December
December
December
December
December
As the Parish Church in Hayes, St. Mary's congregation welcomes children with open arms and open hearts. I guess this is in line with the attitude of our Saviour Jesus Christ who said, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them...' (Mark 10:14).
Baptism or thanksgiving services are special occasions when we love to see children in the church. In St. Mary's each year we baptise a considerable number of...
Ment4 provides one-to-one specialist mentoring for 12 to 17 year olds with emotional and behavioural difficulties. We help those vulnerable to crime and those on court orders. We also help long-term non-attendees, those excluded from schools and Pupil Referral Units, those judged as particularly vulnerable by social services, and direct referrals from families.
We run four to six month programmes where mentors meet two or three times a week with their assigned young people, one-on-one, working through problematic...
We had returned from a lovely walk and dinner was in capable hands so I had time to busy myself in the garden. At this time of year I was picking blackberries, harvesting yet more courgettes and encouraging the flowers in the hanging baskets and pots to keep flowering. When I stopped for some refreshment I was able to watch the once newly- fledged birds, now fending for themselves and I thought to myself what a joy it is to be able to...
