Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of THE BUZZ.

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Dina Lazarus
  

Three more exciting and encouraging stories from around Methodism. The contacts provided will be pleased to give you more information.

The click-clack of knitting needles could be heard all over South Wigston throughout October and November as members of our local Methodist church knitted up hundreds of hats to help children all over the world.

Worshippers at the South Wigston Methodist Church in Leicester, stitched together over 1500 woolly offerings in aid of children’s charity, Save the Children’s ‘Knit one, save one’ campaign. Knitters were in good company with celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Mischa Barton casting on and off for the excellent cause.

Save the Children, which campaigns to ensure that children receive proper health care, food, education and protection, collected a whopping 700,000 hats from 50,000 knitters to send to needy children across the globe.

David Harrison of the Methodist Church, South Wigston, said that he was very pleased with the church's knitting endeavours. He said: “I just thought that this was a cause worth taking up and that anyone who could knit could get involved with very little expense and help save a life.”

Families at the Burton Road Methodist Church in Lincoln were treated to a thrilling evening last month as they watched Lewis Hamilton’s historic Formula 1 victory in Brazil on a giant screen in the church hall.

A mixture of tension and delight, along with some badly chewed nails, accompanied the clinching of the championship title by the youngest world champion in Formula 1’s history.

"The final lap was the most nerve-racking", said Mark Thompson from the church, adding: “The atmosphere was very tense in the final laps and even tenser on the last lap, but there was great relief and joy when Lewis clinched the title.”

Buoyed by the success of this event, and a previous showing of the FA Cup final, we are thinking of turning our attentions to matters musical with a Mamma Mia charity sing-along pencilled in for the new year. So watch this space!