Wallace and Gromit at Portway!

A huge well done to Steve and Hannah for dressing up as Wallace and Gromit for a prize giving at Portway School on Monday morning. Inevitably, photos were taken and are below!

Portway Academic Review Day

Here are some photos from Highgrove's involvement in the Academic Review Day on Wednesday 21 November.

Every parent and child (over 400 local people) was greeted at the door by someone from Highgrove…


…was registered by the Highgrove registration team…


…and then served with drinks and cakes and friendly chat by Highgrove volunteers.


17 Highgrove volunteers took part in serving over 500 teas/coffees and hundreds of cakes throughout the whole day and evening (some for the whole 12 hours!)


…and always with a SMILE!



The parents loved it, the school management really appreciated the welcome the parents had received, and the staff felt very blessed by the service.
A massive

Thank You!

to all of you who gave up time on the day or to help with cakes.

Portway School News

Highgrove Church has been asked to host the new Academic Review Days at Portway School which will involve meeting, greeting and providing hospitality for parents and teachers throughout the day (8.45am -7.45pm).

Please let us know if you are free anytime on Wednesday 21 November to be part of a team in this great opportunity to serve our local community.

Ask Ju and Ju for more details.

Crisis Centre Prayer email list

Following Passion8's excellent interview with Paul about his work at the Crisis Centre on Sunday, you may be interested to know that there is an email prayer list that you can sign up to to receive prayer updates by email.

Visit the following webpage for instructions of how to subscribe:

http://www.crisis-centre.org.uk/ccm_email.htm

Love
Ed

November 17th Prayer Day

Woodies is focusing on prayer on Saturday 17th November. 
We are having a prayer room (which is going to be in the pillar room) open from midnight Friday until midnight Saturday - We are not asking people to sign up but just to come along when they want to.
To get the access code people need to email woodiesprayer@gmail.com
We are also taking a team down to the streets to offer prayer and people are welcome to be part of this - The team will meet outside woodies main hall at 2pm.

Happy 50th Birthday Doug!

Photos from Shabbat Shalom Prayer morning

View some photos from the Shabbot Shalom Prayer morning held at Highgrove on Saturday 20 October 2007:












The full set of photos can be viewed here.

Woodies on TV!

Woodlands Church was filmed for local TV recently during the Student lunches being put on to welcome new students into the city, Associate Pastor Nigel Savage speaks...
Watch now on Youtube below

Vision Evening: Tuesday 2 October

This event will be taking place instead of homegroups for the week and is a great opportunity to hear and share vision for the Woodlands group of churches for the coming year.

Tuesday 2 October 2007
8pm
Woodlands Christian Centre
Do ask around for a lift!

Leaflets and Prayer walking in Sea Mills

As you may have heard on a Sunday morning or through homegroups, we're setting aside the morning of Saturday 6th October between 9am and 12pm to deliver the new Highgrove leaflet and Alpha flier through doors in our local area.

We're aiming to put them through every door in Sea Mills and Coombe Dingle as well as praying for every household in a focused effort on this one morning. In theory, 8-10 people could fairly easily deliver all 3,500 leaflets in the space of 2 hours. However, some may feel they would like to knock on doors and introduce themselves and handover the leaflets in person. If so, great! - if we don't manage to get all the leaflets delivered in one go because we keep getting tied up in conversations with people then that's fantastic!

If you'd be interested in taking part in this, I'd appreciate knowing about it (even if you've spoken to me already) to help me in planning the logistics. Please do reply to ed@highgrove.org.uk if you are coming along to help. We'll be meeting at Highgrove at just before 9am to start with a croissant and coffee/tea.

It's gonna be great!

With lots of love
Ed