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Friendship, Food, Fun and Fellowship – these are the four ‘F’s’ which best describe senior activities over the past year. From the Atrium Café mornings, which have been a major outreach centre at PBC for the past 30 years, we have seen developments, which really excite us. God is at work and we in the ‘Young @ Heart’ team are giving Him thanks for the privilege of being hands and feet in His service.
SENIOR LINK ANNUAL REPORT 05
“Your
answers have to add up to £43.3s.6d! Here is the clue to the first amount
in your sum – an ailing aquatic*”
You might
reasonably wonder how such frivolous questions in one of our quizzes does
anything towards the aims of our Church, but get 6 or 8 people round a
table helping each other to find the answers and it is amazing how ice is
broken, friendships develop and thought and discussion on deeper issues
can be introduced. Other
activities such as gentle keep fit, crafts and films of local interest
have given plenty of variety to supplement the ever popular lunches that
now follow our monthly ‘Twelve on Tuesday’ services.
It is encouraging to be able to report that we have maintained our
numbers of 30-40 at these services and that a high proportion is of people
who do not regularly attend our Sunday Services.
The ‘fun’ relationship-building activities run on until about
We have
been pleased to see the Methodist church running their own ‘Twelve on
Tuesday’ services now on the first Tuesday of the month (ours is on the
third) and see them picking up well in numbers.
We have usually been able to give them the support of 6 or so of
our own folk. They too provide
a very good lunch! They haven’t yet ventured into other activities but
we hope to encourage them to join with us in more shared events.
Talking
of lunches (and aren’t we always?) we have again led 2 ‘specials’
with over 70 people at each – again mainly non church people.
‘Holiday
@ Home’ for a week in August appeared to be very well received and was
blessed by beautiful weather that encouraged people to come in good
numbers and enhanced the two outdoor events, the strawberry tea kindly
hosted by Tricia Johnson again and the coach trip to the Wirral with over
50 people at each. From our viewpoint the focal event of each day (except
the coach trip) was the Thought for the Day each morning, and it was good
to see so many of our non-church people able to come to the Sunday tea and
Songs of Praise service. This
is the purpose of all the events – to have the opportunity to bring the
Good News of Jesus to senior people who have not yet made a commitment or
who have lost the wonderful benefits of drawing near to Him regularly.
So where
next? Well we do feel challenged to build on the friendships made by
introducing a course particularly suitable for seniors along the lines of
Alpha. We aim to do a trial run of ‘Christianity Explored’ in the New
Year with the object of seeing whether we can then interest some of our
Senior Link friends in participating in a course in the Spring.
We are
very grateful to so many of you who have given us your support practically
and prayerfully during the past year. We will need your prayer support if
this new venture is to be fulfilled. Time
is short!
Jim Ewing, Jean Churchman &
Anne Worsnup.
25-Nov-07