Breathemail July 5th 2010

Afternoon everyone,

The end of term is looming,and George Spencer have already made it to the start of next year, welcome to Year 8, 9, 10 or 11 depending on which move you've made! The week's events are below, but before we get there, here are a few other bits and pieces:

Soul Survivor, camping kit and transport - we're taking a group to this event this year, and could do with come help with transport on either Friday July 30th at lunchtime or on Wednesday August 4th in the morning to or from the event, taking place at Staffordshire County Showground. If you can help transport a group of 6 teenagers, 2 leaders and their camping kit to the event, please get back to me. Also, we have a list up at Toton Methodist of kit we would like to borrow - cool boxes, camp chairs etc. If you have any we can borrow, please let us know!

It's Your Move - Thank you to those who have already volunteered to help out with this event next week. Please meet at Toton Methodist Church at 1.30 pm so we can run thought last minute arrangements. There is still space for one or two more volunteer helpers for this event, please do feel free to offer to help out!

Child Protection - over the last couple of months we've been updating and reviewing our Child Protection Policy, particularly with an eye on the fast moving and ever changing world of instant messaging, social networking etc. There will be more info coming out in the summer holidays, so please keep an eye out for it.

Location, Location, Location - sadly, we're not going on TV with a property programme, but you may well have seen scaffolding going up around St Peter's today, it will be there for the next couple of months. As a result, all church-based activities have moved to Toton Methodist Church from now until September.

Photograph Toton in 24 hours - As part of our links with the Friends of Toton Fields group, I'm overseeing a photography competition called Toton24. Take your pictures of Toton and post them on the Toton24 Facebook page here. The catch is that the photos must all be taken on Saturday July 24th and the best 24 (spot the theme yet?) will be printed and displayed at an event in the Greenwood Centre in September. The full rules for the competition are on the Discussions section of the page. Please pass the link on to anyone who might be interested.

Anyway, enough of the other stuff, here's this week:

Monday - there's a Sunday School meeting this evening at 7.30 at Heather's, please check with Amy if you aren't sure where to go.

Wednesday - Amy will be at CU at George Spencer, we'll both be at Costa in the afternoon and in the evening there's an All Age Team meeting, again at Heathers, but at 8.00.

Thursday Showcase in the afternoon at George Spencer and Cafe Breathe in the evening (which is open to anyone in Year 9 and above, including those who've just moved up at George Spencer to Year 9).

Friday - beware, there will be teddy bears galore at TMC for the Play and Praise Teddy Bears Picnic in the afternoon, so if you go down to the woods that day..... Youth Club is on in the evening as well. Advance notice that next week is the last week of term, featuring the water party.....

Sunday is All Age Worship Sunday, and Cafe Breathe is on in the evening as well, all at TMC.

Beyond all this, summer is looming, and things will quiet down. After the trip to Soul Survivor there won't be any midweek groups or activities over the summer, Amy and I are going to our respective home countries for a bit of a break and we'll also be preparing the summer mailing that will go out in August.

Have a good week everyone, no doubt see you in Toton as the week goes by!

God bless,

Andy