The Lille Braderie is coming!!!

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The Lille Braderie

The Lille Braderie is probably Europe’s biggest flea market and

is an annual event – about 36 hours non-stop - over the weekend of the first Sunday in September. This year (2010) it falls on the 4th and 5th of September. It is Christ Church’s biggest fund raising event of the year when we serve hundreds of homemade cakes and thousands of cups of tea and coffee, as well as sandwiches and quiches.

It’s also an event that pulls all our members together – including groups such as the Mothers and Toddlers, Alpha courses, Ladies' Fellowship and the Youth Group - and when we all ‘do our bit’, be it baking a cake, or sparing a few hours over the weekend to help set up, serve or just give a hand with the washing up, it’s also great fun!

The organisers this year are Pam Deegan, Frances Coester, Anna Gastaldi and David Bolton.  And we would love to hear from any of you with offers of help – be it from our regular church members, newcomers or visitors to Lille for the weekend. There are sign-up posters in the Church hall or you can e-mail us at braderie@christchurchlille.com

All help is welcome. At the very least, do take a break from your Braderie experience and drop by for a sit-down and a

cup of tea. We'd love to see you!

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Christ Church Lille turns 140!

      Over the Ascension weekend, Christ Church

      celebrated its 140th birthday as well as the

      landmark of ten years of holding services on

      Sunday evenings as well as on Sunday mornings!

      The weekend's events were well attended and

      both the services and receptions following were

       memorable occasions uniting parishoners old and

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