St John's Methodist Church, Settle

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Settle Methodist Circuit Newletter: April 2024 - Settle, Bentham, Ingleton, Burton in Lonsdale, Hellifield and Newby

Rev Tim Broughton new tel: 01729 554006

Sunday Services:

21st Apr 10:30am Revd. T Broughton
28th Apr 10:30am Lesley Higson 6:30pm
28th Apr 6:30pm: Revd. Tim Broughton

Note after service on 21 April there will be a ten minute Church Meeting to approve / vote in people sitting on church council for 2024-2025. If you would like to be on Church council, see Eileen.

Events and Activities:-

Wed 17 Apr 2.30pm: Bible study Meeting in the lounge at Limestone View. Residents and non-residents welcome: Matthew 9-10.’ Led by Wendy Holt

18 Apr: CCG Event: "Restoring our Peat Bogs" - Heis is not a church event, but the Church Eco Group encourages you to attend. 7.30pm h

Sat 20 Apr:11am-4pm Church Volunteers welcome to serve teas coffees at "the Ground Nest Fest Day" at our church - https://thefolly.org.uk/event/ground-nest-fest-earth-day-celebration/organised by the Folly and Wild Ingleborough" as part of Ground Nest Festival Week

Wed 24 April Eco-Explorers restarts. Eco-Explorers:(for children aged 4-11 plus their families) Alternate Mondays - These will recommence in spring when there is daylight after 4pm. Please tell anyone you know with children aged 4-11 that they will be very welcome. Contact

Sun 21 Apr. Annual Church Meeting. 11.30aprox. (takes about 15 minutes after the main service)

Sat 27 Apr Concert of Jazz and Light Music by Frank Flynn Trio 7pm

Sun 28 Apr: 10.30am. Sunday service will have a green theme as nearest Sunday after"Earth Day-Apr 22" that was possible to hold it

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

Wed 1 May - Walk for the climate

Tue 7 May: Prayer Meeting of Churches Together - meet at Settle Catholic Church.12 midday-12.40pm.
We do different things. Last month we literally went through all the churches in Churches Together and a few who are not in our area from Hellifeld to Horton, and prayed for the people there and raised one or two points about items/events/people at each church.

Wed 8 May: Bible Book club 12 noon: Acts ch1 to ch8

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Some past activities

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

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

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Churches Together collected £3000 for Christian Aid week 2023. Tues & Sat collection outside The Naked Man Cafe. Wed: coffee evening at St Johns. Final Sat: bacon butties lunch at Anglican Church & Afternoon tea at the Quakers.-----------------------------

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

On 17 May (above) we went to Malham Tarn and saw l the Goldilocks Buttercup, Globe flowers and Marsh Marigolds

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15 Dec: We are truy delighted to share that St John's has been awarded a "Gold" Eco Church Award by Arocha UK. We will share more news next year.

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?

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

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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Online services, led by Tim Broughton, posted on our Facebook page at 10.30 or 11 am a.m. every Sunday. These services have contributions from members of Ingleton and Settle congregations and others. Posted on YouTube later in the day.

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

Messy Church: Interested? 01729 825285.

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

Below: Queen's Jubilee celebrations

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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