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Neighbourhood Welcoming Team
” Love Your neighbour as yourself”
the second great commandment (Mark 12:31)
In Ecclesall the six Churches have the opportunity of welcoming their neighbour who has recently moved into the area through the Welcoming Scheme. The Welcoming Scheme has been running for eight years or more. We have produced a Welcome Leaflet with information about Ecclesall - surgeries, dentists, chemists, Post Offices, Buses, etc - as well as details of the churches and their services.
The Welcomer will call with the Leaflet to welcome the new neighbours and ask if there is anything else that the newcomer would like to know eg wheelie or Blue bin day, Brownie or Cub Packs, or whatever, and will put their own name on the leaflet in case any further contact is wanted. The idea is simply to be friendly and available if needed. All we ask is that a Welcomer calls once to show a friendly face, who lives near-by. This might mean making two or three separate calls a year.
So, would you like to help meet the second great commandment - by becoming a Welcomer for one of the roads and blocks of apartments in Ecclesall not yet covered: - Brincliffe Hill, Button Hill (left Hand Side going up to Dunkeld Road) Derriman Close and Grove, Parkhead Rd, Silverdale Court, Silverdale Glade and Gardens, Talmont Road, Weetwood Drive, Silverdale Road (2- 70 and 1-17), Dobcroft Road (below Cortworth Road), Ecclesall Road South (Millhouses Lane to Parkhead), Renishaw Road
Also seek out who is the Welcomer on your Road,Lane, Apartments and advise them when someone is moving in, as it is not always easy to notice this happening. Pray for the scheme that helps make Ecclesall a friendly place for all who come to live here.
Please contact one of the Convenors for more information or to Volunteer.
The Convenors are: All Saints - Michael Granger - 2366167, Banner Cross - Jackie Dunn - 281 9490, Bents Green - Doreen Sutcliffe - 2360717, St Gabriels -Margaret Basher - 266 7290, St Williams - Bemard Branch - 255 6405
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