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Children’s Ark – every Thursday from 9:15am to 11:15am
A relaxed and friendly baby and toddler group for pre-school children and their carers. Come and enjoy a cuppa and meet friends. £1.50 per child. Play! Singing! Snacks! Stories! Toys! Every Thursday in term time at St Peter’s church from 9:15am to 11:15 am Phone 01924 835746 or 07746 849509 for more info
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Tuesday lunch club – every Tuesday 10:30am to 1:30pm
Tuesday Lunch Club at St Peter’s Church, Lake Lock RoadEvery Tuesday, 10.30am—1.30pm With refreshments, activities such as crafts, talks, films, games, quizzes, and a freshly cooked hot meal followed by dessert, for just £5 per person. Don’t be lonely! Come and join us.
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Lighthouse Café – every Monday 10am—12pm
LIGHTHOUSE CAFÉ at St Peter’s Church Every Monday 10am—12pm For snacks and refreshments,Followed by light lunches from 12pm—1pmPlus, free Wi-Fi, Books, Games, Jigsaws, Newspapers, Use of Computer A Warm Space and a Warm Welcome – Come and join us!
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Parish Magazine for April 2018
You can download the April 2018 parish magazine in PDF format using the link below. Click here to download. The parish magazine is in Adobe PDF format, if you can’t view the magazine you can download a reader at adobe.com.
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Film Club – April 2018
Friday evening, 13th April 7:30pm ‘Going in Style’ (2017) Oscar winners Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin team up as lifelong buddies Willie, Joe and Al, who decide to buck retirement and step off the straight-and-narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty, in director Zach…
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David’s Letter for April 2018
Here at St Peter’s, we have been very fortunate. For the last 24 years we have had a dedicated and committed priest in Bill Henderson and in his wife Viv. Together they have made a wonderful team dedicated to bringing the Gospels to life in the church and supporting the community here in Stanley. Things…
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Mothering Sunday and Easter 2018
Mothering Sunday—11th March There is an old Jewish saying: “God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.” Mother Church, Mother Earth, and our own mothers have all been part of ‘Mothering Sunday’ which has been celebrated in the UK since at least the 1600’s. In most countries, Mother’s Day is a secular festival…
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Parish Magazine for March 2018
You can download the March 2018 parish magazine in PDF format using the link below. Click here to download. The parish magazine is in Adobe PDF format, if you can’t view the magazine you can download a reader at adobe.com.
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Bill’s Letter for March 2018
It is a very strange feeling beginning to write my last magazine letter here in Stanley. I am grateful for the many messages of encouragement about the opportunities in retirement. Time to visit family and friends and do the things that full time work makes impossible. Never the less there is also a real sense…
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Film Club – March 2018
Friday evening, 9th March 7:30pm ‘Whisky Galore!’ (2017) Based on the infamous 1941 true story, ‘Whisky Galore!’ is a charming and heart-warming tale of a close-knit Scottish island community who mischievously relieve a sinking cargo ship of cases of whisky during wartime scarcity. The ensuing merriment is threatened when Excise Men try to spoil the…
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Parish Magazine for February 2018
You can download the February 2018 parish magazine in PDF format using the link below. Click here to download. The parish magazine is in Adobe PDF format, if you can’t view the magazine you can download a reader at adobe.com.
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Saying goodbye to Bill and Viv
As Rev Bill Henderson has written in his letter, we will shortly have to say thank you and farewell to him and Viv, after nearly 25 years of dedication and commitment to our parish of Stanley. Many of us will have been helped enormously over the years by their kindness and wisdom, and we will…
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Bill’s Letter for February 2018
I began the February 2017 magazine wishing everyone a happy New Year and welcoming Jo and Jonathan to Outwood and Wrenthorpe. I begin this one preparing to say goodbye. We arrived as a young fresh faced family in 1993, little knowing that we would still be here 24 very special years later. Seen here with…