Saint GoodGym-ers, like good samaritans...

Saint Andrew church in Hove is a church who “want to Love God & Love Hove like Jesus”. It is in the centre of Hove, for a reason: to help the city to transform for the better – so, its community believes. It's a loving family, who aspire to be open and welcome everybody in need of food or clothes or just of a safe space in the garden to meditate on the sense of life.

I like that, we like that.

Brighton GoodGym-ers love helping rev Dan and John to maintain the green space next to the church graveyard - a hidden peaceful oasis where the community like to gather at times. For some GoodGymers, St Andrew church is a bit of a longer stretch (than usual) despite always a nice and easy 3.5K run from our meeting point in Hove from the Peace Statue.

Nevertheless, even the doubtful weather did not stop us to get in action at the end of a tiring working day! Like for Juliet who decided last minute to join our GoodGym session by bike or for Rob and Sarah who run a lot further from where they live to train their legs for the Brighton Half.

Yesterday, lady Kathy welcomed GoodGym with tasks suitable for everybody, and then she blowed away with the wind suggesting that some rain could have catched us later on! But, it didn’t 😊. This GoodGym session ended up being a funny quick and spooky “fight” (not to miss-spell with the word “faith” as I almost did not being a native English 😉) with the Ivy plants. We cleared lots of ivy from the walls and there was lots of chatting and laughter despite the cold. Rob and Amaryllis took the prize for the biggest bits of ivy. We also delivered some Fairshare's surplus good food that I managed to deliver to the benefit of Saint Andrew church’s foodbank.

Brighton GoodGym-ers are (like) Saints, … so, I often feel to be honest. We like to #DoGoodGetFit and to keep ourselves moving, as good Samaritans do.

Join us next week for a Pancake group run, and social pub games! – This will be a typical GoodGym group fitness (easy) run with a theme, followed by a social gathering to get loose, meet your fellow GoodGymers in Brighton & Hove and discover what GoodGym charity does.

Happy GoodGym-ing!

Saint Andrew’s Church vision is based on something that Jesus said at the end of his story about the good Samaritan. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind”; and, “Love your neighbour as yourself.” Jesus - Luke 10:27