EACH Each person matters
Scottish Charity no: SC 036849 ‘My command is this; love each other as I have loved you’. John 15:12 There is never a dull moment for us at EACHa, but December was manic – in a good way of course. Our main activity in December is co-ordinating the Christmas gift appeal for children whose families cannot afford to spend much on gifts at Christmas. In addition to ourselves, ten other churches collect gifts, and deliver to New Laigh Kirk for sorting and distribution. This year we also received lovely gifts from local schools, a bank and other businesses. For the third year, we were invited to take part in the ‘bring a Gift’ day at the Kilmarnock v Hearts football match. Again this appeal was very well supported. Kilmarnock won the match 3-0, but Janice missed all the goals due to cramming the last of the parcels into her car! In all, around 2,000 gifts were received, and delivered to children’s services to families in plenty time for Christmas. Your kindness was greatly appreciated by many children, once again. We were also asked this year to co-ordinate distribution of the boxes of food, donated by NHS staff through their Reverse Advent appeal. We could not believe the amount of food which arrived one evening in December – two Billy Bowie truckloads filled to the brim with boxes of food. We had trouble even forming a passageway for people to get into the hall! This was the week before Christmas, and we wondered how we would clear it all away.
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