Churches Together In Long Lane - Christine Bartlett

The aim of Churches Together is to work together to proclaim the Gospel, work together on activities which are recognised as better done together than separately, to pray regularly for one another, to work at deepening our understanding of one another, seek ways to support each other and to seek together the mind of Christ, that our churches may grow closer together find new ways to work and worship together.

Member churches are St John’s, All Saints, North Hillingdon Methodist Church, Salvation Army, St Bernadettes, and Hilly Park Baptist Church.

The main event of the year is always the Walk of Witness on Good Friday, starting at St John’s and finishing the Western Avenue end of Long Lane, where we adjourn to Hilly Park Baptist Church for lunch.

The executive Committee of the CTLL meets 3 times a year and there is an Annual General Meeting which anyone from the member churches can attend. The 2008 meeting is on May 7th

Church Hall - Mary Hughes

Another good year of bookings thanks to Ian and Jane’s hard work. The bookings include regular and one-off lets. We have a good working relationship with our outside groups who use the hall. A film company is interested in using the hall for filming location work in 2008. The location manager has been to look and taken pictures, now we are waiting on the producer to say yes or no. Thanks to our PCSO’s for looking after us and Christine and Jane for their help when we are on holiday.

Festival 2007 - Christine Bartlett

The Festival lasted for whole nine days in June! Our aims were faith sharing, church family fun, open church, local entertainment and fund raising There was an amazingly full and varied programme of events enjoyed by many and we raised over £5000.

As usually happens with a new venture, there were a few things which with the glorious benefit of hindsight we would have done differently. We think we have ironed these out for this year and so it is with great confidence that we now head towards Festival 2008 which we hope will be even better than 2007!

It would be very nice too if we don’t get quite so much rain this year. I seem to recall that it rained every day with the grand finale on the last day of gale force winds!

Here’s to Festival 2008!

Traidcraft - Gay Durston

Traidcraft at St John's is going from strength to strength because:-the church is using more Fairtrade goods, more people ordering more and Sunday morning sales are up! We are offering a more varied stock of items, but will order any requests if possible. Items are from gifts to household requisites,cards and food items (such as cakes, pasta and dried fruit). Best sellers have been Christmas cards, Fairbreak wafers and cakes. Many heartfelt thanks are given to the team who regularly and occasionally help to keep the stall operating.

Fairtrade fortnight: including the coffee morning( which raised £32.25 sold nearly £200 worth of goods. A donation of £68 has been sent to Traidcraft (Thanks to all). In the future we are investigating if anyone is interested in buying Fairtrade wine. Any volunteers for going on a rota for Saturday Stall setter uppers or helping to man the stall on Sundays would welcome. Anyone interested please see Gay Durston.

Once again many thanks to the congregation,