The annual Riding Mill Harvest festival service will be shared with our Methodist friends. There will be a separate service for the School, in Church.

Lots of churches in England have run what have been called ‘light parties’ where people celebrate All Saints by dressing up as well-known Christian saints (like St James!) as an alternative to ‘traditional’ Hallowe’en costumes.
We are doing this, too, in Riding Mill, to tell about Jesus and how he is like a Light that the darkness cannot overcome.
That’s why we will come out tonight in the Light, and why your sweets are in ‘Bags of Hope’.
Look for us in the new graveyard...
...Treats...
...no Tricks.

There will be silence, reflective music, prayer, and the chance to light a candle or simply remember. People are encouraged to drop in, and out, as they would like. If you miss this, and would have appreciated the time, might I suggest something? Our church building is open now, for all, every day. It serves as a place of Stillness, Calm and Quiet to reflect and remember. To curate the memories you shared with a soul friend. There is even the means to light a candle.

Our services on Remembrance Sunday start with a civic service in Church at the normal time for Parish Worship, 10am. From there we shall move outside to join other churches and the whole Riding Mill community at the War Memorial in the New Graveyard in Church Lane. There, community wreaths will be laid before a time of silence at 11am.

You are invited to join us for a time of silence and a prayer at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of eleventh month. This is less a service than an assembling to pay respect. Our main service will be on Remembrance Sunday.