Thank You

Thank you very much for your patience over the past few weeks. We have found a way around some of the technical difficulties we have been facing and hopefully now normal service will be restored. Part of the way around means that the notices will be sent out a little earlier – at least for the next few weeks.

Please note that one element that still has to be corrected is connecting the heating controls back onto the WiFi. This means there could be a delay in getting the heating switched on this autumn. We will keep you posted on any developments.

Urban Saints Landing

Holy Trinity is launching a Christian Club on Thursday lunchtimes at Ripon Grammar School (RGS) in conjunction with Urban Saints formerly starting on 13^th October.

The pre-launch took place on Thursday 15^th September using the Urban Saints Spiderdome as a space to play games, chat to leaders and explore some of the themes and activities on offer. The club will focus on themes such as ‘Faith’, ‘Identity’ and ‘Big Life Questions.’ It is open to all year groups and will run in term time.

We give thanks for the Senior Leadership Team at RGS who have responded warmly to the idea and pray that this is a fun and safe space for all pupils to meet with Jesus and explore the Christian faith.

The club is being led by Claire-Lise from Holy Trinity Ripon who is also a teacher at RGS with Michelle as Assistant Leader and various members of Holy Trinity, including Matt, and RGS teaching staff helping each week. Please share widely with any families and young people who attend the Grammar School and may be interested and please hold the club, the school, and the leaders in your prayers.

Chill Out

And another group for young people and teens starting soon is “Chill Out”. “Chill Out” will link in with Restored on a Sunday evening where young people will be able to come to Restored (in The Arches at 6.30 pm) and then afterwards meet for a chat and chill with Matt and his team. More details will come out as the group develops – but Matt will be at Restored this Sunday at 6.30 pm and then be available to meet at “Chill Out” afterwards. Pizza will be available and this will all finish by 9 pm.

Concerts at Holy Trinity

We have had a number of concerts at Holy Trinity recently and and we have lots more over the coming weeks. These events are good because not only do we get income from these, but possibly more importantly, it is also a way for people, who may not normally come to church, to see what we have to offer at Holy Trinity! Here are brief details:

30 September, Ripon International Festival presents: The London Revue Company LOVEetc

1 October, Ripon International Festival presents: pianist, Janusz Piotrowicz

17 October, Ripon Concerts presents: Fitzroy String Quartet

4 November, Markenfield Hall present: Sir Ranulph Fiennes in person

11 November, Ripon Christian Aid Committee present: their Annual Concert (details to come soon)

14 November, Ripon Concerts present: Leah Nicholson Piano Recital

Put these dates in you diary and try and support these if you can.

Services

We hope you are finding the 5 Marks of Mission series inspiring at the moment. The picture above is from last week’s service where Michelle helped us think about how we might “tend” for or love others. Next Sunday we are having a break from the 5 Marks series and having our Harvest Celebration. If you can, please bring in items we are collecting for Ripon YMCA. They particularly need the following:

Our Services over the next week

Thursday 29 September

11.30 am Holy Communion

Sunday 2 October

9 am Holy Communion Harvest Celebration

10.30 am Café Worship Upstairs – Harvest Celebration

6.30 pm Restored (in The Arches)

Monday to Thursday

8.30 am Morning Prayer

Tuesday 4 October

7.30 pm Trinity Tuesday – Mission and Mission Partners

Thursday 6 October

11.30 am Holy Communion

Trinity Tuesday

When we meet on 4 October we will meet again upstairs. Through the month of October we will be having a focus on Mission and in particular our Mission Partners. At Trinity Tuesday we plan to have a number of Prayers Stations to help us focus our prayers. There will also be a Prayer Station set up for October too – so please take a look at this for some ideas and resources you might like to consider using.

Highlighted Events Soon

Friendship Café

This Wednesday see’s the commencement of a Friendship Café at 1.30 pm in Rooms 1 and 2 of The Arches. There will be light refreshments and activities.

Digging Deeper The Digging Deeper course starts soon on Friday 7 October at 7.30 pm. If you would like to find out more please speak to John Rutter.

Confirmation Classes These have started both for young people and adults. It is still not too late to join these in preparation for a Confirmation Service on 23 October. If you want to find out more please contact Michelle.

Messy Church Our next Messy Church is on Saturday 8 October at 4 pm. Pass the word!

Other Events and Activities at Holy Trinity

Our regular activities have started up again.

To find out what is happening please scroll down the list below to see all our activities and services.

Mission Partner Prayer Focus

CPAS (Church Pastoral Aid Society) is our current prayer focus. Please pray for:

New Appointment: Jon Scamman its new CEO, taking over the helm from John Dunnett. Jon is an Arrow Leadership Programme graduate, has been vicar of St Thomas’ Lancaster, a CPAS patronage church for the last 12 years, and his children have attended various Venture holidays over the years. Please pray for Jon and his family as they make this transition, as well as praying for St Thomas’ church as they seek a new vicar.

Leadership: The new CPAS book ‘How to Nurture a Culture of Evangelism’ by James Lawrence has been widely distributed. Pray that it is well received and stimulates helpful discussions around evangelism in this country. Also, the Leading Evangelism Learning Hub is an exciting new initiative which helps church leaders think through how to nurture the ministry of evangelism within the life of churches and congregations. The online learning hub consists of eight sessions run over four terms (14 months), a day and evening each term. Several of these have now been started. Pray that those participating find value in these hubs.

Ventures and Falcons: Give praise for 2,430 children at Summer Ventures in 2022 (up from 1,196 in 2021) and 266 children at Summer Falcons in 2022 (up from 170 in 2021). Give thanks for the 2,223 volunteers who helped at these 64 Ventures and Falcons residentials. Please pray that each child (and leader) will have been drawn closer to Jesus as a result of their holiday experience. May God nurture the seeds that have been sown through these times.

Patronage: There are nearly 700 churches across the UK for whom CPAS is their patron. CPAS have extended their staff team to accommodate the exceptionally high number of vacancies at the moment. Please pray for their staff that they would have wisdom and discernment in finding the right people for the roles advertised, plus energy and perseverance to deal with their heavy workload. Please pray also for the many churches who are coping without a vicar in charge at the moment…

More information is here: CPAS Video

Other News

Dales and District Ladies Day 1 October 9.30 am Ladies Day.pdf 

Various Author events in Ripon area (including Sir Ranulph Fiennes talk at Holy Trinity Author Events

News from the Diocese of Leeds: Diocesan e-news

ROCHA Caring for God’s Earth latest news: ROCHA

In2Out latest update: In2Out

Ripon Cathedral latest news Ripon Cathedral