In the hot and humid weather on Saturday, over 30 volunteers did a great job of making people welcome at our Horsforth Churches Together patch in the Gala, with all free activities including the Tots tent, deckchairs for chilling out, big games, bouncy castle, penalty shoot out, Sumo wrestling, a Paddington Bear refugee activity, make a badge to support refugees, and two short dramas about the Good Samaritan story. A big thank you to all who helped and to all those who joined in!
Families with little ones really appreciated a place to sit and play at the Tots Tent, whilst others had a go at the big games:
Paddington Bear, who of course was himself a refugee from darkest Peru, was ‘supervising’ as luggage labels were made with messages of hope for refugees; others made orange heart badges to show we stand ‘Together with Refugees’. Our Quiz on famous refugees surprised some people – did you know Michael Marks who co-founded Marks and Spencers came from Belarus orginally?
We also offered colourful pocket gift cards with meaningful sayings of Jesus on, to those who wished to take them:
On the back of each gift card was this reminder of our activities and website.
We were all glad to be part of our community on this day of celebration, shows, stalls and sharing information and fun!