Notices of the Week of 1 December 2025

Published by Alison Bradley on 5 December 2025 5 December 2025

PRAYING FOR RIPON, SUNDAY 7 DECEMBER, 7.30 am

The Monthly 7.30 am Sunday prayer meeting for Ripon will be happening at Fountains Church, High Skellgate rather than in The Arches.

CALLING ALL SINGERS (ESPECIALLY MEN)!

If you would like to join a SATB choir to lead the singing at the Carol Service on 21 December. Please let Janet know at jan.nic.fiddles@hotmail.co.uk or just turn up to a rehearsal. There will be rehearsals on Tuesdays 9, 16 December starting at 7.00 pm in church. Janet and David look forward to seeing you there!

DECORATING THE CHURCH FOR CHRISTMAS

Please join us to decorate the Church and Arches for Christmas on Monday 8 December from 10.00 am onwards.

MESSY CHRISTMAS FOLLOWED BY CHRISTMAS FILM NIGHT

13 DECEMBER, 4.00 pm

Messy Church is about family, creativity, hospitality and celebration.

It is a place to be with the whole family and join in with craft activities, play games and eat together within a Christian environment.

Messy Church is for everyone.

THURSDAY CHRISTMAS LUNCH, 18 DECEMBER, 12.00 noon

All are welcome to come and join us for our Thursday Christmas Lunch, and the tickets are now on sale for just £18.00.

The tickets are available through our website and signing up below, using the QR code on one of our leaflets, or directly from Sally and Andrew. Sign up here.

Our 3 course Christmas Lunch will be served from 12.00pm, so come and join us for delicious food, have a chat with great company, join in with a quiz and sign along with your favourite carols.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The PCC have agreed that we will support TearFund (Sudan crisis) and St Michael’s Hospice with any monies we collect at the Christmas Services.

OUR CHRISTMAS SERVICES

21 December, 10.30 am – Altogether Scratch Nativity

21 December, 6.30 pm – Carol Service

Christmas Eve, 4.00 pm – Christingle

Christmas Eve, 11.30 pm – First Communion of Christmas

Christmas Day, 10.30 am All Age Christmas Day

SINGING WITH THE STARS

Singing with the Start has now been moved to 7 March, 7.30 pm.

“Singing With The Stars – A Night To Remember” will be a multimedia spectacular of live onstage songs backed by film footage of all the artists featured in the show. 5 decades of great music 🎶 🎙

All funds raised will go to our mission partner, The Diocese of Lake Rukwa, Tanzania, recently visited by our own Barry Crompton.
There will be an interval for wine and soft drinks.

Tickets here

CHRISTIANITY EXPLORED

Holy Trinity Church has been selected to reveiw the latest version of the Christianity Explored course. This is a great honour and we are excited to be helping in this way. If you would be interested in helping do this between now and Christmas we will be planning very shortly – times to meet to watch the videos and do the course (as if for real). If you are interested in helping with this please speak to Chris or John in the office. We will most likely make this a day time event.

HOPE EXPLORED

New course starting Tuesday 13 January, 7.30 pm. Hope Explored looks at the life, death and resurrection of Jesus in Luke’s Gospel, this three-session series shows that Christianity is about real hope: a joyful expectation for the future, based on true events in the past, which changes everything about your present.

Hope Explored Trailer

We really hope you are encouraged to join us.

We’d love to know you are coming so please sign up here on this page. You only needed to do this once for the whole course. Sign up here.

MISSION PARTNER FOCUS – ARTIZAN

Please pray for:-

Peru

Please pray for strongcandidates to apply for theoverseas lead basedin Arequipa.

to support and coordinate the South American operations that can help take Artizan operation to the next level, helping it grow in terms of sustainability and impact for people with disability and be a beacon of light in Peru.

Ecuador

With the political environment still very volatile in Ecuador we pray for peace for the nation and protection of the artisans and our project leaders, artisans and Trustees in Ecuador. Also new solutions and ways we can increase impact in Ecuador for people with disabilities.

General

Artizan needs more Trustees so please pray that a couple of people with the right skills and time to invest would come forward.

Operating across three countries and two continents is a tall order which we are coping well with but prayers of encouragement for the leadership team and Trustees would be gratefully received.