Harvest Festival
Sung Eucharist for Harvest Festival
Today at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Other services
Songs of Praise: Whitkirk's Top Ten Hymns
Today at 6.00 pm · Watch the service · View the order of service
Said Eucharist
This Wednesday 8 October at 10.00 am
Sanctuary
This Thursday 9 October at 6.30 pm
Sung Eucharist for the seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
Next Sunday 12 October at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Messy Church
Next Sunday 12 October at 4.00 pm
Christmas Cakes
We are looking ahead to our Christmas Fair on 29 November where, as usual, there will be a Christmas Cake stall. We are looking for donations of the following ingredients so that the baking can commence: mixed dried fruit, ground almonds, medium/large eggs, self-raising flour, dark brown sugar, marzipan and icing. There is a box at the back of the church for your donations. Thank you for your generosity.
The Leeds South & East Food Bank: What's Needed in October
The Leeds South & East Food Bank continues to be in urgent need of donations of food to help feed those in most need. In particular at the moment they are asking for UHT milk, biscuits, custard, cooking sauces and tinned or packet mashed potatoes.
If you are able, you can donate by picking one of these items up in your weekly shop and dropping it in the box at the back of the church. You can find other ways to help, including donating money or your time, on their website at wkrk.uk/fbd. If you need the help of a foodbank yourself, see wkrk.uk/fbh.
We are pleased to support the foodbank at St Richard’s, Seacroft with our Harvest Donations today
Interested in helping with our work with children and young people?
In the New Year we are looking at setting up two new initiatives aimed at younger children (and their parents) and at teenagers.
‘Bears and Prayers’ will take place on a weekday morning and will consist of a short service with stories, songs and prayers, led by Reverend Bear (and her human helpers). Children will be encouraged to bring their teddies along. There will be tea, coffee, squash and biscuits served in church after the service. In order to run this service we will need at least two volunteers per session to support Claire in running the service.
A ‘Youth Cafe’ will take place in the Community Centre after school (perhaps 3.30-5.30) on a drop-in basis. It will be open to young people between the ages of 12 and 16. Again, we can only run this if we have volunteers prepared to help. The cafe will provide hot and cold drinks, biscuits and snacks, but will not involve organised activities (at least in the first instance).
It remains to be decided whether these activities will run weekly, fortnightly or monthly: to some extent this will depend on the availability of volunteers.
If you think that you might be willing to help (no firm commitment needed at this stage) with either of these activities, please could you put your name on the list that is available at the back of the church today (and will be available for the next few weeks)? Many thanks.
Thank you!
As the Open Church season draws to a close, a big ‘thank you’ is due to all those who have given up their time to keep the church open to the public through the summer. This is a vital way of engaging with our broader community and engaging those who may not come to church on a Sunday morning, and your contribution is appreciated.
Harvest lunch
Today
St Mary's Church Whitkirk Community Centre
Tea and coffee will be available after today’s service as usual in the Community Centre, but served from the bar, rather than from the kitchen area, to accommodate the Harvest Lunch. Please try to keep the area set up for the lunch as free as possible while you have your drinks. The kitchen is strictly out of bounds to everyone except those involved in preparing the lunch.
If you have a ticket for the Harvest Lunch, food will be served at around 12.30pm. We hope you will have a wonderful time as we celebrate all the good things that God has given us and enjoy one another’s company.
Songs of Praise: Whitkirk's Top Ten Hymns
Today at 6.00 pm
St Mary's Church, Whitkirk
The votes are in, the final shortlist has been drawn up. Don’t miss our Songs of Praise service this evening at 6.00 pm when we will find out which hymn is Whitkirk’s Number One! This will be a beautiful service, with a chance to sing all your favourites!
Parish Pilgrimage to Ripon Cathedral
Saturday 1 November
Another date for your diary. On 1 November we will be holding a parish pilgrimage to Ripon Cathedral. The theme of the day is ‘Treasures Untold’, and this will involve a coach to Ripon, refreshments on arrival, a guided pilgrimage, some quiet time for reflection, and a sung Eucharist to conclude. There will also be some free time to explore Ripon afterwards. Cost £12 per person.
The Church family
For your prayers
The sick
- Christine
- Katie
- Dominic
- Stephen
- Caroline
- Tom
- David
Those in long-term care
- Ginny
- Michael
- Virginia
Recently died
- Doreen Raby
- Dorothy Thorpe
- Paul Storey
Anniversary of death
- Bill Godson
- Clem Mills
- Janette Songhurst