Messy Church

On Sunday 30th June the members of the Greater Alton Project came together at St. Lawrence Church to celebrate their outreach to the local community, especially the work of the Open the Book teams. The Greater Alton Project is a covenant between Alton Methodist Church and the churches of the Anglican Parish of the Resurrection. Members of the GAP churches work together in providing Open the Book...

On the Scottish HillsThe six young people in our Duke of Edinburgh Gold group travelled by train to Galloway in South-West Scotland in July for their assessed expedition. Their base for the week was a large, well-appointed holiday cottage near Castle Douglas, set in beautiful countryside. The weather during the two days of familiarisation was excellent, but it started to go downhill as the...

With the thermometer hovering at 31 degrees, it was fortunate that the route of the church evening stroll was through shady woodland!Fifteen people (and three dogs!) enjoyed a two-hour walk through the sun-dappled Ackender and Bushy Leaze woods, stopping to look at the historic Park Pale and the well in Beech, and appreciating the beauty of the beech woods. Finishing over the meadows, with a...