Footsteps Picnic

Although our ‘Footsteps’ group is not meeting formally over the summer we thought it would be a great idea to meet up for a picnic. After such a beautiful summer, the day of the picnic, 6th August, looked like rain.  Still we carried on.  We met at the playground on Ancells Farm, the rain kept […]

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Our Beetle Drive – a Fun Evening for All

Nearly fifty people of all ages turned up last Friday night to enjoy a fun evening at our latest church social – a Beetle Drive.  Competition was fast and furious as everyone raced to finish their beetles in the shortest possible time!  Hearty thanks to Margaret and Darrell for organising the evening, and to the […]

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Walking the Way at Fleet URC

‘Walking the Way’ is the URC’s exciting focus on lifelong Christian discipleship and mission, and at our first church parade service this year we introduced this initiative to the church, Rainbows and Brownies, and their parents and friends. We laid out footsteps from the front door to all parts of the church.  On arrival people […]

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Christingle Making

This morning some of our church members and young people, plus Jackie Cresswell and a group of the 8th Fleet Brownies, met together to assemble the Christingles for tomorrow evening’s carol service.  We all had a great time working together – not to mention eating all the rejected sweets! Thank you to everyone who came […]

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Pilots Investigate Fair Trade Chocolate

Pilots have been looking at something they all love – chocolate.  What is it?  How is it made?  Where does it come from?  They found out that a lot of chocolate products are labelled ‘Fair Trade’.  We went over to our local Co-op store to see how many products they sold were also labelled Fair […]

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Children Lead Morning Service

On Sunday 12 February our morning worship was led by the young people from our Loaves and Fishes group. Guided by their leaders, Darrell Henderson and Margaret Armes, the children took ‘Building Blocks’ as the theme of their service.  They presented Jesus’ parable of the wise man who built his house upon rock and the […]

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The Christmas Spiders

Our young people have been busy decorating our Christmas tree entry for the Festival at St Philip and St James’ this coming weekend (9-11 December).  The theme of our entry will be ‘The Christmas Spiders’, based on a story by Stephanie Herbek. The children in Loaves and Fishes and the Little Rainbows group made the […]

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