We celebrate our anniversary on the first Sunday in November, celebrating the years since the union of the Centenary and Wesley congregations and further to the earlier history of Methodism in York.  This year, we invited Revd Maurice Staton to take our morning service.  Maurice was a minister in this circuit some years ago and continues with chaplaincy work at St Leonard’s hospice in York. Maurice preached about newness in the church and after the service joined us for lunch in the hall.

Lunch after our anniversary service

In the evening we had a “local arrangements” service, led by a group from our congregation on the theme of looking back and moving forward. There is a lot of change happening in York Methodism at the moment, not least at Central, so we took the opportunity to step back for a moment and spend some time in quietness and prayer to help us as we take new steps in faith.

Candles lit during prayer at our evening service

Following her commissioning service at Central last Sunday, the new Carecent project manager Nicky Gladstone appears in the Press, welcoming volunteers from York CVS to Carecent as part of National Make a Difference Day. You can read the article at the York Press website.

For more information about the organisations, please see Carecent’s website or the York CVS website.

In our local paper there is an article about Carecent (click here to read it), the project for the homeless based at Central, with details about their harvest appeal.  For more information about Carecent generally, please visit Carecent’s own website.

Central is holding a fund-raising day at St Crux hall on Saturday, 22nd September from 10 till 3.30.  Come and join us for drinks, sandwiches and home-made cakes.

St Crux is at the end of Shambles:

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Today (9th September) we celebrated our harvest festival with thanksgiving for what we have from God and challenge to link work and prayer as we live out our daily lives, making everyday choices. Our aim is to develop as disciples of Jesus each and every day, not just on Sundays.

Harvest flowers

Thanks to some hard work by a number of our members, the church building was beautifully decorated and much admired by visitors on our open days. We also invited friends from other churches in York city centre: some came to join in our morning service and others came after services in their own churches to join us for lunch.

Gathering for lunch in the hall.

Our youngest regular attender even brought a visitor from another world…

A clanger, waiting for harvest lunch.