Harvest Festival - help needed please
Saturday 12 October- 9:00 am
A small group of willing volunteers will be decorating the Church for our Harvest Festival next Saturday morning 12th October from 9am and they would be very grateful for any extra help you can give - flower arranging or just distributing food, fruit and vegetable gifts to look good on the windowsills! No experience required just a willingness to help! Suitable greenery and hydrangea heads would be very helpful too. Thank you
Harvest Festival
Sunday 13th October - 10:00 am
Tony Miller, Director of the Whitechapel Mission, will lead our service.
The Whitechapel Mission works with people sleeping on the streets of London. Our
donations of food will go towards this work, with fresh produce being sent to St Francis Hospice. Imagine serving 350 breakfasts every day – but then it might even be 600 today!
That’s an awful lot of food!
The Whitechapel Mission needs our help to provide breakfasts for people living on London’s streets (alongside their other work – providing showers, clothing, advice, skills training, etc) – this is where our harvest tins and packages will go.
Items most desperately needed at the moment include: Tinned Fruit; Porridge; Cornflakes; Weetabix; Any cereals; Coffee; Instant Hot Chocolate;
Bottled Water; Plum Tomatoes; Chopped Tomatoes; Baked Beans; Ketchup; Brown
Sauce; Sugar; Honey; Chocolate Spread; Nutella; Peanut Butter; Salt; Black Ground
Pepper.
See their website for more details and other items needed.
https://whitechapel.org.uk
Christmas Tree Festival
Our thanks to those who joined the meeting on Wednesday, we made a start on allocating the many jobs involved in holding the Christmas Tree Festival, and planning the preparations that need to be started now.
Dates for your diary when help will be needed please:
Saturday 9th November
Help setting up and attending the Charity Christmas Card Sale and Coffee
Morning. If you would like to sell Christmas cards on behalf of a charity please let us know.
From 10th November
Delivering posters to the local shops, Library etc
Sunday 24th November
After morning worship, prepping Church for the festival, getting boards,
stands etc from the basement, putting up decorations in the Church and halls and corridor
Wednesday 27th November
A couple of people to be at the church to take delivery of the trees, time to be arranged
Wednesday 27th November - 6:00 pm
Preparing trees and moving them into the Church, putting up the large tree in the front garden - this needs lots of strong people!
Thursday 28th November
A couple of people to welcome decorators into the Church, there will be a morning and late afternoon time - still to be arranged.
Friday 29th November
A couple of people to welcome decorators into the Church, there will be a morning and late afternoon time - still to be arranged.
Friday 29th November - evening(time to be arranged)
Setting up halls for the Christmas Market
Saturday 30th November - from 8.30am
Ensuring the Church is ready to open for the festival, helping stall holders set up for the market, helping at the Market on the raffle, chocolate tombola or with refreshments. The market will be open from 10am - 3pm so please let us know what time you are able to help. If you would like to run a stall at the Market please let us know asap.
Saturday 30th November - Sunday 8th December
Stewarding, key holders to open up and close etc during opening hours of the festival and when choirs come to sing.
If you are able to help on any of these dates please contact us by email, our email address is
monitored by several people who are co-ordinating different aspects of the festival.
email upminstertreefest@gmail.com
Thank you!
For more events and notices please view the newsletter found above
Morning Worship - 10:00 am
Sunday 6th October 2024
Rev Roy Jackson
10am - Junior Church
Contemplative Worship - 7:00 pm
Sunday 6th October 2024
Via Zoom
Morning Worship - 7:00 pm
Sunday 13th October 2024
Tony Miller - Whitechapel Mission
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