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 Family Focus

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Something’s Brewing

a Cuppa and …  EVERY MONDAY  10am until 12 noon. 

Drop in anytime for a FREE drink. 

There will always be another activity that you can join in (we’ve had making hearts for Valentine’s Day, painting pebbles, crochet, knitting) but you can just sit and chat if you wish. 

KIDS’ CLUB

KID’S CLUB is every Wednesday 4-5pm (except holidays).

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NEW!

Pizza Friday

1st Friday in the month 6.30 – 8pm

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EVENTS THIS PAST YEAR:

CHRISTMAS EVENTS in 2024:

Candle Light Community Carol Service at 6pm on the 22nd, Christingle at 4pm on the 24th, and a service with the Rev’d Tim Bradshaw at 10.30am on Christmas Day.

Other events in 2o24:

HARVEST FESTIVAL at 12.30pm for a short service and then lunch.

The BARN DANCE at 6.30pm on 21st September.

A GAMES EVENING on 27th APRIL at 6pm – not well attended but we had a good time.

EASTER DAY at 10.30am  – our Easter service to celebrate that Christ  has risen: the Rev’d Tim Bradshaw took the service. 

PALM SUNDAY  at 3pm on 24th March  – there was lots of craft work to do, hymns and songs, and the story of Easter week – and tea.

We had a  MOTHERS’ SATURDAY! on 9^th March 3pm when children (and adults) made a gift for their mums’ the day before Mothering Sunday and then refreshments for all afterwards.

We had Guy Willcock from the Leprosy Mission to tell us about us about their work on 4th February.

Our Covenant Service on January 7th  at 10.30am.

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We also had a HERITAGE OPEN DAY in September 2023 and we had about 60 people and all the professional and ‘amateur’ stalls were very busy.

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These events are curently annual ones – 

CANDLELIGHT COMMUNITY CAROL SERVICE

THIS YEAR IT WAS ON 22nd DECEMBER AT 6pm.

 

CAROLS, CRAFTS  & CAKE

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A CHRISTINGLE WHICH IS ALSO ON CHRISTMAS EVE  (24th December)

And there will be lots of cake!

 

And we also had a service on CHRISTMAS DAY with the Rev’d Tim Bradshaw

– and also Sheila Billings who took part.

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COOKING

You might wish to have a go at this cake! 

If you feel brave you can hide the list of ingredients on the right hand side of the list and then try and work them out from the Bible passages.

The  Scripture Cake!

1.  225 g (8oz)   1 Kings 4: 22             (flour)

2.   100g (4 oz)   Judges 5.25               (butter)

3.   100g (4oz)   Jeremiah 6; 20          (sweet calamus = sugar)

4.  75g (3oz)    1 Samuel 25: 18            (fruit)

5.  75g (30z)   Nahum 3: 12                 (figs)

6.  25g (1oz)    Numbers 17. 8            (almonds)

7.  2                Jeremiah: 11                 (eggs)

8.  1 pinch       Leviticus 2: 13            (salt)

9.  2 tbsp         Judges 4: 19                 (milk)

10.  1 tsp            2 Chronicles 9: 9         (spices)

Answers to the Biblical references are given above in brackets.

If you want to make the cake see, for instructions,  SCRIPTURE CAKE

 

FUN

If you want to encourage the children to learn how to conduct music – watch this!

It is a video of a toddler conducting Borodin! See this link. (You need to scroll down to the video.)

 

 

 

This video is very short but is worth every second every second! When the video was taken the two people were the Prince of Wales and Camilla but are now the King and Queen Consort.

 

POEMS

If someone in your family writes poems do send it to us.

The poem below is by Amanda Gorman, Youth Poet Laureate in the USA: she read her own poem at the inauguration of President Biden. You can watch it HERE .  The poem ends with the following words:

We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
every corner called our country,
our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
battered and beautiful
When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it.

 

THINGS WE DID IN LOCKDOWN!

We were quite adventurous!

In 2021 we held a METHODIST LOVE FEAST SERVICE by ZOOM

It was led by the Rev’d Helen Penfold. It is a service with a long history: John Wesley and the early Methodists celebrated it and so did those Methodists called ‘Primitive Methodists’ in the 19th century but then it fell into disuse.

The Love Feast, or Agape, is a Christian fellowship meal recalling the meals Jesus shared with disciples during his ministry. Cake and  drink is shared. By zoom of course everyone has to provide their own cake or biscuits and a drink of tea or coffee or similar. Here is an old recipe if you want to have a go at making it:

A traditional Love Feast Cake Recipe
Adapted from the Middlesmoor Lovefeast Bread used in the Yorkshire Dales at the time of
John Wesley
• 1lb (400g) plain flour
• 1oz (25g) baking powder
• 5oz (125g) butter
• 8oz (200g) sugar
• 2oz (50g) mixed peel
• 4oz (100g) sultanas
• 2 eggs
• About half a pint (280ml) of milk
• Mix the flour and baking powder together, rub in the butter, then add the sugar, sultanas
and peel.
• Beat the eggs together with a little milk and add to the dry ingredients.
• Add the rest of the milk to make a soft consistency.
• Pour the mixture into two loaf tins or a large cake tin.
Cook at 180°C (350°F) or gas mark 4 for at least 45 minutes for the loaf tins, or 1 hour for
the large cake tin.

This works fine if you use half quantities and put it in a loaf tin. You can also substitute 6 oz (3oz) mixed dried fruit for the peel + sultanas.