August Car Boot will be held on Saturday 1st August
Please read drop down for details
Striving to be at the heart of the community!
1ST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH: 11AM – FAMILY SERVICE
WITH BAPTISM IF REQUESTED
2ND SUNDAY OF THE MONTH: 6.30PM SUMMER / 3 PM WINTER
HOLY COMMUNION
3RD SUNDAY OF THE MONTH:
NO SERVICE
4TH SUNDAY OF THE MONTH: 6.30PM SUMMER / 3PM WINTER
EVENING PRAYER
5TH SUNDAY OF THE MONTH: 10AM
ALTETNATING BETWEEN
PAULL, HEDON, SPROATLEY, AND PRESTON
We had a great school leavers service at St Andrew to say good bye to 8 pupils who will be leaving the primary and moving onto South Holderness Secondary School. We wish Chloe Farmer, Ali Singelton, Corin Sheard, Kia Singelton, Indianna Sheppard and Jonathan Hartley every success in whatever they chose to do.
A Prayer for you all: Heavenly Father, give these children a deep love of learning, and the wisdom to understand how to use the knowledge they gain. May they know the joy of curiosity and wonders in your beautiful world, may they never stop asking questions. Bless these children with a deep sense of joy and happiness through their lives. When the times are hard as sometimes they will be – may they still have a thankful heart for blessings received and your faithful presence. Amen
The friends and volunteers of St Andrew are in despair, one of the volunteers helps collect tombola prizes for our monthly car boot sale, these are all given freely by friends, about 100 are needed for each car boot. July’s sale is less than two weeks away and most of the gifts had been given. When our volunteer went to her garage to start putting on the tickets she found she had been burgled and the tombola prizes had been stolen. Did anyone see anything along Thorngumbald Rd, Paull on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning- 24th/25th July.
Please give one of the friends of St Andrew a ring if you have any information.
We are appealing to anyone who might be able to help by gifting tombola prizes to replace the ones stolen, this will help raise the much needed funds to keep the church open. you can drop them in at the weekend, the coffee shop within the church is open Saturday and Sunday 2 till 4pm, it would be great if you could help and it would be lovely to see you. Many thanks to all who tirelessly help to keep the church open for you and give willingly. your generous giving is very much appreciated.
Please download the benefice bulletin to read, you will then know what is happening in the benefice
Please download this leaflet it will help with the information you need to know
DIOCESE OF YORK
The Parishes of Hedon, Paull, Sproatley & Preston-in-Holderness
We wish to appoint a Vicar to the small, attractive East Yorkshire market town of Hedon and 3 nearby villages
We are looking for a Vicar who:
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Will lead our churches with vision and enthusiasm
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Will help us to develop our outreach
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Will nurture lay ministry across the benefice
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Will be involved in the local schools
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Will engage in the community life of the parishes
We can offer you:
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An enthusiastic team of lay people who will give support in all aspects of ministry and church life
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PCC members who take responsibility for the maintenance of the church buildings
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An attractive place to live and work that is close to shops and amenities and minutes away from the beautiful countryside
Parish Profile: www.justanote.co.uk/profiles/hedonprofile.pdf
Further details and application form from:
The Rt Rev Richard Frith, The Bishop of Hull
Email: richard@bishop.karoo.co.uk
Tel: 01482 649019
Closing date for applications: 5pm
Interviews: Friday 4th July
In November 2013 the benefice interviewed a vicar to take up our vacant post. The parish
representatives meet Paul, he was offered the job, sadly before Paul could take up the job he passed away suddenly.
On the 28th March 2014 the benefice interviewed 2 potential candidates for the job of vicar. One of the candidates called Adam was found to be most suitable — unfortunately when offered the job after the interview Adam declined the post as he felt the job move was not right for him at this point in his life.
A new date has been set for July 4th 2014 to interview potential candidates once again. Lets hope we have some applicants
It looks as though we will be without a vicar until at least October 2014
Thank you to all those who are taking on the responsibility of opening our churches for Sunday services , you are all doing a great job
Please all pray for the benefice and that a suitable candidate will come forward on July 4th 2014 and we will find a vicar soon
The next Car boot sale run jointly with the village hall committee will be on Saturday May 3rd 2014, the details are on the website http://www.standrewpaull.wordpress.com
The time is almost upon us for the annual Easter Egg Hunt in Paull. This year it will take place on Easter Sunday April 20th 2014 at 1pm in St Andrew Church, Paull. There will be the Easter Egg Hunt, plus an Easter Bonnet Competition so get decorating those hats! Everyone is welcome and we look forward to seeing you there. The Coffee Shop will also be open from 2pm so do stay for delicious homemade baking and a cuppa.
The PCC give notice of the Annual Vestry Meeting on Monday 28th April 2014 at 7pm at the Church. This is where the Church Wardens are elected. They look after the church and check it is run properly and get things ready for the weekly services and open the church for baptisms, weddings and funerals. St Andrew is presently running without elected church wardens – if you feel you have the skills to help run or contribute to the running of the church please come a lone a pledge you time and support it would be very much appreciated.
The Annual Vestry Meeting is followed by the Annual General Meeting, this is where the committee that helps run the church is elected, we presently have 6 members working together, fundraising to earn the income needed to keep the church open for when the community need it most (this cost is about £1,000 per month). Three of our members are over 75 yrs old, if you could possibly give your time, effort and support to this committee it would be very much appreciated. Please come a long , you would be made very welcome or ring Mandy on 01964 626115 if you feel you could help us. New people, new ideas, enthusiasm and energy would be great and brilliant to have on this committee.
Mothers Day Service
Joint benefice service with Hedon, Preston and Sproatley
Come and join us at St Andrew’s church
On Sunday 30th March at 10.am.
This will be a friendly family service and we hope lots of children will join in
At this service we thank our mums for all the love they give us and thank God for our Mother Church
This service will include Holy Communion
Join us afterwards for a great cuppa and chat
It would be lovely to see you all
DIOCESE OF YORK
The Parishes of Hedon, Paull, Sproatley & Preston-in-Holderness
We wish to appoint a Vicar to the small, attractive East Yorkshire market town of Hedon and 3 nearby villages
We are looking for a Vicar who:
•
Will lead our churches with vision and enthusiasm
•
Will help us to develop our outreach
•
Will nurture lay ministry across the benefice
•
Will be involved in the local schools
•
Will engage in the community life of the parishes
We can offer you:
•
An enthusiastic team of lay people who will give support in all aspects of ministry and church life
•
PCC members who take responsibility for the maintenance of the church buildings
•
An attractive place to live and work that is close to shops and amenities and minutes away from the beautiful countryside
Parish Profile: www.justanote.co.uk/profiles/hedonprofile.pdf
Further details and application form from:
The Rt Rev Richard Frith, The Bishop of Hull
Email: richard@bishop.karoo.co.uk
Tel: 01482 649019
Closing date for applications: 5pm Friday 7 March
Interviews: Friday 28 March
St Andrew Church has Wi-Fi, HU12 8AX
A new community broadband is being arranged from St Andrew Church in Paull Village. Using radio technology, the new service is able to provide a fast broadband connection independent of any telephone line or mobile phone and is called the HUBB (HU12 community broadband)
Over a year ago , frustrated by the poor quality broadband available in Paull Village and surrounding rural area, a small group of volunteers with the help of Paull Taylor decided to try and set up their own broadband service.
The church now has a Wi-Fi connection and computers to hand so come a long in coffee shop time, Saturday and Sunday 2 till 4pm, March to October, you can get a great cup of coffee or tea and delicious cakes all while you are surfing the net
The new service is expected to cost £50 for an initial install of equipment and connection charge and then £25 per month by Direct Debit for the service of the HUBB
This service is now available for you if you are in the Paull area, If you are interested ring 01964 668109 or e-mail info@hu12.cbb.co.uk
Have you got the time and feel you could support the running of your village church
The Riverside Coffee Shop within St Andrew Church, Paull will be re opening for the summer on Sunday March 30th 2 till 4 pm. There will be delicious home baking and a great cuppa waiting for you. We look forward to seeing all our old customers, catching up on your news and extend a warm welcome to new customers
Could you help or are you willing to help spring clean the church before we open the coffee shop within the church on March 30th. Please ring Mandy on 01964 626115 if you can spare some time and support your church
We would like to encourage the community of Paull to help keep their church open for when they need it most. The coffee shop within the church brings in the much needed income now people are choosing to give the collections to other charities. Can you spare an hour a week? An hour a month? Or help by supporting in some way. We desperately need help cleaning the church on a Monday and Friday each week, help with washing up on a Saturday and Sunday in coffee shop time, help with serving customers on a Saturday and Sunday, help with supplying homemade baking, help with craft items to sell in coffee shop time, could you knit for us? Tombola prizes are needed each week for the tombola in coffee shop time- gifts would be very much appreciated. Come along and join our happy team of volunteers it would be great if you could spare some time and help in some way
The PPCC give notice of the Annual Vestry Meeting on Monday 28th April 2014 at 7pm at the Church. This is where the Church Wardens are elected. They look after the church and check it is run properly and get things ready for the weekly services and open the church for baptisms, weddings and funerals. St Andrew is presently running without elected church wardens – if you feel you have the skills to help run or contribute to the running of the church please come a lone a pledge you time and support it would be very much appreciated.
The Annual Vestry Meeting is followed by the Annual General Meeting, this is where the committee that helps run the church is elected, we presently have 6 members working together, fundraising to earn the income needed to keep the church open for when the community need it most (this cost is about £1,000 per month). Two of our members are over 75 yrs old, if you could possibly give your time, effort and support to this committee it would be very much appreciated. Please come a long , you would be made very welcome or ring Mandy on 01964 6626115 if you feel you could help us. New people, new ideas, enthusiasm and energy would be great and brilliant to have on this committee
The Car boot sales run jointly with the village hall committee will re start on Saturday April 5th 2014 the details are on the website www.standrewpaull.wordpress.com
Here is the benefice bulletin for you to download Bulletin_February_2014
30 minute Health Walk leaves St Andrew Church at 10.30am
on Monday 13th January and Monday 27th January.
Then back to the church for refreshments. Suitable for all ages and abilities.
Ring 01964 626228 for further details
Sunday 5th January – 11am – Holy Communion led by Rev’d Gordon Smethurst
Sunday 12th January – 3pm – Holy Communion led by Rev’d Janice Sharp
Sunday 19th January – 11am – Morning Prayer
Sunday 26th January – 3pm – Evening Prayer led by Rev’d Ian Blyth.
Please stay & join us for refreshments after the service.
Sunday 8th December – 3pm – Holy Communion led by Rev’d Duncan Harris
Sunday 15th December – 11am- Morning Prayer led by Peter Oakes
Tuesday 17th December – 2pm – Carol Service led by Paull Primary School
Sunday 22nd December – 3pm – Holy Communion led by the Bishop of Hull
Tuesday 24th December – 6pm – Crib Service led by Rev’d Ian Blyth
Sunday 29th December – 9.30am – United Benefice Service at St Swithins Chuch, Sproatley
Please join us for refreshments after the service.
What a day to remember. On the 28th November, 2013, Kay, Joyce and Mandy celebrated the nomination of St Andrew as a favourite church in a national competition, the service was held at Westminster abbey. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester where in attendance along with the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury who gave the address. The Westminster special service choir sounded fantastic and helped create a magical atmosphere.
The National Churches Trust supported St Andrew Church with a £10,000 grant for the refurbishment’s in 2009 of which we were most grateful. Their support helped bring the church into the 20th century and the birth of the coffee shop within the church which is open March to October on Saturdays and Sundays 2 till 4pm, the coffee shop attracted over two and a half thousand people in 2013