St Ninian's & St Clement's, Catholic Churches Together
Last week we had a bumper crop of strawberries, thanks to the dedication of our fabulous Garden Gang and of course, Mother Nature who provided the sun and rain (a lot). Brian was our official taster and with the help of his trusty ‘sidekick’ Jim, picked 3kg of strawberries which have now been made into jam. This will be served very soon as an accompaniment to scones as part of the Afternoon Tea menu.
Every little blue token certainly helped us! Our parish was one of the local causes chosen by Tesco for their community award scheme and after a huge effort by all connected to St Ninian’s in amassing those little blue tokens, we came second after Shelter.
We are very grateful to Allison, the Community Champion and her team at Riverside. They are hugely supportive of us. The money will be used to buy furniture for CC’s, our community cafe in the church hall, which we run every Thursday.
The cafe is proving very popular with people making it a regular lunchtime date in their diary every week.
Throughout Lent all the money we are raising is being sent to the Turkish/Syrian Earthquake Appeal.
Huge thanks to Tesco and to our CC’s regulars. Every little donation they are making is helping us serve our local community.
Since our fund raising appeal was launched for the church and Rosily, (see the last post for suggestions) parishioners have rallied around amazingly! Here’s just a couple of examples of what’s been happening and it’s so fabulous to see the young ones leading the way in ‘building their fiver’!
Niamh made very good use of her day off school last week. She made a batch of Irish bread! It sold out very quickly after Mass today and she’s taken orders for next week! Watch out Clarks’ Bakery- you’ve got serious competition with this budding baker! To see her in action, click here
Meanwhile, outside the church, Chandi, Niza and their families were braving the cold washing parishioners’ cars! They did a brilliant job and the Vigil parishioners will be glad to know that they will be returning next Saturday night with their buckets and sponges.
Our monthly soup and stovies deal is proving to be popular with our customers. All the vegetables we used were the produce of our church garden, tenderly nurtured by our Garden Gang.
The little we had left over, we offered as a takeaway- ideal for people living on their own.
We are very fortunate to have a great team of volunteers willing to help with the prep, serving and clearing up. Thank you!