Looking for something to do on Bank Holiday Monday?We’d like to invite our neighbours to an Open Day at St James’ – an opportunity for you to see the freshly decorated church building and to view some work by two local artists.There will also be a chance for a look round the Horsforth Shed (the refurbished former Scout Hut) to find out about our plans for this community workshop.We’re sorry not to be in a position to offer refreshments, but we do hope to give you a warm welcome, so please feel free to put on your face covering and come along.
We hope you enjoy reading about what is going on in and around God’s Church in your Parish. We hope to re-open for worship at the end of the month and are making plans for a covid-safe open day to show the church re-decoration and meet up with the community again.
The church building at St James’ is much loved. This is perhaps most obvious when we welcome people: at Christmas, to baptise, to get married and to say goodbye to loved ones. Anglican Parish Churches are sometimes described as ‘memory palaces’ for a community, and one of the obligations for an Anglican Parish Community is to maintain the building as a keeper of those memories and as a witness to the presence of God.In recent years many have commented on the need to repair the internal decoration of the church and on the inadequacy of the sound system. As time passes, these items move from being ‘nice to have’ to ‘essential maintenance’, and during 2019 the PCC committed to attend to them. A budget of £40k for this work was established and a plea for pledges issued to those on the Electoral Roll of the Parish early in 2020 received a very generous response. Redecoration work has started and will be completed during the summer.
