Children & Families Worker Begins Jamie Oliver Cookery School...Karen Pritchard has been accepted onto the Tesco/FareShare Community Cookery School Scheme which was set up in conjunction with chef Jamie Oliver, in 2019 and will take place virtually over the next several months. Once the training is completed, Karen will be expected to roll out this training to 15 other people. The course is free and all equipment and food is provided for (by way of vouchers) and if any of these are leftover, they can be put towards a community endeavour (in our case, Chat-tea).As Karen has been working closely with organisations through MADCAT, Karen will be training some of their volunteers, (as they will also be in a good position to roll out further cookery teaching), as well as some of our Chat Tea clients.Long-term, the plan is to equip more and more local people, especially families, with the skills and knowhow to create nutritious, healthy and cost effective meals for themselves - it is acknowledged that Chat-Tea will not be able to run forever, so the aim is to begin offering practical support where possible, to enable more people to be able to cater for themselves, even on a tight budget.From tiny acorns, mighty oaks do grow...and it is hoped that this project may be the start of a much wider element of community engagement, and will also help Karen to build closer links with families, maybe even towards a fresh expression of church at some stage - so please keep her in your prayers as we ask that the Lord guide her in her endeavours to engage with those who need our support currently.
Readings, reflections and prayers - 27/2/21
Thank you to everyone who attended our Q&A Evening on Tuesday the 16th of February via Zoom - it was great to see so many faces! The session opened with prayer, before a brief explanation of the CMT project and its aims and objectives. This was followed by a short outline of job roles/project involvement from Rachel, Rebecca, Karen and Andrew before moving to the questions put forward from those attending and finally, a closing prayer. Special thanks to Rev'd Jenny for hosting the zoom session and to Paul and Tanya Roberts for fielding the questions to us, to enable anonymity.Brief notes have been made of some of the questions/answers from the evening - you can view these via the download button this page.Communications between the Changing Market Towns project and the congregation members within March have been limited due to Covid, so this Q&A Evening was the first step of many in trying to change this. We really want to hear your questions & opinions, as well hear ideas you may have about changes you would like to see in March - we are hoping to host another such Q&A session soon, to answer more queries people may have. Watch this space!Blessings,Rebecca, Karen and Rachel
Click the download button to view comments and feedback from Chat-Tea clients between Oct-Dec 2020.
