Holy Nativity
A New Role For a Familiar Face
Thanks to funding from the United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)* Holy Nativity is about to embark on a three year project to develop our church building and expand the activities and community services that we provide. Holy Nativity turns 70 this year and the building has been at the heart of the community for all of that time, being originally funded by public subscription and arriving as a ‘flat pack’ church back in 1954. The funding will enable us…
Meet The Curate | Revd Fern
Greetings my name is Fern and I am looking forward to serving as your new curate from Sunday 2nd July. I have moved down from Durham with Jemima, my cat, where I have been studying for the last couple of years. Prior to my training I worked as a chemist in the hop industry, in Kent. In my spare time I enjoy scale figure modelling and painting, table-top gaming, reading (science-fiction, fantasy and history predominantly), and music – generally, the…
Summer Fair 2023
The weather may not have been in our favour but this year’s summer fair was a fantastic event.
Youth Group vs the Knights!
What a day we had as we battled against the elements and won! With a shaky looking weather forecast we got into the minibus with our waterproofs and headed to Scarborough Castle!
Youth Group Hit Whitby
After a good night’s sleep and a full English breakfast, youth group had sufficient energy to tackle Whitby!
Graeme Heads to Pastures New
Recently I’ve been wondering whether it is possible to fall in love with a whole community. It’s a rhetorical question, really, because I already know the answer. Around three years ago I found myself at the very start of my ordination training, looking for a church placement where I could learn more about what it means to be a vicar in the Church of England, and what it means to be a community of people in service to and with…
Our New Bishop (to be)
Today, I went to Huddersfield University to meet our newly appointed bishop (to be) at the Jo Cox More in Common Centre. This morning at 10am, Downing Street announced that The Revd Canon Smitha Prasadam will take up the role of Bishop of Huddersfield later in the year. She is currently Chaplain of St Albans, Copenhagen. She explained that this means she is the only Anglican vicar in the whole of Denmark. It makes our parish from the top of…
Meet The Curate | Revd Lindsey
Hello. My name is Lindsey Barber and I am your new curate. I was ordained priest in June 2022. I currently live at Coley with my husband Andrew, his daughter Frankie and our two dogs, Emmi, the ageing border collie, and Thor, the little bulldog. I have an adult son, Ewan. My daughter, Olivia is married to Kane and they have a daughter, Harriet who is 18 months old. Both Ewan and Olivia live in Pontefract, which is where I’m…
Youth Group Christmas
We’ve had a lot of fun at Youth Group in the Autumn term. We finished with a Christmas party at which David made us play the silliest of games – I can remember eating Dairy Milk with a knife and fork when I was a kid! For the last Youth Group of 2022 we decided to go ten pin bowling! What a fun night that was. And it is always entertaining to see the smallest kids try to eat the…
The Christmas Fair
December has seen us have a very busy Advent at Holy Nativity. The church has become a constant hive of activity for the whole month! We began with season with The Christmas Fair at which the whole community came together to begin the preparations for Christmas. We were really pleased to be able to jointly organise the fair with Ash green Primary School. For the last couple of years it hasn’t been possible for people to get together to celebrate…