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My
Dear Friends,
Introducing Waste Watchers
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Yes! It is that time of
year again when your Curate begins to look slightly panicked as we count down to
our annual holiday club week. This year we will be putting on
Waste Watchers
on the mornings between 30th July and 3rd August, with a special Sunday
service in Astbury Church on 5th August. The club takes on an Environmental
theme as we learn about caring for God’s world and His plan for our lives. Our
set is an abandoned rubbish-filled park which is gradually transformed into a
haven for wild life by our Waste Watcher guides Harry, Larry and Barry, with help from the Park
keeper of course. As usual the week will be packed full of fun, games, craft,
drama, challenges and video too. We hope to give the children a fun time while
learning the basics of the Christian story.
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In addition to
Waste Watchers, for the first time we
are also putting on Rock Solid, an
evening for 10 – 14 year olds which will take place in the school hall from 7.00
to 8.30 pm on Tuesday 31st July. We
hope to invite back some of the young people who have been through previous
holiday clubs and are now too old to attend to join with our Trailblazers group
for an evening of music, video and stacks of fun aimed specifically at 10 to 14
year olds.
As with past years I could
still do with your help. On the Friday morning
between 11.00 and 12.30 we
are hoping to put on a coffee morning for parents, so they can get together with
us and see what the children have been up to all week. I need volunteers to make
tea and coffee and chat to parents: if you would like to help do let me know.
With our environmental
theme to the club, some of the craft will have a recycling base, and so I also
need you to collect small jam jars to be painted with glass paints to become
pencil jars. We are also having a junk model building competition so I need
cardboard boxes and packages (not toilet rolls or egg boxes though) for the older children
to make into junk models. In a fit
of enthusiasm we also decided that it would be nice if the oldest group of
children had a chance to make bird boxes, so if anybody has the wood and
expertise in this who would like to help the older children (10 and 11 year
olds) achieve this I would be very grateful to hear from you.
Can I say a special thank you in advance to everybody who has already signed up
to help with the club without which none of this could happen. I believe the
holiday club is particularly important to both churches in maintaining links
with the children and parents of both church schools and in giving us and our
young people a chance to lead and take part in children’s work. I hope as over
the last two years the week will be a lot of fun and that we will make may new
friends as we work together to achieve
Waste Watchers and Rock Solid.
At the time of writing
there are still plenty of places left for
Waste Watchers (children of primary school age) and our
Rock Solid evening (young people 10 to 14 yeas of age) so if you do have
children or grandchildren who may like to come do give me a ring (01260 271954).
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