Dear Friends,
Hope you are enjoying the hot weather – and if not that you find a nice cool spot to escape it! If you’ve got holidays coming up then I pray for travelling mercies and a wonderful time of rest. If not then enjoy the peace of the Acasters and Appleton Roebuck in summer.
The Thought for the Week is all about mountains with a link to a favourite hymn … open the attachment to find out more!
Rachel
What’s happening?
Sunday 22nd June
9:00 Holy Communion at Holy Trinity Church
10.30am: Holy Communion at All Saints, Appleton Roebuck
Monday 23rd June
11:30am: Funeral of Derek Smith at St Andrews Church Bishopthorpe
Tuesday 24th June
7:30pm at Christchurch, Heworth, York YO31 1JG - Living Christ’s Story Parish, Deanery and Diocesan Finances “Road Show” with Bishop Flora and Acting Archdeacon Liz Hassall – see note from Nick Morgan below
Wednesday 25th June
9:30 - 11am: Little Apples - Mothers and Toddlers Stay and Play group, Parish Room, Bolton Percy
10:30 - 12noon: Coffeepot Cafe, Methodist Chapel, Appleton Roebuck
Sunday 29th June
10:30am: Holy Communion at All Saints, Bolton Percy – joint ABC and AAA Churches
Monday 30th June
7:30pm Admission of Church Wardens at St Mary’s Tadcaster – come and support David and Philip
Advance Notice
Saturday September 27th
10:30am: Licencing of Lay Ministers at York Minster. Come if you can to support Rachel Reid, Daniel Khan, Alan Johnson and Emma Peers as they make this significant step on their faith journeys.
NOTE FROM AREA DEAN: FINANCES “ROADSHOW”
I would definitely commend the LCS and FWO update meetings (Next one at Christ Church Heworth) to CWs and any PCC members or indeed anyone who wants a clearer understanding of the financial situation as it relates to mission and ministry in the Diocese. There will be opportunity to put members of the Senior Leadership Team on the spot about finances and ask searching questions about (among other things) pooled Diocesan costs, Church Commissioner funds, parishes in vacancy, areas of significant deprivation and the cost of bishops.
As you may have heard, the proposed increase in clergy stipends was announced on Monday at a higher rate than had been anticipated, so this has an impact on the financial projections. The new figures will be uploaded, together with FAQs based on what emerges at all these update meetings by the end of June. It will all be uploaded to this page: https://dioceseofyork.org.uk/our-diocese/living-christs-story/
At the end of the meeting, there will be leaflets available for every parish in the archdeaconry, so that the information is available to parishioners who are interested but can’t be at the meeting.
Nick Morgan