A Very Big Thank You

We had a fantastic response to Harvest this year. Both Holy Trinity Church and Holy Trinity Schools were collecting produce for Ripon YMCA. Some of the school children were in church today and Matt and Michelle will be arranging for the food to go to the YMCA shortly. Thank you everyone.

Digging Deeper

Our new course taking some time to look at The Bible in greater depth started last Friday at 7.30 pm in Room 5. Digging Deeper is being led by John Rutter. Everyone is welcome to attend and it is still not too late to join the group.

Open the Book and Messy Church

Over the past few weeks in schools in and around Ripon through Open the Book and at Messy Church on Saturday we have been telling the story of Noah. This has been really well received by the children, adults and schools. If anyone would like to join the Open the Book team please have a word with Irene or John. We are getting opportunities to do more but we need a larger team to help us meet the demand! Praise God!!

Crafty Happenings

If you like craft, or would like to learn how to do craft we have a number of opportunities:

Craft Club Tuesdays at 9:15 during Term Time. After school drop off join Sam for Craft and a natter in room 4 of the Arches. You don’t need any skills or materials to start with, just come along and find out what you can do!

Craft & Natter Thursdays at 1.30 pm directly after Thursday Lunch. If you are taking lunch with us just stay on, and even if you aren’t having lunch, come along for a natter and some crafting. Again no skills required!

Friday Stitchers meet on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month in the Arches. If you are interested in this group please see Sandra or Alison. So this week is a meeting week!

And of course Messy Church on the second Saturday of every month. We always have lots of craft activities at Messy Church. We could always take more volunteers to help run a craft table at Messy Church. This is a brilliant ministry meeting new children and families. We had 70 guests last week! If you are interested please speak to Jane or Ruth.

Our Services over the next week

Monday to Thursday

8.30 Morning Prayer over ZOOM

Thursday 13 October

11.30 am Holy Communion

Sunday 16 October

Our Theme at our Sunday Morning services this coming Sunday is: Wellspring. Wellspring are one of our Mission Partners who are located in Harrogate and work in the area of Wellbeing and Mental Health Support. Come and hear about what they are doing at the moment.

9 am Holy Communion – Wellspring

10.30 am Café Worship Upstairs – Wellspring

6.30 pm Restored – Living the Word. Claire-Lise Harrison is speaking and Matt is leading worship

Mission Partner Prayer Focus

CPAS (Church Pastoral Aid Society) is our current prayer focus. We continue to 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 Events and Activities at Holy Trinity

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

Other News

Ripon Community Church are holding a regular prayer meeting to pray for the City of Ripon on the last Friday of every month. Full details here: Worship and Prayer.pdf 

There is a Christian Institute meeting at The Zion Evangelical Baptist Church on 20 October at 7.30 pm. Details here: Sure Foundations.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

Ripon Cathedral latest news Ripon Cathedral

Latest News from Harrogate Borough Council Council News