CHRISTIAN AID NEWS Barbara Moth, our Christian Aid Rep. has the following good news to report: the envelope collection during Christian Aid week was £225.50; between them Angela Atkinson and Barbara raised £1,165 through their 300,000 steps challenge in May; between January and April donations at Lent Lunches and Saturday morning Open Church raised £813.52 and a further £354.49 was donated for Christian Aid’s Ukraine Appeal. Barbara would like to thank everyone for their generosity.
During the winter months volunteers from church and the local community have cleared large areas of the church grounds, removing significant amounts of holly, ivy and countless small saplings.The last volunteer day will be on Friday 11th March from 9:30am until lunch time when we hope there will be lots of volunteers to contribute to one final effort.We should then all be able to enjoy much improved church grounds, with hopefully, less litter.If you would like to be part of this volunteer workforce just turn up anytime after 9.30am on Friday 11th March. Tools and refreshments will be provided.
It was great to be able to hold Christingle Services in church this year. Thank you to everyone who made the Christingles on Saturday morning and to ASDA for donating the oranges for the Church service and to the staff who made the Christingles for the school service.The chuch service held on Advent Sunday was full of joy and different families took part in telling the Story of the Christingle, reading the Bible and leading prayers by candle light. The school service was full of excited children who listened intently as Vicar Andrew explained what each part of the Christingle meant.The Children's Society will benefit to the tune of £548.76. Thank you to everyone who donated so generously..
On Saturday 13th November St Helen’s Church hosted a coffee morning to raise funds for Under The Mango Tree.Under The Mango Tree is a Northwich based charity that works to support a school which serves a poor rural area in Kenya.On the day volunteers worked together with great team spirit giving so generously of their time, their talents and their treasure and a wonderful total of £647 was raised. During the evening an additional £220 was donated to the charity.These funds will help give children a good education and a better start in life.The charity is called Under The Mango Tree because in year 2000 this school started with children gathering under the shade of a mango tree as they had no buildings at all.The "Under the Mango Tree" cake in the picture is a Victoria sponge with a topping made with mango juice and a flling which includes chopped mangoes.If you look under the mango tree you can imagine the youngest pupils using the lettered blocks to learn their alphabet, others reading thier copy of the Bible and an older student writing in her pink exercise book.www.underthemangotree.org.uk
