Big Local Thurnscoe, organisers of the ‘Spring Show’, have just released a poster for this event on Palm Sunday:
We’ll be leaving church at 10 a.m. on Sunday 20th March and then going through to Houghton Road Centre in Thurnscoe (home to Emmanuel Pentecostal Church, opposite the Asda car park on the main road through Thurnscoe) for a time of prayer before we move up to Phoenix Park. Local churches will gather at the car park at 10:50 a.m. and the donkey procession/ singing will start at 11 a.m. Kevin Watts, pastor of the Pentecostal church at Thurnscoe, will give a brief explanation of Palm Sunday and then we’ll be involved in chatting with people and handing out goody bags containing Easter leaflets and Easter eggs.
It’s hoped this will be a great community event. Other things which will be going on include a dog show (£1 entry) and craft and sporting activities. There will be stalls from local groups and the chance to ‘meet a creature’ (not sure what creatures will be there, other than the donkeys!) and refreshments and toilets will be available.
Phoenix Park used to be the slagheap for Hickleton main colliery many years ago, but was transformed into a lovely community park in the 1990s with the help of the charity Groundwork Dearne Valley and local residents. (Poems by local resident Desiree Chipp are carved into 3 of the entrances to the site, for example, and Stephen’s footprints as a young child are cast into one of the paths!) Now maintained by the Forestry Commission, the park links Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe. Pray for fine, dry weather, as it can get very muddy otherwise!