21st July A fab few weeks


It's been a pretty fab few weeks over at East Side Methodist Church. A month ago we launched our 'Tiny Toes' parent and baby group and for the first two sessions absolutly no-one turned up. Not a sausage, which was dscouraging to say the least. Was it the day, was it the time, was it the location who knows? 

Then on week 3, half an hour into yet another session no one had attended, and just when we were considering packing it all in and relaunching in September, two mums and their little ones arrived. Three weeks letter thanks to word of mouth and the comments of the two mums on social media we now have 9 adults and 11 pairs of 'tiny toes' including several referals from the local children's centre which is great.

Then yesterday we had the first session of our new free chair based exercise classes and 14 people put their best foot forward, raised their hand(s) and literally sat up straight. And with the two oldest participants being 91 years of age my Mr Motivator outfit brought back many happy memories with several commenting they had never seen a 'core' quite like mine before.

And then last but not least, we had out latest community lunch, something at which numbers had been 'variable in recent weeks.  Yesterday not only was the main table of 12 full but I had to set out two extra tables to cope with the influx of guests for our super summer salad special.

So all in all a good few weeks over at the smaller of my churches here in Hucknall. It's not quite a revival but let's hope the momentum continues.

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