Don’t forget we have the ‘Churches Together’ prayer meeting on Tuesday 17th October at 7:15 p.m. at GPCC. It’s been a real privilege to pray with Christians from other local churches this year and we are looking forward to joining together again to pray for our churches and communities. Join us if you can!
Next Sunday (22nd October) we have a Christian bookstall at church, so please come prepared to buy! There will be Christmas cards, calendars, diaries, gifts, books and CDs for sale, with CLC giving 10% of all takings back to the church. That’s not a bad deal and you don’t even have to venture far for these presents!
On Saturday 28th October we have a fundraising coffee morning for Barnsley Hospice (10 a.m. – 12 noon), so please do come along to this and support a very worthwhile charity.
We are very excited about the opportunities for outreach in November. ‘Churches Together’ will be involved in giving out goody bags and doing Advent activites at the Winter Wonderland event in Thurnscoe Flower Park on Saturday 18th November (12-5 p.m.)
and we will be hosting refreshments, craft activities, games, raffles, wrapping Christmas presents, family photos and much more at GPCC as part of the Goldthorpe Christmas Market on Friday 24th November from 4-8 p.m. Such events are great ways to chat with people and invite them to church meetings, so please do come along.
Prior to these events, you can help by:
- donating items for the food hamper which will be raffled (biscuits, chocolates, soft drinks, Christmas food items, tinned food etc.)
- donating items for the raffle or tombola
- making craft items to sell
- donating Poundland gifts for children or wrapped sweets/ lollies/ chocolates for the goody bags
- helping us to prepare the goody bags on Wednesday 8th November at 10:30 a.m. at the Salvation Army
On the day, we need people to come along and help with the different activities (e.g. providing home baking, serving on the stalls or serving refreshments), so please let us know if you’re available at all on those dates!