CHURCHES TOGETHER IN
FLEET AND CROOKHAM
Sharing God’s love in the community
A feast for the soul
This year’s Environment & Faith festival has a temptingly tasty food theme linking with the
traditional harvest celebrations and the natural beauty of the changing seasons. Churches,
schools and many local voluntary organizations have poured in their time and expertise to
create an exciting programme of 22 events over 4 weeks this autumn.
Starting on Friday 20th September the programme includes orchards, honeybees, fair-trade
beer, school vegetable growing and a composting workshop. Other wider environmental issues
such as greening our local churches, trade justice and recycling are also on the menu. The
festival ends this year on the 19th October with a community volunteering day in Fleet Town
Centre.
The festival aims at getting people talking, thinking about and acting on local and global
environmental issues. We have a wide range of speakers including Christian academic and
community activist Ruth Valerio talking about food and faith, and Fleet’s own Colin Gray talking
about the excellent restoration work at Fleet Pond.
Whether you have some faith or none we hope there is something for you. To find out more or
to get involved visit the festival website www.eaffestival.moonfruit.com, email
eaffestival@gmail.com or follow us on twitter @eaffestival
This year’s festival is also supporting Hart Foodbank.
Notes;
Environment & Faith Festival
The festival is being coordinated by Katie Roberts a local resident and church member, and
Projects Director for London based environmental charity Trees for Cites
(www.treesforcities.org).
Contact: eaffestival@gmail.com or telephone 01252 819587 / 07900 053106
Churches Together - www.ctfleet.org.uk/
Many Churches, one purpose
There are many different Christian churches and denominations, but all have the same basic calling: to
worship God, to share the good news about Jesus Christ and to work for the good of all people.
So they often need to work together - and to co-ordinate the work they each do separately. When they
do, they are acting as Churches Together. But being Churches Together means more than that. It means
commitment by each church and denomination to deepen its fellowship with the others, and - without
losing what makes each interestingly different - to work with them towards a greater visible unity.
Hart Foodbank
The Trussell Trust foodbank network works in partnership with local churches and organisations to bring
foodbanks to communities across the UK. There are now over 275 foodbanks in the network.
http://hart.foodbank.org.uk/