Summer Garden Party 

The Kirkmans' garden party raised an amazing £831 towards the redevelopment project last weekend. Thanks go to Rosemary and David and all the helpers. With Gift Aid on the donations that pushes it over £1,000 raised. Every little bit helps towards finishing the project.

Churchyard news- Rake and Cake

Sheffield City Council has responsibility for maintaining our closed churchyard. We have agreed with them that they help out this year. They are coming on Tuesday 25th June to cut back all the recent growth of grass and flowers so we can take over the maintenance again.

We need as many people as possible to come with their rakes, clippers, bags as usual on  Saturday 6th July 10am til noon for our twice yearly Rake and Cake.  

If you can do a little individually, especially if you have adopted a grave please do beforehand.

See the June update on Step into the Light redevelopment

We are collecting clothes for adults and children this month for Genesis shop. Donations to Joan Giles. If you dont know her phone no/ address then please  ring the office. Donations desperately needed for struggling families in S2.

News from our Annual Meeting

We have church wardens appointed and new members of our Church Council or PCC:

Congratulations church wardens Sarah Oxby and Lena Plaskitt

And to the elected members of PCC Dawn Carter, Jill Mitchell, Bob Hunt, Olayinka Oluwole, Margaret Winstanley, Paula Dowson, Kath Crosby, Paul Archer and Jane Closs, our Deanery Synod representative. 

February 2024 update on the building redevelopment now available

Sunday 9.30am online service has concluded 

due to very low attendances and people preferring the 5.30pm service in the Community Centre on a Sunday.  We hope you enjoy the livestream of the Sunday 5.30pm service if you are unable to get to the it in person.

Church building now closed for renovation and reordering as of 15th January 2024

The contractors are now in charge of the church building and there is no access other than that authorised  by them. Our vicar requests that anyone with the old keys to the building should hand or post them into the Parish Office now.

4.30pm today Sunday 7th January, Christ Church Dore Community Centre come along for afternoon tea followed by our usual service at 5.30pm

Important news about the closure of the Churchyard from January 2024 please see Step into the Light 

December update about progress with Step into the Light - such exciting news for the parish. 

Advice for staying safe when attending church services this winter

At the time of writing, the Church leadership is aware of an upturn in Covid infection in the UK as a whole and, in particular, in the region of Yorkshire and Humberside. We are aware that Sheffield Teaching Hospital Trust has recently mandated the wearing of facemasks in all their facilities as a precautionary action.(As of 14 November we are pleased to see the level of Covid infection decreasing. However we still have other respiratory viruses circulating and the following advice will help keep us all as healthy as possible).

Taking this into account, the leadership of CCD have made the following recommendations in the control of the spread of Covid:

·       Face masks are to be made available for the individuals in the congregation to wear should they so choose.

·       Hand cleaning stations will be refreshed and maintained for those attending church to use.

·       Singing without face masks will continue to be practised

·       A 2m physical separation between people in church is not required

·       People who have tested positive for Covid should not attend Church under any circumstances until either a negative test result has been returned or a suitable period of time has elapsed from the first symptoms

·       People who feel ill or ‘under the weather’ but have not tested positive for Covid, are requested that they avoid attending Church until they no longer have symptoms.

·       Those individuals in vulnerable categories are encouraged to obtain their Covid and influenza booster injections

This guidance is not intended to be exhaustive and will be subject to regular review over the Autumn/Winter period. The leadership of CCD are grateful for the support and consideration of all members of the church family in minimising the risk of Covid in our community.

Please take a look at the redevelopment section for the October 2023 update on progress to starting Step into the Light project construction phase.

Boiler gives up today- Friday 6th

Just to forewarn you that although the weather should be warm you may wish to bring a coat to church on Sunday 8th. Our boiler is ancient and about to be replaced, we hope, in the redevelopment. It will be mended to tide us over next week

Eleven days of celebration of Christ Church Dore comes to a close.

God has been good and forged new relationships and strengthened others. Together the members of this church worked to raise an amazing £154, 150 last Sunday 24th September Gift Day, and with Gift Aid this increases to £192, 437.  All of the gifts and pledges have not yet come in and this does not include  the community events. The church membership had set themselves a target of £200,000 and it looks as though this may now happen this week. This is important as it enables the fundraising team to apply for a larger grant from a trust that required us to have reached this point in our fundraising. Great work Christ Church!

Step into the Light- update 

We need to raise £200,000 more this autumn so we can start to redevelop the building towards the end of the year. A massive effort is needed by the church members and the village to achieve this. We have done it before to get this far.

So two things you will be asked to do if you feel able:

1. Bundling up leaflets- a fun event with coffee and pastries delivered. Turn up at church Tuesday 22nd August 9.30am. We will be wishing a special member of our church a special Happy Birthday at the event and having some fellowship. It will last about 2 hours. 

2. A chance to get fit walking round delivering the leaflets to be collected from the back of church 22nd August to 3rd September.

Come to church  next Sunday 20th August and see the next installment of Step into the Light video. See what the fundraising group has in store for you and our community.

New Deputy Treasurer - announcement from PCC

The PCC is pleased to announce that Steve Clarke, a committed member of our church, is going to be working alongside Alison Saxton our treasurer. He has been co-opted to the PCC as deputy treasurer and will also be working on Standing Committee. We welcome him and look forward to working with him.

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