Thanks to those of you that made the call, I have just heard that Project Inspire won it’s bid , although the info I gave before was not quite correct, they have won a grant of £90,000 and this will enable them to get going with the project and will make a huge difference to both the village community and those around the area, well done to Fernaham and Project Inspire, I look forward to visiting St John’s and seeing what it’s like after the work has been done.

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Project inspire (click to find out more) is a project in a local Village of Fernham to help convert the church into a dual purpose building, both church and community centre, it is a village with very few facilities and a church that needed much work doing on it and it was felt that it would be good to make it a building that could be used for the whole community, it will be a place of Christian worship but also a place where young can have a youth club, the elderly can do what they do? This is a very important project and is really about putting the church back at the centre of the community, it being a place that can be used as it would have been when it was first built hundreds of years ago. Of course a project like this costs thousands of pounds, but you can help make a significant difference for just 10p! Today on the Peoples Millions Project Inspire is up for a grant of around £80,000 but they only get it if people vote for it. The phone lines are open this evening although specific times won’t be announced until the 6 o’clock local ITV news. Please, please, please would you call 08702 433 202 to vote for this project, it is one of the villages that I cover (although I don’t actually run anything there at the moment) and it would make a huge difference to this church and the great work which it’s already doing in the community. Calls cost a maximum of 10p and you can call up to 10 times from any one number, so please call as many times as possible, from as many lines as possible, and get your friends and family on it too!

Many thanks,

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A couple of weeks ago was complete chaos, it was birthday time for our two boys, which also meant a house full for several days which was great, but it’s a small house especially when you have 5 adults and three children for 5 days! Anyway during the week my mum asked Jonah the question “Jonah why do you have to be so naughty?” normally at this stage a child would tend to play all innocent and pretend to not know what you mean, not Jonah, his answer could do nothing but make you love him even more, “because that’s how God made me!”

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I am preparing a sermon for this coming Sunday and I need your help with the answer to a simple question, if you could leave a comment or email me with your answers it would be very useful, the question is ‘Why do you do what you do?’ I’m thinking about the main activity you do, it might be your job, it might be being a parent it might be something else but if you could just give me one or two sentences that state why you do what you do it would be great. Thank you in advance.

PS. If you want to hear the results the sermon will be available as an MP3 download sometime next Monday from www.allsaintsfaringdon.org just click on the link for sermons.

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