Honley Ladies Choir with Simeon Wood
Thursday 7th December
7pm
St. James’ Church, Meltham Mills
Tickets £10 from Dimps or Shoebox team members
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Poppies for Remembrance
Meltham Remembrance Display 2023 – Plant a Poppy – Sat 4th Nov – we need help!
Last year, this wonderful display of 600 poppies was created in St Bartholomew’s church yard using the poppies from the wreaths laid the previous year. This year we are hoping to ‘plant’ over 2000 poppies to create an even bigger display for Remembrance 2023…………..but we need help!
All are welcome, we thought families especially may want to bring children, to help them reflect and contribute to Meltham’s act of Remembrance and be a part of creating something truly special.
The planting will be done on Saturday 4th November from 9.30am onwards. Please come along or ‘drop in’ and help us plant them – ALL WELCOME.
MEMORIAL SERVICE – Sunday 5th November 2023 – 4pm – St Bartholomew’s Church, Meltham
You are invited to our special memorial service on Sunday 5th November – 4pm at St Bartholomew’s Church, Meltham. This service offers an opportunity for anyone who would like some time and space to remember someone special to them who has passed away either recently or at any time in the past and to give thanks for their life and the memories they shared together. There will be an opportunity during this service for anyone who wishes to do so, to light a candle in remembrance of those people.
All are welcome.
Meltham Mustard Seed Charity – Update – October 2023
As many of you will know, Meltham Mustard Seed began its work in 1997 helping to support orphans in the village of Kyema in Uganda. Over the years this charity has supported many young people enabling them to grow up, importantly, in kindred foster families and be educated. Indeed, several have degree level qualifications and exciting careers ahead of them due to your support.
In 2019, we worked with the local committee in Kyema to put together a self-sustainability plan. After 4 years of hard work, the local Mustard Seed team in Kyema are now in a position to continue to provide support to orphans without the financial support of Meltham Mustard Seed. This is a fantastic achievement.
This means that we can now formally close down the Meltham Mustard Seed charity, as our work is complete. There are a number of practical steps that we need to take to do this, including dialogue with the Charity Commission, our bank and our supporters.
We have asked supporters, who donate by standing order, to cancel these as we will make a final payment with any more final donations to Kyema in December this year.
We, the Mustard Seed committee, want to thank you for the support over many years that has enabled us to support many children, who otherwise would have had a very uncertain future.
Additionally, you have helped us create a lasting legacy, which was always the vision that John Bakanoba had when Mustard Seed first began.
MELTHAM TREAT FEST – Tuesday 31st October – 5pm to 7:30pm at the Church Hall
Joint Parish Service of Holy Communion – Sunday 29th October 2023 – 10:30am
It’s a five Sunday month again, so as is tradition here in the Parish of #Meltham, we shall be having a joint parish communion service so we can all come together and worship as one. This time, it will take place up at Christ Church, Helme. Sunday 29th October at 10:30am.
DON’T FORGET! – the clocks go back this weekend!
Please note that there won’t be any other services at the other churches in the parish on this Sunday – the idea is that everyone comes along to this one.
ALL WELCOME!
WE ARE ONE IN THE SPIRIT, WE ARE ONE IN THE LORD!
Christian Aid Coffee Morning
‘Crisis’Coffee Morning
Meltham Parish Magazine – October 2023
Welcome to the October edition of the magazine, the weather is getting colder so grab a cuppa and enjoy your latest edition. Hopefully you’ll not have failed to notice we have a new Parish logo unveiled, this was agreed at the last PCC meeting.
As ever there are lots of interesting articles and updates including HDFHS (pg 12) and St Mary’s (pg 23). There are lots of tributes throughout this issue to Rev Peter Rolls.
Thank you so much to all who have contributed this month, I had so much to include I have either had to edit or save some for a future edition! But don’t let that put you off as I’m always happy to receive submissions.
The deadline of the November magazine will be Friday 20th October 2023. Please send them via:
melthamparishmagazine@gmail.com or via the vicarage letterbox (150 Huddersfield Rd, HD9 4AL).
God Bless,
Fiona.
