Jubilee Fun Day (4)

Jun 5, 2022

Here are some more photos from this Wednesday’s Jubilee Fun Day which was a wonderful day in Phoenix Park. Hopefully these give you a flavour of some of the things that happened throughout the day.

 

Jubilee Fun Day Dog Show

Jun 4, 2022

We know the Queen loves corgis and has apparently owned 30 over her lifetime. We had a Dog Show at the Jubilee Fun Day and saw some amazing dogs. Our thanks to the Mayor of Barnsley and to local councillors who judged the competition and gave out prizes and to Lloyd’s Stores Ltd for donating the doggy prizes.

Thank You To Volunteers!

Jun 4, 2022

This week is ‘National Volunteers’ Week’. We certainly couldn’t manage one day at GPCC without the volunteers who work so hard to make church a fun experience and so this is an opportunity to say a great big THANK YOU to you all!
Volunteering (like creativity!) has many different faces. Volunteers at GPCC do a wide range of things, including:
* preaching in services
* leading worship in services
* teaching children
* cleaning the building
* serving teas and coffees
* making food for events
* washing up
* making crafts
* running all kinds of crazy activities we decide to do
* keeping the accounts straight
* decorating
* hanging bunting up
* blowing balloons up
* sorting out safeguarding for children and vulnerable adults
* being trustees to keep everything legal and above board
* sorting out the practical/ legal side of running a charity
* sorting out the practical/ legal side of having a building
* praying faithfully for all that we do
* keeping websites and social media updated
* give money to ensure we keep going
We don’t have any full-time paid employees at the church, so volunteering is at the heart of everything we do. We believe that God calls us to serve our community through faith using the practical gifts He has given to us.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!

Jubilee Fun Day (2)

Jun 1, 2022

We were privileged to have Matthew Tiffany from Greentop Circus with us, thanks to funding from the Ward Alliance.

We also had princesses to host our Fancy Dress Parade:

Jubilee Fun Day (1)

Jun 1, 2022

The Jubilee Fun Day at Phoenix Park started early, ensuring everyone could find me once I got to Phoenix Park and that I remained aware of who’s really in charge!

I even had crowns on my nails to fit in with the Dearne Churches Together activity of making crowns:

Setting up gazebos is always fun!

It was a busy day, with 1379 people being counted in!

Our thanks to all the volunteers who helpd us today.

 

Great Things

Jun 1, 2022

We have recently introduced Phil Wickham’s song ‘Great Things’ into our services at church. This song has been a favourite of ours since its release in 2018 and my older granddaughter particularly loves it. From the first time she heard it, she has sung along happily to the song, and we discovered that perhaps one reason she liked it so much was that she took it very personally. One of the lines in the song says, ‘You’ll be faithful forevermore,’ but Esther at two used to sing ‘You’ll be faithful for Ezzie more‘ (her nickname being Ezzie.) I rather liked this personalisation – and it’s true; God is faithful to us all individually!

Today, as we go to Phoenix Park in Thurnscoe for the first of our Jubilee celebrations and hopefully have a great day of fun activities celebrating not only the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee but the fact that our God is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and will reign forevermore, the lyrics of the song remain on our lips:

.You’ve been faithful through every storm
You’ll be faithful forevermore
You have done great things
And I know You will do it again
For Your promise is “Yes and amen”
You will do great things
God, You do great things
Oh, hero of Heaven, You conquered the grave
You free every captive and break every chain
Oh God, You have done great things.
We dance in Your freedom, awake and alive,
Oh Jesus, our Saviuor, Your name lifted high
Oh God, You have done great things.’ (‘Great Things’, Phil Wickham & Jonas Myrin)
God’s faithfulness in the past becomes the hope of HIs faithfulness in the present and in the future. Jesus is our hero, We exoect to have lots of children dressed up as queens and princesses and superheroes today, but we ultimately will be welcoming not only the Mayor of Barnsley at our event but the King of Kings. He is God over all, unshakeable, the One who conquered the grave and sets people free!