Men’s Breakfast this Saturday

This Saturday we have our regular Men’s Breakfast at 8 am. Please come for great food and hear a talk from Chris Thomson this time. Men’s Breakfast

Crowd Funding for Breakfast Club and Renew Ripon

We have a great opportunity to obtain some match funding from the Co op who have agreed to support our community focused events: Breakfast Club and Renew Ripon. In short, the Co op have agreed to match all individual donations made over the next few weeks up to £250 per donation. We have ambitiously sought to raise £10,000 – which would secure both activities for a whole year. You can help in two ways, of course if you feel directed please make a donation – but much more importantly we want the whole of Ripon (and beyond) to know about our amazing work in this area and to give the opportunity for other folk to support our community focused work. Full details are here: Crowdfunder

Please let all your friends, family and neighbours know about this. If 100 people each let 10 people know and each person gave just £10 we would meet our target twice over!!

APCM / Bring and Share Lunch / Electoral Roll

It is the time of year when we have our Annual Parochial Council Meeting (APCM). Basically, this is our annual meeting where people can find out what has happened; what our plans are; and to be informed about everything happening at Holy Trinity Church. All of the following relates to this:

The APCM itself The APCM will this year be directly after our 10.30 worship on Sunday 26 March. This is to enable as many folk as possible to attend – please try and come.

Bring and Share Lunch Because we are coming together for the APCM we’d like to extend this coming together for everyone to join for lunch after the service on Sunday 26 March. We’ll give more details about the lunch soon – but please keep this Sunday free to join us if you can from midday.

Thank You

We had a lovely surprise today at Holy Trinity Church. Two separate groups of children from Holy Trinity Infant School came to deliver flowers to mark this Sunday’s Mothering Sunday. They were doing this to recognise Holy Trinity as their “mother” church! What a lovely gesture – thank you very much. You will see the flowers on display when you next come in to church and we’ll try and get some pictures when they fully open.

This Sunday

It is Mothering Sunday on 19 March. Please come along to join in our celebrations and of course to continue to hear the teaching series linking in with Discipleship Explored. Michelle has asked for volunteers to help in a game of Pass the Parcel – so if you are up for be ready to join in at the 10.30 service!

Our Full Service Listing over the next week

Monday to Thursday

8.30 Morning Prayer over ZOOM

Thursday 9 March

11.30 am Holy Communion

Sunday 12 March

Our teaching series looking at Discipleship continues this Sunday: Rejoicing in Christ
Philippians 4:1-9
John 16:16-22

9 am Holy Communion

10.30 am All Together with Holy Communion

6.30 pm Restored

Mission Partners

Our prayer focus for Jenny Ruth Workshops continues this week.

Here are the prayer requests from Jennyruth Workshops:

1. One of their workers, Chris, is in hospital. Please pray for his speedy recovery.

2. A number of people at Jennyruth workshops who have had Covid recently are taking a long time to recover. Please pray for return to full health soon.

3. As long as progress is according to plan it is hoped the new extension will be finished shortly after Easter. Please pray for no hitches or delays.

4. More space means more workers so more volunteers are needed ! Please pray that more volunteers will come forward to support the amazing work that is done here.

Also pray for forthcoming events :

Little Bird Artisan Market , Harrogate 2nd April 10am – 3pm

Little Bird Artisan Market   Ripon 23rd April 10am – 3pm

Spring Food, Home and Garden Fair, Ripon Cathedral , Sunday 15th April 10am – 4pm

Rotary Club Bike Ride, Tollerton Station, Sat 13th May 8am – 2pm

Ripon Old Car Classic Gathering, Ripon Racecourse Sunday 30th July

Don’t Forget

Please keep looking at our Mission Partner Pages for the latest news from all our Mission Partners: Mission Partners

Below, we have very recent posts from some of our Mission Partners:

CPAS The latest CPAS Today is available here: CPAS Today

Artizan International The Spring Newsletter from Artizan is now available: Artizan International

Artizan Anniversary Ball Join Artizan on Friday 31st March at 7.30 pm, at Constance Green Hall, St. Aidan’s, Harrogate. With live entertainment all evening from acclaimed jazz & swing band The Nightflyers, sumptuous dinner and glass of fizz included in your ticket price. Anniversary Ball

Latest News from the YMCA YMCA Ripon

Churches Together AGM

This is an advance notice of the Ripon Churches Together AGM which will be held at Holy Trinity on Tuesday 18 April at 7 pm. Our guest speaker will be Nicola David who will be letting us know about the latest developments with Ripon City of Sanctuary.

Other Events and Activities at Holy Trinity

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

Other News

News from the Diocese of Leeds: Diocesan e-news

Ripon Cathedral latest news Ripon Cathedral

Harrogate Borough Council Residents’ News

Scargill House – view the latest news from Scargill here: Scargill

Ram Prasad has sent a news letter. Here it is: Ram Prasad

Saltshaker for March 2023 Salt Shaker

Ripon Sights and Sounds This is happening again on 18 March Sights and Sounds

New Wine Celebration (on a non-Restored evening) on 26 March at 6.30 pm St Andrew’s Church Starbeck: New Wine Celebration

Spring Fair The Spring Fair at Ripon Cathedral is on Saturday 15 April. Spring Fair

Christian Aid Quiz 21 April – You can book your ticket now, details here: Christian Aid Quiz

Rocha The latest news from Rocha is available here: Rocha e-news