Ken Burgin – Senior Steward

Ken, Beck & Liz Burgin    01453 827414

www.EastingtonMethodists.org.uk

As we enter the holiday period, some of our usual activities take a break. The 11am Sunday morning services continue throughout and include the Café Church on 13th August which will be considering the subject of IDENTITY. Just about everything resumes to normal at the beginning of September.

The  Café Church on 10th September considers sin. We all sin; we cannot help it, it is what happens every time we do, or even think, something  bad or fail to do something good. The biggest mistake we can ever make is to fool ourselves into thinking that we never sin. It cannot be true and it means that there is no room to accept forgiveness. Nor is there a need to pickle ourselves in guilt as Jesus came to save us from this. There is salvation and there is restoration available if only we will accept it.

Youth Club News

This looks like it is going to be quite a good year for additional events.

The Youth Barn Event held on 24th June at Coln St Aldwyns was fun.

The young people were better at staying on the rodeo ride than the leaders.

Over the course of the summer, we will also need to know which young people want to book into the “EWEnique “ District Youth Weekend based in Nailsea from Friday 13th to Sunday 15th October. The normal price of this would be £45 but the church will subsidise this so the cost for each young person is only £10. This covers two nights away, all food as well as entry into Noah's Ark Farm Ball Pool and Death Slides and a Silent Disco UV Party.

 We try to keep the youth club running throughout the summer holidays, but as is often the case in holiday periods, we do not have enough leaders available to manage every Friday in August. This year there will be no youth club on 4th & 18th August but there are two youth days out planned for Tuesday 15th and Wednesday  30th  August.  One of these will be a beach trip and the other a waterfalls walk in the Brecon Beacons – the beach trip will be first if the weather is good on the 15th. Both events are free and will leave the church at 10:00am with the young people being dropped off at their homes mid-evening.