Category Archives: community groups

Church in Abingdon Quiz

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Church in Abingdon Quiz
Christ Church won the Church in Abingdon quiz last year, and like the Eurovision Song Contest they had to host it this.

There were 11 teams of 8 representing 11 different churches. Apart from a prayer at the start the format was similar to a pub quiz. The closest we got to a religious question was in the round where we had to guess famous people from their childhood names ….Marion Morrison = John Wayne …. Lhamo Dondrub = Dalai Lama.

My own general knowledge is not so good anymore. But other people from the Trinity team did well and at the end of the evening we came third. ACC came second. That is Abingdon Community Church who meet at Thameside School.

And Christ Church on Long Furlong won. There are two Christ Churches in Abingdon … The original in Northcourt, and the offspring, set up about 20 years ago, who meet at Long Furlong School.

Christmas Tree Festival

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Christmas Tree Festival
Thanks to Jan of the Literary Teapot Blog for this report …

As well as trees from groups such as the Scouts, Guides and Messy Church, there were trees from Abingdon Carbon Cutters, Abingdon Writers, Frend the jewellers (not real jewels, unfortunately) and Rosie’s tea shop (decorated with salt dough teapots!) There was also a prayer tree where people wrote on cards the names of people they would like the church to pray for.
Christmas Tree Festival
All this support was very welcome and the result was wonderful: we raised over £500 for Oxford Homeless Pathways, and John Lewis High Wycombe generously added another £100.

Market Place – the week before Christmas

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Market Place - week before Christmas
There was a nativity scene where you could have you picture taken at the Crib, and there were two donkeys from the donkey sanctuary.
Market Place - week before Christmas
Dunmore pre-school were there selling cakes to help raise funds for the nursery.
Market Place - week before Christmas
The Sea Cadets were there, ably led by the young lady on the drum.
Market Place - week before Christmas
There was also a raffle for the African Children’s Fund. Peter Tyrer, their leader, was recently killed in a car crash. Others are committed to carrying on his work.