The overall aim of the Eco Church award scheme is to celebrate the ways that church communities have been engaging with caring for the earth as a key part of our Christian faith.<br>Thank you to all who have supported us in Prayer and in Actions. From small ways such as recycling at church events and at home, to walking, car sharing, switching lights off and supporting Fair Trade Products. Thank you to all who have helped the care of our grounds with plants for bio diversity, and the families with bug hunts, Early birds with vegetables and uniformed organizations with their badge work , the Eco group at St Mary’s school for all their ideas for our next steps and much more happening in the back ground life of our church activities and buildings.Now we continue to develop the next steps in this important support in God’s precious world.
St Mary's have received a thank you from George Lane at The Chaplaincy, Manchester Airport, for the soft toy collection for incoming refugee children.This charity appeal was for Afghan refugees in 2021, then Ukranian refugees in 2022 alongside refugees from Sudan, Yemen, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Syria and many other places of conflict and uncertainty across the world who continue to arrive at Manchester Airport – and as often as we are notified of their arrival, the chaplaincy team is there to greet them. The purpose of both is to reassure the children - and their anxious siblings and parents that they are safe and among friends. We have no idea of the immediate situation they left before they boarded their flight to the UK, but it would be entirely natural and normal for them still to be very anxious and afraid of authority figures, and especially immigration officers, security staff and police. So we aim gently to undermine the official and scary process of arriving in the UK. The kind donations all play an important role on achieving this. Thank you to all who have helped in any way.George LaneLead Chaplain at Manchester Airport Chaplaincy
