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Cottingham Cleanup Day 20th September As part of our Hope 08 activities Cottingham Churches Together in association with the Neighbourhood Action Team and Streetwise embarked on another cleanup day. Volunteers from all six churches took part and cleared and tidied snickets, and cleaned and painted over graffiti. We were assisted on the day by some of the local Councillors. |
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Photos from Our Past Events
This page represents a trip down memory lane, capturing just a few photos from the churches many and varied events. For photos of our music festival follow this link.
For details of regular events, for families, adults and children - select the weekly menu from the side panel.
Last update: 20-Sep-2008
Sonia Hoggarth - Pastoral Secretary
September 2008
July 2008
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Cottingham Day 5th July
We repeated our succesful local and fair trade farmers market again this year. This time we had a new marquee, which was just as well, as it kept us dry. Stalls included, fruit and veg, apples and apple juice, fair trade products, skidby mill along with many others. |
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Andys Ordination Andy attended conference this year, for his reception into full connexion, and his ordination service which took place at Westborough Methodist church in Scarborough. Friends from around the Uk, as well as from the churches attended the event. Cottingham held a circuit service on the same day for those unable to get tickets.
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June 2008
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Mongolian Barbeque A great R U Up 4 It, despite the weather! Pictured here a few of those cooking, with the star chef - Ian Russel who wowed us all with his stir fried beef recipe!
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May 2008
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Oliver Ordained Father Oliver was ordained at St Mary's on the 18th of May. Here he is conducting his first blessing. Below a surprising sight, as the local clergy actually got dressed up to celebrate with Oilver. Father Paul who is not pictured was bust behind the scenes.
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March 2008
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Easter Day Service2008 A new one on me - but we had about three inches of snow on the ground in the morning. Pictured is our new welcomer for Easter. |
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The Passion Play Good Friday in Beverley. Literally hundreds of people followed Jesus through depictions of his life and sacrifice on the cross. A very poignant reconstruction of events in the modern world. |
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Passover Meal Maundy Thurday We followed a Christian version of the Seder meal in a bid to understand the events of the last supper and origins of our communion meal. |
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Valentina Seferoniva an extremely talented pianist played for us Rachmaninov, Chopin and the less well known repetoire of Noskowski, Scriabin and Vladigerov.
Further details about Valentina can be found at her website http://www.valentinaseferinova.com/ |
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Skidby Post Office Moves Despite a large lump of concrete stuck to its base, after a helpful pounding by a JCb, Skidby Post Office sadly leaves the church grounds after its closure in February. |
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Praise Party Anlaby We joined Anlaby Methodist to have both a Praise Party for the families, and for training in children's events from Dave Godfey and his team. A great day, and lots learnt. |
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Music Festival Concert - Our evening concert featuring the winners from our music festival held in the Spring. A great evening and well attended in both the junior and secior sections. For more photos see our music festival page. |
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Febraury 2008
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Welcoming Church? The second of our two welcoming sessions resulted in a list of possible projects to work on to make our church more welcoming and accessible.
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January 2008
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Cottingham Community Action Day It was cold, but several of us from the churches in Cottingham donned the safety gear and went on a litter hunt. Surprising ourselves we unearthed 360lbs of rubbish between us. We hope to repeat this later in the year when its warmer!
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Junior Church Party The younger children from junior church joined us for a late Christmas party in the New Year. |
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December 2007
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Christingle Service 2007
Bodger and Bodge make a Christingle - badly! |
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Churches Together Carol Singing on the Church Steps |
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Those Were The Days - Rev Stephen Beer reflects on his sabbatical researching folk music, spirituals and the role of music in general in history, culture and religion. Here he shared his results with us musically. |
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R U Up 4 It - Held its Christmas meal at the Bluebell pub in Cottingham. |
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Westland & Driffield Choir Our good friends the Westland school and Driffield male voice choirs entertained us with a carol concert. |
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Cottingham Lights Somewhat earlier than people would have liked - seen here on a rainy night in December. |
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Mark Topping as John Wesley at Trinity Methodist recalling his brother Charles. |
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MAF Talk We were grateful for a speaker representing Mission Aviation Fellowship to come and speak with us and lead worship one Sunday morning, followed by a fellowship dinner. |
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November 2007
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16th-19th November - Church Weekend at Moorlands Christian Guild Hotel, West Cliff Whitby . We were fortunate to have bright autumnal weather for most of our stay. We visited Goathland, went to church in Robin Hood's Bay and had plenty of energy left for walks on the beach, shopping in the town and plenty of prayer, fellowship and fun. |
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10th November 47 members of the church gathered to look at what makes a good church, and begin to work out whether we fit the bill. A follow up meeting has been arranged for the |
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9th November Brian Hill Concert - Run by Churches Together - Brian sang many of his songs, supported by an explanation of how God works in his life, and how he came to write them |
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Our R U Up 4 It bonfire party was great fun, we burnt an old shed, and had two hours of fireworks! People chewed on bonfire toffee as their faces crisped in front of the raging fire. |
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October 2007
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Hallgate School joined us for their annual Harvest Festival and were treated to 'Store Wars..'. |
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Our R U Up 4 It Trip to Epworth took us to Wesley Memorial (see the Window) and the Rectory where Wesley was born. |
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A boot load of shoe boxes was loaded up all ready for taking to Jacob's Well (see our projects page) for their Christmas Appeal. Many thanks to everyone who filled and wrapped their contributions. |
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September 2007
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The church this month held an 'R U Up 4 It' treasure hunt around Cottingham. Here we see one team who really took on the idea. The hunt took us all around Cottingham following clues and ended with a welcome rest, quiz and cup of tea. We were also challenged to come up with an Acrostic for Cottingham....see below. See whats coming up next here. |
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August 2007
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A Quiet month for the church with everyone holidaying, but we still found time to do a bracing 'R U Up 4 It' walk into the countryside around Skidby, and then on for a meal together. See whats coming up next here. |
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