Purley Food Hub Priority items for May: dried potatoes, tinned pulses, tinned meat, baby food in jars/packs for babies 10+months, tins of dessert fruit, instant packet custard, long life fruit juice, 1 litre cartons of whole long life milk, small washing up liquid, unisex shampoo, unisex deodorant, Ladies sanitary pads, tin openers. For more information […]
Fairtrade/Traidcraft Sale – 24 April 2016
There will be a sale on Sunday April 24th, in the Hall, following morning worship at 11:30am, of fairly-traded crafts, cards and food (including some delicious new cakes and many items which can be donated to the Food Hub). Many handicrafts are on sale. Gardening items and cleaning products are also on offer. Please come […]
Chrstian Aid – Ethiopia Drought Appeal – 2016
Ethiopia Drought Appeal 10 million people at risk of hunger Donate ▶ Ethiopia Drought More than 10 million people in Ethiopia urgently need access to food supplies and water as the country faces its worst drought in three decades. Farmers haven’t been able to harvest any crops for two consecutive planting seasons, and supplies are dwindling. […]
Purley Youth Centre Open Evening – 18th May 2016
Purley Youth Centre is holding an open evening when all the work carried out in the centre will be presented Wednesday 18th May at 7.15pm refreshments will be provided it would be good if despite it again being in Christian aid week some of you could encourage the young people by attending Kind Regards Martin […]
Purley and Kenley Churches Together AGM – 20th April 2016
Purley and Kenley Churches Together AGM takes place on Wednesday 20th April at 8pm at Montpelier Church, Biddulph Road, South Croydon CR2 6QB. Reuben Martin from West Croydon Baptist Church will be our guest speaker and he will be talking about Transforming Croydon. It should be a great evening so please encourage your congregations […]
Russell’s April’s 2016 Newsletter – Sharing the Good News
Dear Friends, Before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 souvenir tradesmen exploited the situation. Visitors could buy cans of ‘genuine’ West Berlin air for the few East German visitors to breathe when they returned home, and for West Germans to relish as a sign of their freedom. But to enjoy a can of air […]
Purley and Kenly Churches together – Open Air Service
People from the Purley and Kenley Churches came together on Good Friday for a joint service outside the Purley Tesco Store. This is one of many joint services (and other such events) that the churches in our local community hold. People joined a walk of witness following individual church services meeting up together for the joint service. Hot […]
Russell’s March 2016 Newsletter – remembering Revd. Stephen Brown
Dear Friends, Remembering Rev’d Stephen Brown If first met Stephen in September 1985 when we both arrived at Luther King House in Manchester, the new home for Northern College. We made a connection straight away, not least because we were the only 2 students in our year who were studying for the University of Manchester […]
Fairtrade Fortnight 2016 – 29 February to 13 March
The theme for 2016 Fairtrade Fortnight is the Fairtrade Breakfast In 1967 Martin Luther King Jnr said, “Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning you’ve depended on more than half the world” Maybe this morning you enjoyed: coffee from Kenya, bananas from Colombia, cocoa from Cote d’Ivoire, tea from India, sugar from Malawi and […]
Russell’s Newsletter – February 2016
Dear Friends, Love is in the air! As I write, Valentine’s Day is looming and I have my annual panic about trying to find the right card for my wife, Nicola, that says what I would want to say without also making her feel sick. Trying to put love into words is no easy […]