Getting Together

Two single mums get talking at the Messy Church tea, just when we were despairing that it was our worst-attended Messy Church ever. They decide it would be great to create an occasion for single mums generally to get together and Sheila who organises everything to do with families at Swanvale Halt church agrees to book the church hall and be there as a responsible person. At 5.15 on evening last week they turned up and began. Sally our Pastoral Assistant baked a cake: it was huge but all disappeared. There were eight young women and ten children. One bought board games and three women sat with a Scrabble board for two hours. 'I didn't have to do anything apart from buy some food' said Sheila. Something to serve a group of people we don't normally reach, spontaneously arising out of our contacts: it's the kind of thing I've waited fourteen years to see happen.