Some more summer events

These are some regular or ongoing events that are continuing through the summer months in various parts of the Deanery. All are welcome to attend any of them.

Taize Style Evening Prayer: All Saints Church, Great Ayton, 6.00 pm on the first Sunday of each month (Sundays July 7th, August 4th and September 1st) 

Healing and Wholeness Service: St. Francis, Ingleby Barwick at 6.00 pm on the second Sunday of each month. (Sundays July 14th, August 11th and September 8th) 

Cafe Magdalene will continue to trade at Yarm Parish Church on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays (9.30 am – 12.30 pm) and now offers cream teas (only £5) and a loyalty card! 

Friendship Cafe: St. Francis, Ingleby Barwick, 11 am – 1 pm every Friday. Coffee, cake and friends. Free, but voluntary donations welcome. 

Alpha Course: St. Francis’ Hall, Ingelby Barwick, beginning on Wednesday 11th September 2024, 6.30 pm for 11 weeks. Free. 

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Upcoming Events in the Deanery

Early July sees the start of a summer of various events throughout Stokesley Deanery. We start July with coffee, tea, cakes and strawberries!

Friday July 5th there will be a Coffee Morning at Stokesley Town Hall, 9 am – 12 noon. In aid of St. Hilda’s, Bilsdale Priory. As well as coffee there will be tombola and a cake stall. 

Saturday, July 6th Strawberry Tea at St. Francis’ Church Hall, Ingleby Barwick. No charge, but please bring donations of food for the food bank. 

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New resource for Eco Church groups

A new guide ‘Choose Life: worship and action for creation’ is now available. This is a project Diane Craven and Jan Nobel have worked on since 2022, funded by a grant from the CofE Environment Programme. Archbishop Stephen has kindly written a Foreword. It can be used by Eco church groups and beyond. You can find this FREE digital resource at: https://sites.google.com/view/chooselifecreation

Sunflower Project

Benefice of Kirkby and Great Broughton, Ingleby Greenhow, Kildale and Bilsdale

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As a benefice eco-project, following on from similar projects in previous years, our committee invited the four church schools , 3 in our benefice and 1 in Carlton benefice (Chop Gate and Carlton are confederated) to take part in a Sunflower Challenge over the Easter holidays – decorating a paper plate on the theme of the sunflower, and writing a few words to describe it. To widen the theme, we invited a local Ukrainian boy, currently at Hutton Rudby school, to introduce the project in each of the schools. Mark, aged 9, spoke to around 250 of his peers over two lots of morning assemblies. He described how the sunflower has special significance for Ukraine since the Ukrainian yellow-and-blue flag symbolises sunflowers and sky. He also answered questions about the war, and told how the dam that was blown up and caused huge flooding had one remarkable environmental result: flamingos came to nest in Ukraine for the first time ever, and have returned again this year. It was very moving to hear such a positive story from the tragedy of war. The Sunflower Challenge will be exhibited and each school will receive a packet of sunflower seeds to grow over the coming months.