Setting
out for Spain
Our esteemed Chair, Rev
Andrew Bunch, pictured just days before leaving Oxford. There has been a lot of interest in
Andrew’s sponsored pilgrimage to
Santiago de Compestela next month.
We have lots of
sponsorship forms, and have started to e-mail them round to supporters. Let us know if you need one.
Andrew has already been
promised over £2,000 from churches and schools and says “It’s a very good way
of raising funds for the Gatehouse.”
The
book is back!
Our wonderful celebration of the many sides of Oxford, One City, Many Voices is back in print, thanks to a very generous private donation.
Copies can be found at the Fairtrade shop (see above) as well as our own office, price £5.00
For those of you who have never seen it, it collects creative writings from some of our guests alongside original work by other Oxford writers such as Mark Haddon, Colin Dexter and Philip Pullman.
Makes a nice present!
Network Prayers
… is moving around from church to church each month:
In May it will be at 12.30pm on Thursday 5 May at Mary Magdalen See if you can catch up with us!
the AGM
Thanks
to those who turned out on a
really
horrible night
to our Annual General Meeting.
Apart form the usual business matters, we heard from Rob and “Ratty” (Eleanor) about their experience of carrying out the survey last year.
Sunday
Times Oxford
Literary
Festival , 2008
Twenty of us were present for a private event with Mark Johnson, the author of the book Wasted during this year’s festival. We heard the inspiring story of someone who has had all the negative experiences that Gatehouse guests have had – and lived to tell the tale.
Mark
was very generous with his time, answering questions and chatting to members of
his audience. See Simon’s interview on homeless.me.uk