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September 2021
News
Scenes from the coffee morning held between 10am and noon every Thursday at Little Stoke Baptist Church, Kingsway
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here has certainly been a lot of activity in the first month of the new minister’s arrival at Little Stoke Baptist Church on Kingsway. Rev. Tania Vaughan says: “In this first month I think the thing I have heard most from the community has been, ‘I didn’t realise the building was open!’’ Well that’s changing already.
In just a month, more people have been attending the free coffee morning every Thursday 10am-noon to enjoy drinks, chat, crafts and jigsaws, but also to browse the ever-changing tabletop sale items which are available for any donation amount. The car park has been spruced up with some new planting to add a bit of colour and make
it more appealing to the many people who walk through it. This is just the start of a plan to make community gardening accessible to all. As a first step, the parish council has handed over the care of the planters at the entrance to Little Stoke Community Hall. More information can be found in the Facebook Group ‘Little Stoke Growing Community’.
On 5th September the church hosted its first free community event, Build a Bug House, which included the community being involved in the weeks before collecting material and then helping to build it. Also available were bug-related crafts, games, cakes and refreshments. The next free community event will happen at the end of October.
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