We are grateful to Peter and Charlotte Taylor for their kind donation of the Christmas Tree.Thank you also to Richard & Lynne, David, Peter and Joanne for decorating the tree and the church in time for our Carol Service (17th December 2024).Thanks to the our village community for attending, there were 70 of us in all, worshipping in traditional style with lessons and carols and followed by mulled wine and mince pies. Many thanks to Roger and Dawn hall for providing these delectable refreshments. Finally thanks to everyone involved in planning and leading the event, our Licenced Lay Minister, our Organist, our choir, our Churchwardens, and Sidepersons, our hosts and hostess for the refreshments and their logistics. And last but not least our cleaner (humbly working unseen) who is busy vacuuming up the crumbs. It was really lovely to catch up with our guests and friends. As the angels sang to the Shephers "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men".Philip.
We remembered the life of Richard Edmunson at his funeral (12th December 2024). The church and churchyard were packed with family, friends, farming community and villagers around 174 in all. The eulogies given by family members were a beautiful tribute to Richard’s life and character of love and kindness. Please keep Gillian and her family in your prayers as they navigate the Christmas season and times to come.The retiring collection in aid of Martin House Children's Hospice amounted to £1,536. Thank you everyone for your generous donations to this cause dear to Richard’s heart.
Message from your Parish Safeguarding Officer :-The Church of England is inviting all of us to complete a safeguarding questionnaire. This is an on-line document , run through the INEQE platform, and the link to click on to it is :- https://ineqe.com/churchofengland/york/which will bring up the Diocese of York section. Then if you scroll down, you will find “Parish Community” and if you click on there, it should take you into the survey itself. This is an optional and anonymous survey. It closes on the the 3rd January. Please complete if you would like to.Julia (Campbell-Barwick), PSO, Holy Trinity, Acaster Malbis