What's On
The following other activities are coming soon:
- Sunday 9th May - 15th May - Christian Aid Week
- Saturday 29th May (8 - 9 am) - Monthly prayer meeting.
- Sunday 13th June (4pm) at Holy Trinity Church Shaw - Messy Church
- Sunday 27th June - Church Meeting following Church Service.
See Regular Events for more information.
News
On Sunday 7th March, 2010, Westlea Church celebrated Fairtrade fortnight by having a Fairtrade breakfast. Donations from the breakfast were added to our domations to the Swindon Food Bank.
We followed the breakfast with the Church's Annual General Meeting interleaved with the service. The following is a summary of the meeting
- We reviewed the annual report for 2009.
- The Leadership team and other positions within the Church were approved.
- The accounts for 2009 were accepted and the budget for 2010 approved. It was noted that the budget for this year continues to be a challenge for all.
- The charities that Westlea Church support were agreed to be Tearfund until 2012, the Emerge project in conjunction with NCounter until 2011 and Swindon Food Bank for the next year.
On Friday 29th January, 2010, some of the Church along with friends attended the Swindon Youth for Christ ‘Slightly Challenging Quiz‘, true to form one team won and the other team came fourth. Well done to both teams!
On Sunday 24th January 2010, Westlea hosted the Partnership service which included puppets and dancing. The theme of the service was based on the theme from Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. At the service there was a retiring collection in aid of Christian Aid's emergency appeal for Haiti which raised £587.68. Thank you to all.
On Sunday 13th December 2009, we held our Nativity Service using a musical called ‘Christmas with the Aliens‘ by Nikki Lewis. This involved a retelling of the Nativity with the addition of aliens and a spaceship which had a passing resemblance to Starbug from Red Dwarf. It was built elsewhere and as can be seen had to be ‘flown‘ to Westlea Church...
The scene
The aliens had arrived...
Lift off of We-Bug
Crossing Westlea Drive
The Crew of We-Bug
On Sunday 4th October 2009, we had our Harvest Service and collected donations for the Swindon Food Bank. All in all we collected 86.8kg which has provided 102 meals for those in need in Swindon. Thank you to all.
On Tuesday 14th July, 2009, we held our annual Church Barbecue and true to form it rained! Despite this all had an enjoyable evening and have concluded that we will hold a surprise barbecue next year to try and confuse the weather!
On Sunday 28th June, 2009, Paul Stokes who is an "Evangelism and Renewal Advocate" for GEAR (Group for Evangelism and Renewal within the United Reformed Church) led a Study Day for the Church. The day was made up of two parts, a service led by Paul, followed by a Bring and Share lunch which then led in to an afternoon workshop on the working of the Holy Spirit, looking in particular at the life of Philip the Evangelist and how that relates to us. As well as looking at how we can use this message in our lives, we were encouraged to see what we were already doing. All of those who attended found it an encouraging but thought provoking day. Thanks go to Paul and his team as well as the team from within the Partnership who ran sessions for the younger members of the Church during the afternoon and Haydon Wick URC Church which permitted us to use their premises for the lunch and afternoon.
During the week of 10th - 16th May, 2009, members of Westlea Church visited streets through Westlea and Eastleaze to deliver envelopes and collect for Christian Aid Week. This year we collected £816.62 Thank you to all who donated. If you missed the chance to give and wish to do so, please go to Christian Aid Week
On Saturday 9th May, 2009 19 members from the churches in the Partnership met at Marlborough Leisure Centre on Saturday 9th May and walked across the Marlborough Downs to West Woods where we meandered our way through the amazing carpet of bluebells to Lockeridge Dene for lunch. After lunch we followed the the Kennett Valley back to Marlborough.
Click here for more details of where the walk was and pictures from the walk.
For details of previous news click here
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