Dear Friends It was good to meet as a PCC in church for the first time in 16 months. It was an excellent meeting and much was decided. We unanimously felt that we’d following the Bishops advice, in one of his recent pastoral letters, agreeing that it was a good point to let things go and …
Easter and April Services
HOLY WEEK & EASTER 2021 Thursday 1st April 20217pm – Maundy Thursday Service at Wales Parish Church and Facebook Live Friday 2nd April 20212pm – Good Friday Service at Harthill Parish Church and Facebook Live Sunday 4th April 20219.15am – Easter Sunday Services at Wales Parish Church and Facebook Live10.30am – Easter Sunday Service at Thorpe Salvin Parish Church …
Vicar’s Letter – Lent 2021
Dear Friends John 10 v 10 Jesus says, ‘ I come to bring you life in abundance. Life to the full. Life overflowing.’ Lent is soon upon is. It is a time of great hope in these difficult days. Vaccines are being administered and both Spring and Easter are just around the corner. We will …
Vicar’s Letter – Lockdown 3
God did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will God not also, along with Jesus, graciously give us all things?’ Romans 8 v32 Dear Friends I hope you enjoyed a good, if somewhat different, Christmas and a happy plus healthy new year. So we enter Lockdown 3. I hope you …
Covid Christmas 2020
Dear Friends What will Christmas look like this year? As I write we have just emerged from Lockdown 2 and are now in Tier 3. There is much talk of how we might save Christmas. It’s such a special time of year but quite difficult to prepare for as a church given that we don’t …
Remembrance Sunday
The Act of Remembrance on Sunday will be in the new period of Lockdown and the latest national restrictions on outdoor meetings will be in force. Sadly the current health climate has prevented a parade and church service from taking place this year. We have had to significantly alter the way in which we honour …
Act of Remembrance
Act of Remembrance Sunday 8th November 2020 at 10.55amWales Square War Memorial and on Wales Parish Church Facebook Live. Sadly due to Covid 19 tier 2 restrictions we will not be holding the usual Service of Rememberance in church and there will also be no parade. Whilst we will mark this occasion properly with a …
Vicar’s Letter – Autumn Update
Let the little children come to me do not try to stop them. The kingdom of heaven belongs to them. Matt 19 v14 Dear Friends I’m delighted that our parochial church council has agreed to reopen our churches for public worship from August. Some people are still anxious about what the future holds but they …
Vicar’s Letter – Parish Prayer Run
Wales Cemetery Fundraiser I’m running 100k in the 10 national days of Prayer (Ascension Day 21st May - Pentecost 31st May) to raise much needed funds for the grass cutting in Wales Top Cemetery. Our income has dropped off the cliff edge and we want the cemetery to continue to look amazing for relatives who …
Vicar’s Letter May 2020
Dear friends, It is with continuing sadness that i am writing with an update on the current situation. All public services are suspended in our 3 churches until further notice. However, I am now allowed to enter the churches and stream services from there on my own. I am following advice from the Archbishops of …