Lighthouse 2010 has started, welcoming over 700 toddlers, children and young people to a fun-filled week. For more information please visit our sister website: www.lighthousethame.org.uk

Plans are coming together for series of events in March 2010, under the banner "Love Thame". Organised collaboratively by several joint churches, these events aim to serve the local community and share the good news of Jesus Christ at the heart of the community.

Plans include a Community Action Day (20 March), 'Lunchbar' meetings (24-26 March) and a Jazz Dinner (26 March).

As well as being a great time for family and friends, Christmas is a major event in the Christian calendar, when we celebrate te birth of Jesus Christ.

Why not join one of the local churches for a Christmas celebration? For a selection of Thame Christmas services visit churches' own websites:

Barley Hill Church
communitychurch thame
Cornerstone/LCBC
St Marys Thame

Lighthouse Thame 2009 started today, with 673 pre-registered for 4-11s. We had another 20 who registered on the door today, and 175 parents+toddlers, so at this rate we're heading for 1,000 happy customers this week, not including the 300+ helpers.

More details from our sister site: www.lighthousethame.org.uk, or check out our event pictures at www.thamechurchesunited.org/image

We had a great time at the Thame Fete! For a full report visit www.kidzklubthame.org

We're planning to be at the Thame Festival! The Lighthouse and kidzklub teams will be partnering to run a run a mini-kidzklub, complete with communitycafe and face painting toddlers. Mini-kidzklub will be a repeating 15-minute programme of mainstage fun, open to regular kidzklub kids, as well as any other primary age kids who want to check us out! More information very soon from www.kidzklubthame.org!

In a recent BBC survey, two-thirds of those questioned said the law "should respect and be influenced by UK religious values", and agreed that "religion has an important role to play in public life". (Interestingly, a significantly greater proportion of the Muslims and Hindus polled supported a strong role in public life for the UK's Christian traditional religious values.)

We've just launched our new Lighthouse website at www.lighthousethame.org.uk, to provide a better online service for 2009. We're working towards online registration, so visit us again in Spring 2009.

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.