We had a wonderful ‘Churches Together’ event at GPCC yesterday. ‘The Narnia Experience’ looked at C. S. Lewis’s ‘Chronicles of Narnia’, especially ‘The Lion, The Witch And the Wardrobe.’ All year, we have been looking at stories and parables, so it seemed fitting for our last ‘Churches Together’ event of 2023 to look at another popular story and see how this points us to the Christian message of Christ’s love and redemptive sacrifice for us as well as to His resurrection and ultimate victory over evil.
A lot of people have spent a lot of time preparing for this event over months: making a wardrobe, snowflakes, banners and table decorations to turn our building into the magical world of Narnia.
On the day, funding from Dearne Ward Alliances allowed us to do a variety of crafts and to have snow in Goldthorpe!
Crafts included making snow globes, snowflakes, crowns and painting shields and swords (kindly made for us by Stan Bryan) and decorating lion and crown biscuits (made for us by Lisa and Julie, with Zara and Kathy helping the children to create beautiful edible treats!) as well as making sweet wrappers for Turkish Delight.
Our rooms were transformed into a winter wonderland and glory room shimmering with lights and we were privileged to have Julia and Rob from Manvers Photography Club offering families a professional photoshoot at really reasonable prices. (Everything else we did was free for families!)
The Salvation Army, volunteers Bev and Beckie and other food providers such as Lianne Pritchard Birdsall and Greggs, Rotherham Onyx Park gave us a feast fit for kings and queens indeed.
It was lovely to see so many families enjoying the day. We had 168 people attend throughout the event.
The Dearne Churches Together selfie board also got plenty of use!
