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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.

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.

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

• Lent Appeals

Lent Project 2011 — raised £1450: thank you all!

The Barnabas Fund — "support for the persecuted church" — is named after Barnabas, a fellow-worker with St Paul, and his name means 'son of encouragement'. He was known for his tireless efforts for the new Christian churches. He is said to have sold all his possessions to help the poor, and the Barnabas Fund takes its text from Galatians 6 v10: 'As we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers'.

The mission of the fund is to support Christians in countries where they are in a minority and suffer discrimination, oppression and persecution just because they are Christian. Its goal is to strengthen individual Christians, churches and their communities by providing material and spiritual support, usually in response to needs identified by local Christians themselves.

The Barnabas Fund does this by making the needs of persecuted Christians known to people like us and by encouraging prayer for them. The fund channels aid from donors to where it is most needed — sometimes for on-going long-term projects and sometimes at times of acute emergency. Please remember the Fund and those it supports in your prayers, and give generously this Lent.

Our Lent appeals alternate between a home-based charity one year and an overseas charity the next, usually raising some £1,400.
Last year we supported Caring For Life. In 2007 and 2009 we appealed for AIDS victims in Zimbabwe, particularly through the United Congregational Church at Njube, Bulawayo.
More generally:

• Christian Aid

Three 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.

• And regular giving to

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

 
Newsletter items

May 2011:

ECUMENICAL GOOD NEWS

I write to update you that the Revd Tom Lusty has been offered and has accepted the post of Priest in Charge–Team Vicar Designate in the new team ministry of St Chad's Far Headingley, St Michael's Headingley and St Augustine's Wrangthorn, with a formal responsibility for St Chad's
.
As chaplain of Wheatfield's Hospice he is already familiar with Headingley, and he will be taking up his post in July. I have sent Tom our good wishes and prayers from the fellowship of Headingley St Columba URC.
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