A Busy Month - Harvest memories

  
Our main event in October is our Harvest Festival. Despite one or two people being away or otherwise engaged we had a wonderful celebration. We managed to decorate our church, despite being without Peggy, the expert on these things, this year.

 The sight of so much produce certainly reminded us of how much we had to be thankful for, and how blessed we all are. The fresh produce was either used in the preparation of our Harvest Supper or auctioned off afterwards. The auction and donations for the meal raised over £100 for our Harvest Appeal, for the work of BMS in assisting Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

 We also had many generous donations of canned and packaged produce, which went to the Forest Foodbank, providing emergency food parcels for people in need in the local area. Apparently due to the generosity of local churches and schools the foodbank is currently snowed under with food.

Another project we are currently involved in is the WEBox project run by our local Baptist Association, wrapping and filling shoeboxes for underprivileged children in Albania. At our September winter warmer we spent time wrapping (not as easy as it seems when you are chatting at the same time!) and filling our shoeboxes. These will then be dropped off at a collection point to be taken over to Albania closer to Christmas time. For more information follow the link below:

http://www.webassoc.org.uk/mission/webox-appeal/

Below is a video documenting the delivery of WEBoxes in 2015.