Hadfield Methodist Church - Newsletter

September 2025:
	Happy days will break through the pain Everyone says school's quite thrilling You make the first steps on your own. But I'm about to forget this feeling, My best school years were stolen. It all turned into memories and sigthing That come to mind, but fast: My first school year, the early writing My lovely teacher smiling from the past. Now we only visit school sometimes, We run to the shelters and hide for hours. If only we could enjoy our classes, Enjoy this time of ours. But I believe that happy days Will break through the pain. The war will end, The air raids will stop forever, And our classrooms will be full of kids again. My school, I'll come. I love you, Fedir Fedir, aged 10, Ukraine Source: UNICEF YouTube channel
Repair Cafe	Click on photo for full size)
At our August session, we had the usual range of items for sewing and sharpening. Our electrical expert was kept busy too, and there was an occasional table that had a built in music box which needed some TLC. There will be no session in September as many of our volunteers are away on holiday. David served drinks and cake to our volunteers and customers/clients/visitors. Keeping us all fed and watered. The photos here are from past sessions, but give an idea of the range of activitesi. If you fancy volunteering as a repairer - especially if you have electrical skills - please get in touch, either in person at one of our sessions, or email us.
Monthly Eco-tip
We are proud to be an Eco-church (we have the A Rocha Silver award). As part of this commitment we are staring a monthly section in our newsletter with an eco-tip. We hope that readers will find this useful, and perhaps something you can put into action. Zero-waste: 1st - 7th September is Zero Waste Week when people are challenged to do one thing to reduce landfill waste. There are lots of ideas on actions you can take on the Zero Watse Week website - and of course you can try to continue for more than just one week! Click here to go to the website (opens in new tab)
Toddler Group – Can you help
Elspeth, Bruce, David and Gwen do a fantastic job with the toddlers but we do need some extra helpers if it is to happen every week. So if you can offer to help with Toddlers (we need cover about once every three weeks), please contact us as soon as possible. We are taking a longer than usual; break this summer, so the group will re-open on 7th November.
Youth Club
Our youth club, called Youth Station, has run for many years with ups and downs in numbers of children attending. Currently there is plenty of space for new members, so if you have or know of children between 8 to 13 who might like like attend, see the Children & Young People page for details.
Thursday opening times We continue to open the church as a free community meeting place on Thursdays, serving free refreshments. For the present we have reduced the opening times to 10:15am-2:00pm and are serving food. We will continue to monitor the need and will extend the times again if it seems appropriate More details available on our Resources page. Help wanted! Obviously this kind of provision will only work if there are people to help run it. We are looking for volunteers who can help out (it doesn't have to be every week). If you think you can help, please get in touch by email at hadfieldcommunityspaces@gmail.com.