Now that Autumn is well on the way, this is a quick update on the Community and Eco
working group at Inverallan Church.

The boxes for recycling have been well used, with volunteers taking or sending the items
to various points for recycling, even raising some money from printer cartridge recycling.
As the church is closed during the week from the beginning of October throughout winter
and early spring, we will try putting a few of the collection boxes in the hall but still have
them available on a Sunday.

The regular Food Table collection has also been well supported, and will continue
throughout the winter months with a reminder once a month on the weekly update. This
will also include any special requests from the Food Table volunteers. We regularly have
messages from these volunteers telling us what a difference we are making as a church
to those requiring their services.

We continue to provide the church meeting room for both AA and Alanon every week and
have several concerts planned before Christmas in the church.

The church hall is open for vaccination clinics, Rainbows, Brownies, Ladies Badminton,
Dance and Art Classes, and the occasional children’s birthday party.

Coffee mornings have proved to be popular - including raising money for Christian Aid,
and having a plant sale.Macmillan and the Strathspey Festival have also used the hall for
their own coffee mornings. In October we plan to have a Blythswood Shoe Box filling
morning, and in December a Christmas Craft morning and a “come and chat” morning
just after Christmas.

There are plenty of small booklets explaining the Christian Faith at the book of the church
- please take one and pass one along if you feel you should. Have you seen our bookshelf
also at the back of the church? Please take a book and have a good read.

The picnic table is now in place and has been well used over the summer. This summer
we took at trip out to the Grantown Show along with the other churches in the town,
having a quiet gazebo where folk could call in and sit and chat if choosing to do so.
Knit and Knatter continues at Woodside Court, to which all are welcome, knitter or not.
We are still providing home knitted prem. baby knitted hats; and matching knitted squares
for babies separated from their mothers, though some knitting is now directed towards
Blythswood boxes. We also provide a team for the community cafe once a month along
with the other churches in the town.

So, how can you be part of sharing God’s love to our community?

Firstly, be aware of what we do as a church community and be able to direct folk to any of
these activities.

Secondly, come along and join in

Thirdly, get involved - can you wash up? Organise a rota? Type up some notices? Chat to
people? Knit? Deliver notices around the shops? Bake? Smile at the world?

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Aileen and Sally