From 24 February to 4 March we will be running an outreach week assisted by a team of students from Capernwray College.

Activities will include

• The Amazing Acts Bible Exhibition in local schools assisted by John Hawley from the Open Air Mission
• An After School Club at Fountain Primary School (3.30-5 pm Tuesday 28 Feb to Friday 2 March) for KS2 children. All welcome.
• Street evangelism in Queen Street
• Pensioners Lunch (Sat 3 March from 11.30 am in the Labour Rooms)
• Visits to various residential care homes in the town
• The team will aso be leading our Sunday worship on 25 Feb and 4 March.

The students, who are from USA, Canada and Denmark,  visited for a planning weekend on 28 and 29 January.

The church, with the help of Morley Elderly Action, has given 1600 calendars to pensioners who live in the town and surrounding villages.  Further copies have been given to local councillors, civic leaders and shopkeepers in Morley but probably the most supprising distribution  has been to servicemen on one of the world’s remotest airfields at Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Church members were contacted by the RAF Padre on Ascension who had heard of their annual distribution of thousands of calendars throughout the town each year.  He enquired if a quantity could be sent to Ascension for distribution to RAF personnel, families and support workers over the new year period. Local RAF cadets from the Air Training Corps 168 (Leeds) Squadron volunteered their assistance and helped the church pastor in despatching the calendars.  They were flown from RAF Brize Norton to the island.

Leeds City Council supplied us with tickets to take a group of deserving children to the Aladdin pantomime at City Varieties. The photograph shows the children with members of the cast. (Photograph courtesy City Varieties)

Our Christmas Carols evening was held in the Labour Rooms at 5pm on Sunday 18 December. This was a fun Christmas sing along for the family and friends followed by a Christmas tea.

Our Harvest celebration were held on Sunday 9 October in the lounge of Jubilee Court Residential Home, the service was followed by a Harvest supper.

The theme of the celebration focused on the work of London City Mission with homeless people and the Morley Elderly Action Craft Group had been busy knitting various types of clothing items for the mission to distribute to the needy as the colder winter months set in.