Life in Goldthorpe is busy!
This Sunday, we have our morning meeting at Cherry Tree Court at 10.30 a.m. and then a special evening service focussing on the forthcoming mission trip to India at 6 p.m. Please come along to find out more about the trip, what to pray for during the trip and how best to support the team going out to Bangalore. We leave on 9th April and return either on 16th April (Garry and Julie) or 23rd April (the rest of the team). We are in the process of sorting electronic visas, so please pray this goes through smoothly.
Next week we are hosting a military funeral for Tom Nowell, formerly of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. This will be on Wednesday 15th April at 10.30 a.m., with refreshments after the service at the crematorium (12:10 p.m.) being served at our church. Any volunteers to help with this would be really useful, as we are expecting a large number of mourners to pay their respects. Tom was 94 when he died, but won a military medal for his role in the Korean War in the 1950s and lived in Goldthorpe all his life apart from during his time in the army.
On Thursday 16th March (10 a.m. – 12 noon), the WEA is running an aromatherapy taster session at the Snap Tin Cafe (situated in the former Dearne Enterprise Centre on Barnburgh Lane); the following week (23rd March), the session will be on creative writing. These sessions are free to attend and will give a taster of what will be happening at the Dearne Community Arts’ Festival later in the year (1 & 2 September). Radio Sheffield will be featuring this festival on Monday 13th March between 11 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. if anyone wants to know more! We were really pleased this week to have Ian McMillan (Barnsley Bard and well-known poet) confirm he will be hosting a creative writing workshop on Friday 1st September (2-3.30 p.m.) at the festival.
Ian McMillan (photo by Adrian Mealing):
Advance notice of a free concert which I’m sure will be fantastic: Watoto Children’s Choir from Uganda will be performing at Grimethorpe Pentecostal Church on Saturday 1st April at 6:30 p.m. This will be an opportunity to hear the sound of a transformed generation, orphans whose joy and testimonies are truly inspiring. All welcome.