12-15 Dec 10 - 4pm Nativity Scenes Exhibition
Th 12- Sun 15 Dec: Nativity Scenes Exhibition - open from 10 am to 4pm - tea/coffee served. Have you a Nativitiy Scene that you would like to lend? We need them for one week so that we can prepare a leaflet. 07709 505056 for details.
Tue 17 Dec - Carol singing in the Market Place 10am onwards. Please join churches Together
25 Dec: CommunityChristmas Day Dinner and Tea - Please book
Christmas Events in Churches Together in Settle and District incl St John's
Link to larger programme
Events & Activities at St John's Settle:-
See St John's Eco-group's visit to Malham Chapel to see their floor, their new community Garden of Hope and take part in their 9.30am morning service
Below: Queen's Jubilee celebrations
Coffee Pot - Coffee morning on WEDNESDAY mornings 10.30-12.
1st Wed of the month is in aid of a charity
Money raised at recent Coffee Pots for charity in 2023:
Dec & Feb: Dementia Forward: £495-15
7 June UK Med: £150
1 Feb: Bethany fund: £145
1 March: Fair Trade Foundation: ..........
8 March: St John's Eco-Garden
April: NSPCC:
May: Peer Talk
July 2023: Action for Children (Formerly NCH £183.
2 Aug: the Smile Train Charity, which supports care for children with cleft palates in over 70 countries: £139.
Sept: Settle Hangout Youth Club
Oct:Guide Dogs for the blind: £199.60 from coffee, £177.49 - Sale of goods & donation
May 2024: £290 for Swimming Pool
Wed 6 March 10.30-12: Coffee Morning held for the Rainforest Fund raised £200. 70 % of the world's larger animals & birds have been lost since 1970... and the rate continues.
See our new Eco-group/Eco Church page
Download our Carbon-Fast Lent Calendar
Thank you John
Seen here playing th final hymn at the Old Church buiding, and below playing at Bill Mitchell's funeral.
In the video below skip to the second half to hear John playing music by Edward Elgar in the old church in 2015 for Bill Michell's funeral
(and if only I could find the pictures -other pictures of you mowing the old church lawn, sitting at committee meetings, playing at Settle Opera, .. and seeing so many of us at Settle Surgery!!)
St John's member Headley Calvert died recently.
We give thanks for his life.
JA (webeditor) writes: He worked hard in the planning committe for the new church building; We held some bible studies/fellowship group meetings at their house. But one of the best things about Headley - when I think of him is I feel a big smile coming on. This picture was taken on the Church Walk for Environment Sunday and Pentecost Sunday - to Lower Winskill Farm on Wed 30 May 2012 (See the Cowslips, the Early Purple Orchids)
Happy Christmas to all from St John's
11 Dec 2023 at Soup-a-carol
Carol singing on the market on the 12 th Dec:
Happy Christmas to all from St John's
11 Dec at Soup-a-carol
Coffee after our 8th Anniversary Service on 3 Dec 2023 with Revd Kerry Tankard
Dementia Forward Christmas Tree, ready for Dementia Forward Christmas Coffee morning on 6 Dec
On Sun 3 Dec we welcomed Rev Kerry Tankard who preached at our 8thanniversary.
See St John's Eco-group's visit to Malham Chapel to see their floor, their new community Garden of Hope and take part in their 9.30am morning service
Mon 4 Dec 2023: We say farewell to Michael Cullingworth (Funeral 2pm) - seen below acting Pilate in Settle Passion play in 2015
7 Dec: £252 for Dementia Forward
2 Nov: Guide Dogs for the Blind: £240.77 - £124.42 from refreshments, £116.35 from items for sale and refreshments.
5 Oct: The Rainforest Fund: £120 from coffee morning, £80 from "Let's talk Rubbish" day
Sept: Long Preston Over 70s: £83-80
Aug: The Smile Train
July: Peertalk: £205
June: Methodist Homes:£107
4 May: Cancer support Yorkshire: (organised by Sean and friends) £520
April: Ukraine: £500
Settle Passion Play Videos: 2022
The Last Supper- St John's Church 2022
Settle Methodist Church Warm space: Thursday afternoons: 2pm - 4.30pm Tea coffee, chat, sometimes a film, or find a quite space to work (internet available) or charge your mobile. We often showed films.
These have now stopped.
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. info@ctisad.org.uk for details.
On 1 Nov we visited the side of Settle Golf course and found many Waxcaps
Settle Scottish Dancing Class at the Showcase.
On 26 Sept 2021 Rev Stephen Caddy showed us his new "Prayer and Worship in the Farming Year" book he has just published.
Pictures below from March 2022- Helwith Bridge
1 May 2021 at Lord's Wood in Settle
Below: Giggleswick and Settle Brass band on 5 Dec 2021 - our 6th Anniversary
Let us give Thanks for the Life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu - RIP - 26 Dec 2021 (Sky News)
Below: 20 Dec: Longest Night Service - at 7.0 pm, Revd. Tim Broughton led a ‘Longest Night Service’, to remember all those whom we love but see no longer.
We remembered many people - incuding the family of Aidan Tomlinson - It was Aidan's funeral here on 21 December at 11am
In 1 Jan We had a brilliant "The 1st Day of the month "Walk and Pray for the Climate" walk of Churches Toegether -we joined the Austwick/Clapham/Keasden walk to Keasden Head Farm, and then on the the shooting lodge on the moor return walk 4 miles.
- On 1 July we went for a walk on a nature reserve in Ribblesdale. On 1 Aug we joined the congregation of St Oswald's Horton for their annual St Oswald's Day walk (pics below)
John Wesley - part of Settle Flower Pot Festival 2021Below: collecting for Christian Aid in Settle this last week 10-16 May 2021.
or donate to our special Churches Together in Settle collection for Christian Aid online - CLICK HERE -
bit.ly/Settle-ChristianAid2021
The Market collections organised by Richard Pike on Tuesday and Saturday raised £317.
Cross on Easter Sunday
Coffee Mornings used to take place by Zoom over Covid times
Zoom Tuesday Coffee Mornings: Tue 10.30am
Zoom Meeting ID: 884 852 6583 Password: 040 329 **Clicking here gives Direct Link **
Hustings organised by Churches Together were held at St John's in early 2020
Christmas 2019
Giggleswick and Settle Brass Band payed at the fourth anniversary of our new building on Sunday 1 December
Revd Roger Walton Chair of the Yorkshire West District of the Methodist Church and our two ministers of the Settle and Bentham Circuit and wives- at the welcome service on 2 Sept 2018
June 2018
View of church in June 2018
Settle Carlilse Line Reopening Day: 31 Mar 2017 7.30pm St John's Church. Settle
Fields full of buttercups
Fields full of buttercups
Tossing madly trees
Rivers of grasses
Flowing in the breeze
Dandelions joyous
Defiant yellow weeds
Scattering profusely
Clocks of hairy seeds
Mists of forget-me-nots
Seas of bluebells
Sharing the woodland
Where the wild garlic smells
White clouds racing
To a far distant shore
The cry of the curlew
Floating over the moor
Sounds and scenes to treasure
As I pass along my way
There’s nowhere quite like Yorkshire
On a glorious spring time day
By June Aileen Burnett
Tony Burnett of St John’s Methodist Church died recently. This lovely poem by his wife Jane who predeceased him was read at the thanksgiving service for his life on 19 June 2017
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We had an evening learning songs from Iona
See pictures of this year's passion play here
and more very Good Pictures on Settle Anglican Church Website here
The results of the Settle Methodist Circuit Hymn Competition :
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Christmas 2016
Charity Coffee Mornings 2016:
Gt Ormond St £153
Lupus: £116
Peru Children: £100
Railway Children £115-70
Mind: £113
Smile Train: £91
Guide Dogs for the blind: £105
Touchstone:
£100
NSPCC: £170
Rainforest Fund: £155
& £145 from cards
Children of Hope (Uganda) CRMI
2017:
Christian Aid 8 May 2016
Settle Sign - on Castleberg from the Church after the Tour de Yorkshire 29 April 2016 -( the sign has been taken down now and is set up near Settle Railway Station )
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Singing our moving hymn, the day we moved |
This photo was taken 5 months ago. Now the new buiding is complete ALL Welcome Do let us know. webeditor@settle-methodists.org.uk
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Memorial service for W.R.Mitchell was held on Tues 10 Nov - See video of final hymn:-
24 May 2015- Lambing Service in farm near Clapham Station (All denom) + Keasden + Austwick
Churches Together in Settle organised the Hustings on 17 April 2015 at St John's Methodist Church:
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| 14 wild flowers found near the church on 4 Jan 2015, and 5 garden escapes (blog) | |
| Settle Community Christmas Day meal held at St John's Church Hall(blog) | |
| Singing Carols on Christmas Day at Langcliffe (Youtube) | |
| Churches Together Carol singing outside Naked Man (Youtube) | |
| "We Three Kings" - Youtube | |
| Carols before Christmas Lunch 25 Dec | |
| Visitors to Settle: If visiting Settle, would you like to have coffee at someone's house, or in Settle, near the beginning of your holiday, so you can learn a bit more about Settle? Drop us an email c/o webeditor. | ||
September 2014: Welcome Service for Deacon Maggie Patchett, the new Rural Outreach person for the Settle, Skipton and Grassington and Airedale Circuits, held at St Andrew's Skipton.
Right: with the Bishop for Ripon: Bishop James and Revd Roger Walton, Chairman of the West Yorkshire District |
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David and Goliath - part of Settle Plant Pot Festival |
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Holiday Club August 2014 |
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Open Air Service on site of for our new church - July 2014
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Messy Church visit to Malham Tarn: June 2014 |
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2013 Settle Good Friday Passion Play.
Click here for Easter Dawn Service and Easter Sunday Service - 21 April 2013 Cafe Service "Celebration:" |
videos of President of Conference at Burton in Lonsdale 2013 1. Article in Craven Herald on April
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The Rambling Roses - A group walking the Ribble Way call in for coffee on Sat 27 June 2009.
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Christmas Eve 2011 Crib Service - Making Salt dough decorations |
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2011 A visitor admires the wild-
flower display in the Church Foyer... including grasses such as Yorkshire Fog (right) and flowers such as .. I'll give
you a clue- first letter R, second letter C 
Left:- A visiting group from Saltaire enjoy the Salad high tea provided by St John's on 22 June- the money rasied was for the church and the Rainforest Fund. . Genesis ch 1 v 11:- And God said "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit. ..and God saw that it was good. |
2011
The Centurion in the Friday Passion Play Dressing the cross with daffodils Easter Hat
Sept 2010
Methodist Recorder reports
on 2010 summer's Settle Holiday Club at St John's. We held a good club this summer too. Next Holiday Club - 5 Jan 2012 - Age 5-11 Getting to church in all weathers - 10 Jan 2010 |
Church through Settle Carlisle Line Viaduct on 26 Oct 2012 |
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Thanks to all who supported the Coffee
Morning on Tue 7 April 2009 for the 
Right: Nativity scene from the Church Display at the beginning of December 2007.
Christmas Crib Exhibition December 2005. Over 200 people came through the door. £246.11 was raised for the earthquake appeal and £95 for St John's.
Thanks to the two Anne's fo
r all their work and to all who lent crib scenes. 
-On August 7th 2005 we were joined by a group from Germany (Some of whom are shown here). They were staying at Stainforth Youth Hostel. 
Wood Cranesbill 
Globeflower in nearby "Poppy Wood"
Good Friday Churches Together pilgrimage. (This is 2002 but other years are similar - except it 
Below: the banners at the Parish Church 
Pictures to the right and left: taken at the Great Games Gala held on March 9th 2001 (in aid of Methodist Homes) 
West Yorkshire Synod met at St John's Church on
6th May 2000. This was for representatives from the whole of West
Yorkshire. Ron Fenner,
Thomas Fawcett, Joan Corbett, Carol Blacow, Peter MacCabe, Liz Whitfield and the
ministers attended on behalf of us in the Settle and Bentham Circuit.
There about 200 people came from 19 circuits. We are pleased that Settle
Anglican church agreed to make tea for some of the delegates to spread the
load from the Church Hall. 
