WING - Getting to know each other

10 of us attended at St Clement’s Church, Toxteth on 8th December including Hindu, Christian, and Focolare women. We had a lovely evening, full of Christmas cheer, and with a meaningful and moving sharing of what Christmas signifies.

Yummy food (as usual) and carols sung with vim and vigour (descant by Ruth, piano accompaniment by Alison, ably assisted by Cressy on triangle, rest of us gamely bashing our bells, tambourines etc.

We raised a contribution of £22.50 for the Children's Society (we made Christingles, too). Thanks to St Clement's for letting us use their church, which is really most interesting and historic. It would be nice to go back again some time, worth seeing. We will be sending them £25 for the booking fee for the hall.

On the 21st November a few WING members attended a Faiths4Change Inter Faith Week session at the Methodist Church in the City, Liverpool also known as the bread church "http://www.somewhere-else.org.uk/"
We were warmly welcomed into the “church” – a large room, with kitchen adjacent, plus a small quiet room for meditation and worship. There were women from different faith backgrounds as well as teenagers for whom English is an additional language from the Academy of St Francis of Assisi. We all enjoyed the breadmaking and produced two loaves (or equivalent in rolls), keeping one and donating the other to the shelter for homeless people in Seel St.

There were opportunities for sharing as we baked and also during a short prayerful session in the quiet room. We all enjoyed a delicious lunch of homemade soup and rolls made by the facilitators. A gentle and kindly atmosphere and it would be great to have a visit one Friday evening with a larger WING group – perhaps in 2012.

Many thanks to Liverpool’s Methodist community for providing this facility for people to use, it’s inclusive and welcoming and meeting the needs of various groups who would otherwise be left out of “church” and the love that goes with it.