Book Stall

Fairtrade. In 2007 approximately two thirds of purchases from the stall were for fairly traded products, which included food, gifts and writing materials. Once again St. Bartholomew's received the city's Fairtrade Certificate - displayed in the hall.

Books. The remainder of items which church members bought were Bibles and Bible Reading Notes; Birthday, Christmas & Easter Cards; adult and children's Books; Music. Among the adult books Best Sellers were:

Lent Reading The Purpose Driven Life
  Dettox Your Spiritual Life in 40 Days
Holiday Reading Blind Spots
Advent Reading The Case for Christmas


The video library has been well used, mainly by the younger members of the church. With the changing trends we hope to add some DVDs in the near future.

Book Library. The church hall committee is kindly looking into a way to enable us to have better storage space so that the book library is easier to access. The library books have been sorted and we aim to have it open on Sunday & Thursday mornings following services and make it available to groups. We hope this will enable people to make greater use of it.

Thank you to all who have supported the bookstall in any way throughout the year, your generosity has enabled us to buy some message posters for the notice board by the road. Thank you too to Claire for her assistance.

Jill

AGM Report 2008



Throughout 2006 the bookstall has stocked books and Bible reading notes for all ages. Our Best sellers were:
  • Books about prayer.
  • 'Lent with Luke';
  • Fiction - 'The Fall of Lucifer'; 'the shock of your life'; 'Wild at Heart; 'Captivating'.

Greetings cards:
  • Birthday
  • Christmas
  • Easter
  • General
some were sold in aid of the African Pastors' Fellowship, Church Army & Tear Fund.

Fairtrade products ranging from tea, coffee, honey, biscuits and chocolate, to raisins, nuts and sugar have continued to sell well.

In the autumn just over £700 worth of gifts were purchased from the Tearcraft catalogue.

The Video Library has been well used by the younger members of our church who particularly enjoy the Story Keepers, Veggie Tales and Narnia series. Adult videos include a series of Bible studies.

Many thanks to Helen, Claire, Esther and Brenda for their assistance in running the stall and helping to maintain the stock, and to everyone who has bought things.

Jill
Updated from AGM Report 2007 [Webmaster)

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