St John's Methodist Church, Settle

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Settle Methodist Circuit Newletter 16: Apr 2025 Settle, Bentham, Ingleton, Burton in Lonsdale, Hellifield and Newby

Settle Hang-Out 7pm on Wednesday Evenings at St John's. : for people aged 11-17. Settle Youth Cafe is supported by local churches

Tue 6 May :Eco-Explorers After School Club - Alternate Tuesdays in term time 4pm. Eco-Explorers (for children aged 4-11 plus their families - i.e. children need to bring an adult). Meet at Brockho;e Lane (Watery Lane) near Limestone View at 4pm

Tue 1 May: Churches Together/Craven Conservation Group Walk - Meet at Brockho;e Lane (Watery Lane) near Limestone View at 10am

The coffee morning on Wed 5 March made £178 for the Stroke Association.

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Bible Book Club - Led by Revd. Tim Broughton This is having a break and will resume in July/August/September

Tue 15 Apr 2pm - Prayer time in the St John's Garden. (Short prayers every month on the 15th)

Lent - Churches Together in Settle "Living peacefully in a world of conflict" - Settle Parish Church
Tuesdays, 7-9pm .. 1 and 8 April

Some of the talks are live streamed onto the Castleberg Benifice Youtube site (site of Anglican churches at/near Settle) and can be watched after the event. However the discussions are not recorded.

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Eco Explorers Summer Day Camp 2025 at Lower Winskill Farm: Two days 27,28 Aug 2025

Sat 20 Sept: "Let's Talk Wild" community event (Followng on from "Let's Talk Rubbish", "Let's Talk Local", "Let's Talk Farming"

25 Dec: Settle Community Christmas Day Meal enquiries

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SOME PAST ACTIVITIES:

1 Dec: Walk for the Climate: To the bird Hide at Long Preston Deeps and to look at Wildlife Garden in Long Preston.

Eco Explorers Summer Day Camp at Lower Winskill Farm 28,29 August: Three families attended on the first day and 16 families on the second day

25 June: Settle Hustings. Marian McNichol chairs themeeting. Seven candidates attend:

The candidates relax in the Eco-Garden beofre the Hustings.

Churches Together first of the month walk: Fri 1 Dec 2023 Above Stainforth. We read prayers about COP28 and about Gaza/Palestine.
1 Nov: Hellifield Flash, Station, & Long Preston Deeps &
1 Oct: Scaleber Foss and Attermire

Circuit Preaching Plan

Sunday Services:

Services at 10.30 unless stated otherwise:

4 May: Margery Dowling

11 May: Rev David Philo - Communion

18 May: Jane Mansergh.

25 May: Susan Wilson

From the Methodist Church (national) website:

Talking Farming 4 Feb 2025

https://www.methodist.org.uk/about/our-stories/talking-farming/

15 Dec 2024: We are truly delighted to share that St John's has been awarded a "Gold" Eco Church Award by Arocha UK.

The Eco team at St John's

Above - In summer, come and sit in our "Eco-garden"

Winter: Blackbird feeding. Did I give it too much bread?

Remember some former online services and evening reflections are on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@SettleMethodistCircuit

Settle Eco-Explorers had an excellent two days at Lower Winskill Farm on 15 and 16 August 2023.

Members of St Johns joined others at The World Day of Prayer Service written by the women of the Cook Islands took place on Friday 7 March at Holy Ascension Church, Settle

Greetings to all the church hall users

Spare slots exist for use of the hall, including Mondays and Fridays: They won't stay spare for long.

Dementia Forward (A North Yorkshire charity) group organises “Time Together Tuesday”, a well-being café 2- 3.30p.m. Volunteers welcome. Watch the talk here

We now have a jar at the back of the church. You are invited to fill in an (anonymous) "ECOmmitt" slip each week showing one action (however tiny) you have undertaken this week or propose to take next week.

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Phone: +44 131 460 1196 (ask Tim Broughton if you have problems)

Blessing by our sister church in Ingleton

If you miss a Sunday morning and still want to join in with our worship then all of our services are now available online. https://soundcloud.com/settlemethodist
You may have to copy and paste https://soundcloud.com/settlemethodist.  Alternatively, using the Soundcloud app for your smartphone (free), services can then be downloaded and listened to when Offline
and Twitter: @MethodistSettle

Please note: we are no longer collecting Blister Packs for recycling.

On the fifth Sunday of the month we have a church meal - all welcome.

See pictures of wildflowers (weeds) round our church in July 2021

Settle Methodist Church history incuded in Settle Historic Churches Tour in 2018

View of Church from the road

See Pictures from St John's Showcase on St John's Facebook
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Revd Tim and Pam Broughton at the welcome service: Th 6 Sept 2018

See video of the favourite hymn "The Day thou gavest" sung at Friday 4 March 2pm: World Day of Prayer-

Walks for Creation

Rainforest Fund Project

New church on 6 Dec 2015: moving in day

Environment Sunday Wild Flower Walk 6 June 2010

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