Gorton Advent Windows

Our Hope for Gorton event tonight is Hope Rising with Chip Kendall.
It's going to a lively event for all young people.

Tuesday is Artsday in our Hope for Gorton week at Trinity Baptist Church. https://hopeforgorton.com

Our Hope for Gorton event for Tuesday is an art workshop. No previous skill necessary! Just come for the fun of being expressive and creative.
At Trinity Baptist Church at 7.30pm
More at http://hopeforgorton.com

Serving pancakes at The Vine at Trinity Baptist Church today, 2-4pm.

A warm space, free quality coffee, tea, cakes. Also walking football and table tennis.

Christmas Eve, and the last picture appears. It's at Trinity Baptist Church on Wellington Street, in their church noticeboard.

The church has carol services related to Gorton Advent Windows on Christmas Eve at 10.45am and 4.00pm, and on Christmas Day at 10.00am.

All the pictures can now be viewed at http://gortonwindows.com/pictures

Today's selfie is at Dixa Health and Beauty on Hyde Road.

I had to crouch down for this one! Thanks to Dixa for hosting the picture. And that rhymes!

See more at http://gortonwindows.com

Gorton Library! Today's selfie is at our fantastic local library in The Hub on Hyde Road.

Thanks to Councillor Julie Reid for linking us to The Hub.

See all our Christmas pictures by local children and our Advent trail at http://gortonwindows.com .

New on the Gorton Advent Windows website as we get halfway through the season.

See all the pictures so far revealed, all on one page. Which is your favourite?

https://gortonwindows.com/pictures/

Pictures – Gorton Advent Windows

Today's selfie. This picture is at Gorton Central on Highmead Street.

Each day we're telling the Christmas story through children's pictures, a new picture each day.

Follow the trail at http://gortonwindows.com

Today's Gorton Advent Windows selfie. Each day a new picture in Gorton tells the next stage of the Christmas story.

Today we meet the Bethlehem shepherds. The picture is in Heaven cafe in Gorton Market.
See more at http://gortonwindows.com

Today's selfie is at Gorton Pharmacy on Garrett Way by the Market. Spoiler - we're going into the Market for the next two days.
Today's picture is the birth of Jesus.
See more at https://gortonwindows.com

Today's picture is in Gorton Mill Cafe run by Les the Baker. Good food at good prices and a great picture of Mary and Joseph to look at.

Today's selfie. Day two of Gorton Advent Windows and this picture of an angel is at the Churches Centre, Collier House, Wellington Street.
Forever Manchester

Five reasons to follow the Gorton Advent Windows trail:
1. It gets us out and about for a good walk
2. We love seeing the children's artwork
3. We appreciate our local community and businesses
4. It builds up the anticipation towards Christmas
5. We experience again the story of Christmas

and... what reasons would you add?

Gorton Advent Windows is supported by Trinity Baptist Church, Digital Harvest and Forever Manchester. Thanks to them it's all come together and is getting going today.

Our first Gorton Advent Windows selfie!
The first picture is live in the window of the Oasis Centre on Hyde Road.
Thanks to Val for the pic.

It starts tomorrow.
The map is now live and tomorrow the first picture will be revealed. Day by day the Christmas story will be told through pictures in shop windows in Gorton. The pictures have all been made by children in local primary schools.
Follow the trail on the Gorton Advent Windows page and on the Gorton Windows website.
When you visit a window post a selfie on Facebook with the .

Gorton Advent Windows – An Advent tour around Gorton, Manchester home Here’s where you follow the Gorton Advent Windows trail and see the picture for each day. Click on the date below to open a webpage showing the picture of the day.Come back each day to find the venue of the next picture and see the picture revealed. GOING LIVE ON DECEMBER 1ST! Each day from D...

Gorton Advent Windows – An Advent tour around Gorton, Manchester home Coming to the streets of Gorton, Manchester, this December, it’s Gorton Advent Windows. Each day from December 1st to December 24th a new Nativity picture will appear in a window, somewhere in Gorton. The pictures will be like the windows of an Advent calendar – except the calendar will be ...

It all starts on Friday! The first picture in our Gorton Advent Windows trail will be in the Oasis Centre on Hyde Road.
The map will go live and the story of Christmas will be revealed one day at a time, one window at a time.
See more here on this page and our website

Gorton Advent Windows – An Advent tour around Gorton, Manchester home Coming to the streets of Gorton, Manchester, this December, it’s Gorton Advent Windows. Each day from December 1st to December 24th a new Nativity picture will appear in a window, somewhere in Gorton. The pictures will be like the windows of an Advent calendar – except the calendar will be ...

Thank you to Connecting Communities at Christmas, a project of Forever Manchester, for supporting Gorton Advent Windows, a project of Trinity Baptist Church.
For more on the Advent Windows project, go to http://gortonwindows.com

Good to have Sacred Heart RC School, Gorton, taking part in Gorton Advent Windows.

Good News! Five Gorton primary schools are now onboard with the Gorton Advent Windows project – Abbey Hey, Old Hall Drive, Sacred Heart, St Francis, and St James schools are all taking part.
If your school would like to be added to that list - let us know.