All creatures great and small welcome!
Refreshments for humans afterwards.

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Our next gathering in Lealholm will be Traditional Holy Communion on Sunday 20th October for Trinity 31.

Sing, worship and celebrate together in a shorter service to start the day. You are very welcome to join us! Stay for a while for some tea or coffee, biscuits and conversation. We'd love to get to know you!
First and Fourth Sundays: Morning Worship.
Second, Third and Fifth Sundays: Holy Communion.

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Refreshments afterwards - all welcome!

For further info please contact Reverend Anthony on 01947 899843 or [email protected]

4th Sunday of month at St. Matthew's Grosmont

Fourth Sundays starting 23 June; 7-7.45 pm; all welcome!

Join us in the beautiful St Thomas’ Church for a special time of prayer using meditations and chants from the Taizé tradition. No need to be able to sing and no prior experience needed. For further information email:
[email protected].

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This will be a special service for all those that have lost a loved one. There will be time to light a candle to remember those we have lost; time to remember the good memories. Please contact Jackie Newton or Reverend Anthony for any further information required.

Holy Communion on 1st Sunday of month at St. Mary's Goathland.

Fellowship Space meets again on Sunday 6th October at 4pm for a shortish walk followed by refreshments. Meet at the Hollins Institute, Institute Row, Grosmont YO22 5PQ. Parking on Front Street (from 4pm).

No need to RSVP just join us if you can. Open to all so do bring friends. Sorry no dogs.

In the case of inclement weather we will not walk but have a social time with refreshments.

Fellowship Space (fun, food, faith and friendship), with Helen and Chris, will resume on Sunday 1st September at 4pm and continue every first Sunday of the month. Note that from November when parking restrictions in Grosmont are lifted for the winter the group will start at 3pm.

We will continue to meet at Helen’s home in Grosmont: The Hollins Institute , Institute Row , YO22 5PQ (07557 903264).

Please find the draft programme for the Autumn (note that dates and activity could change):

September 1st. Sing for your supper. Enjoy singing hymns and other genre for fun (singing voice not necessary !) Chris on guitar / keyboard. Followed by supper of chili and baked potatoes (baked pots and cheese for veggies).

October 6th. Autumn walk (from the Institute) followed by time of sharing and tea and cake.

November 3rd. Discussion on one of the parables. Refreshments.

December 1st. Carols with mulled wine and mince pies.

Everyone welcome - just turn up, however it would be helpful to know if you plan to come for the supper on 1st September .

The language used by the church and occasionally by us all, to discuss faith, religion or belief can often be confusing, misinterpreted and for some alienating. The purpose of this small group is to create a space where language and concepts can be explored safely, and greater insight developed. The group meets every two weeks and is open to all, of faith and no faith. A space to listen, share and question.

This is one of a series of new and exciting experiments we are running this year: do come along and experience something a little different.

Please contact Reverend Anthony for further information: [email protected] or 01947 899843.

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A monthly meeting at 4 pm on the First Wednesday (or Second Wednesday as needed due to holidays) for the members of the benefice's Advisory Council. Refreshments will be provided.

Join us and our friends from across Whitby Deanery for Evening Prayer in contemporary language at St Hilda's in Egton or online via Zoom.

On 13th October we celebrate Harvest and Baptism. A special service of Holy Communion in the Celtic tradition normally takes place on the 2nd Sunday of the month at St. Thomas' Glaisdale.

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A meeting of the Parochial Church Council of the Parish of Goathland in the Benefice of Middle Esk Moor.

A chance to meet, have breakfast, worship, craft and chat.
Suitable for all ages from newborn to 102.

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On 20th October we celebrate Harvest and Baptism.

Holy Communion on the 3rd and 5th Sundays of the month at St. Hilda's Egton. Refreshments served afterwards. Do come and join us and stay for a chat. You're most welcome!

Please let Jackie Newton know if you would like to come to our next 'Revitalise' session.

John Day, who organises the programme writes...

"Dear colleagues

Our next Wydale Learning Community day is Saturday 7 September, 10am to 3.30pm. We're following up the suggestion quite a few of you have made to look at missional leadership. John Lee will be leading the session. He will be taking us through the nuts and bolts of leadership, and bearing in mind such questions as: 'what models might we use for being more effective leaders in mission?' 'How would our lay and ordained leadership develop and change if mission was our main focus'?

The first part of the afternoon will be devoted to reflecting on John's presentation in our benefice groups. However, there's an extra opportunity to chat with John. We've divided the time slot 2pm to 2.45pm into 3 x 15 minute sections. If you'd like one of these 15 minute slots, as a group, to talk with John about your context and questions, let me know asap. It's first come, first served!!

During the first part of the morning, we will have a catch up with each other. Perhaps you could come prepared to discuss the question: ‘describe how leadership is exercised in in your benefice.’"

The next meeting will be part of our combined meeting.

The next meeting will be at the Ley Hall, Lealholm

The next meeting will be on Monday 10th June, 6.30 in St Hilda's

The next meeting will be on Saturday 20th July.

At this special meeting we’ll build on all the energy we’ve generated and hard work we’ve put in across Middle Esk Moor over the last year. Based on our discussions and survey feedback, we’ll launch four new Benefice teams focussed on Pastoral Care, Ministry, Sustainability and Fundraising.

Each of our teams, including people from across our villages, will agree three things they want to achieve over the next three months, taking the load off our four parochial church councils (PCCs) by working collaboratively on common priorities.

All are welcome to come along. There’ll be afternoon tea included. Please download our Agenda from the link.

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This booking has been confirmed with Brenda Lealman and Reverend Anthony Bennett.

During Holy Week at 9:00 p.m.
Monday – Thursday inclusive; St. Hilda’s Egton,
Special Services of Night Prayer
Please see the link to our livestream, and download the attachment for the order of service.

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Not sure what to do over the Easter Holiday? There will be an Easter Trail for children, with their parents and carers, available from Monday 25th March - Monday 8th April, starting inside Egton Church. Make your own Dotty the Donkey and then follow the trail around the church and churchyard. Have fun! Happy Easter 🫏

Village Cafe this Tuesday, 17 September, in our village hall from 10:00 o'clock till noon. Presentation by Capt Cook museum. Memorial Museum.
Coffee, tea and cake available. All donations to support the Museum.

Village Cafe - a warm space with a warm welcome! Come along for a chat and join us for coffee, tea, hot chocolate and delicious homemade cake.

If you would like to volunteer to help with this please contact us.

The meetings will take place at Midday, after our Sunday 10:45 services, on:

14th April, St Thomas, Glaisdale and Lealholm

21st April, St Hilda, Egton.

28th April, St Matthew, Grosmont.

5th May, St Mary, Goathland.

Further information:

Dear friends,

Our church community comprises four parishes, each connected together into the Benefice of Middle ESK Moor. We have four Parochial Church Councils (PCCs), one Churchwarden, one Interim Minister (here for at least the next two years), and an overall Advisory Council that was established last year to collaboratively oversee our development. Over the next six months our Community Forum will continue to meet to work out together the best way of reconfiguring our parishes. We are seeking to make our work more enjoyable, giving everyone the opportunity to contribute their passions and skills to help build and grow a more sustainable presence in this place.

Over the next month our APCMs are coming up. At those meetings Churchwardens are normally elected, and PCC members appointed to each parish. Whilst we have to hold the Churchwardens’ elections as part of the APCMs, this year we won’t be actively seeking to appoint any Churchwardens. Instead, we will be developing new ways of fairly distributing the Churchwardens’ responsibilities amongst those in our community willing to undertake aspects of the Churchwardens’ role. A similar approach will apply to the administration parts of the Interim Minister’s role, as we continue to build a more centralised and systematic approach to the day-to-day running of the parishes and their church buildings. We will be using the responses to our recent survey alongside our community forum discussions, and our involvement with John Day and the ‘Revitalise’ team from the Diocese, to begin to re-design our approach to how our parishes are managed.

Thanks to everyone currently involved in the many aspects of running out church community – all your work is very much appreciated!

Please do come along to one of our APCMs if you can. There will be opportunities to become elected to one of our PCCs or to help one or more of our PCCs to develop our work across the benefice. The meetings will take place straight after our Sunday morning 10:45 services, and they will be as follows:

Midday Sunday 14th April, St Thomas, Glaisdale and Lealholm

Midday Sunday 21st April, St Hilda, Egton

Midday Sunday 28th April, St Matthew, Grosmont

Midday Sunday 5th May, St Mary, Goathland

With love and all good wishes,

Anthony

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The Reverend Anthony Bennett

Interim Minister – the Benefice of Middle ESK Moor

PLEASE LET IS KNOW IF YOU'RE COMING TO THE 12 AUGUST EVENT - email [email protected] ASAP!

Our special events for new (from September) Year 6 and Year 7 children and their families are taking place on Tuesday 23rd July and Monday 12th August,

1 pm to 3 pm at Egton Village Hall,
Free lunch from midday onwards.

To book your places please email [email protected] as soon as possible!

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Heritage Open Days, St Mary’s Church, Goathland.
All welcome.
Sat 14 & Sun 15 September 10am-4pm
- Displays including historic photos
- Follow church or churchyard trail
- Hunt for carved mice
- Climb the spiral staircase in the tower
- see the clock
- ring the bells
- Light Refreshments