This year the theme of the Christmas services at King's Church London is 'Arms Wide Open' and as a practical demonstration of the theme we are going to be providing Hampers for families who are in need. The main distribution will be through the Lewisham social services teams who are working with children at risk and those on protection. One of the social services managers said "please thank the church for thinking of our families". Until I met with one of the staff I had no idea how many families are in this position. I know that the hampers will go to some very needy people.
Here is the plan for how people are going to provide hampers. Very shortly we will produce a 'shopping list' which will be a mixture of everyday essentials plus Christmas treats. And my dream is that groups of friends or families or people in community groups or perhaps in your work place will get together and buy the items so that they can fill a box and bring that to King's Church (Catford, Lee or Downham) on the 4th and 11th December. Perhaps you can tell me your story of how you get involved in producing a hamper, perhaps it is your football team or knitting group, your youth group or community group.
But you don't have to provide a whole hamper. It may be that people bring only a few items or part of a hamper and that will work great because people can bring their items to King's on the 4th and 11th December and add it together with other part hampers to make whole ones. It means everyone can get involved whether it is one tin or one whole hamper.
The Hampers will have a message that reads "Happy Christmas, with love from King's Church".
Look out for the information that is being given out in the next few weeks. This is going to be a brilliant way of demonstrating our Arms are Wide Open to people in need this Christmas.
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