Sevenoaks Road 

Orpington 

Kent 

BR6 9JH 

Family Worker News

Dear Friends

What a wonderful witness to our local community the Christmas Tree Festival proved to be!  Well done everybody!  Thank you for all your hard work and dedicated commitment, especially to Ruth for her leadership, and for the significant contribution made to the Family Worker Fund to help secure our ongoing outreach to children and families in our locality.

It was great too that so many children took part in the Nativity.  The church was packed and everyone appreciated the performance of Manger Mania!  Thanks go to Georgie for directing and all those involved with the music, staging and scenery.  I’m sure that the experience was a memorable one for all the girls and boys who took part.

We praise God for his blessing upon our new after-school activity: Families Together at OMC since its launch in September.  At our Christmas Special in December we had an amazing 64 children plus their families! 

At our January session, we continued our journey down Luke Street, visiting The Cheat’s House.  The children loved the creative painting and theme related crafts, the Parachute games and Bible story on the big screen of Zacchaeus the tax collector.  With 65 children and their parents/carers, together with our team of helpers to feed, the ladies in the kitchen did an incredible job.  The burgers and hot dogs were a hit! 

On Saturday 28 January we are privileged to be hosting the Churches Together
Big Breakfast Bakery for some 90 primary school aged children across Orpington.  The highlight is a breakfast served continental-style, with the rest of the morning devoted to an exciting programme of fun, creativity and team challenges where we will be helping the children to discover what Jesus meant when he said, “I am the bread of life”. 

We now look forward to our forthcoming holiday club, GOING FOR GOLD! – planned for Tues-Thurs 14-16 February during the half-term week.  As London gears up to hosting the 2012 Olympics, our holiday club this time will have a ‘Global Games’ sports theme, based around the remarkable stories about Jesus from Mark’s Gospel.  Each day the children will meet Jesus as he calls his disciples, demonstrates his healing power, shows his authority and reveals himself as the Son of God.  Children will discover and begin to experience what it is like to be a member of the team that has Jesus as the leader.  They will see how Jesus picked his team, challenged them to keep stepping out in faith and taught them to keep following him.

Once again I am building a large team of volunteers to come on board as we help the children discover what it was like for the disciples to follow Jesus.  If you’ve not already offered, will you prayerfully consider joining our team of helpers?  We can’t promise you’ll receive a gold medal but we guarantee it will be great fun and you’ll be helping with one of OMC’s strategic outreach activities to children and families in our local area. 

So whether you’d like to help in the Athlete Villages, in the Pentathlon or on the Running Track, or serving refreshments in the Global Café, it would be great to hear from you.  Alternatively, why not come along to one of our workshops and get involved in all the preparations?

Above all, please pray for a safe and happy environment, that holiday club would be a special time of creative learning and fun where together we would learn more about Christ’s love for us and God would strengthen our connections with the children and their families whom we are called to serve.

Yours in Christ's Service - Kim Curle 

For parents or carers to book your children in to the Going for Gold! Holiday Club,
please go to the Going for Gold! page where you can download a Registration and Consent Form.
Follow this link for photos of Holiday at Home
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