St Peter's Church Stanley

A relaxed and friendly baby and toddler group for pre-school children and their carers.  Come and enjoy a cuppa and meet friends.

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

The pantomime is back for 2021 – full details can be found here

All services start at 10am

Sunday 13th June : Sunday morning service:  Rev Glenn Coggins will be leading our service and also preaching.

Sunday 20th June : Sunday morning service:  Rev David Teece will be leading our service and the preacher will be Joe Harrison.

Sunday 27th June : Sunday morning service:  Rev Glenn Coggins will be leading our service and also preaching.

It is very exciting that congregational worship has restarted at St Peter’s church; Palm Sunday was the first service in the church with a congregation since the beginning of January.  There are still lots of  restrictions in place: numbers are limited, we still have to wear masks, keep our distance from each other, and we can’t sing yet.

A major difference is that many in the congregation have now received their first, or even both, vaccinations.  So, even though we still have to take precautions and be careful, there is less risk and less fear about the virus spreading.

At the time of writing, we are still on schedule to re-open the building to community groups from 12th April, in line with the government ’roadmap’. Our children’s activity providers such as Mini-Maestros, Sapphire Supreme Majorettes, and the Total Sport youth club will be resuming straightaway.

We are awaiting further guidance about our community activities for older people, including the Tuesday lunch club, Stanley Community Singers and Knit & Natter but hope that we will be able to restart those too: we can run the activities in a covid-secure way and have all the necessary risk assessments and precautions in place. 

We have not made any plans yet about our coffee mornings, other fund raising events and the pantomime, except that we are unlikely to hold a summer gala this year, at least, not on our usual date at the end of June. 

Even before the recent announcement of the government ‘roadmap’ to open things up, St Peter’s PCC had made the decision to return to in-church worship at the 10am Palm Sunday service on 28th March. 

This will be the first service that the congregation has able to  attend since the beginning of January.  Places of worship have been allowed to stay open the whole time, but the PCC took the decision to minimise the risk to everyone by staying shut.  When we open, there will still be many restrictions in place: we will still have to wear masks, keep our distance from each other, numbers will be limited and we won’t be allowed to sing.  But we truly hope that this is the beginning of things getting back to normal.

The next significant date for the church will be 12th April, after which community centres are allowed to reopen.  This means that some of our social activities will be allowed to restart, beginning with the return of some of our children’s activity providers such as Mini-Maestros and the majorettes.

We hope that at that point we will be able to restart the Community Choir, the Tuesday senior citizens lunch club and Knit & Natter.  However, these will all be dependent on the rules about socialising and permitted activities, which may of course change again over the next few weeks.  However, most people who attend these groups will hopefully have had both of their vaccines by that point, so it will be wonderful to be able to meet together again with much less fear about the virus spreading.

It is far too early to make decisions about all of the other things that we used to enjoy doing at the church such as coffee mornings, fund-raising events and the pantomime.  All we can do is stay hopeful that as a nation we make steady progress towards the future, and give thanks for those rolling out the amazing vaccination programme. 

During the current national lockdown, we have decided to stop congregational worship, although it is allowed by the government guidelines.  There will continue to be an online service every Sunday, filmed at either St Peter’s in   Stanley, or at St Paul’s in Alverthorpe.  The decision on congregational worship will be reviewed in mid-February.  For our online services please see: 

· Facebook: St Peter’s Church, Stanley, Wakefield

As well as the Sunday morning services, we are broadcasting  morning and evening prayer sessions several times a week on our Facebook page.  Please visit our Facebook page to watch these services at the times shown below.  Once broadcast, the services can be watched as many times as you wish.

The Panto is coming ….. albeit online!

Full details here: https://nwbchurches.org.uk/stanley/whats-on-at-st-peters/pantomime/