Gift from St Peter's 9.30am service - A Thank you

Thank you to the members of the 9.30am morning service, which meets on the 1st sunday of each month at St Peter's church.

They have given at total of £126.26 before gift-aid, which will be given to The Manuelito Children's home when we go out to Honduras in a few days time.

Honduras Quiz part 2 - what do you think?

Here are some more questions, can you guess these?

3. On his 4^th voyage to the New World in 1502, Christopher Columbus reached the Bay Islands and landed on the cost of Honduras near the modern town of Trujillo. Honduras is supposedly named by him – what does it mean?

• Depths
• High mountains
• Green land
• Thanks to God

4. What valuable resource was a major factor in inducing the Spanish to form settlements in Honduras, where they subsequently ruled for around three centuries?

• Bananas
• Uranium
• Silver
• Lead

Have fun guessing or finding out the right answers (which you can add as a comment or as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras), and we will reveal the answers (and some more quiz questions) later in the week.

Honduras Quiz part 1 - Do you know these?

Here are some quiz questions about Honduras, can you guess which is the right answer?

1. Which of these central American countries does not share a border with Honduras?

• Nicaragua
• Guatamala
• Belize
• El Salvador

2. The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef is the second largest barrier reef in the world and has its southern end off the coast of Honduras (the Bay Islands) Divers there can see many interesting animals, including which of the following?

• Blue Whales
• Bottle nose dolphins
• Electric eels
• Piranhas

Have fun guessing or finding out the right answers (which you can add as a comment or as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras), and we will reveal the answers (and some more quiz questions) later in the week.

Honduras team - Prayed for

During an exciting morning service (started by the members of Xplode and ID doing a prayer slm dunk), most of the team going to Honduras were able to come along and be prayed together by everyone present at the service, and then sent off (commissioned) to visit our friends at the manuelito Home in Honduras on behalf of the church.

You can see us in our T-shirts in the photo below

Honduras Trip - requests

The team leave for The Manuelito Children's Home in Honduras on Easter Sunday (one week's time!).

There are several things you may be able to help with:-

1. Are you able to give anyone a lift to the airport for 9.15am on Easter Day (31st March) - there are just a few of us who need transport.
2. Donate items of clothing in good condition for children from age 6 up to 18 year olds (including underwear)
3. Have any pretty silky scarves that you don't wear? We'd love to give them to the women who work at Manuelito - also small gift sized toiletries and jewellery you may have in your drawers that you never use.
4. Pray - definitely essential! A prayer card is available with things which would be particularly helpful for you to pray for

If you want any more information, please speak to Rosalie or another team member

A-Team Abseil - postponed

The Abseil has been postponed from saturday (23rd March) due to weather conditions, and will be rescheduled for later on to after Easter.

A-Team Abseil - coming up

Alex, Lesley and Mark our vicar will be doing their re-arranged abseil next Saturday (23rd March) as they abseil 418 feet down the tallest permanent abseil tower in the world. (The fourth member of the team, Simon, is doing his on 25th May)

All money raised will be split 50/50 between the OCP and the Manuelito Children's Home in Honduras, and you can still sponsor them at www.justgiving.com/A-Team-Abseil

At last count the sponsorship stands at £1,380 plus gift aid - they'd love to get to £2,000