YOUR Arise Hallow Shopping List

Are you ready for Arise Hallow? Make the most of your chance to shine in Sheffield with the tips and links below, for Wear Your Faith Fortnight, Streets of Light, and gifts for visiting trick-or-treaters.

For Wear Your Faith Fortnight

Support Arise and encourage other Arisers with clothing and accessories featuring the new Arise Sheffield logo. Each purchase includes a donation to grow prayer and mission in Sheffield.

Youth evangelism organisation The Message Trust have a fantastic clothing range that supports their mission.

Online Christian store Eden has a brilliant and varied stock of Christian badges and jewellery to suit most tastes.

Amazon has a range of Christian clothing and accessories with convenient delivery.

For Streets of Light

Streets of Light is a citywide initiative inviting people to decorate a window of their house with a positive message of light, hope and love, and illuminate it each evening for a week around Halloween. This year the dates are 30 October - 5 November

Find out more about how to get involved, and sign up at www.streetsoflight.co.uk

Using a light-box: If you aren’t artistic but want to get involved, this is the easiest way to join in. Lightboxes can cost as little as £7.99 on Amazon, and Argos is selling one for £12.99. Just choose your message and put the box in your window. Job done!

Using paint pens: If you’d love to be involved in Streets of Light but aren’t sure where to start, check out this article with tips and advice about how to decorate a window, including links to recommended pens.

Using tissue paper: Or, if you’d like to get all the family involved, you might prefer to use tissue paper squares to create your design. This tutorial is for Christmas patterns but you can adapt the idea to create your own Streets of Light window, using coloured tissue paper, black card, and sticky-backed plastic.

Re-purpose your Summer solar lights: Finally, why not make use of any solar-powered fairy lights to illuminate your Streets of Light window? Charge them up during the day, then switch them on in your Streets of Light window during the evenings. Most hardware, garden, and homeware shops stock solar lights, as does Amazon.

For visiting trick-or-treaters

Halloween can be a great opportunity to connect with families in your local area. In 2021 Arise! magazine featured an article with suggestions for how to engage during Halloween.

This year Arise is offering church communities Bags of Hope, which contain a children’s Bible storybook, a Gospel of John, and some stickers, all within a takeaway bag ready for you to fill with sweet treats. Your church leader has been sent a link to order their pack: remind them today if you’d like to give some of these to your local trick-or-treaters.

If your church isn’t ordering Bags of Hope, but you’d still like to share your faith with trick-or—treaters, here’s a quick shopping list of things you might need:

Share your story

We’d love to hear how you get on as you shine in Sheffield this season. Please send any pictures, stories, and tips about what you’ve done during Arise Hallow to hello@arisesheffield.org.