by Ian | Jun 1, 2022 | 2022, Church news, Community news, Events, Families
Diary of events Thursday 2nd June09.00 – The Platinum Jubilee standard is raised in the churchyard.12.00 – Peal of bells and national anthem played from church tower to coincide with trooping the colour gun salute – Green Park Piccadilly.21.45 – A song for the...
by Ian | May 1, 2022 | 2022, Community news, Events, Families
West Lindsey Churches Festival During the weekend of 14th – 15th May West Lindsey are holding their very successful Churches Festival again. Scampton Church will be displaying their Bastions of the Air exhibition, which runs through until the 28th May. We will...
by Ian | Sep 16, 2020 | 2020, Children, Church news, Community news, Families
Help grow the snake Scampton Stone Snake grew during the Summer and culminated in a wonderful piece of art to commemorate the BOB 80...
by Ian | May 17, 2020 | 2020, Church news, Community news, Events, Families, Fundraising, Stained Glass Windows
Help fund the Chilcren’s Art and Remembrance Project A grand aviation raffle was organised to help fund the Chilcren’s Art and Remembrance Project. We have sold few hard copy tickets because of the crisis. We appealed for help by selling a few tickets to...
by Ian | Sep 10, 2019 | 2019, Church news, Families
It’s for all and everyone! A big thank you to everyone who work so hard to make this monthly service so meaningful and enjoyable – come and join in our Family Service. It’s for all and everyone! Here’s a few photos from this months Family...
by Ian | Jun 11, 2019 | 2019, Children, Families, Fundraising
June Family Service and ECO day As we are currently running our Toilet Twinning Campaign the June family service was all about being caretakers of Gods creation and looked at World Environment Day on the 5th June. The children scoured the churchyard searching for...
by Ian | Apr 11, 2019 | 2019, Children, Church news, Families
Inclusive, Informal, Interactive, Friendly, Fun And Free! At Scampton Church we believe that following and worshipping Jesus should be fun, exciting and not too ‘stuffy’. We are passionate about developing ‘Fresh Expressions’ of Church to...
by Ian | Oct 11, 2018 | 2018, Church news, Events, Families
A sharing service The family service this month was our annual Harvest Celebration. The theme of the service this year is ‘sharing’ and its based on the bible reading from Isaiah 58 verse 7. Pete the Puppet was up to his usual ‘extreme’ antics...
by Ian | Jul 3, 2018 | 2018, Church news, Families
Prayer ideas At our last family service we all put together ideas for a church family prayer. Well, our church warden Chris has had a look at the contributions and put this together. As we serve youLord, help us to concentrate on YouAs we help other peopleLord, help...
by Ian | Jun 11, 2018 | 2018, Children, Church news, Families
Calling all music lovers Lovely to see Emily and Hannah playing keyboards this month. Well done both of you. Don’t forget if you play an instrument and would like to join in then tell us. We’ll send you the music well in advance and you can play as much or...
by Ian | Jun 9, 2018 | 2018, Children, Church news, Families
Look out next month for the new Family Service Prayer We are creating a new ‘Family Service Prayer’, especially for Scampton Church, which we will say at the beginning of the family services on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month. Ideas from the...
by Ian | May 2, 2018 | 2018, Children, Community news, Events, Families
A wonderful wedding day What a beautiful way to learn about the Church of England Wedding Service and celebrate the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The sun shone on Scampton Church as pupils, staff and parents attended Scampton Primary Schools ‘Mock...
by Ian | Apr 11, 2018 | 2018, Children, Church news, Churchyard, Events, Families
Alleluia – He is Risen – He is Risen indeed – Alleluia! Well 75 people came along to celebrate the Risen Christ. The service represented what the disciples must have felt like when they encountered the risen Christ. In fact following His resurrection Jesus was seen...
by Ian | Mar 11, 2018 | 2018, Children, Church news, Events, Families
Lets have a band! Sue and Joe have been working with some of the children at Scampton School during the Easter term and someone said…lets have a band! So no sooner said than done and seven of the children came along and played ‘Seek ye First the Kingdom of...
by Ian | Dec 12, 2017 | 2017, Children, Events, Families
The Bethlehem Mouse comes to Scampton The Bethlehem Mouse is obviously a popular character as 175 people squeezed into the church to see...
by Ian | Dec 2, 2017 | 2017, Children, Events, Families
Christmas starts with Christ Loads of children came along to see a dramatic bible reading of Genesis Chapter 1 verses 1-5 by Hannah Bloom, Pete the Puppet appear as an angel, and Maisie Imogen and Izzy sing 10,000 reasons. What a great start to our season of...
by Ian | Nov 11, 2017 | 2017, Children, Events, Families, War Graves
The season of invitation continues Our season of invitation continues and is gaining a huge response as 200 people come along to our remembrance service, including a couple who, after visiting the website, specifically made the journey from Doncaster to attend....
by Ian | Oct 12, 2017 | 2017, Children, Church news, Events, Families
A great big thank you A young child went up to their mum and said…”you know – I’d like to go to church mummy”. His mum thought this a bit strange as the family were not ‘church goers’, but wanting to encourage her child to...
by Ian | Aug 12, 2017 | 2017, Children, Church news, Events, Families
Love and forgiveness A series of three family services based on the story of Joseph (Genesis 37 – 47) ran through the summer. It began with Gods plan to build His own people with the promise to Abraham, and how Abrahams great grandson Joseph came to be sold into...
by Ian | Jul 2, 2017 | 2017, Children, Church news, Events, Families
Learn, sing, play, dance – and have fun. As part of our commitment to welcoming children into our church family we started a children’s music group. The idea for the group was inspired by Izzy (aged 10 years) who was keen to sing and would like others to join...
by Ian | Jun 12, 2017 | 2017, Church news, Community news, Events, Families
The spirit of truth The Pentecost service was based on the Spirit of truth and over 60 adults and children learned how the light of the Holy Spirit can guide us in our lives if we remember to ‘switch it on!’ Emily and Hannah who were recently baptised were...
by Ian | Apr 28, 2017 | 2017, Children, Church news, Events, Families
He is risen – alleluia He is risen – alleluia. Sixty adults and forty three children enjoyed an Easter story movie, hunting Easter eggs, pass the Easter prayer parcel, Easter bingo, Pete the puppet and a conga round the church at our Family Easter Day service. There...
by Ian | Apr 1, 2017 | 2017, Children, Church news, Events, Families
Sing Praise! A big thank you to Runa, Aakash, Shivani and Amelia who brought along their violins and cello to join the worship group, and make the service lively and uplifting. Wow! what a difference you make towards encouraging everyone to SING...
by Ian | Mar 12, 2017 | 2017, Children, Church news, Community news, Events, Families
A rock musical performance On the last day of the Easter term Scampton School performed a rock musical which combined biblical narrations, songs and expressive mime to retell the Easter story with warmth and feeling. The children then planted seeds to represent new...
by Ian | Mar 1, 2017 | 2017, Church news, Events, Families
Lead us not into temptation Over fifty people turned up to join Scampton Church family service this month. Our theme was ‘leading us not into temptation’ to break Gods rules which was our theme in the February family service. Pete the puppet was tempted by...
by Ian | Dec 9, 2016 | 2016, Children, Church news, Community news, Events, Families
Harry Potter Themed Nativity Play My grandson was telling me about his huge Christmas list which could potentially double ToysRUs profits. He asked whether I had made a list. Yes, I said but mine is a ‘mothers’ list. What size turkey will I need? Shall I risk an on...
by Ian | Oct 8, 2016 | 2016, Church news, Community news, Families, Fundraising
Well done to everyone who donated Our second event in the ‘season of invitation was our Harvest Festival, and 300 invitations were posted through doors in the community. Scampton Church, Playmates Nursery, and the two village junior schools, joined together in...
