The Parish of Wheldrake
Part of:
KEY EC.=East Cottingwith, E.=Elvington, ES. = Escrick, N. = Naburn, SF. = Stillingfleet, S.=Sutton, T.=Thorganby, W.= Wheldrake, RP. = Rivers Partnership, B = Benefice, D = Deanery
Information
There are accessible toilets in the cottage next door
Car parking by the church is limited
There is a children’s area at the back of church on the left
There is a space for wheelchairs at the front of church on the left
There is a hearing loop
Dogs are welcome
There are baby changing facilities in the cottage next door
There is flat access to the building
Our Rivers Partnership Safeguarding link is Mike Beresford mberesford.ced@gmail.com.
Rivers Partnership Website link
Home
For Livestreaming services go to YouTube and search for Derwent Ings Benefice, the services appear under the live tab. For zoom details use the login details in the diary. For assistance, email fiveparishoffice@yahoo.co.uk
RP. Livestream service from the Rivers Partnership
https://www.youtube.com/@derwentingsbenefice7289
Sunday 21st September 10.30am Holy Communion
Sunday 12th October 6.30m Evensong
Saturday 18th – St Lukes Day
W. 10.00am Decorating Church for Harvest
W. 6.00pm Deanery St Lukes Day Healing Service in Church
Sunday 19th October 2025 – Harvest Festival – Trinity 18
ES. 10.30am Holy Communion
W. 10.30am Harvest Festival Communion (Streamed)
E. 6.30pm Refresh
Monday 20th
W. 9.15am School Harvest Service
RP. 7.30pm Home Group at 41 Cranbrooks
Wednesday 22nd
B. 9.30am Healing PrayerFellowship at home
RP. 7.00pm Zoom Evening Prayer
Thursday 23rd
ES. 9.30am Holy Communion
RP. 7.00pm Zoom singing
Saturday 25th
W. 1.00pm Knit and Natter in the Cottage
Sunday 26th October 2025 – Trinty 19
W. 9.00am Holy Communion
N 10.30am Harvest Holy Communion
E. 10.30am Five Parish All Age Communion
Monday 27th
RP. 8.00am Partnership Prayers at Wheldrake
D. 7.00pm Zoom Deanery Evening Prayers
D. 7.30pm Deanery Partnership Zoom meeting
RP. 7.30pm Home Group at 41 Cranbrooks
Wednesday 29th
B. 9.30am Healing Prayer Fellowship at home
Thursday 30th
ES. 9.30am Holy Communion
RP. 7.00pm Zoom singing
RP. Diary Dates
November
14th 7.00pm Tear Fund Big Quiz Night at Wheldrake Church
22nd 10.00am Wheldrake Church Christmas Fayre
W. Harvest Festival
If you would like to bring tinned food along to the service as a harvest offering
please do. This will go to the York Food Bank. There will also be a retiring collection or the DEC relief fund for the people of Gaza
W. Christmas Fair Refreshments
in order to provide refreshments we need soup and baking. If anyone is able to offer either of these please contact Michol Rawet on 448569 (answerphone available) or text on 07484 111759. Many thanks.
RP. Christmas Craft session
We will be meeting in the Cottage to make Christmas decorations to sell at the Christmas fair. The next session will be at 10.00am on Saturday 1st November.
RP. Unwanted Christmas decorations
If you have any unwanted Christmas decorations we would be very grateful to receive them to turn into new decoration to sell at the Christmas fair. They can be left under the tower or let Paul Botting know
You are invited to a Packing party on 8 November from 10am – 12pm @ Wheldrake Church.
Please come along and help us wrap shoeboxes in Christmas wrapping paper, pack donations in the boxes, write personalised Christmas cards and letters for the less fortunate Children.If you wish to donate, please bring these along. We are always in need of pocket tissues, soaps, combs, toothbrushes, gloves, notebooks and pens/pencils and
W. Christmas Fair help needed
If you have any Christmas related bric a brac or toys we would be pleased to accept them to sell at the fair, to raise fund for the church. We need people to help on a rota for a couple of hours to help selling Contact Barbra Carter of Paul Botting
RP. Elvington Service changes
Together and Refresh! changes.
“Together” service is: moving to the 1st Sunday of each month at Sutton, instead of Elvington.
Refresh! will move from the 2nd to 3rd week of the month.
You are invited to a Packing party on 8 November from 10am – 12pm @ Wheldrake Church.
Please come along and help us wrap shoeboxes in Christmas wrapping paper, pack donations in the boxes, write personalised Christmas cards and letters for the less fortunate Children.
If you wish to donate, please bring these along. We are always in need of pocket tissues, soaps, combs, toothbrushes, gloves, notebooks and pens/pencils and small toys. All donations are most welcome.
RP. Building Gospel Partnerships
We need advocates to build gospel partnerships with Mustard Seed churches and their communities. These partnerships recognise there is much that we can learn and receive from churches in our low-income communities. Do you have a passion to support mission in places where life is tough? For more information about the Advocates network, please visit the website www.mseed.org/advocates or contact by
email: mustard.seed@yorkdiocese.org or phone: 07852151740
RP. Passcodes For Zoom Services
The zoom provider has recommended that we do not publish the passcode on the internet. For details email fiveparishoffice@yahoo.co.uk so that the information can be provided to you.
RP. Rural Mission Conference at All Saints Church, Helmsley
Hosted by York Diocese Growing Healthy Churches (Revitalise) with the Diocesan Rural Life and Faith Group
Monday 3 November, 10am to 12.30pm
followed by BYO lunch (drinks provided)
Keynote speaker: Revd Matt Jeffrey, CEO, The Arthur Rank Centre
Germinate Leadership Course Lessons Learned Seminar: with Revd Mel Burnside (Helmsley & Upper Ryedale), Revd Anthony Bennett (Middle Esk, Whitby), Revd Tim Kelly (Walkington Group)
Book a FREE place with John Day
by Monday 27 October
john.day@yorkdiocese.org
W. Prayer Tree
If there is someone or a situation on your heart which you wish to bring before the Lord, you are invited to visit the prayer tree at the back of church and stop for a moment to write a prayer
W. Harvest Festival
This year we are hoping to be able to make a financial donation to the DEC to help with the growing famine in Gaza. It would seem appropriate that we decorate the church with items that remind us of harvest rather than fruit and vegetables that will perish in a few days, or with items from our gardens such as ornamental berries and windfall apples and foliage. This will be a much more difficult display to assemble but worth it if we can contribute to the famine relief. We will also have a Harvest of tinned goods that will go to the York food bank. I am looking for items to borrow to make a harvest display, brass jam pan, Kilner jars, brightly coloured gardening magazines, saved garden pea and bean seed, jars of homemade jam, jelly bag and stand, bottling funnel bottled fruit, large ladle, wine making equipment, empty wine bottles with colourful labels, corks, corn seed, a corn sheaf, sunflower seed heads, acorns, and conkers. If you are prepared to lend me theses items please label them and I will make sure they are returned to you.
W. Tear Fund Big Quiz Night
Join us for a night of quizzing on Friday 14th November from 7.00pm in Wheldrake Church. The quiz starts at 7.30pm. Free to join in, fun for everyone. Come as team or come as an individual and form a team on the night. Refreshments provided, but feel free to bring your own drinks. There will be a collection in aid of Tearfund
W. Shoebox appeal – Help us share the joy of Christmas
We need your support as we prepare to pal shoeboxes to send to less fortunate children around the world. We are collecting small toys, pocket sized packs of tissues, soaps, colouring crayons and pencils. There will be a donation box at the back of church in which to place your donations from 1st September. Your generosity will make a difference to a child this Christmas.
W. Christmas Fair
This will take place on Saturday 22nd November from 10.00 – 4.00 in Wheldrake Church and the cottage. Join us for a magical festival day full of cheer, come and explore our Christmas wonderland featuring hearty soups and sandwiches, mulled wine (non-alcoholic) and mince pies, homemade Christmas crafts, sweet treats and candy stall, handbell ringing and more. Fun for the whole family put the date in your diaries
RP. Conference Invitatation
‘John Newton at 300’
1st & 2nd Nov, 2025
‘Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.’
John Newton wrote these famous lines to accompany a sermon for the first service of the New Year 1773. He was 47 years old and in his first curacy at Olney in Buckinghamshire. Newton was born in 1725, exactly 300 years ago this year.
The 300th anniversary of Newton’s birth is an opportunity to learn from his life, a life which dramatically came to love, serve and point others to Jesus. The main event marking this year will be a conference held on Saturday 1st November at City
Church, York. Dr Graham Beynon (Head of FIEC Local Ministries) will give a biographical overview of Newton’s life, and Dr Daniel Johnson from London School of Theology will talk about the significance behind the creation of Newton’s many hymns. Professor Ian Shaw will speak on the friendships Newton sustained with many other key 18th century Christian’s. Hannah Lewis, Children’s Worker at York Evangelical Church, will be leading a parallel children’s track throughout the Saturday to allow whole families to attend the ‘John Newton
at 300’ conference. Graham Beynon will speak at the Sunday morning service at York Evangelical Church
(https://yec.org.uk) on the theme of ‘Amazing Grace.’
We warmly invite you and those you represent to attend the conference on Saturday 1st November, and, where able, the morning service at York Evangelical Church on the following day.
You can find more information at https://www.churchhistoryconference.org.uk/faqs
There is no charge for the event, but to make sure we plan and cater well, we are asking people to register in advance of the event, and by no later than 20 October.
For details of how to register and direction for how to find the conference venue, please go to
https://www.churchhistoryconference.org.uk/conference
RP. Yorkshire Rural Support Network
The Yorkshire Agricultural Society provides support and help for everyone in the Yorkshire farming community.
FCN Helpline 03000 111 999
Farming community network – practical help from farming people
RABI Freephone Helpline 0800 188 4444
Confidential help and support for all farming families and workers facing hardship
Addington Fund 01926 620135 – addingtonfund.org.uk helping farmers with disaster relief and affordable rural housing
Perennial Helpline 0800 093 8543 – perennial.org.uk supporting all those who work/have worked in the horticultural industry
Samaritans Freephone 116 123 – jo@samaritans.org confidential emotional support 24 hours a day
Led in turn by our Deanery clergy each fourth Monday of the month, this takes place via Zoom on 27th October beginning at 7.00pm. All are welcome and we finish by 7.30pm. Join Zoom Meeting: Join Zoom Meeting link
Contact fiveparishoffice@yahoo.co.uk for passcode
B. Home Fellowship Group
The Home Fellowship group meets Mondays from 7.30pm till 9pm at 41, The Cranbrooks with Steve and Val Hirons. The Bible topic at the moment is the Names, Titles and Attributes of God in both the Old and New testaments, a subject which will last us for quite some time! We choose hymns to begin and end our discussion time and close with the Grace.
Newcomers are very welcome.
RP. Sharing Life
Hello everyone! We hope you have enjoyed the summer. We have enjoyed spending times with our families and are looking forward to seeing everyone again. We hope to meet new people too!
Our fortnightly coffee mornings start on Tuesday 21st October 10-Noon. Young and young at heart are welcome. Hot drinks and cake are there for everyone as well as toys for the children. No charge but donations welcome.
Look out for dates for other events as and when we plan them! You can find all information on our Facebook page, on posters around the village, in the Parish News and Pew News.
We welcome help running the project, both front of house and behind the scenes. Everything we do is run by volunteers.
For more information please contact us on Sharinglifewheldrake@gmail.com or phone on 07729 841897
Katie, Karen, Ruth and Emma.
RP. Derwent Lions Used Spectacles
Please donate your used spectacles on my doorstep. They are a huge help and Lions will make sure they are used to assist less fortunate people in seeing better. Keep leaving them outside 5 Derwent Park and hopefully we’ll be able to keep helping those less fortunate. Lion Ken Hardgrave 01904 448198
Ken.hardgrave@binternet.com
RP. Harmony House
Harmony House is a boutique B&B, in Stillingfleet, offer unique Christian retreats for solo guests, couples and small groups, who are seeking a peaceful and restorative break. Whether you’re looking for a revitalising escape or a transformative personal retreat, we have created an experience suited to your needs. Our Anew Christian Retreats are a haven created with care for Christians seeking rest and a deeper connection with God in a serene and picturesque setting. For more details and testimonies, please check out the retreat page on our website: https://harmonyhouseyork.com/anew-christian-retreats
And new for 2025 – Anew Discovery Retreats – designed for those seriously seeking Jesus and wanting to discover more about the Christian faith and even themselves.
W. Shoebox appeal – Help us share the joy of Christmas
We need your support as we prepare to pal shoeboxes to send to less fortunate children around the world. We are collecting small toys, pocket sized packs of tissues, soaps, colouring crayons and pencils. There will be a donation box at the back of church in which to place your donations from 1st September. Your generosity will make a difference to a child this Christmas.
W. Wheldrake Church Cottage Cleaning Team
We need your help. Are you able to spare an hour a month to assist in cleaning Church Cottage. Everything is provided on site. If you are able to help, please contact
Barbra on 07712556371. Thank you for your support
ES. Mothers Union.
The only branch in the Rivers Partnership is based in Escrick and would welcome new members. You don’t have to be a mother or even female; membership is open to all who have been baptised. If you are not baptised but still interested, that could be arranged.
MU meetings are open to all and visitors are welcome. No pressure to become a member, just enjoy the session. If you are considering membership, but would like to meet nearer to home, come and meet us and we will help you to establish a branch nearer to you. You will have scope to tailor it to local availability. Some branches meet in the local pub. Escrick meet on the second Wednesday afternoon of the month as all of our members are retired, but we have held our summer meetings in the lighter evenings. MU is a fabulous charity working to improve the lives of so many in countries world-wide, not through other charities but with our own members on the ground, be they local or visitors. I hope this has sparked your interest.
Pamela Yates, Branch Leader, tel 01904 728423.
RP. The Rivers Partnership Prayers for the Five Marks of Mission.
Across the partnership the five marks of mission
teams are helping to make our Plan For Growth
(P4G) a reality. Please use this prayer cycle to
include the teams and those who lead them in
your daily prayers.
Tell To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom
(Led by TBD)
Teach To teach, baptise and nurture new
Believers (Led by TBD)
Tend To respond to human need by loving
service
Transform To seek to transform unjust
structures of society, to challenge violence of
every kind and to pursue peace and reconciliation (Led by Caroline Wandless)
Treasure To strive to safeguard the integrity of
creation and sustain and renew the life of the
earth. (Led by Alayne Dodd and Alison Stead)
October
19th Tend, 26th Teach.
RP. Worship Music
God is working his purpose out
Spirit of God unseen as the wind
Father hear the prayer we offer
O Lord my God when in awesome wonder
W. Help required
When we had our last quinquennial inspection, the architect noted that we have lots of pieces of old woodwork from the bell frame laying in the tower. He suggested that we should keep some of it, treat it with preservative, and make a display on the tower wall. There are bits of iron work, pulleys, stays, a headstock, clappers and hammers. Is there someone who would be willing to undertake this project.
RP. DAILY BIBLE RESOURCES
ONLINE DAILY BIBLE READING
- Online bitesize verse of the day: https://www.biblegateway.com/
- Scripture Union Daily Bible reading and comments and prayer. Type in Scripture Union Wordlive today and then scroll down to Read Today’s wordlive,
or go straight to: https://content.scriptureunion.org.uk/wordlive
- United Christian broadcasters, UCB, have a daily verse with thoughts to follow up. Type in UCB word for today UK
or go straight to: https://www.ucb.co.uk/word-for-today
ALSO, DAILY DEVOTIONAL VIDEOS:
https://www.youtube.com/@DailyDoseOfDevotional
ONLINE FOR CHILDREN & TEENAGERS
There are also plenty of websites to look at if you google daily Bible videos for children & daily bible videos for teenagers.
2 Fish Talks- Daily Bible Stories Kids Devotions,
https://www.youtube.com/c/2FishTalksDailyBibleStoriesKidsDevotions
DAILY BIBLE READING NOTES (paper booklets)
These can be ordered from Eden books. https://www.eden.co.uk/ but do have to be paid for.
Alternatively United Christian broadcasters, UCB will send free Bible reading notes quarterly. You can sign up at https://www.ucb.co.uk/wordfortodaysignup or contact Catharine if you are unable to do so.
For children and teenagers there are booklets too.
https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/daily-bible-reading/teenagers
https://www.eden.co.uk/ Hands-On Bible 365 Devotions for Kids Paperback
https://www.re-vived.com/ Snapshots 365!
RP Collect for – Trinity 17
Almighty God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you: pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself, and so bring us at last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen
W. Wheldrake online giving
If you would like to support the church financially and help us maintain it for generations to come then please follow this link to donate online
https://givealittle.co/campaigns/59018725-1659-447e-90dd-dcedb5693eb5
alternatively you can give by bank transfer to: Wheldrake PCC
09-01-54
88047080
E. Elvington Church Drop-in Café
Our next Drop in Coffee Morning is on Wednesday 22nd October in church at 10.00am. All welcome.
Safeguarding Bulletin – Updated 26.09.25
Click this link for the latest news from this team
https://mailchi.mp/2df6be6044e5/diocese-of-york-safeguarding-bulletin-13429905?e=7770c3aa96
W. Wheldrake Church Website
This is the link to the website here you will find policy documents, agendas and PCC minutes along with prayers and pew news
RP. Organ Recital
Jonathan Scott to brings you this special Organ Concert filmed live at the Grand Organ of Westminster Cathedral, London, UK. This concert (part of the Cathedral’s Grand Organ Festival) brings you the sound of the wonderful Henry Willis III organ (one of the world’s greatest and famous pipe organs) in the acoustic space of the UK’s largest Catholic Church
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwMLXousM0E
RP. Living Christ Story – Mustard Seed updated 25.07.24
Click on this link to read more about the work of Mustard Seed in the Diocese
https://mailchi.mp/196b464fd2ad/living-christs-story-in-a-mustard-seed-way-17707865?e=418314d1fa
RP. Generosity Matters updated 11.08.25
Click on this link to read the latest news from the generosity team.https://mailchi.mp/5ae023546c6f/generosity-mailing-18166263?e=33945223ea
RP. Thank you
This week we are remembering our Worship team of clergy, Licensed Lay Ministers and Authorised Lay Ministers in the churches of the Rivers Partnership. It would be good to have contribution from anyone in the benefice, so please email your suggestions for thankyou’s for your villages
T. Thorganby Coffee Morning
Our next Coffee Morning is on Thursday 20th November in the village Hall at 10.30am. All welcome.
RP. Multiply Stories
Multiply is the name of an initiative to build new worshiping communities and make new disciples. This link can be used to read about the work that is going on around the Diocese https://mailchi.mp/yorkdiocese/inspiringideas-2024?e=346204007c
RP. Tools with a mission- updated 11.07.25
This link will take you to the latest newsletter from TWAM
https://mailchi.mp/twam.uk/september-2023-supporter-enews-6421304?e=ca4eff56d4
B. Derwent Ings Facebook
Have you seen the Derwent Ings Facebook page? https://www.facebook.com/DerwentIngsChurchesYork/ Please have a look and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh4EyDpfGJM”follow” the feed!
W. Wheldrake Church Website
This is the link to the website here you will find policy documents, agendas and PCC minutes along with prayers and pew news
RP. CPCC and WPCC Minutes
The minutes for the last CPCC are published on the Wheldrake Church website.
http://www.wheldrakechurch.org.uk/?page_id=1636
W. Wheldrake online giving
If you would like to support the church financially and help us maintain it for generations to come then please follow this link to donate online
https://givealittle.co/campaigns/59018725-1659-447e-90dd-dcedb5693eb5
alternatively you can give by bank transfer to: Wheldrake PCC
09-01-54
88047080
RP. Diocese of York Prayer Diary
There is always somewhere, something or someone we can pray for. The Prayer Diary may help guide you and your church in praying for our diocese.
October- December’s Prayer Diary is available to download – find it at:
dioceseofyork.org.uk/diocesan-prayer-diary
RP. Online prayer websites
Here are some prayer sites that you could try, see which you like
Pray as you go
Celtic liturgies
Sacred Space
ReJesus
Green Christian Prayer Guide
RP. Join in Worship on a Sunday
8.10AM – BBC RADIO 4 SUNDAY WORSHIP
92-95FM | 198LW | Digital
Lost and Found: The Parables: Swarzy hosts a special Sunday Worship with Keisha Buchanan from The Sugababes and David Melodee from The Compozers about The Parables of Jesus.
10.45AM – BBC RADIO 4EXTRA DAILY SERVICE
E. New way to donate to the church
If you would like to support the church financially and help us maintain it for generations to come, you can now also send donations using the “givealittle” website
We next meet together on zoom to sing on Thursday 23rd October. If you would like to join, do use the login details in the diary. We meet at 7.00pm, we’ll do some new some old and familiar ones and some to learn. The beauty of this will be that you can sing at the top of your voice as you will be on mute.
E. Refresh! Service at Elvington
The next Refresh service at Elvington in will be in 19th October for a service – focused around worship music, modern and informal in style. Please do come along at 6.30pm.
Pray-er for the Benefice
19th Michol Rawet
Prayer Area
19th Church Lane and Church Green (Elvington)
Please use these notes for your own reference during the week and for your prayers