Happy New Year from The Den ………

and what we did for Christmas

Firstly, thank you to everyone who supported The Den’s cake bake sale for ‘Pets As Therapy’ at the end of November. We raised over £300 for the charity!

We hope you saw, and enjoyed, our Advent calendar which was displayed in the window of Versatile Ceramics in Weyhill during the Christmas Window Competition in December. All of the kids had great fun dressing up and re-enacting the Nativity scenes.

The wreath-making evening was also a great success. The children learnt about Advent and advent wreaths and then created a wreath of their own! Lara Butler led the workshop but there was also a lot of support and help from members of our church congregation. The evening ended with us toasting marshmallows over a firepit, and drinking some of Lara’s warm mulled juice.

Another very special event was when we visited Chestnut View Care Home in Haslemere and sang carols along with the residents. The children were able to hand out gifts which included the bath bombs they had made a few weeks before with the LUSH soap company. Some of their hand-made bath bombs were also given to Haslemere In-Home Care to give to their clients for Christmas.

Some of The Den also helped out at the Families@4 Christmas Special and did a wonderful job face-painting the young kids in attendance.

After all the Christmas excitement and whilst the nights are still dark, we intend to spend most of this half-term in The Den at St Christopher’s, beginning with a discussion about New Year resolutions, and how we can all work on becoming closer to God.

Sue Davis & Verity Sutherland

For more details of The Den contact:

Verity Sutherland, Children & Families Worker (Older Children)

Email: Children@haslemereparish.org