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As well as meeting each Sunday we have lots of other ways to get involved and be a part of the church.

Pilots — currently in abeyance — is a children's club with games, craft, Bible stories and refreshments. It's open to all children between the ages of 5 and 11.

The Guild meet twice a month on Tuesdays.

The Wednesday Evening Group meet monthly. Click here for the programme.

The House Groups are an important time of fellowship and Bible teaching. They comprise a wide variety of people who wish to learn more about the faith we share and the Bible on which it is based. We also endeavour to learn more about each other and our own personal faith journeys. Dates and times for the groups vary; currently there are three groups running.

The Choir meet to rehearse on Friday evenings at 7.30pm.
Charities we support
In particular:

• Christian Aid

Two of our members ensure that Christian Aid’s ongoing projects are kept regularly in our minds, and also that we respond to international emergencies as they arise.
We also work alongside other “Churches Together in Headingley” for the annual Christian Aid street collection.

• Wheatfields Hospice (Headingley, Leeds 6)

We host an annual fund-raising concert on behalf of Wheatfields — Leeds’s first hospice. Since one of its founders belonged to our church family, we continue to take a special interest in its well-being.

• “Caring for Life” (Cookridge, Leeds 16)

This farm-based, evangelical Christian organisation which looks after needy people both at the farm and in two small local homes, is supported both by means of periodic appeals to the congregation and by individual church members. Click for the Caring for Life website.
More generally:

• Lent Appeals

Lent Project 2010

This year we are appealing for our good friends at Caring for Life.

Our Lent appeals alternate between a home-based charity one year and an overseas charity the next, usually raising some £1,400.
Two years ago we supported Caring For Life. Lent 2006 it was Leeds Simon Community. In 2007 and 2009 we appealed for AIDS victims in Zimbabwe, particularly through the United Congregational Church at Njube, Bulawayo.

• And regular giving to

The Friendship Fund (Ministers’ widows), Retired Ministers’ Housing, Samaritans, Leeds Industrial Mission, The Bible Society.
Newsletter items

July-August 2009:

THE YORKSHIRE GOSPELS

After the success of the ‘Big Read’ in the Yorkshire Synod, Synod wants to create our very own copy of Yorkshire Gospels which will be bound and kept for future generations.

Each church has been given a passage from one of the gospels to recreate in our own way. Our passage is Luke 11, verses 1 to 26, and we can choose any version of the bible we want. We have to decide how we want to do this and ideas can be brought to the church meeting on 5th July. The completed gospels are to be handed over on 10th October when Synod meets in our church.

SYNOD

The Yorkshire Synod has asked if they can hold their autumn meeting in our church on Saturday, 10th October. We agreed at our church meeting to take this on, and so we are asking everyone associated with Headingley St Columba to help in any way they can. As host church, we will need to provide stewards to welcome approximately 150 people who will attend from all over Yorkshire; car parking attendants to direct the visitors’ cars to our own and nearby car parks and people to help with the catering. If you are free on that day and are willing to help, please give your name to Bill or to Pat van Lemmen.
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