or Helen Davies. Please pray for a nice day. There will
be Worship Messy Church style at 2pm, please come and join us. A Messy
Craft Tent will be run by the Methodist Church with the Messy Church
team. Prayers for the Fun Day will be held at Holy Trinity at 8pm
on Sunday 8th August and on the day itself at 8am in the park.
The 1-2-1 Challenge 2010: Family-building activity weekends for one parent and one child.
Being a parent isn’t a 9-5 job. And most parents, if they’re honest, will admit that there are times when their family is squeezed out by the demands of work and life. Spending time with your children is one of the most important aspects of parenting.
Even though your children are important to you, making sure you spend time with them can be hard. So, to help parents spend some time one-to-one with their children and to help them build family bonds that last, Care for the Family runs The 1-2-1 Challenge.
Research shows that children want to spend more time with their parents.
Put the theory to the test and join us on a 1-2-1 Challenge.
From the moment you arrive to the moment you leave, you’ll be involved
in an outdoor activity programme – specially designed to help one
parent plus one child to become one team. One great team.
We guarantee that you will be talking about it for a long time to
come!
Further details speak to Andy White who has attended one of these great weekends or check out www.careforthefamily.org.uk
The Rev Writes...
I write this in-between thinking, praying and planning the summer. We have Holiday Club, the Churches Together Fun Day and two Messy Churches including the launch at Redgate School for families and children. We believe in investing in children and families. Many of us belong to the Mothers Union which exists to pray support and promote family life. We want to help children and their families not only be entertained this summer but also learn about Jesus who loves them, and invites all to get closer to Him and see that the fullness of life can only be found in a relationship of love with Him.
But church ministry is not just about the young. Much of the day to day ministry is with those who are older. Not simply the visiting, bereavement and the nursing and rest home ministry but also the hospitality given selflessly and cheerfully at Celia’s Café each Tuesday morning and the workshop each Saturday morning, and our newest ventures the parish lunches each quarter, and WOW, the Workshop on Wednesdays; see the pictures and story later in the magazine. Then there is the Church Club, countless clubs and societies such as Men’s Fellowship and Trinity ladies, all the U3A activities and good neighbourliness offered by members of Holy Trinity Church as individuals.
The Good News is for all ages, and Holy Trinity aspires to be a
church that shows God’s love and Jesus’ care to young old and all
in-between! Please support us and pray for us in an ambitious programme
of outreach this summer.
Every blessing to you this summer.
Kath
Acts 2 “I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people: Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters; your young men will see visions, your old men dream dreams.”