• Community Garden

    Date: 2012.01.11 | Category: Grow your own, community | Response: 0

    Morning Happy New year to you all

    The Old Town garden meeting date will be the 4th of February 2012. I expect we will have a cup of tea/ coffee and chat a bit about what we would like to grow and perhaps tidy if it needs it. It would be really nice to get lots of Poole people involved so if anyone knows anyone or if your interested please come along. Children are very welcome as it is a fun safe area to play.

    Thanks for reading

    Sarah

  • No:34

    Date: 2011.12.21 | Category: No:34, Space for Life, community, mission | Response: 0

    Reconnect and Poole Missional Communities (its parent charity) have had an association with a cafe in Poole High St for some time, renting an office there for over 2 years. In the past year the cafe has hosted Space for Life, a group of local women coming together around creativity and textile art.  It has been called many things even it the short time we’ve known it; Cafe Lounge, Coffee Cake & Candy, The Old Stables. At the end of October the cafe went out of business and we began to pray and consider whether we might take it on. Every time we took a step forward on this it seemed like God was giving us what we needed to continue, so we did!  

    So we are going to open in mid/late January as ‘No:34′, running it as a community cafe, staffed mainly with volunteers drawn from the church community. We aim to offer a really warm and friendly environment for people and lots of homemade sandwhiches and cakes. The first floor lounge gives us the opportunity to continue to develop things like Space for Life and our work with SMILE who serve a network of single parents. at the heart of the whole place will be a  missional community of Christians with a heart to serve and bless the people who come through the door. The potential is huge! But there is much work to do! This week we started the refurbishment and redecorating work – no turning back now! If you’d like to get involved or give in anyway to this project do let us know paul@reconnect-poole.org.uk

  • Community Garden Update Dec 2011

    Date: 2011.12.18 | Category: Grow your own, community, creation | Response: 0

    The veggies in the garden have been successful and we have all enjoyed seeing them grow we had a lot of potatoes, beetroot, salad stuff and our last dig this year we pulled up very big parsnips ! Mmmmm ready for christmas yay.

    The meeting date for next year will be Saturday 5th of February 2012 between 11am and 1pm, we will be meeting every 1st Saturday of the month from then on.

    If anyone knows any one that would like to do a spot of veg growing who lives in Poole then we would love to see them, no experience necessary, we have a spot of cake and tea too.

    It’s a brilliant place for children because it is in the Old Town Childrens  centre.

    Bye for now

    Happy Christmas and a Happy new year

  • Green Road Park V

    Date: 2011.11.07 | Category: Events, Green Rd Park, community | Response: 0

     Following the consultation event in the summer a final design (above) was developed for Green Rd Park. On 20th October in the park the group presented its plans to the community. The park will have a sea-faring theme with a large central boat providing a really striking focus for the park. Its a really exciting design that blends with the charater of the area and we hope will be a park that Old Town residents willbe really proud of. The plans met with a really enthusiastic response from everyone present.

     The next step is to take the proposal to an Area Committee meeting on November 30th where it is hoped funding will be approved. If it is then Old Town could be opening its new park by May 2012!

    L -R caption is:- Mike Gotobed – Play Development Officer Paul Bradbury – Reconnect , Richard Nicholson – Greenspace Development Team Leader, Emily Bradbury & Jemima Fricker – Members of the Green Road play park action group.

    



     


     

  • Space for Life – Come and Learn to make Fabric Flowers and Corsages!

    Date: 2011.09.23 | Category: Courses & discussion, Events, Felting, Space for Life, community, creativity, spirituality | Response: 0

    Want time out for you in a busy week?  Fancy learning a new skill with a friendly group of people?  No experience necessary – it’s easy and will be really chill…

    On Tuesdays in October there will be the opportunity to get together with a friendly group of people in the upstairs lounge of ‘The Old Stables’ (the cafe opposite ‘This is it’ on Poole High Street) to learn how to use scraps of fabric to make fabric flowers and corsages.

    We will use a mixture of hand and machine sewing to make these eye-catching flowers which make fab gifts (for brooches, hair accessories etc).  They are incredibly easy and really effective!

    When: Tues 4th, 11th, 18th October 9.45-11.15am

    The is no charge for the session, and you are welcome to buy coffee and cakes from the cafe (please don’t bring your own refreshments).  You will need to make your own childcare arrangements.

    These workshops are part of ‘Space for Life’ – a welcoming, life-giving space for local people exploring creativity, community and Christian spirituality.   It’s a place to breath, relax, play and chill out and is open to all.  ’Space for Life’ will continue to meet on Monday mornings (10-12.30) and Tuesday mornings when there is no workshop (10-12.30).

    So why not join us?  You can come to one or more of the sessions – we’ll learn different techniques each week.  If you then want to come on the Monday to play with what you’ve learnt you are very welcome.  If you want more information contact:  emily@reconnect-poole.org.uk

  • New Worship pattern

    Date: 2011.09.08 | Category: Out & About, Poole Missional Communities, community, worship | Response: 0

     After a year of using a local school Reconnect  will now be gathering most Sundays at The Old Stables, a lovely independent café on Poole High St. We’ll be using the 1st floor room for a very informal time of worship for all ages. We start at 11am with coffee ad pastries provided by the cafe and finish about 12.30pm.  On the 1st Sunday of each month, we will be ‘Out & About’ either doing something fun together or serving the community in some way. This last Sunday we tried to make the most of a dwindling summer and met at the beach for some volleyball.

    If you‘d like to join in with any of the above it would be great to see you.

    For more info email paul@reconnect-poole.org.uk

     

  • Reconnect weekend away

    Date: 2011.09.08 | Category: Events, Out & About, Poole Missional Communities, spirituality | Response: 0

    Every year Reconnect goes away and camps together in the Purbecks. We had the use of Acton Fields again, and thankfully it was a good deal drier than the year before! The weekend was a mixture of fun together, prayer and worship. Donna placed prayer stations around the site which we all used at points during the weekend. For our worship on the Sunday morning we went on a journey around the site and reflected on our year together as we went. Finally we built a prayer cairn together and asked God’s blessing on the year ahead.

  • Reconnect Worship

    Date: 2011.07.04 | Category: community, spirituality, worship | Response: 0

    “Worship at Reconnect is all-age, fun and highly participative. Here’s an example.

     On Sunday we wrote a psalm together. Everyone was invited to take a strip of paper that reflected the mood of their week. We talked about how the psalms often begin and end in praise to God but all have room for all the emotions of life, positive and negative. Whilst some of the young children decorated a large piece of paper the rest of us reflected on the week we had had and wrote a psalm verse. We read these out in turn and then we all came up and assembled our verses in an order that fitted with the way psalms often work. The result was an amazing and moving psalm of praise to God.”

    Lord you bless us beyond measure

    you add blessings to blessings.

    Life with you is rich and viberant.

    Thank you for creation, the work of your hands Lord.

    Thanks for what we have as a family,

    Thank you for recognising our needs.

    You alone can save.

    Thank you for making footballs.

    Thank you for our nuclear defences for keeping us safe.

    Despite where we are, what we are doing and how we are feeling

    God is faithful, our strength is in him, Thank you Father.

    Lord in the stress of life you have gone before me.

    You don’t give up on us even when we forget about you,

     and your amazing plan for us.

    Sometimes frustration can be overwhelming,

    but you oh Lord have your hand upon us always and are faithful,

    may your blessing be upon us.

    Thank you God that you do not change, if  I am full of life or drained,

    you are still vibrant, full and ALIVE.

    Thank you for healing and caring.

    Thank you for hearing our prayers, you turn our grey skies to blue.

    Now and forever, King of Kings you carry me on your Royal robes,

    giving direction and support.  

    You’re the one, the mighty one, wow you created us from dust,

    We are nothing and nobody with out you, you ’re the one,

    you’re the one, you ‘re the one.  

     

  • Space For Life

    Date: 2011.06.21 | Category: Felting, community, creativity | Response: 0

    Space for life continues to grow, providing a place for Creativity and Quiet.

    A knitting group has developed out of those who attend Space for Life. Initially wool and instructions were left in the café and people were invited to make squares for a community blanket. Over 100 squares have now been made. The knitting group meets in the café from 1.30 – 2.30pm on Tuesdays, after Space for Life, anyone is welcome.

    For more information please contact -emily@reconnect-poole.org.uk

  • Green Rd Park IV

    Date: 2011.05.27 | Category: Events, Green Rd Park, community | Response: 0

    The Green Rd Park group have been consulting with children and adults locally on what changes they would like to see in the park. We have been helped enormously by Becky Lucas from Children’s Participation of the Borough of Poole who has been working with local schools (Oakdale Middle and Old Town First) to ask children what they would like to see kept or changed. Some of the kids have been coming up with some great ideas as well as telling Becky what kind of play they enjoy most. We will then be holding an event in the park on June 9th, 3 – 5pm when we will again be asking children and adults what they would like see happen to improve the park. The mobile unit from the Borough of Poole will be coming on site and we’ll be offering free ice cream! Anyone is welcome, especially if you use the park and want to have a say on its future!

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