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A great night at the Decembers activity of ‘The Net’ (outreach evening to men).
28 men squeezed into the home of Mike & Alison Peach to enjoy fish & chips, good company and hear a informative and challenging talk by Peter Brind!

Please pay for the many unChurched men who attended.

Sam’s final stint on his 6 week placement was speaking at ‘BodyBuilders’ Youth Event. He will retruned home to Manchester after Sunday’s All-Age Service at Duncan Road Church.
Sam has now completed stage 2 of his FirstServe programme based at Duncan Road Church, working with Gordon & Penny Curley.
Stage 3 will resume in January where Sam will depart to GLO Alive, Zambia and will remain there for three months.

FirstServe is a unique discipleship and missions programme, primarily for 18-25 year-olds on a gap year, or those with a shorter time available.

Gordon is part of the FistServe Steering Group.

Lots of Christmas school assemblies and Christmas meal opportunities – a reminder that the big day is fast approaching!

A bridge building/outreach event run by Penny:
A great evening at the Ladies Christmas Craft Night, craft, chocolates, refreshments as well as bookstall & toy sale! And of course some very nice hand made crafts!

Counties Schools Work Manual –
An extensive guide to help Christians visiting schools across the UK.

Includes advice about:
•running RE classes and training days
•school governing
•taking assemblies
•pastoral support
•running Christian Unions
•plus much more!

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Just under 600 children through the LIFE Expo this week – exhausting but fun!
Great to finish off with 5 classes (150 kids) from Sarisbury Green Junior School.
Just this evening to go and it’s bye, bye LIFE Expo until it returns in the summer.
LIFE Expo website:

Full on day today at the LIFE Expo – 5 classes of up to 30 children kept the team busy – encouraging comments from the teachers in the Visitors Book.
(apologies for blurred faces – school requirement – but at least the photos give you a flavour of what we are up to).

It is hosted by St. John’s Church, Locks Heath, Southampton, Hants. It is an inter-Church project run by the Western Wards Church Network

A good evening at ‘The Net’ an event for men! Although I only managed to attend the last part due to running the LIFE Expo, it was good to see a full room (thirty men) and hear the ‘buzz’ of conversation.
Thanks Andy Robinson for sharing your dramatic story!

If you missed it then:
Read: Andy’s interview with Christian.co.uk

Listen: Interview – Transworld Radio
(Scroll to the middle and type ‘Andy Robinson’ in search box).

Day one of the LIFE Expo!
Great to have pupils from Park Gate Primary School filling the venue this morning and some evening visitors, who as you can see are concentrating hard!

Limited photos this week due to schools photo policies and of course, we are conscience that the general public don’t like ‘media intrusion’.

The exhibition is open to the General Public each evening: November 9th-13th (7.00pm to 9.00pm).
It is hosted by St. John’s Church, Locks Heath, Southampton, Hants. It is an inter-Church project run by the Western Wards Church Network

Thanks team for all your hard work setting up the Expo – looking forward to a great week ahead!

The LIFE Exhibition is an educational experience with active learning opportunities. Using ipod tablet technology, with text, graphics, DVD and sound, the exhibition is a ‘hands on’ interactive learning experience.

We anticipate that children from six local schools will be attending the Expo during the week;

Monday 9th Nov.- Park Gate Primary School.
Tuesday 10th Nov – Whiteley Primary School and St John the Baptist C of E School
Wednesday 11th Nov – Titchfield Primary School and St John the Baptist C of E School
Thursday 12th Nov – Hook with Warsash C of E School
Friday 13th Nov – Sarisbury Junior School.

The exhibition will be open to the General Public each evening: November 9th-13th (7.00pm to 9.00pm).
It will be hosted by St. John’s Church, Locks Heath, Southampton, Hants. It will be an inter-Church project run by the Western Wards Church Network