Guerrilla Gardening
I’ve been reading recently about ‘guerrilla gardening’, a movement which has recently begun to cultivate the hundreds of London’s green spaces that are overgrown or neglected. Armed with trowels and packets of seeds, covert groups of gardeners work mainly at night, planting flowers on roundabouts, verges and those odd bits of ground created by traffic calming schemes.
It’s a brilliant idea and ties in with our thinking recently about how to show holiness by small acts of generosity and creativity in our neighbourhood. One patch of the parish that has long been the focus of our prayer and concern is Gipsy Hill station. I have long wondered about starting a ‘friends of Gipsy Hill station’ group, who could reduce the fear of crime by reclaiming this ground and making it beautiful.
If you’d be interested in this or have other ideas about how we might show new creation in our parish, do let me know. In the meantime, here is the summer programme of services and meetings for Christ Church and Berridge Road. May we all grow in holiness as we seek to serve the Lord here.
With the assurance of my prayers,
Andrew Rumsey, Vicar