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Saturday 6th November, 4pm at the Parish Hall

Hi everyone, it’s that time of year again!
On Saturday 6th November at 4pm we’ll be filling the hall with Christmas wrapping paper, empty shoeboxes, a few crafts, Christmas music, mince pies and hopefully lots of people and gifts!
This is where you come in- please come along and bring your friends- everyone is welcome!

This year we’re sending shoeboxes through a charity called Blythswood Care which is a Christian charity, with a mission to transform lives through the impact of education, community action and gospel activities. One of the reason’s we’ve chosen to be part of Blythswood’s shoebox appeal is that they send boxes to adults as well as children, in countries close to ACC’s heart!
Blythwood Care’s website says:

“Your kindness and generosity makes such a difference, receiving a shoebox brings so much joy. We are looking ahead to our Shoe Box Appeal 2021 and to helping vulnerable communities across Eastern Europe.
We trust we will be able to deliver boxes and bags to Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.
We were overwhelmed with the amazing response to our appeal last year. Thank you so much.
75,218 shoeboxes and bags were donated and sent off to Eastern Europe.”

Sending shoeboxes through Blythswood is a really practical way of showing God’s love and generosity to people in Eastern Europe and an amazing opportunity for them to hear the gospel through the evangelistic books that Blythswood add to each box.
We’ve put together a checklist of essential items that are needed for each shoebox- just follow the link below and tick the item/items you want to purchase to help us make sure we have enough of all of the essentials (rather than 100 toothbrushes and nothing else!)
https://www.checkli.com/checklists/guest_view/6166d8be9f045
As well as these essentials here’s a link with ideas from Blythswood of extra things that are great to put into each box:
https://blythswood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Filler-ideas-for-Shoe-Box-Appeal.pdf
If you aren’t free on that Saturday but would like to contribute to the shoeboxes content, please feel free to get something from the checklist and pop it in the Blythswood box in the porch at church anytime before Saturday 6th November. Alternatively you can give a donation which would either be used to buy more items to go inside the shoeboxes or given as a donation to Blythswood.
Any questions feel free to ask Sophie Hewitt or Beth Pibworth and they’ll be happy to google an answer for you!
We look forward to seeing a packed hall of enthusiastic shoebox packers on Saturday 6th November!
Thanks,
The 2021 Shoebox Appeal Team 😊

If you’d like to read some stories of people who have been given shoeboxes in the past here’s the link for the website:
https://blythswood.org/shoe-box-appeal/#1

If you’re a keen knitter here are some patterns and ideas for making scarves, hats and gloves:
https://blythswood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fundraising-Knitting-Ideas-and-Patterns.pdf

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