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 Family Focus

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SEE THE EASTER SERVICES & GAMES EVENING BELOW.

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The Kid’s Club took part in the ‘Mothering Saturday’ event!

 

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

 

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EASTER EVENTS

We’ve already had a  MOTHERS’ SATURDAY! on 9^th March 3pm

Children (and adults) came and made a gift for mums the day before Mothering Sunday.  We had refreshments for all afterwards.

 

Then – on PALM SUNDAY  – at 3pm on 24th March there will be lots of craft work to do, hymns and songs, and the story of Easter week. And there will also be tea and cake. Please come and join the fun.

On EASTER DAY at 10.30am will be our Easter service to celebrate that Christ  has risen. 

AND

 

there will be a GAMES EVENING on Saturday April 27th at 6pm.

If you came last time you know what fun it is!  See you all then.

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We had several family events last year: 

December 17th: Community Carol Service at 6pm

Those taking part will be people from the community (young and old) and everyone is welcome. And the Kids’ Club is taking part in this Community Carol Service. Please do come. It lasts for no more than an hour and then there are mincepies and other refreshments.

December 24th: Carols, Crafts and Cake at 3pm.

With lots of cake, crafts and carols! Do come – it’s a lovely way to spend Christmas Eve.

 

December 25th – Christmas Day 2023

The service is at 10.30am – about 3/4 of an hour: carols and the Christmas story.

Christingle Service 3rd December 2023 4pm

This was brilliant!  Lots of people came and everyone was happy.

Barn Dance: Saturday 30th September at 6pm.

The suggested donation was £5 but there was NO charge for children.

Harvest Festival: Sunday 1st October 10.30am

The Rev David Glasson led the service with traditional harvest hymns.

 

HERITAGE OPEN DAY: 9th September 11am – 3.30pm – we had about 60 people and all the professional and ‘amateur’ stalls were very busy.

We had a lovely time at the CORONATION BIG LUNCH on 7th MAY.

On PALM SUNDAY (2023) we had an event at 3pm which was great and we had many families. (And we ate quite a lot of food.)

Many families also attended the GAMES EVENING on March 25th (2023) The first half was games of Beetle and after the food there was a very highly contested Scavenger game with lots of running around!

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These events are now annual ones –  CANDLELIGHT COMMUNITY CAROL SERVICE

on 11th December at 6.30pm was really well attended – thanks to all those taking part. (The non-alcoholic punch also seemed to go down well.)

 

CAROLS, CRAFTS  & CAKE

AGAIN THIS YEAR

at 3pm on Christmas Eve 

with lots of cake and crafts.

 

If you want to add anything to the items below just use ‘Contact us’ to send us an email.

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!

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.