As we put the finishing touches to the photo display for our anniversary celebration on Saturday 5 July between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., we are blown away by all that has happened in the fifteen years since we moved to Market Street.
GPCC (formerly Goldthorpe Elim Church) opened in Beever Street in 1964 and moved to Market Street in early 2010, with our first service in the new building happening on 6 June 2010 and our official open day happening on 3 July 2010. Since then, we’ve held a lot of church services, coffee mornings, Bible studies, prayer meetings, family fun days, Parent & Toddler group sessions, parties and have been involved in community events at Phoenix Park, Goldthorpe Railway Embankment, Goldthorpe cricket grounds, other churches and various other places! We’d love for you to come along on Saturday 5 July and have a look at all these photos – and maybe find yourselves on a photo that is guaranteed to bring back memories!
It’s free to attend and you can pop in for as long or as short a time as you have available. Light refreshments with home baking will be served and we will have crafts to do – based on the 15 anniversary ‘crystal’ theme, you can make necklaces or bracelets or do crystal art.
After the celebrations, we’re also thrilled to be the first place in the Dearne area to screen Sam Batley’s film ‘The Town I Love So Well’, an hour-long documentary commissioned by BMBC which looks at the culture and community in Barnsley and which features Goldthorpe in a positive light! Sam is from Goldthorpe himself, so it’s wonderful to be able to show the film here.
Come along for a fabulous day!
