Memoranza Extravaganza • Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
A SCRAPBOOKING WORKSHOP
A scrapbooking workshop will be held at our Hall iin Church Street, Chatham, this Friday (3 August) from 10 am to 10 pm.
A SCRAPBOOKING WORKSHOP
A scrapbooking workshop will be held at our Hall iin Church Street, Chatham, this Friday (3 August) from 10 am to 10 pm.
Well, we are still waiting for summer. But after another night of heavy rain we woke up on Sunday to improving weather and the slight hint that it might improve even more during August. May, June and July have all experienced the highest rainfall since records began in the UK!
Membership of voluntary organisations is not an uncommon activity for Salvationists. However, for a single Corps to have two Presidents of Inner Wheel at one and the same time is very unusual.
The Logo
STOP THE TRAFFIK
Over the last few years there has been a growing awareness of the problem of human traffiking - which in this anniversary year of the abolition of the Slave trade sees the fact that more people are in slavery and are traffiked every year than was happening in 1807!
We have now updated our History pages to include the period up to the end of June 2007. We are grateful to Peter Wood for again providing us with the draft document.
Salvationaist Publishing and Supplies Ltd have sent us the following Press Release which we are pleased to publish.
Lt. Col. Ray Steadman-Allen
This week-end has seen the start of the school holidays in this area of the UK. For the next few weeks families will be taking their annual vacation, summer camps of various sorts will be taking place and Salvation Army music schools will be in evidence.
On the beach
£330 was the sum handed over by Parent and Toddler Leader Verna Smith to Linda Phillips of the Cerebral Palsy Care Centre at Cliffe Woods. Verna was accompanied by Frankie Kember who looks after our group for older toddlers (The Ark).
L to R: Verna, Linda and Frankie
What’s been going on with our Scouts and other ‘Baden Powell’ groups? Well, helping to build a Jamboree is just one thing.
Our builders
We have mentioned on a number of occasions Cat McCombe’s fundraising efforts in aid of her gap year which she will spend working with The Salvation Army’s Alove Essential programme in a Corps situation.
Cat McCombe
Mud, glorious mud!
Another busy week-end in the life of Chatham Corps. We will be reporting separately on the day out enjoyed by our Parent & Toddler Groups at Farming World on Friday so watch this space.
A Ham Sandwich?
On Tuesday 10th July, the last meeting of the term before the school summer holiday, the Brownies enjoyed various activities including some fun games, bubble blowing and outdoor i-spy challenge.
A comment from our 53rd Corps Anniversary programme (1926) has recently been received by Peter Wood, who enjoys keeping a detailed history of corps events. An ‘image’ of the comment is reproduced below.
Peter Wood
Our ladies met for their July meeting this week and were pleased to visit former member Brenda Clarke at her new home in Maidstone.
Brenda is seated in the red top