Jesus Christ is Risen - Alleluia!!
Welcome to the Purley & Kenley Churches Together website. On this page you will find details of the Churches Together activities.
Please feel free to browse the site and if you want to feedback any
comments, please do so to Carole Short
MAY - Purley Community Centre Information below....The Purley Cross Centre is a community resource offering advice, information, and training.
23 High Street, Purley CR8 2AA, 020 8688 4189 wendy.nodding@purleybaptist.org
Family Law Clinic, Mondays by appointment 12noon - 2pm (Streeter Marshall)
Age UK, (previously Age Concern), Tuesdays by appointment 10am - 12noon
Citizens Advice Bureau, referrals available through Purley Cross Centre
Free Legal Advice (Streeter Marshall Solicitors), Wednesdays by appointment 1 - 2pm
Nail Cutting (Age UK), Thursdays by appointment 10.30am - 12.30pm
Hearing Resource Centre, Thursday 17th 10.30am - 1.30pm
Will Writing (Age UK), Friday by appointment, 10am - 1.30pm
Computer Training for Over 50s, by appointment, visit or ring the Centre for more information.
NEWS:
There are several events planned in the coming months in Purley many involving KPCT.
June 3rd The Big Lunch. 12.30 to 4pm.
This is an open party to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee on the Rotary Field (in Christchurch if wet!} including a free Bar-b-q, a bouncy castle and many family activities. More information about these events will be available soon.
July 1st to 8th Purley Music Week.
As well as many musical events there will be an ecumenical service on the Rotary field at 11 am. All member churches of KPCT were asked to consider closing to make this a well attended act of witness. Some churches are making their services very early to enable their members to attend. Events will be happening through out the day, but the service will be about one hour. If you don’t like sitting on the grass, you are reminded to take a chair! It is planned to have a Prayer Tent in the field.
Olympics Opening Ceremony
An event is planned to take place on the Rotary Field, this is still in the planning stage.
Purley Foodbank
A major initiative has been started. Churches Together are working towards setting up Food Bank to offer food parcels to people in need and who have been referred by specified agencies. We are in touch with the Trussel Trust which set up the first food bank and has 12 years experience. More information will be passed on as it becomes available.
Songs of Praise
And finally an early warning: a Songs of Praise is planned for, the September 16th. It is planned that we have a tea first from 4.15 and the Songs of Praise from 5 to 6 pm to make it easier for families. A temporary catch line is “Scones and Songs”.
PURLEY YOUTH PROJECT AGM.
An edited version of the report follows:
The work of the Junior Club, for 8 to 12 year olds, ably led by David Garfield and his excellent team of volunteers, continues to provide a great variety of activities and outings for more than 60 young people who attend Purley youth Centre on Wednesday evenings. They have opportunities to try many different activities including: art work, cooking, sports, kick boxing, computer and Wii games. The young choir has performed in various places including the Whitgift Centre. This year, Sainsbury’s have been most generous in redecorating and carpeting the activities room resulting in a fresh and clean feel to the seventeen year old centre.
The Junior club work relies, entirely upon the churches, private financial support, and money raised by the young people. The Club continues to offer experience in life skills and guidance toward becoming effective members of society to the Juniors as they mature. We are keen to encourage more Christian Volunteers, so if there is anyone in our Church who would like to know more have a word with and come down one Wednesday between 5.00pm and 6.45pm to see for yourself the frenetic activity and fun going on in the Centre.
Boomerang, the group for those with disabilities, continues to meet on Thursday evenings led by Paul Funnel and his team. The pretty garden outside the centre is maintained by the Young People. The club provides a very important opportunity for those attending to work and play together and, with the support of dedicated youth workers, helps to improve their skills enabling them to join in a variety of community activities.
The Senior work, now led by Stephanie Gibson and her qualified team, offers one to one work, for young people with problems. The new system called “Journeys” gives each Young person a chance to explore his or her ambitions through a large range activities, in line with the Government’s funding restrictions.
You are warmly invited to the AGM is on Wednesday16th May in the Youth Centre at 8pm.
If any other churches wish to advertise their events here do email carole - this is free to all churches, courtesy of Churches Together in Purley/Kenley, do make use of it......