Family and Elder shoeboxes for Christmas

Family and Elder shoeboxes for Christmas By Fiona Baxter Thanks to everyone for their gifts of shoeboxes filled for the annual Link to Hope appeal. Link to Hope are a Christian charity with over 25 years experience of reaching out a helping hand to poor and marginalised people in Eastern Europe. We took 35 shoeboxes…

Gearing up for Christmas in the Parish of High Ongar…

Or should I say gearing up for Advent? by Katherine Garner This year we have decided to do something a bit special for the period of Advent! Something we hope will become an annual tradition. Something we hope will bring community and church together. Something we believe will be beautiful, practical and above all highly…

Harmony Club: October week 3

So today at Harmony we’ve finished our advent calendars, conducted a poll about what the Harmony children like best about Christmas (no surprise there!!)… By Jo Saward …and learnt about today’s Brilliant bit of the Bible which tells of the Three Kings visiting baby Jesus and the presents they brought Him at the first Christmas….