There will be no Goodlife Community Church Christmas Day picnic at Cotton Tree, Maroochydore this year.

In the December issue of Your Time magazine I wrote that the church would be holding the event this year as it did in former years. Alas, I was misinformed (and didn’t think to check with the Goodlife Community Church organisation) and the church is instead making dinners for about 150 needy and homeless people who would not be able to enjoy a traditional Christmas meal any other way.

There will still be plenty of other faith-based Christmas services and activities on the Sunshine Coast this year and up-to-date information is available on line – just be careful, though, that you check with the individual churches and not rely on social roundup-type sources.