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We said goodbye to Revd. Dawn Mather at the end of August, with a special service led by Geoff Felton, Mersey Synod Moderator.  Dawn has now left the island to live in the South of England where she will be near one of her sons.  Both URC congregations on the island wish her all the best in her retirement, and keep her in our prayers. 

T.T. 2023

 This June we provided the visitors to our church with over 1,500 freshly filled baps, over 1,500 potions of home made cake, and over 3,250 hot drinks! There were also many, many, cans of pop, bottles of water, chocolate bars and bags of crisps.   Here are a few photos, starting with Helen and Kevin behind the 'counter' ready to serve when we open the doors.

Those baps should be enough for the next 10 minutes...

Bap filling team - butter, fill, wrap, label...

Cake central at 9.30am

By 3.30 it looked like this - you can imagine how bare the table was by 7pm when we finished!

we have a constant stream of visitors.

because, on the other side of the wall that they are leaning on, bikes pass at well over 100mph.

and, at the end of the day, this is the queue to climb over the style and so back to the main grandstand area, before the roads open!

We received over 700 messages of thanks via FaceBook  - for the fresh food, our warm welcome, and also the chance to come through and sit in the peace of the church. 

Warm Space Initiative.

We have 'coffee and chat' in the coffee room alternate Tuesday afternoons from 2 - 4.30 which is part of this initiative.  Some of us bring our crafting things to do, or there are books to read and adult colouring books available.  Everyone is welcome.

Newsletter.

Wendy is currently not able to produce the newsletter due to ill health.  It is hoped that someone else will pick up the baton and we can continue to produce one quarterly.

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