Food Coop News
Dyserth Community Food Coop operates from Capel Dyserth Chapel every Wednesday from 10am - 1.00pm.
In addition to regular bags of fruit, veg and salad we also supply a mixed bag of fruit, veg and salad items for just £3.
Follow the link below or pop along to find out more
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Welcome to Dyserth Chapel
 Capel Dyserth Chapel is home to Horeb United Reformed Church and Bethel Presbyterian Church of Wales (Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru).
The two congregations work together but worship at different times on a Sunday. The URC service is in English at 9.30am and Bethel's service is in Welsh at 11.00am
These web pages are dedicated to Horeb United Reformed Church. Further details about Bethel can be found on their web site
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 . . . but when it comes it brings not only good cheer, but also overflowing church services and people generous with time and money. It started on the Sunday before Christmas, with a Festival Service; now our children and young people have outgrown the angels and shepherds nativity scene, so this was video interviews about what Christmas meant. Pigs in blankets and chocolate seemed to feature largely! There was a good congregation of mainly church people.
On Christmas Eve it was different. Horeb was bursting at the seams, not just with ‘regulars’, but with children and parents who are not regular churchgoers. So the simple Christmas story of love, peace, hope and joy, spelt out in multi-coloured hangings, reached a wide audience.. Christmas Day saw another well attended service which was not just bilingual (Bethel joined us) but trilingual as we sang
‘O tannenbaum’!
Lots of time was given too, to put up lights, make hangings, prepare services and music; too many to name. It is all greatly appreciated by church and village. |
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The Tuesday before Christmas threatened rain, but twenty people, adults and youngsters, still turned up to sing carols, accompanied by Jeni on the melodion; the rain obligingly held off. Gwynant redidential home was, as usual, the first call. The residents chose the carols, and most of them sang along, many remembering the words from their youth. The party was rewarded with chocolates! Then to Cwm Road, Thomas Avenue, Bryn y Felin, and the High Street - including the 'Bod'. Hot drinks and mince pies greeted the returning singers, and Shelter Cymru benefitted by over £50. |
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 Commitment for Life is about fullness of life for all people.
Commitment for Life is about helping this become a reality for all God's people.
Commitment for Life is about commitment to generous fellowship and just stewardship.
Commitment for Life is about commitment of time bringing fullness of life for all people.
On our Commitment for Life Sunday at the end of November this year we made more of the occasion than we have done for some years.
Mary Jeremiah, the Wales Synod's Commitment for Life Advocate, travelled up from Swansea to be with us for our worship. She had just returned from Bangladesh, the partner on which our thinking is concentrated. She was able to show us pictures and tell us first hand about the difference that is being made, not just in practical things like very deep wells and cyclone shelters, but also in the development of village councils which are taking responsibility for the necessary changes.
The gifts from Horeb amounted to £810, of which £675 was gift-aided. This means the total is about £979.
Thank you very much for that. Mary presented David Whyler, our CforL advocate, with a certificate which declares, "We are a Commitment for Life Church." |
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 It was a Harvest Supper with a difference. It was different in that there was no set charge; first course was provided, and a large variety of different sweets were brought by those attending. Donations more than covered the cost, which worked out at only about £1.50 per person, and left a surplus of £15 which was given to Christian Aid.
And it was different because after supper Graeme Johnson regaled us with a lively account of his bike ride for Christian Aid and NSPCC of nearly 1500 miles. Some places he was plied with sandwiches or given free accommodati
on; at others he battled against the elements, even having to walk his bike downhill once. He attended a church one Sunday which was freezing cold. To his comment to the congregation that they must be the hardiest in the country he was told, “you should come here in the winter!” and was told of the lady who was once found frozen to her pew.
A really enjoyable evening of good food and fellowship showed that you don’t have to do what you have always done before! |
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We are a Fairtrade Church
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