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Christian Aid cash from school with big debt `Ugly bags of
Even though Oliver Tomkins Church of England Junior School still has to raise £45,000 to pay for their mostly water!'
new classroom block, they still found time to raise £1,300 for the Christian Aid Lent Charity Appeal in What makes up a human being?
March. Is there more to being a person
Each class organised a sponsored event, from in a scientific age?
blowing up balloons and playing sports for a day
to sponsored sweets and cake stalls and a crazy
clothes day, which saw Edward Koppoe dressed
in a glittery dress as one of the Supremes.
Headteacher Elizabeth Wood said the
fundraising ideas came from Year 4 work on the
Christian Aid Give A Goat for Christmas project.
"It's nice that children can raise money for a good
cause when we also have a long term fundraising
target. The money should buy a menagerie of
goats, turkeys, sheep or whatever is needed to
help in communities where Christian Aid works."
Christian Aid regional officer Helen Harrison collects a
cheque from Oliver Tomkins children
Lee Rayfield. the Bishop of Swin-
don, trained as an immunologist,
The truth is out there and we want to find it searching for the stuff of life through
a microscope. Yet he does not see
That's just one of the reasons Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code' has outsold everything in sight and why
any contradiction in being a com-
millions are now flocking to see the film, writes Mike Haslam, vicar of North Swindon.
mitted Christian and a scientist.
We want to discover the truth Vinci Code' itself, is only partially Look out for what the book and He will be talking on this view-
and, just occasionally, the more true. The Bibleisritthewholestory. the film say,aboutJesus,thechurch point on Saturday 24 June, 7.30pm
conspiracy that's involved the bet- But none of the accounts of the life and even about what truth is. Then at Peatmoor Community Primary
ter! of Jesus are as accurate as the Gos- start thinking - what is the truth School.
In a fast moving thriller, Dan pels in the Bible, none were writ- about Jesus and the Da Vinci code A ploughman's meal will be in-
Brown uses every trick in the book. ten so soon after Jesus died and and how can we work it out? And cluded in the evening's free events,
As with all his books the action was raised from the dead and only then try a Google search for 'da but a collection of voluntary contri-
takes place within 24 hours. He the Biblical Gospels were written vincicodeandbible'andstartread- butions towards costs and a local
interweaves high drama, murder by people who actually knew Je- ing... charity will take place.
and intrigue with seminars on the sus. Incidentally, the Bible has also To debate the film and book Rev. For tickets and details call Rev
history of the church, art and outsold 'The Da Vinci Code' many Mike Haslam can be contacted at: Peter Knight on 772417 or Claire
symbology. And in Robert hundreds of times over. [email protected] Camm on 850502.
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