News and Events
Notices
Growing as a Disciple
Starting in September, our next Growing as a Disciple course is another way of refreshing our faith and learning together.
This ten session course is about deepening your personal faith, and raising your awareness of how God might be calling you to contribute your abilities and time to your churches and communities.
Pat Blyth, one of our LLMs, will be leading this course beginning mid to late September. If you would like to know more, please contact Pat Blyth or Revd Nigel Moat. Their contact details can be found on our website.
We are in the process of setting up Parish Giving for each of our churches. This scheme enables people to set up regular giving or make a one-off donation. The advantage of using this scheme is that gift-aid is automatically claimed on our behalf and all of the money that you donate (including the gift-aid) is passed directly onto the church. There are no administration costs involved.
Denver Tuesday Morning Prayer - Paused for August
We have decided to pause Morning Prayer in Denver on Tuesday mornings during August. This is because we only have a small band of people attending and some of us won’t be able to make it during the holiday season. If you would like to join us in September, please let Revd Nigel, Mary Hurst or Maurice and Linden Leeke know. We will confirm arrangements for September in the next newsletter.
August Events
CANCELLED - Summer Picnic - Saturday 3rd August
The summer picnic that had been advertised on the website, in the July newsletter and in the weekly mailings has now been cancelled due to lack of support. St Mary’s Church in Southery had planned to offer this as a benefice event, but no one from the wider benefice had expressed an interest. We would dearly love to offer benefice wide events such as this so this is something we will be picking up with the Joint Council.
No Southery Hymns and Tea in August
Please note that the monthly Hymns and Tea service at St Mary’s Church in Southery will not take place in August.
The services will resume again on September 18th and take place on the third Wednesday of the month at 2.30pm.
St Mary’s Church, Fordham - Sunday August 18th
The annual Friends of Friendless Church Service will be held at St Mary’s Church Fordham.
This is not an Ouse Valley service, but anyone is more than welcome to join those from the Friends of Friendless Churches as they lead the service. The service will be held on Sunday August 18th at 6pm.
This is usually a short BCP service of Evening Prayer.
Mailing List
We are setting up a new email mailing list for the Ouse Valley Benefice which will be used for the monthly newsletter and other regular updates. Please let Revd Nigel know if you would like to be added to the list. You can be assured that your email address will not be shared with anyone else. Once signed up, you will be able to unsubscribe at any time. You can also join the mailing list by completing the form at is.gd/ovbmailinglist.