We're very pleased to publish the first edition of our occasional newsletter - Community News - which aims to profile to the wider community the fantastic work that church-based community projects are doing.

It is available here for download and will also be sent by email by partner organisations to their mailing list, and in printed form to churches.

We met Lisa at Lighthouse. She was doing an Alpha Course, and we asked her how she came to be doing Alpha and why she got involved with Lighthouse.

I consider myself a lapsed or dormant Christian. Through friends at Alpha I heard about Lighthouse and decided to send my kids – they had a great time!

thamechurchesunited.org is a new initiative to facilitate effective partnerships between churches working together in and around Thame – for the sake of the community.

‘TCU’ was born out of fresh relationships between church leaders involved in supporting inititives like Lighthouse and St Georges Day Festivals.

According to the grapevine, Lighthouse became the ‘talk of the town’ through the scale of the initiative and numbers of kids involved. One neighbour said, “I had no idea it was so big. I wish I’d sent my kids!”

Friday, 5 September from 7.30pm to 9.15pm, Thame Barns Centre, including a Fish and Chip Supper. The speaker is Thame resident Dr Krish Kandiah. Krish will be speaking on 'Is God a Delusion', disputing the Richard Dawkins thesis.
Tickets/enquiries from Michael Webb on 01844 212484

We've just been processing the numbers, and a massive 744 kids and young people were involved with Lighthouse, at some point during the week. That's...

Visit our sister site www.kidzklubthame.org for news of an exciting new development for Autumn 2008.

Updated 25 July: The brochure and application form is now available at www.kidzklubthame.org/findout

Welcome to our new thamechurchesunited.org site. We hope you enjoy it as we develop content in the coming weeks.