Shine! is Churches Together in Bishop’s Stortford’s community festival and is now becoming established as an annual event. We need you to
- get involved,
- put the dates in your diary now
- think and pray about what you can do.
Shine! is based on a simple idea – the Church is at the heart of our community and community is at the heart of church life. British town and village life has been built around churches and today the Churches in Bishop’s Stortford are vital centres for the local community. We want to celebrate that and encourage others to value the community in which we live. We’re going to do that by offering leadership to the local community in building up community values. We want to let our light shine and we want to help everyone to work together to make Stortford shine. Recent events in our society make this even more urgent.
In 2009 many bags of rubbish were collected by volunteers making a visible difference to our town.
Shine! isn’t just about picking up litter though. In Shine! 2009 many people made time to get to know their neighbours just a bit better. They held coffee mornings, organised barbecues and had other social events that helped them build relationships with the people around them.
Shine! runs for a week in September during which there are two major events planned:
Saturday 18th September Make Stortford Shine
A day for cleaning up our environment, our neighbourhoods and taking on some community projects.
Saturday 25th / Sunday 26th September Bring some sunshine to Stortford
A weekend to encourage people to get to know the people who live around them by organising
something big like a barbecue or street party,
or something small like morning coffee or afternoon tea.
