Join us to welcome Revd. Claire Elwood to The Belfrey as she is licensed as our Interim Associate Minister!
Service at 7.30pm followed by refreshments.
Due to limited capacity, please book a free ticket below if you will be attending.
Join us for a prayer walk and times of worship as we cover our Impact project in prayer, as it enters the next phase - construction! This will be a special opportunity to get together as a church family and pray for this last and crucial part of our building restoration & reordering project.
Come along at any stage of the evening:
7.30pm - Start at St Cuthbert’s Peasholme Green, the original home of our church;
8pm - Prayer walk to St Michael le Belfrey;
8.30 - Prayer walk to the De Grey Rooms, to finish in corporate prayer and worship.
As large parts of the evening will be outside, please dress for the weather! Each venue is a 5- to 10-minute walk away, and we will spend some time standing.
We’re delighted to be hosting a Summer Ceilidh in our beautiful ballroom with professional local Ceilidh band Hot Not Bothered. This will be a fun night out and will help to raise funds for the Impact building project.
Tickets cost £30 a head and include over 1.5 hours of barn dancing, a 2 course supper and drink on arrival. There will also be a licensed bar and Auction of Promises. We have a limited number of tickets, so be sure to book early!
AUCTION OF PROMISES
We’re still collecting Promises for the Auction on the same night. This is where you can offer a treat, service or experience for others to bid on and purchase. This could be anything from car washes, to home cooked meals, theatre tickets, haircuts and weekends away, and much more! Please think about what you could offer?
Click here to make A PROMISE..
Join us for a time of extended worship as we praise the Lord and spend time inviting in the Holy Spirit.
Join us as a church as we head down to Shepton Mallet for a week of teaching, worship and community.
You can find out all the information, book on or sign up for a team at the new wine website.
Do come chat to Becca Tilbrook or Joe Portway on a Sunday or in the office if you want to find out more about our church going specifically.
We will be looking back on the events and finances of 2023, and electing our lay representatives.
Head to belfrey.org/annualmeeting for more information about the meeting and read the accounts ahead of the meeting.
Nominations:
We have 2 vacancies on our Church Council (PCC), and we are now inviting nominations for this. If you would like to stand for PCC, please complete a nomination form by Wednesday 17th April or grab a paper copy from the De Grey Rooms and return to amber.boydell@belfrey.org.
If you are interested in becoming a Churchwarden, please contact the Interim Priest-in-Charge: andy.baker@belfrey.org.
Our celebration that Jesus rose again! A family friendly service of worship, teaching and prayer. We’ll have two services to ensure there’s plenty of space for people to celebrate with us but they’ll be the same service so don’t worry about missing out. Save your seat for either our 9am or 11am services below.
A time of reflection and prayer, remembering the three hours when Jesus hung on the cross before His death.
Journey with the characters from the Easter story to the cross. A family-friendly event with interactive activities and crafts.
Stay for refreshments and a hot cross bun after the service.
A reflective service with sung worship, liturgy and communion, taking us through the night before Jesus died.
Join us for a time of independent prayer and worship in the House of Prayer. There’s plenty of spaces available to engage in different creative prayer either individually or as a small group. Come along for as little or as long as you like while the House of Prayer is open.
Join us for a time of independent prayer and worship in the House of Prayer. There’s plenty of spaces available to engage in different creative prayer either individually or as a small group. Come along for as little or as long as you like while the House of Prayer is open.
During our 6pm service, the Bishop of Selby will be joining us for the evening as we hold confirmations.
If this is something you’d like to consider or find our more about, please get in touch with us or speak with one of the team or ministry leaders on a Sunday.
Join us for a time of independent prayer and worship in the House of Prayer. There’s plenty of spaces available to engage in different creative prayer either individually or as a small group. Come along for as little or as long as you like while the House of Prayer is open.
Baptisms will be taking place across the day
If you haven't yet been baptised or know someone that would like to, get in touch! If none of these dates suit then do contact us and we can work out a more convenient date.
Future dates for baptisms coming are:
31st March - Easter Day
28th April
26th May
Our Annual Meeting this year will take place on 24th April at 7:30pm in De Grey Rooms. We will be looking back on the events and finances of 2023, and electing our lay representatives.
More information to follow soon with our reports to read and the agenda but make sure to save the date in you diary.
If you are not already on the Electoral Roll and have been a member of our church for at least 6 months, you can sign up below before the 1st April.
Due to clergy illness and staff holidays we are sadly having to cancel tonight’s evenings prayer night.
Do please join us instead at 12:30pm today for a service of ashing if you are able or you can head to The Minster for any of their ashing services (7:30am, 12pm and 5:30pm).
Don't forget to be join us in our Pray, Give, Grow series as we pray together as a church this lent. You can find all the resources at belfrey.org/lent
Join us for our regular Wednesday Lunchtime Service where we will be sharing communion together and offering ashing.
Baptisms will be taking place across the day
If you haven't yet been baptised or know someone that would like to, get in touch! If none of these dates suit then do contact us and we can work out a more convenient date.
Future dates for baptisms this term are:
25th February
31st March - Easter Day
28th April
Head over to Hull to help celebrate Vicky Earll being licensed as the new Vicar of The Ascension, where we are sending the next Belfrey church plant! All welcome.
Our celebration that Jesus rose again!
This year we will be holding two services due to the numbers in De Grey Rooms. These will be at 9am and 11am. Both services will be the same with a talk from our curate, James Congreve-Horn. The service will be family-friendly with children’s activities, worship, prayer, communion and baptisms as we celebrate the amazing resurrection of Jesus.
Save your space for either service below.
We're launching our Saturday Foodbank session at the start of February, in partnership with York Foodbank, to support people who are experiencing food poverty. Interested in being part of the team to make this happen? Come along to this information session to learn more about what is involved in being a foodbank volunteer. There'll be opportunity to ask questions and also to sign up to be part of the team to serve once a month or more. More details from Alison Dawson (alison.dawson@belfrey.org).
Our curate, Vicky Earll, will be moving to Hull ahead of our next church plant in Autumn. Vicky has been with us at The Belfrey for over three years and we are sad to see her go but excited for all she will bring to her new role in Hull.
Today will be her last day with us and so we will be praying for her across the day and celebrating her after all our services so whichever service you attend, please do stay and celebrate.
9am - Join her for cake at 9am coffee, after the service in Belfrey Hall.
11am - Join us for cakes and snacks after the service with music.
6pm - Join us for drinks after the service with cakes and snacks.
On New Years Eve we will be having just one relaxed service at 10am where we will be sharing communion together, worshipping and hearing from the Word. The service will last around an hour.
Join us as we celebrate together the birth of Jesus. We’ll have two services, one at 9am and a second service at 11am.
Seats are limited so make sure to save yours below:
Join us to celebrate Christmas at this interactive, family-friendly service as we learn about the Christmas story together, telling it piece by piece and finishing with a beautiful candle-lit carol!
We'll be holding two Christingle services this year, one at 4pm and the second at 5:30pm. The 4pm is now fully-booked - we'd love to see you at the 5.30!
Join us for our annual Carol Service in York Minster. All are welcome so do be inviting friends and neighbours.
Doors will open at 6:45pm and the service will start at 7:30pm and last for around an hour. We’ll spend time hearing from the Word, singing carols and more.
The Bereavement Journey is a 7 session programme which assists bereaved people to process their loss and discern next steps.
Each session will comprise two films and then followed by discussion in small groups.
Topics include:
Attachment, separation and loss
Impact and pain of bereavement
Anger and guilt
Coping with others' reactions
Adjusting to change
Delayed and suppressed grief
Moving forward healthily
For more information, you can watch the below video:
Join us as we see Andy being consecrated as our Interim Priest in Charge.
This service will last around an hour with liturgy, worship and be led by the Bishop of Selby.
Want to be sure of a seat? Sign up here
Join us for an evening of prayer as we look towards a new season and prayer for our church at this time in the new building.
On the 3rd September we will be opening the De Grey Rooms for the first time as our new home and holding some welcome gatherings across the day with a chance to worship together and an opportunity to see and pray for the space as it becomes our temporary home for the next 3 years.
From Sunday 30th July, we will be holding our Summer Sundays in church at 9am and 3pm where we will be looking through the life and story of Joseph. As we prepare to move out of out building, things might look a little different, but we’ll still be gathering each week for a time of community, worship and teaching.
Across the day, we will be celebrating our final full Sunday in the building with our three regular services. We will be celebrating our Impact project and all that is to come as well as well as giving thanks for the past and our beautiful building as we prepare to move out over the next month.
We are holding a whole church day helping those less fortunate than us by cleaning, decorating rooms and clearing gardens in partnership with the charity Besom.
This is an amazing way to serve York by showing the love of Jesus in a practical way. It’s just a one-day commitment too. You can join us as a Belfrey group or as an individual and we'll put you into teams.
To find out more about besom or what's involved head to belfrey.org/lyn-besomproject
Our summer term church together day will also mark our Vicar Matthew Porter’s final day with us before he and his family move to Bolton for him to take up the post of Bishop of Bolton!
Come along as we gather as one church together at 1.30pm to worship, share communion, hear from the word and thank and say goodbye to Matthew, Sam and their family for all they have given to the life of our church over the last 15 years.
The service will be followed by afternoon tea at about 3pm - please bring cakes and snacks to share!
Doors will open at 1pm.
