Events and Information
The church is open from 9am until 4pm each day.
Notices for this week
Christmas Fair
We raised an incredible £1577 (and still growing) at our Christmas Fair on 9th December. A huge thanks to everyone who helped and came to support us, and to The Sweet Martinis and Bob Southey for the festive singing. A special thanks to everyone who stayed to help clear everything away at the end!
Advent Course
The Christmas story we all know doesn't begin in the barn. It's the culmination of centuries of waiting, and the various journeys of some very ordinary but remarkable people towards the most significant moment in human history. This year, as we continue our own journey of faith, we will journey with Elizabeth and Zechariah, Mary, Joseph, and then the shepherds and the Magi as we P.R.A.Y. our way through December towards our celebration of the coming of Jesus.
Two groups will meet each Wednesday during Advent beginning on Wednesday 6th December at
To find out more have a word with Gareth or Mary.
Stape Silver Band Christmas Concert Sunday, 10th December, 2 pm in Church, in aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research. £5 Pay at the door.
Victoria Wright Concert, Tuesday, 12th December, at 12.30 pm in Church.
SingalongaBob invites you to come and sing along to those familiar hit Christmas songs on Wednesday, 13th December, from 2 – 3.30 pm.
Little Fishes - Thursday, 14th December, from 10am to 11am, in church – a group for pre-school aged children and their parents and carers
Knit an Angel Thank you to the fourteen people who have been busily knitting for the Churches Together project – 110 at the last count. Anyone able to help to label them to meet at 7 Meadow Road from 2 pm on Monday the 18th. Anyone wanting to help with the distribution, please meet at Pickering Methodist Church at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday 20th December.
Christmas flowers
If anyone would like to help arrange Christmas flowers in church on Friday 22nd December, 9 - 10.30am, or would like to give some flowers /greenery, please would they let Val Batchelor know.
100 Club If you would like to join the club, please have a word with David Billett. Advance notice: Next year’s subscriptions are due now.
Monday Coffee Mornings
Each Monday until Christmas, 10.00 am until 12 noon in church. Tea/Coffee and delicious home-made cake and mince pies, with gluten free option too. Great company! All welcome.
Bookstall A new selection of Advent books and calendars is now available. Do take time to have a browse and help yourself to a copy of the latest Bookstall News
Brunch with Jesus …. the first Saturday of each month – Share a brunch and watch an episode of the critically acclaimed series about Jesus and his Disciples: The Chosen.
Pickering Food Share.
This amazing initiative stops tonnes (literally) of food going to waste every year.
New opening hours: Open every Wednesday from 12.30pm for coffee, tea and biscuits. Food available from 1-3pm.
Location: Ings Garth Community Centre, Pickering
How you can support:
Foodbank
Thank you for your ongoing support. Demand for food parcels has dramatically increased in the past few weeks and a list of things needed is attached to our green collection box either in the porch or at the back of the church and is also on the noticeboard.
Items in short supply are:-
Jam, toilet rolls, cleaning products and toiletries
Donations needed REALLY urgently, please - so urgently that volunteers are having to go out and buy some desperately needed items.
Altar Flowers
The flowers on the High Altar in the Sanctuary may be given by members of the congregation. If you would like to give flowers, perhaps in memory, celebration or thanksgiving please sign against a date on the list which is at the back of Church. Thank you. Valerie Batchelor 01751 475295.
Ryedale Talking Magazine …
… is a free monthly audio magazine for those who are unable to see the printed word. It is recorded monthly and sent out by freepost. The magazine consists of items on a range of interesting topics / stories read by volunteers. If you know of anyone who would be interested in having the magazine or of anyone who would like to volunteer to read for it please contact Val on 01751 476499.
FREEWILL OFFERING ENVELOPES
If you use the one-off gift aid envelopes each Sunday or do not use the FWO envelopes currently and would like to transfer to them, please let me or the Churchwardens know and I will issue a personally numbered set in your name. There is no commitment with regards to the amount or frequency of your donations and they are confidential. Andrew pkgtreasurer@outlook.com
Minster Passes
Parishioners from across the Diocese of York are welcome to visit York Minster, free of charge, with a Parish Pass which can be borrowed from Lesley Jaram on 01751 477831 or lesleykjaram@gmail.com, Rev'd Gareth Atha on 01751 471495 or thevicar@pickeringchurch.com Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the capacity within the Minster is reduced and to secure a slot on your preferred date it is vital that you book one of the free entry tickets online at and bring the parish pass with you to present at the point of entry.
Volunteers needed, please :-
Weebly/Square Website
Are you a parishioner who is familiar with website building platform, 'Weebly'? It would be good to have a standby person who can update the site in case of emergencies, who knows Weebly. If this is you, please contact Cait, pickeringparishchurch@gmail.com
Safeguarding:
Gail Radka is our Parish Safeguarding Officer. The official email is pkgPSO@Outlook.com
Please send any notices for next week’s pew sheet to Valerie Batchelor (475295, email: vjb39@outlook.com), or Hazel Page (476915, email: dunvicaring@btinternet.com) By Wednesday
We raised an incredible £1577 (and still growing) at our Christmas Fair on 9th December. A huge thanks to everyone who helped and came to support us, and to The Sweet Martinis and Bob Southey for the festive singing. A special thanks to everyone who stayed to help clear everything away at the end!
Advent Course
The Christmas story we all know doesn't begin in the barn. It's the culmination of centuries of waiting, and the various journeys of some very ordinary but remarkable people towards the most significant moment in human history. This year, as we continue our own journey of faith, we will journey with Elizabeth and Zechariah, Mary, Joseph, and then the shepherds and the Magi as we P.R.A.Y. our way through December towards our celebration of the coming of Jesus.
Two groups will meet each Wednesday during Advent beginning on Wednesday 6th December at
- 11 am in Church. Coffee will be served beforehand.
- 7pm at The Vicarage.
To find out more have a word with Gareth or Mary.
Stape Silver Band Christmas Concert Sunday, 10th December, 2 pm in Church, in aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research. £5 Pay at the door.
Victoria Wright Concert, Tuesday, 12th December, at 12.30 pm in Church.
SingalongaBob invites you to come and sing along to those familiar hit Christmas songs on Wednesday, 13th December, from 2 – 3.30 pm.
Little Fishes - Thursday, 14th December, from 10am to 11am, in church – a group for pre-school aged children and their parents and carers
Knit an Angel Thank you to the fourteen people who have been busily knitting for the Churches Together project – 110 at the last count. Anyone able to help to label them to meet at 7 Meadow Road from 2 pm on Monday the 18th. Anyone wanting to help with the distribution, please meet at Pickering Methodist Church at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday 20th December.
Christmas flowers
If anyone would like to help arrange Christmas flowers in church on Friday 22nd December, 9 - 10.30am, or would like to give some flowers /greenery, please would they let Val Batchelor know.
100 Club If you would like to join the club, please have a word with David Billett. Advance notice: Next year’s subscriptions are due now.
Monday Coffee Mornings
Each Monday until Christmas, 10.00 am until 12 noon in church. Tea/Coffee and delicious home-made cake and mince pies, with gluten free option too. Great company! All welcome.
Bookstall A new selection of Advent books and calendars is now available. Do take time to have a browse and help yourself to a copy of the latest Bookstall News
Brunch with Jesus …. the first Saturday of each month – Share a brunch and watch an episode of the critically acclaimed series about Jesus and his Disciples: The Chosen.
Pickering Food Share.
This amazing initiative stops tonnes (literally) of food going to waste every year.
New opening hours: Open every Wednesday from 12.30pm for coffee, tea and biscuits. Food available from 1-3pm.
Location: Ings Garth Community Centre, Pickering
How you can support:
- pop down and take away free food! Anyone is eligible, the idea is purely to stop food being thrown away. You are welcome to make a small donation if you wish.
- bring down food you have no use for. If you grow your own fruit and veg, this is a great outlet for your surplus.
- become a volunteer. The team is always looking for extra pairs of hands for setting up and serving food. They are also looking for volunteer cooks to help prepare simple meals from surplus food for a few people in the area who have disabilities or cannot leave their homes
- spread the word about all of the above!
Foodbank
Thank you for your ongoing support. Demand for food parcels has dramatically increased in the past few weeks and a list of things needed is attached to our green collection box either in the porch or at the back of the church and is also on the noticeboard.
Items in short supply are:-
Jam, toilet rolls, cleaning products and toiletries
Donations needed REALLY urgently, please - so urgently that volunteers are having to go out and buy some desperately needed items.
Altar Flowers
The flowers on the High Altar in the Sanctuary may be given by members of the congregation. If you would like to give flowers, perhaps in memory, celebration or thanksgiving please sign against a date on the list which is at the back of Church. Thank you. Valerie Batchelor 01751 475295.
Ryedale Talking Magazine …
… is a free monthly audio magazine for those who are unable to see the printed word. It is recorded monthly and sent out by freepost. The magazine consists of items on a range of interesting topics / stories read by volunteers. If you know of anyone who would be interested in having the magazine or of anyone who would like to volunteer to read for it please contact Val on 01751 476499.
FREEWILL OFFERING ENVELOPES
If you use the one-off gift aid envelopes each Sunday or do not use the FWO envelopes currently and would like to transfer to them, please let me or the Churchwardens know and I will issue a personally numbered set in your name. There is no commitment with regards to the amount or frequency of your donations and they are confidential. Andrew pkgtreasurer@outlook.com
Minster Passes
Parishioners from across the Diocese of York are welcome to visit York Minster, free of charge, with a Parish Pass which can be borrowed from Lesley Jaram on 01751 477831 or lesleykjaram@gmail.com, Rev'd Gareth Atha on 01751 471495 or thevicar@pickeringchurch.com Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the capacity within the Minster is reduced and to secure a slot on your preferred date it is vital that you book one of the free entry tickets online at and bring the parish pass with you to present at the point of entry.
Volunteers needed, please :-
- To join the Sanctuary Guild. Members work in teams on a rota basis to maintain the beauty of the Sanctuary and look after the brass, altar silver and linen. If you feel able to join them please contact Valerie Batchelor 01751 475295. Thank you. NB Men welcome too!
- To open and lock up the building on a rota basis, please? The unlocking would be at 9am and the locking up at 5pm to 5.30pm in summer and 4pm in winter. If it is something you could do, please contact Pam Robb.
info@pickeringchurch.com
Weebly/Square Website
Are you a parishioner who is familiar with website building platform, 'Weebly'? It would be good to have a standby person who can update the site in case of emergencies, who knows Weebly. If this is you, please contact Cait, pickeringparishchurch@gmail.com
Safeguarding:
Gail Radka is our Parish Safeguarding Officer. The official email is pkgPSO@Outlook.com
Please send any notices for next week’s pew sheet to Valerie Batchelor (475295, email: vjb39@outlook.com), or Hazel Page (476915, email: dunvicaring@btinternet.com) By Wednesday
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Wishing happy birthday to anyone who is celebrating this week
We have a link to local online services on the 'Zoom Activities' page. Please also have a look at churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/church-online which includes weekly streamed and daily audio services. There is additional worship on the BBC to help us, and more is on its way. https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/join-us-service-daily-prayer
Phone Line Daily Hope offers hymns, prayers and reflections as well as full worship services from the Church of England at the end of a (free) telephone line. The line is available 24 hours a day on 0800 804 8044 Please pass this number on to anyone you know, especially those who do not have access to a computer and would like to listen to favourite hymns and prayers.
Our church website and the Facebook page are regularly updated with links to messages from our Archbishops and to other worship and prayer opportunities.
Phone Line Daily Hope offers hymns, prayers and reflections as well as full worship services from the Church of England at the end of a (free) telephone line. The line is available 24 hours a day on 0800 804 8044 Please pass this number on to anyone you know, especially those who do not have access to a computer and would like to listen to favourite hymns and prayers.
Our church website and the Facebook page are regularly updated with links to messages from our Archbishops and to other worship and prayer opportunities.
If you, or someone you know, requires an emergency food supply, please contact your regular Referral Agency, or call 07922 421326, Monday to Friday between 9.00am and 5.00pm.
For assistance at the weekend please call: NYCC on 01609 780780
Contact 07922421326 if you wish to donate food.
Easyfundraising
This is a fabulously easy way for our supporters to raise funds at absolutely no cost to themselves. Simply by clicking on this link, https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/pickeringparishchurch/. Anything you purchase through their pages gives us a percentage profit without any additional cost to you. So if you shop at any online retailers, it is well worth looking to see if they are covered by a Easyfundraising before you place your order.
Use easyfundraising to shop with over 3,300 retailers including Amazon, Argos, John Lewis, ASOS, Booking.com, eBay, Boden, and M&S. Every time you shop, you’ll raise a free donation for Pickering Parish Church every time, it’s that easy!
Use easyfundraising to shop with over 3,300 retailers including Amazon, Argos, John Lewis, ASOS, Booking.com, eBay, Boden, and M&S. Every time you shop, you’ll raise a free donation for Pickering Parish Church every time, it’s that easy!