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Community and Mission

The Community and Mission Ministry is responsible for developing Mission at St Matthew's both by raising funds to supplement the church's income and also to donate to our adopted charities as appropriate.

At the beginning of each year we consider the missions we are asked to support and select one area abroad and one nearer home. In this way we endeavour to promote our work as a whole congregational effort.

THANK YOU!
 
for supporting our endeavours during 2010 and we look forward to seeing you at our events this coming year.
 
3 dates to note are:
 
Our Shrove Meal will be on the day itself Tuesday 8 March
 
The Summer Fete will be Saturday 25 June
 
Harvest Supper will be on Saturday 1 October
 
Further details of these and other events will be advertised as known...

St Matthew’s Parish Christmas Card Scheme 2010
 
  A huge “Thank You” to all who have participated this year!
 
  The total  from your contributions is a magnificent £765.00,
  which with Gift Aid where appropriate will realise an impressive £957.36
all of which goes to church funds.

Caring for Another
 
Thank you for your responses during 2010.
 
The blanket, now complete will be displayed soon. 
 
As requested, I am happy to extend the knitting period during winter months with the aim of completing another blanket by Easter-tide.
 
Wool has been donated, (if required see Mavis James)
 
It would be helpful from the sewing up point of view if all shapes could be 6.5 inches x 7.5 inches approximate when complete.
 
Rough Guide as before is:
 
oddment of double knit wool
No. 8 needles
42 stitches
Garter Stitch
 
Keep Knitting and thank you for your interest 
 
Mavis James

The Charities we supported during 2010 were:

The Workbridge Centre is a Social Enterprise and Charity that facilitates a diverse range of meaningful, work-related and leisure activities for people with mental health needs, learning difficulties and acquired brain injuries.

Their objective is to support people to achieve their potential in moving towards and into employment, if they so wish, and to promote mental and physical well being through the activities provided.

Let the Children Live responds to the needs of the street children - the gamines - in Columbia. They are called 'the disposable ones', the children who live - and sometimes die - in the streets and the rubbish dumps of the cities of Colombia in South America. These 'gamines' range from six-year-olds to teenagers, and they are unloved, unwanted, beaten, robbed, abused, raped and murdered. It aims both to safeguard the lives of children from the violence and poverty of the streets, and to make their lives worth living by giving them love, education and a future.

We also fill shoe boxes with gifts prior to Christmas to be taken to Romania for distribution to needy families. Nearer to home we support our sick, elderly and housebound by giving plants at Christmas time and also have a basket permanently at the church door for donations of goods to the Hope Centre who provide support for people who are homeless.

The group also supports the annual appeal for Christian Aid by distributing and collecting envelopes. We also participate in the annual Historic Churches Cycle Ride in September which, through sponsorship, helps not only the Historic Churches Foundation, but our own church as well.