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Main Worship Gatherings

St Michael and All Angels’, Haworth

Sundays at 10:30am – Parish Communion: a celebration for everyone

Thursdays at 12noon – Midweek Holy Communion: quiet and reflective said service in the Bronte chapel

Thursdays at 8pm – Quiet Space (Compline): short, reflective prayer time.  Followed by Pints of View from 8:30pm (usually in the White Lion) – friendly conversation exploring big questions.

St. Gabriel’s, Stanbury

Sunday7th June – 10am BCP Holy Communion

Sunday 14th June – 4pm Evensong

Sunday 21st June – 10am BCP Holy Communion

Sunday 28th June – 4pm Evensong

Sunday5th July – 10am BCP

	Haworth, St Michael and All Angels

 Holy Communion

Sunday 12th July – 4pm Evensong

Sunday 19th July – 10am BCP Holy Communion

Sunday 26th July – 4pm Evensong

St. James’s, Cross Roads

Sunday 7th June – 4pm Parish Communion

Sunday 14th June – 10am Parish Communion

Sunday 21st June – 4pm Messy Church on tour – gathering in the Rectory garden to celebrate midsummer day

Sunday 28th June – 10am Parish Communion

Sunday 5th July – 4pm Benefice Prayer Service

Sunday 12th July – 10am Parish Communion

Sunday 19th July – Messy Church on tour – joining with and supporting Assembly Bangers at St Michael’s (3pm start)

Sunday 26th July – 10am Parish Communion

Every week at St James’s

Coffee drop-in at St James’s every Monday 10-12noon.  This now includes a Dementia Friendly Hub

Toddler Praise at St James’s every Tuesday in term time, 2-3pm.  Toddler friendly singing, story and prayers, followed by play and snack.

          St Michael’s Garden Angels and Church Angels

Saturday 13th June and Saturday 11th July, 10am-12noon at St Michael’s Haworth.  Something for everyone!  Always good fun and very satisfying.  Contact Rev. Oli or Jonathan (church warden)

          Coffee morning at St Gabriel’s, Stanbury

First Saturday each month 10am-12noon.  Friendly time together in this beautiful space.  Saturday 6th June and Saturday 4th July.

An introduction to Mirfield Community of the Resurrection (CR) – a 24 hour led retreat

Rev Malcolm Young is leading a 24 hour guided retreat for up to eight people, starting Friday 19th June at 3pm.  Mirfield CR is an Anglican monastic community, only 45 minutes drive from us.  The Brothers, and others who are part of the extended community, make the house, church and grounds available to guests – it is a beautiful, peaceful space with a profound sense of prayerfulness and deep time.  The full cost of this retreat is £80 per person (help with costs available if needed).  Please speak with Malcolm asap if you are interested.

Safeguarding basic awareness raising training

Mon 15th June 1-3pm in the hall at St James’s Cross Roads.

This training is for everyone within church settings who needs to have a basic awareness of safeguarding issues (helpful for anybody!).  Refreshments provided.  Talk to Oli or Sharon.

River Baptisms

After our morning services on Sunday 14th June and Sunday 5th July we are going to gather down at the River Worth (at the bottom of Lord Lane) to celebrate baptism!  Everyone is welcome as we baptise Chris, Matty, Will (14th June) and Annalise (5th July) – bring a picnic.  12:30.

Haworth Festival 8th-26th July

This year we are running and hosting a great range of events!  Here are some highlights (more to follow!)

– Come and Sing day: open workshop for all 2-4pm, Tues 14th July.  No previous singing experience needed (anyone can sing!).  Led by Mike Leigh (www.mikeleighsings.com), a skilled “natural voice” practitioner, we will be led through warm-ups, learn a couple of simple songs, and share in the joy and connection of joining our voices.  £5 per person, free places available (please just ask).  Contact Rev Oli

– Assembly Bangers Sing-Along!  Sunday 19th July 3-4:30pm.  Get ready to sing your heart out as we hit all the nostalgia notes with this School Assembly Bangers Sing-Along concert!  Celebrate ‘all things bright and beautiful’ – including great live music, and delicious school-dinner puddings.  Let ‘Lord of the dance’ move your feet, feeling that ‘Joy in my heart’, and ‘let your little light shine’.  Free entry, the more the merrier, school uniform optional 😉

Cross Roads Gala – Sat 11th July

We will be joining in with the Cross Roads Gala again.  Could you support the St James’s team as we join with our village for this community celebration?  Oli will be playing with bubbles, Marion and team will be hosting the regular ‘pick a bag’ stall, and there will be all kinds of fun for everybody!  Talk to Marion to find out how you can be part of our church contribution to this brilliant event.

Friends of the Brontes Church – could you volunteer?

A big “thank you” to everyone who supports the Friends at Haworth! 

The Friends raise funds, particularly through the book and souvenir stall, to support with maintenance and restoration for St Michael’s church building.  They have recently made grants to support with the clock repairs and to pay for the boiler to be fixed, as well as previously paying for repairs to stained glass, vestry roof…  They are wonderful! 

Peter Breed, chair of the Friends group, says:

“We currently open Wednesdays and Saturdays, but would like to cover Thursdays too during July/Aug/Sept, so we could do with some more volunteers.”

Could you give a few hours a month to support this wonderful group?

Giving and Generosity

Most of the budgeted spending that allows us to be present and active as a church community comes from regular giving from church members and supporters.  Thank you to everyone who contributes to this!  If you would like to find out more about giving, including regular giving through direct debit or volunteering opportunities, then please get in touch for a conversation.

If you would like to make a donation to Haworth Parish (one off or regular) you can follow this QR link: 

Listening and Caring

We have people who would be happy to listen and pray with you.  Please ask whoever has been leading the service today, or contact Oli.

St Michael and All Angels’, Haworth (Main Street, BD22 8DR)

St Gabriel’s, Stanbury (Main Street, BD22 0HB)

St James’s, Cross Roads (Albion Street, BD22 9EB)

            Haworth Church  /  St James’ Church Cross Roads

[www.haworthchurch.co.uk – website being redeveloped!]

Want more Love, Joy, Peace?

Christmas is just the beginning…

Love Joy Peace is a free five session course designed to offer the gift of Christian Spirituality without obligation or requirement.  It is intended to offer an insight into the experience of Christian faith, through guided meditation, explanation, discussion and action.

Take some space in January to explore these big themes with others and see if Love, Joy, Peace might be for life, not just for Christmas.

This January you are invited

Tuesdays 7:30-9pm at St Michael and All Angels’, Haworth

Wednesdays 9:30-11am at St James’s, Cross Roads

We are currently in the season of ‘Lent’ – an important time in the Christian year.  Lent starts with Shrove Tuesday (‘pancake day’) and Ash Wednesday, and runs up to Easter.  It is a time when Christians remember Jesus taking time to fast and pray in the wilderness, and traditionally it is a time when they might also make space for prayer, study, fasting and service: deepening their connection with God and neighbour through different spiritual disciplines, writes Rev Oli Preston

This Lent I have tried something new – being barefoot as much as possible.  The prompt for this came in a church service I was sat in when an ancient story from the Bible was being read – a passage from Exodus about Moses and the burning bush.  In this story God calls to Moses from a bush that is on fire but not burning up, saying “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”  As I heard these words read I felt a stirring in my heart, and I must confess that I didn’t really listen to much of the rest of what happened that evening!  

Being barefoot on the rough, cold ground of Haworth and Cross Roads is perhaps more uncomfortable than it was for Moses on the warm sand of the desert, but it has been a wonderful spiritual practice.  I have had to slow down – you simply can’t walk as fast with bare feet!  I have felt much more aware of and connected to the places I am – grounded and alert.  And I love the echo of the Moses story in my head, imagining what it might mean for each place – for this place – to be holy ground.  As the weather warms up again perhaps you too might like to try (even for a few minutes) letting the soles of your feet touch the earth.

‘Do Not be afraid ‘

This simple, bold, heart-warming phrase appears over and over again in the Bible, in all kinds of   circumstances – including on the ?rst Easter Sunday. The women who went to visit Jesus’s tomb carry with them grief at the death of their Master and friend, the trauma of the cruci?xion, and fear for what might happen next – will Jesus’s disciples be arrested next, what will happen to them…?

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“The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.  He is not here; He has risen, just as He said.” Matthew 28:5-6

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Meeting an angel, whose ‘appearance was like lightning’ (v.3) must have been terrifying! But the angel’s message is one of peace: Jesus is alive. Death itself has started working backward. They may not understand yet, there still may be pain and sadness to come, but there has been a shift in reality, and nothing will ever be the same again… Hope is alive

See our separate Holy Week news sheet for details of services and spaces to connect and pray this Easter.

It can be a great time to invite friends, neighbours or family too!

May you know the peace of the Risen Lord Jesus at work in your life in this Easter season.

Sunday Worship Gatherings

St Michael and All Angels’, Haworth

Sundays at 10:30am – Parish Communion: a celebration for everyone

Sun 3rd May service includes Annual Parish Meeting. 

Sun 31st May – no service here today: United Service in Stanbury

St. Gabriel’s, Stanbury

Sunday5th April – 10am BCP Holy Communion – Easter Sunday!

Sunday 12th April – No service here today

Sunday 19th April – 10am BCP Holy Communion

Sunday 26th April – 4pm Evensong

Sunday 3rd May – No service here today

Sunday 10th May – 4pm Evensong

Sunday 17th May – 10am BCP Holy Communion

Sunday 24th May – 4pm Evensong

Sunday 31st May – 10am United Service

St. James’s, Cross Roads

Sunday 5th April – 4pm Parish Communion – Easter Sunday!

Sunday 12th April – 10am Parish Communion

Sunday 19th April – Messy Church: Easter Journeys, 4-5:30pm

Sunday 26th April – 10am Service with Annual meeting

Sunday 3rd May – 4pm Parish Communion

Sunday 10th May – 10am Parish Communion

Sunday 17th May – 4pm Messy Church: Messy Mother’s Day

Sunday 24th May – 10am Holy Communion

Sunday 31st May –  no service here today: United Service in Stanbury

Sunday 31st May – United Service

United Communion Service at St Gabriel’s, Stanbury – 10am

Followed by drinks and cake in the St Gabriel’s garden.  Drinks provided, you might like to bring something tasty to share!

Every week

Coffee drop-in at St James’s every Monday 10-12noon.  This now includes a Dementia Friendly Hub

Toddler Praise at St James’s every Tuesday in term time, 2-3pm.  Toddler friendly singing, story and prayers, followed by play and snack.

Midweek Holy Communion – Quiet and reflective said service at St Michael’s every Thursday 12noon in the Bronte chapel

Quiet Space (Compline) at St Michael’s every Thursday at 8pm: short, reflective prayer time.  Followed by Pints of View from 8:30pm (usually in the White Lion) – friendly conversation exploring big questions.

          Garden Angels and Church Angels

Saturday 11th April and Saturday 9th May, 10am-12noon at St Michael’s Haworth.  Something for everyone!  Always good fun and very satisfying.  Contact Rev. Oli or Jonathan (church warden)

          Coffee morning at St Gabriel’s, Stanbury

From May we are back on first Saturday each month 10am-12noon.  Friendly time together in this beautiful space.  Saturday 2nd May.

Annual Parish Church Meetings (APCM)

Meetings to look back on 2025, to give thanks to God for His work among us, to check finance and other key areas, and to elect Church Wardens and Parish Church Council (PCC) members.

Cross Roads: Sun 28th April 10am at St James’s

Haworth and Stanbury: Sunday 3rd May, 10:30am

at St Michael and All Angels’

Our annual meetings will be held as part of our regular Sunday morning services.  This gives space to give thanks to God for His goodness among us, bringing all parts of our parish life as part of our worship.

Everyone who is part of our church community is welcome!

As we prepare for these meetings, we are actively looking for people to join our Parish Church Councils (PCCs) – as PCC members, Treasurer, Secretary, Church Warden…  Please join in praying, and please consider whether you could joining the team.  Talk to Oli.

Giving and Generosity

Most of the budgeted spending that allows us to be present and active as a church community comes from regular giving from church members and supporters.  Thank you to everyone who contributes! 

If you would like to find out more about giving, including regular giving through direct debit or volunteering opportunities, then please get in touch for a conversation.

Listening and Caring We have people who would be happy to listen and pray with you.  Please ask whoever has been leading the service today, or contact Oli