Church Camp 2024

We are going on an adventure!
This weekend we’ll be having our Church Camp Weekend.
It will take place at “Station Farm, Shapwick Road, Westhay, Glastonbury, BA6 9TT”
(Distance from Cheddar to Westhay is about 10 miles)
 
For campers: setup will commence on Friday from 14:00 onward.
 
The food-related programme is:
Friday people making their own supper.
Saturday people make own breakfast, we'll do communal pizzas on Saturday afternoon. Bring your own bases and toppings, we'll cook it in the pizza oven. 
Saturday night people will cook for themselves. 
Sunday morning organise own breakfasts.
Visitors are welcome at any time. The Nature Reserve is simply amazing!
Paul and Susie will be in front of Cheddar Baptist church on Sunday morning from 9:50 to 10:00 to offer lifts and directions to the Westhay camp site. (THERE WILL BE NO WORSHIP SERVICE IN THE BUILDING)
 
We aim to gather for our Sunday worship service at 10:30 which will be in the field.
This will then be followed by a Bring & Share BBQ – Meat and salads (e.g. pasta salad, potato salad, green salad, tomato salad) and rolls/bread.  Bring enough to feed only your own family but put it out for people to share – that way there should be good variety and enough to go around without excess!
If anyone can bring a BBQ along that would be helpful. 
For bookings please contact Bethan Dyga directly via email: [email protected]
 
£30 per pitch including 2 adults (every extra child per pitch is £5 per night)
£20 per single person pitch.
Bethan will supply one box of kindling to get us started on fires and for pizza oven.
Extra boxes will be £5. Logs are £16 per wheelbarrow.

If you have any questions, please call me (07565 276223).
See you all soon
Paul & Leadership Team

​What we want to do in Cheddar Baptist Church graveyard
 
Maintenance in any graveyard is not easy.  It requires time and it needs people who are prepared to find that time and commit it on a regular (and unpaid) basis.
 
Over the years the graveyard at Cheddar Baptist Church has struggled to find people who not only have the time, but the energy to keep it looking simply neat and tidy.  The grass has needed regular cutting and pushing a hefty mower around graves is no easy task.
 
The graveyard itself offers huge potential for being exactly what it should be. A place of rest, not just for those who have departed but for those who simply want to remember their loved ones and have a sense of peace. As a church, we have discussed how we can realise that potential and create an environment that reflects the wonder of God’s goodness.  It was felt that a wild flower garden would be a realistic and meaningful  solution and in 2015 we started to plant trees, bulbs and shrubs to put in place the basic structure.
 
The problem we have struggled to overcome is the grass.  It is not meadow grass and it does not allow wild flowers to germinate, let alone flourish.  So for our work to continue we do need to get back to bare earth and create conditions that will allow us to sow wild flower seeds in Spring.
 
In the very short term this will mean that the graveyard will look a bit ‘bare’ as the grass goes, but by Summer (with God’s help) it will be a place of joy and delight for us all. No graves will be disturbed as the work is undertaken and access to graves will not be compromised in any way.