Its too exciting this weekend we will host our annual BIG GIVE and give out 2000 gifts and over 60 bikes, its the highlight of my year, to see children 0-11 come from all backgrounds come a get a gift, for some its the only one they will get this yr which is why we work hard to get great presents.

there’s always screams and squeals of delight, smiles and tears and a lot of wrapping paper and confetti its a priceless weekend and worth all the effort

take a look and see, children+gifts+shiny wrapping paper= smiles…

…and what is even more wonderful is that its followed a whole lot of other love we have been sharing about, a street sleep with the homeless, followed by a banquet,  christmas party and beautiful gifts for the older generation, many family food hampers for families in need, a christmas party for 150 international folks, gifts to all the inmates at Wetherby young offenders unit and Newhall women’s prison, a bus filled with families from an asian community centre, a party for over 100 families seeking asylum,  we have had 200 volunteers wrapping and eating mince pies, 100s of school children come thru our doors to see our campus transformed into the magic of  Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast”, the chance to pamper on the wards at LGI hospital, christmas kisses all round and a tree of kindness what a priveledge to be involved with  someone’s life this christmas.

phew last post of the yr

Have a wonderful wonderful christmas

C x

Hey

This week has been truely amazing, this week we are enjoying the meal that has been cooked up over about 20yrs!! we have been as a church working in the prisons around yorkshire for years, faithfully the teams have hosted meetings, visited prisoners, written, met men and women on release and helped them settle back into normal life, baptised, prayed and even hand pampered,

But the last few months something has really shifted, like there has been a real favour in what we are doing, the kind that ony comes after a long time of hard work and building relationships.

This week we had a chance to film inside the prison it was not quite Ross Kemp on gangs but it was exciting all the same, we hosted a meeting for 100 guys and saw 1o make their own decision to follow Jesus,

We filmed (yes you hear it right, filming inside one of her majesty’s prisons) testimonies of how crime and circumstance had destroyed their life, but how finding God has transformed it, one guy really made me laugh he was actually grateful to HMP for the care and comfort they had offered him and that he was amazed he had gained 5lbs, talk about how perspective can change when you have a real encounter with a living God

so heres to many more meals of this kind and thanks to those who have given time all over to prepare the ingredients

Clare x