Events and activities
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What's happening Harvest Festival 2011 OUR Harvest Festival was held over the last weekend of September, with decoration of the church taking place from 10:00 on Saturday, 24th September. Our Harvest Extra event held on the Saturday and using the MRDF material, with PowerPoint, film, drama, games and food to focus on Uganda, made a profit of just over £100 for MRDF. Sunday services included an All Age Worship and Parade Service led by Chera Blower at 10:30 on September 25. An 18:30 harvest service was led by our minister, the Rev Jennifer McKenzie, and this included Communion. Christmas Festival 2011 OUR fourth Christmas Festival was held over the first two weekends of December, and this time focussed on the ABC of Christmas. This meant we were hoping that groups, individuals and local businesses would mount an exhibition of Christmas exhibits and displays for every letter of the alphabet. Some were easy to match, for example A for angels, N for nativity scenes, and T for trees, but others were a little more difficult to come up with, although the Events Group managed to compile a list suggestions including Q for quire (the old spelling of the word choir) and Z for Zechariah (the father of John the Baptist). However we didn't quite get every letter covered although the festival attracted some good attendances mainly on the two Saturday mornings. Easter Festival 2011 SOUTHLANDS held an Easter Festival in 2011, reflecting Easter traditions from different countries. It included a Palm Sunday procession with TWO donkeys, this time from St Chad's to Southlands where our ecumenical morning service finished with Communion. It also included the Good Friday service at Southlands; and the Easter services on Easter Day. On the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Day, there were craft activities for all ages to provide firther exhibits for the exhibition which was then being set up. The exhibition was open to the public on Saturday and Sunday afternoon and also on the morning of Easter Monday. Then, on the afternoon of Easter Monday, we had an Easter Party, with Easter games and an Easter buffet St Crux event The latest Southlands fundraising day at St Crux Hall in York city centre took place on Saturday, 20th August, from 10:00 to 16:00, and raised £1,132 for church funds. Car boot sales CO-ORDINATING STEWARD Alison White took a vehicle to one of the regular car boot sales at Knavesmire on Saturday, 3rd September, 2011, and with the help of other church members sold a large number of items, raising about £90.00 for church funds. Leaflets about the church and its activities were also given out to buyers and passers-by. Bacon buttie mornings Bacon butties were on sale at one of our Saturday morning coffee drop-ins at Southlands, on 2nd April, 2011. Morning barbecue There was a morning barbecue in front of the Bishopthorpe Road entrance of the church on July 3, 2010, together with a cake stall and a book stall. Strawberry tea 2011 Following the success of strawberry teas in 2009 and 2010, a similar event took place in the community centre on Saturday, 25th June, 2011 (at 3.00pm). The Community Centre was set out in Palm Court style, with tables round the edge and a piano in the middle. Ken Waugh played piano music and Jill Johnson sang songs from the shows. Books / DVDs A table for the sale of secondhand books and DVDs will be put outside the Bishopthorpe Road entrance when Saturday coffee drop-ins coincide with fine weather. A box for books and DVDs for the sales table will be kept in the small room opposite the vestry off the front vestibule of the church. Recipe book More than 70 recipes are included in a booklet entitled Naomi's Cakes And Puddings on sale at £5 a copy with proceeds for Southlands. Church Family Lunch THE next church family lunch will take place after morning service at Southlands on Sunday, 5th February, 2012. Southlands Biblefresh Week SOUTHLANDS held a Biblefresh Week in June, 2011, to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Authorised Version of the Bible and encourage people to start taking the Bible seriously. The week ran from Monday 13th June to Saturday 18th June, with a special exhibition open to the public daily from 10.00am to 5.00pm as church members read their way through the Bible at the lectern. By the end of the week they had reached Proverbs 23:8, but they had missed our Leviticus and Numbers! In addition there were two special evenings built around a Bible topics version of the BBC Radio 4 panel game, Just A Minute. The host for the panel game was the Rev Graham Carter, a former President of the Methodist Conference, who lives in the circuit, and there was a different panel for each evening. The programme for each of these evenings - Wednesday, 15th June, and Saturday, 18th June - also included music and song, quizzes, and other activities. NOTE: This page checked and updated on 1st January, 2012.
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