A busy weekend in church as Methley WI held an early Christmas Fair with home made jewellery, woodcraft, art, cakes and makes and lots of other Christmas crafts. 28/10/23
At what we hope to be an annual event, choirs across the team led an evening of hymns chosen by the congregations of Methley, Rothwell, Lofthouse and Oulton, including some wonderful anthems led by the choir. To watch a recording of the service please follow the link to our YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/ACo_OUtCpc0?si=WocHj0GSlEaw1atg22/10/23
Over the last few years we have been working on a major project with our architect to redesign the building, in church language this is called reordering. As St. Oswald’s is a grade 1 listed building this has been a careful process of looking at what changes can be made without changing the historic features of our beautiful church. Following a consultation exercise and more detailed architectural work the Parochial Church Council agreed to support moving to the approvals stage of the process with the Diocese initially and though the normal planning process. A video made last year gives some details of the project, and although more details have been worked through the basic proposals are the same. The video can be viewed on the Building Project page of the website. In addition more recent detailed plans can be viewed in church, which is open for services and visitors on a Sunday and Wednesday afternoon. Updated 22/10/22
We have a number of planters at our parish hall, some of which were obtained with grants from Leeds City Council. Our aim was to provide an opportunity for children in our community to be involved with gardening activities. The Brownies and Rainbows today planted them up with beautiful Winter bedding plants which will provide colour through the Winter months and pollen and nectar for the insects. The children gained a badge and we hope it will inspire them to make their own little gardens and have a lifelong interest in gardening.17/10/23
