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The Way of the Cross: The War in Syria - art installation and reflective space

29/3/2016

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On Good Friday, we created a 'Way of the Cross' exhibition based on the War in Syria. We created twelve Stations of the Cross around St Barnabas using images from the Syrian War, and also a central art installation inspired by ideas from young people at Cre8. The Church was open from 10am till 4pm - no service - just a quiet space for people to come and view the installation and have some quiet space to reflect.

It was a very moving and powerful scene - thank you to all involved.
​Below are some images from the installation and we've also produced a short booklet showing the 12 stations / images and the reflections to accompany each station.

Download the booklet: Way of the Cross - the War in Syria by clicking here

Some of the comments we've had...

A special exhibition for Good Friday, much appreciated by me and my dad. thank you for setting it up.

​A most moving and memorable Good Friday exhibition and one that will stay with us for a long time.

Thank you very much Rob for sharing these challenging reflections. Much appreciated...

Beautiful, harrowing, thought provoking.

We were quite lost for words after visiting the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday and we were deeply move by those images, the Bible passages and your thoughtful prose written underneath.
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Thanks to Comic Relief

21/3/2016

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We're giving massive thanks to Comic Relief today who are funding some of the renovation work in the Wildlife area behind the Cre8 Building.
Watching Jo Brand on TV yesterday, doing her walk for Sport Relief reminded us to say again how grateful we are to those people who raise money for what we're trying to do here, and for young people and families in Macclesfield.
Hopefully we will have the Wildlife area more available to local people in the future, with a new pond dipping platform, circular pathway, bird feeders, ducks and lots more wildlife to see !

​Ashley and Jason found a poorly squirrel today, so we rescued it and put it safely in the empty duck hut. Checking on the squirrel tomorrow.

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No more pathways

21/3/2016

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At the end of January we were told by Peaks and Plains Housing Trust that they would be terminating our pathways clearing contract on the 31st of March this year due to financial pressures.
​We are hugely disappointed by this, especially because we think it is valuable work in and for the local community. For over 5 years we have employed local young people to do this work, young people who would not otherwise be employed. We have also supported these young people into training and education.
Losing this source of income is big blow to Cre8, because the income has helped us to fund the free activities which we give to young people in Macclesfield. We're busy looking for new contracts so that we can continue to provide employment for local young people.
A big thank you to Gary Beard and his team at PPHT who are doing their best to find us some work.

We will continue as much as we can to keep the pathways maintained in and around the Moss Rose estate on a voluntary basis.
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Goodbye Roger

10/3/2016

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Yesterday we said goodbye to Roger; a long time volunteer, friend and supporter of Cre8. He'd been involved right from the very beginning and had done everything from digging on the Garden Project at St Barnabas Church in 2006 with young lads who weren't going to school, through to making model airplanes at Clubs. He was also a wonderful ambassador for Cre8 - telling his story and sharing what Cre8 was about.

He will be remembered by our young people; patiently sitting with them in a corner of the Church hall creating the most brilliant model planes, and eventually flying them around the hall or the garden. Lots cheers (and some ducking!) as the planes went all over the show! 
We each have our own good memories.

To hear at his funeral about how much it meant to Roger to volunteer at Cre8 and how much he got out of it; how important it was to him to use and share the skills and talents God had given him, was very special. He was involved in so many things in and around his community - not just Cre8. Doing whatever was needed. Car park attendant at Church when the Cancer Care days were happening was just one of the things he did. He wanted to make sure that people coming for treatment had somewhere closeby where they could park and didn't have to worry.

Roger wrote this piece for his Church magazine last year. It's about how he came to be involved with Cre8 - the start of his journey with us.

http://www.cre8macclesfield.org/roger.html
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You will be missed Roger, thank you for sharing some of your story with us.
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