Community Involvement - taken from Annual Review
Wider Church & Community Involvement
It’s great how we continue to be involved in our parishes. This happens in many ways, as many church members visit others, and are part of community groups. We also join in with wider things, such as collecting in each church every week for the Berwick Food Bank, and host the Credit Union (with church members serving there too).
We have services in all the Care Homes in our parishes. Thanks to Harry for taking a lead monthly in Tweedmouth House, Hillside Lodge and Turret Villas, and for Jennie Ritchie and Gordon Chapman for leading quarterly in Garden house.
And thanks to Harry also for the Home Communions he brings to those who are housebound. It’s great that although someone can’t get to join with us, they can know they are very much still part of the church, and still in Communion. If you know someone like this, who is not yet being visited, please let me know.
And we serve through Occasional Offices – churchwardens and team work hard to make sure our buildings and grounds are good for those who come, and we visit and prepare people for baptisms (of which we have plenty) and weddings (of which we have some) and funerals (of which we have many).
And we connect through our Bereavement Service, through our special invitation services (Harvest, Easter, Remembrance, Sea Sunday, Salmon Feast) and are involved in the Community at events, like the Tweedmouth Old People’s supper, and serve on bodies like the Askew Housing Trust – not even to mention schools (see elsewhere in this review).
Christmas was particularly big this year. Thanks to all who enabled the almost 5000 invitation cards to be delivered. We hosted 23 services - 8 school, 3 nursery, 4 Care Home, and 8 community/parish. Thanks to everyone who prepared, and sang, and read, and invited, and led, and opened, and welcomed, and served. It was great to have almost 2000 people join us.
It’s great that we are a church that looks outward. Thank you to each for all you do – many not even mentioned here.
Matthew
It’s great how we continue to be involved in our parishes. This happens in many ways, as many church members visit others, and are part of community groups. We also join in with wider things, such as collecting in each church every week for the Berwick Food Bank, and host the Credit Union (with church members serving there too).
We have services in all the Care Homes in our parishes. Thanks to Harry for taking a lead monthly in Tweedmouth House, Hillside Lodge and Turret Villas, and for Jennie Ritchie and Gordon Chapman for leading quarterly in Garden house.
And thanks to Harry also for the Home Communions he brings to those who are housebound. It’s great that although someone can’t get to join with us, they can know they are very much still part of the church, and still in Communion. If you know someone like this, who is not yet being visited, please let me know.
And we serve through Occasional Offices – churchwardens and team work hard to make sure our buildings and grounds are good for those who come, and we visit and prepare people for baptisms (of which we have plenty) and weddings (of which we have some) and funerals (of which we have many).
And we connect through our Bereavement Service, through our special invitation services (Harvest, Easter, Remembrance, Sea Sunday, Salmon Feast) and are involved in the Community at events, like the Tweedmouth Old People’s supper, and serve on bodies like the Askew Housing Trust – not even to mention schools (see elsewhere in this review).
Christmas was particularly big this year. Thanks to all who enabled the almost 5000 invitation cards to be delivered. We hosted 23 services - 8 school, 3 nursery, 4 Care Home, and 8 community/parish. Thanks to everyone who prepared, and sang, and read, and invited, and led, and opened, and welcomed, and served. It was great to have almost 2000 people join us.
It’s great that we are a church that looks outward. Thank you to each for all you do – many not even mentioned here.
Matthew
