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I'm glad you asked about the money because the work begins today.
Here at Raglan Baptist we have two buildings - a chapel from the 1860s and a converted house from who knows when. We call this the Fellowship Centre.
Both buildings are at full stretch now.
As well as Sunday services, we have keep fit and dance classes in the chapel.
In the Fellowship Centre, the list is long and constantly changing.
Raglan Rhythm and Rhyme caters for babies and toddlers
Delight is for Infants - games and Bible stories and singing
Fortified is for Juniors - ditto
Friday youth club for Secondary school students
Women's Institute
Ladies' Fellowship
Bible study and prayer group
Seniors' luncheon club
Welsh playgroup
Welsh Conversation
Music Appreciation
Fat Fighters
Coffee pot
Friends of Chernobyl Children
Raglan Saturday Singers
Holiday Club
We have a versatile and hard-wearing set of premises but, boy, do they need refreshing!
We also need a disabled toilet and baby-changing facilities.
So, today, the workmen are going to be knocking the gents and ladies into one and ripping out the plumbing and putting in new fittings and redoing the walls. Well, today and the next three weeks.
When all of that is done, we are going to redecorate and the Fellowship Centre will be ready for the long haul.
Hence the Parable of the Talents. And hence the busking round Wales project.
Donations gratefully received at
Raglan Baptist Church
Usk Road
Raglan
Monmouthshire
NP15 2EB
UK
Welsh songs tomorrow
Showing posts with label welsh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label welsh. Show all posts
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Did you mention songs in Welsh?
Yes, I did.
Like many people of my generation, I have an odd relationship with the Welsh language.
I like to say that I come from Abertillery, which was Welsh speaking when nobody lived there!
All branches of my family arrived there in the mid to late 19th century, from Bristol, Cornwall, Carmarthen and over the "mountain" from Blaenavon.
My parents speak no Welsh and neither did their parents.
Cut to the sixtties. Yes, you'd hear it on the radio every morning piped in by Rediffusion and you'd watch the odd episode of Pobl or Disc a Dawn. So you know what it sounds like and you know the odd few words.
And I've oscillated between support and disdain. Sometimes bewilderingly for family and friends. For myself, too, actually.
And now there's been this immense increase in the use of Welsh. Our French-born children have learned the language in school. Etc. Well, I expect you know how much more Welsh there is around than when I was a kid. Why, I heard it in Monmouth only the other day and not in a staged situation.
And there is a thriving and exciting Welsh music scene.
More tomorrow.
Like many people of my generation, I have an odd relationship with the Welsh language.
I like to say that I come from Abertillery, which was Welsh speaking when nobody lived there!
All branches of my family arrived there in the mid to late 19th century, from Bristol, Cornwall, Carmarthen and over the "mountain" from Blaenavon.
My parents speak no Welsh and neither did their parents.
Cut to the sixtties. Yes, you'd hear it on the radio every morning piped in by Rediffusion and you'd watch the odd episode of Pobl or Disc a Dawn. So you know what it sounds like and you know the odd few words.
And I've oscillated between support and disdain. Sometimes bewilderingly for family and friends. For myself, too, actually.
And now there's been this immense increase in the use of Welsh. Our French-born children have learned the language in school. Etc. Well, I expect you know how much more Welsh there is around than when I was a kid. Why, I heard it in Monmouth only the other day and not in a staged situation.
And there is a thriving and exciting Welsh music scene.
More tomorrow.
Saturday, 8 May 2010
What's it all about?
It's about the parable of the talents.
I gave ten pounds to all the people in our service in Raglan on Sunday 2nd May 2010.
They had to go away and make as much money as they could with their ten pounds.
I'm supposed to get my dough back on 5th October,
As for me, I'm getting a sign made with "busking for Raglan Baptist" on it along with the church website address: http://www.raglanbaptistchurch.org.uk/
I'm going to set out with my guitar in August after a couple of dry runs at the school fete and the music festival. The money I make, I'm going to reinvest in petrol and food and start from Abergavenny, going on to Brecon and then all points west.
I gave ten pounds to all the people in our service in Raglan on Sunday 2nd May 2010.
They had to go away and make as much money as they could with their ten pounds.
I'm supposed to get my dough back on 5th October,
As for me, I'm getting a sign made with "busking for Raglan Baptist" on it along with the church website address: http://www.raglanbaptistchurch.org.uk/
I'm going to set out with my guitar in August after a couple of dry runs at the school fete and the music festival. The money I make, I'm going to reinvest in petrol and food and start from Abergavenny, going on to Brecon and then all points west.
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