A quiet contemplative service for those who might be struggling during this time or not looking forward to Christmas this year.

18-30s CHRISTMAS SOCIAL

You are invited to join us for an evening of festivities and merriment at Brew York on the 18th December at 7.30pm, as we gather together to sing some carols, enjoy good company, and delight in York's finest craft brewery!⁠
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Tickets are limited so be sure to book your place fast and invite your friends!

Join us for our annual Carol Service in York Minster. All are welcome so do be inviting friends and neighbours. Doors will open at 6:45pm and the service will start at 7:30pm and last for around an hour. We’ll spend time hearing from the Word, singing carols and more.

We are excited this year to be heading to the Waterfront Restaurant, Naburn Marina, for our festive gathering.

On Thursday 5 December it would be lovely to have you join us at 12 noon (no earlier please if you can) for a welcome drink, with the two course Christmas meal served at 12.30 pm (the bar will be open for you to buy your own drinks). There are various meal options, please see the menu below, where you can choose from a starter, main and dessert. The price is £30pp and please let us know if you have any food allergies. 

Find out more and book on below, last booking and payment is Monday 25th November

If you are new, welcome! We'd love you to join us for a meal to get to know you and help you get more connected with the life of our church here and meet some of the team. 

You can just come along but it's helpful to know in advance if you are able to make it for food numbers and if you have any allergies. Get in touch with claire.elwood@belfrey.org if you're hoping to come along. 
If you are in our congregation already but want to help welcome people or are planning to invite others along, let us know! All are very welcome. 

We’ll be offering the opportunity to get baptised across the day at each of our services on this Sunday.

If you’d like to be baptised, please get in touch with one of the team or email hello@belfrey.org to find out more and get linked up.

Dads and Little'uns is open to all dads, grandads, godfathers and all father figures and for their children aged 0-10(ish). It is designed to offer the opportunity to spend more time with the kids and meet other dads whilst mum maybe has a lie in! There's free bacon butties, bottomless filter coffee and newspapers for the dads. Juice, biscuits, crafts and endless fun for the kids. All events are free, donations are welcome.

Join us for a wonderful, wintry evening of luxury hot chocolate tasting with Chocolate and Co, as they take us on the journey of cocoa, with a fun quiz, prizes and testimonies of transformation from the beneficiaries supported by the charity.
Chocolate and Co. are a local charity dedicated to transforming lives and creating positive change. By providing a paid employment project, they offer a sense of purpose, connectedness and belonging. In partnership with Restore, a local
Christian housing charity helping people facing homelessness in our community, they offer a future hope. 
If you would like to know more please visit their websites, below: 
www.chocolateandco.org 
www.restoreyork.co.uk

The evening will include five tasters of hot chocolate per person, freshly made and melted down from various percentages of real chocolate, accompanied by a palate cleanser and a tasty traybake.
Whilst we make every attempt at managing allergens, please note that there is always risk of cross contamination so this needs to be taken into account when booking this event. This includes Nuts, Soya, Milk and Oats. 

There will also be an opportunity to purchase chocolate gift sets, perfect for Christmas and to consider the various ways in which we can support these charities, from regular prayer and giving, to offering skills or simply going for a drink in the Chocolate and Co cafe, on Lowther Street, York. 

Spaces are limited, so please book on to ensure admission. Please sign up, invite others along and perhaps even make up a table of eight. For catering purposes, bookings will close by end of day on Fri 8th November. 

We hope you will join us as we support these wonderful local charities serving the city of York.

We’ll be taking a break from our regular sermon series to spend time remembering those who have and are fighting in conflicts across the world as well as all those loosing loved ones.

Join us for an evening of Prayer and Worship as we gather together as a church family. Led by Andy, we’ll be having prayer stations around the De Grey Rooms and Thom and the team will lead us in worship and response.

We’ll be offering the opportunity to get baptised across the day at each of our services on this Sunday.

If you’d like to be baptised, please get in touch with one of the team or email hello@belfrey.org to find out more and get linked up.

Other dates for baptisms this term are:

• 24th November

Jesus and His Church: Why the Pastoral Epistles are all about Jesus, not about women in leadership.

Lucy Peppiatt will be speaking on the centrality of Jesus in the Pastoral Epistles and what this means for churches and church leadership today. 

Lucy has been Principal at WTC since 2013. She teaches courses in Christian doctrine and in spiritual formation. Lucy’s research interests are Christ and the Spirit, Charismatic theology, theological anthropology, discipleship, 1 Corinthians, and women in the Bible. Lucy is part of Crossnet Church in Bristol and loves serving in the local church. She and her husband, Nick Crawley, are committed to teaching the Bible and discipling young people.

If you are new, welcome! We'd love you to join us for a meal to get to know you and help you get more connected with the life of our church here and meet some of the team. 

You can just come along but it's helpful to know in advance if you are able to make it for food numbers and if you have any allergies. Get in touch with claire.elwood@belfrey.org if you're hoping to come along. 
If you are in our congregation already but want to help welcome people or are planning to invite others along, let us know! All are very welcome. 

Grab your hot drink (or juice!) and (Bluebird Bakery) pastry and join us for a time of worship, teaching, prayer ministry and building community, as we invite God, to grow our confidence, in who He says we are. 

Most of us struggle (often privately), to really believe that God thinks we’re amazing. We will be looking at why this may be and finding a way that leads us to be confident in the work of the Cross. We are told that ‘It is for Freedom that Christ has set us free, no longer subject to a yolk of slavery’. Galatians 5:1. Please join us, as we work this out together. 

We are excited to welcome Jane Beaumont, back to speak to us, after our women's day earlier this year. Jane loves Jesus and longs for others to know his transforming power to set us free, as we accept who we are in Christ. Jane is an ordained priest, with a long-standing freedom ministry. She is married, with two grown up children and 3 grandchildren, and serves in her local church and trains leaders in the UK and abroad.

Doors open at 10:15am and you can book on here

During our services this week we’ll be celebrating our social action inititatives by hearing an update from the team for all that has happened over the last year and ways to get involved this upcoming year.

We will also be spending time remembering those who are in need by taking a food collection for York Foodbank during each service.

The Belfrey’s Social Action Team would love to invite you to an evening to celebrate everything that has been achieved through our Post Pandemic Fund and Social Action Programme over the last 3 years. We are incredibly grateful for the gift of £1million that enabled us to set up the Fund in 2021, to help the community of York recover from the Covid pandemic.

Come and celebrate with us and hear stories about the difference that this fund has made in the city, from the charities and churches that we’ve supported with grants, and from the social action ministries we’ve been able to start here at The Belfrey. We’re excited to share about all we’ve seen God do, and about our vision for the future.

This free ticketed event will be on Wednesday 9th October, 7.30pm at the De Grey Rooms. and you can book your ticket below

Alpha is a series of conversations that looks into questions of life, faith and God. Each week you’ll join an in person group and watch a 25 minute video on various topics exploring the Christian faith, then afterwards chat with others and have honest and open discussions. Topics can vary from Who is Jesus? and How can we have faith? to Why and how do I pray? and How does God guide us?

Join us for our launch evening on the 1st October where you can get a taste of the course. If you decide to join us for the whole course, we’ll then be running for 10 weeks each Tuesday in the De Grey Rooms from 7:30pm with one Saturday session in November (this is often people’s favourite part of the course!)

Let us know if you’re hoping to come or send any questions to alpha@belfrey.org

Come join us for Belfrey Messy Church. A space for families to gather together for fun, for creative activities, crafts and conversations whatever your faith background. There is no cost, just come along for some fun on a Sunday afternoon.

We’d love to be encouraging our Belfrey families to be inviting friends along, particularly those who might not have any faith background.

All the upcoming dates for you diary:

• 27th October

• 24th November

If you are new, welcome! We'd love you to join us for a meal to get to know you and help you get more connected with the life of our church here and meet some of the team. 

You can just come along but it's helpful to know in advance if you are able to make it for food numbers and if you have any allergies. Get in touch with claire.elwood@belfrey.org if you're hoping to come along. 
If you are in our congregation already but want to help welcome people or are planning to invite others along, let us know! All are very welcome. 

Enabling those who feel called to evangelism in the local church to explore their calling.

In partnership with Church Army, this course is designed to train and develop local leaders in evangelism and open to all people across the diocese. Delivered over the course of several months, the course will leave people equipped to be leaders in evangelism in their local church. 

The first session we'll share a meal together and then spend time reflecting on Scripture, learning from other key thinkers in mission and evangelism and spend time in prayer. 

The programme has been written to allow participants to reflect on their local context, their church context, and the wider cultural context they find themselves in and to work as effective evangelists in those spaces.

Sign up for the course below! Dates of all the sessions are:

25th September - Evening

30th October - Evening

20th November - Evening

18th January - Day Time (long session)

26th February - Evening

26th March - Evening

30th April - Evening

If you would like more information about Faith Empowered then please get in touch with Claire Elwood: claire.elwood@belfrey.org
The course costs £60 but please chat with us if money is a problem.

We’ll be offering the opportunity to get baptised across the day at each of our services on this Sunday.

If you’d like to be baptised, please get in touch with one of the team or email hello@belfrey.org to find out more and get linked up.

Other dates for baptisms this term are:

• 27th October

• 24th November

Join us on our Belfrey Women’s social, as we walk in the beautiful Easingwold countryside together, followed by a delicious pub lunch, together. Whether you’re new, checking us out or been at the Belfrey for ages, this is a great opportunity to meet other women of all ages, from our church community. Our walking route shall be gentle and accessible but do come along to the lunch even if you’re unable to join the walk.

Lunch spaces are limited so book on ASAP (you are welcome to join for the walk only). We will be asking people ahead of time for their food order but will be in touch separately with menu info so we can pre-order.

We'll meet at 11am at The George Hotel in Easingwold for the walk and return here for lunch at 12:30pm. There is parking here but car sharing is recommended or you can arrive by bus - the 30X/30/40 all leave from Exhibition Square opposite the De Grey Rooms and drop you off at the pub. 

If it's raining we hope to still continue the walk and just advise people, dress for the weather! In severe weather, the lunch will go ahead without the walk.

Dads and Little'uns is open to all dads, grandads, godfathers and all father figures and for their children aged 0-10(ish). It is designed to offer the opportunity to spend more time with the kids and meet other dads whilst mum maybe has a lie in! There's free bacon butties, bottomless filter coffee and newspapers for the dads. Juice, biscuits, crafts and endless fun for the kids. All events are free, donations are welcome.

Upcoming dates:

• 26th October

• 16th November

• 14th December

Join us for our Open House worship night, where we open up the House of the Lord to rest in His presence, to worship, pray and spend time with God.

A new group starting to help support parents of adult children with autism. Join for an afternoon of rest and renewal.

We'll meet once a month with refreshments provided and we'll spend time in worship and supporting each other. 

Upcoming dates are:

• 21st October

• 18th November

• 16th December

  For more information contact claire.elwood@belfrey.org and let us know you are coming by signing up below.

Meeting monthly on Zoom to pray for our church mission partners, the world missions team would love you to join them as they share updates and pray for members of our congregation who are working and ministering across the world.

Email sue.lawrence@belfrey.org for the link to join and to sign up to their newsletter.

Other upcoming dates for the year are:

• 9th October

• 13th November

• 11th December

Join the team as they pray every Tuesday morning for our church, city and wider world. They meet at 7am on Zoom so it’s accessible to everyone. This will be the first week back after summer and run weekly until Christmas.

Join using this link and the password dynamic.

Our Wednesday lunchtime service resumes on the 4th September with sandwihch lunch afterwards. Join us for a 35 minute service including worship, prayers and bible teaching.