On the weekend of 4th to 6th March 2022 St Barnabas will be hosting Taste & See! We will be welcoming back former TV Gladiator ‘Ace’ (real name Warren Furman) who visited St Barnabas in March 2020, just before the first lockdown. ‘Ace’ has a great story to share about his faith in Christ, and we will be hosting a full weekend with a varied programme, involving plenty of food, activities and fun! Full details <a href="https://st-barnabas.net/taste-and-see/">here</a>.
In partnership with the charity ‘The Message Trust’, St Barnabas is opening a Community Grocery in Spring 2022. Community Groceries are springing up all over the UK.Millions of families are facing not knowing where the next meal is coming from. The Community Grocery is here to help. Step inside a grocery and you’ll find a range of food options fresh from local supermarkets, meaning members can come and shop for their whole family at the fraction of the cost of a supermarket. Whilst also saving hundreds of tonnes of food being wasted each year.But it’s not just about the food. In each store you’ll also find a range of free support on offer to members. Support like job clubs, money management support, healthy cooking classes, exploring Christianity courses and much more. If you are interested in the Community Grocery, please get in touch with church office via <strong>office@st-barnabas.net</strong>
One way we reached out as a church over Christmas was to provide a trail of advent windows all over Linthorpe and Ayresome, pointing to the good news of Jesus. Each house taking part was provided with a bible verse from the Christmas story, and decorated their window to show the picture (as ambitious or simple as desired!). Each house also had an A4 paper “plaque” to go on the fence or wall so people could read the verse, get a clue to the next advent window and find out about the St Barnabas Christmas Services. Windows were up for three weeks before Christmas, and lit up between 4pm and 8pm each evening.
