Sunday 6th October
The annual membership service was held in the York Chapel, with four new members able to attend. A fifth new member will be welcomed at a later date. The service included the dedication This is my church, it is composed of people like me, we make it what it is ….. it will be friendly if I am ….. Appropriate hymns from Sing Your Faith included 62 Here we have gathered and 92 Let us renew our covenant. The minister, Nicky Jenkins, conducted the service, and the membership secretary, Claire Lee, welcomed the new members, invited them to sign the membership book, and gave them each a Unitarian chalice badge.
Sunday 22nd September
A Bright Light Intergenerational service led by Claire Wilton - Not all who wander are lost. Footprints led the congregation into the chapel, and the first hymn was Open the door, step right inside. Readings from Richard Mabey, W.B. Yeats and an unknown Guardian reader. The activity was wandering with meaning with the invitation to read the small footprints around the chapel one footprints read The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes (Marcel Proust)
Sunday 15th September
A very musical Sunday where the Clerkes of All Saints choir came to support our service and sang beautiful acapella pieces by James MacMillan, Gerald Finzi, Joseph Rheinberger and Peter Aston. Service led by Nick Morrice on Me and my Shadow - an exploration of Jung and on wisdom, Sophia and folly, with a benediction written by Kathleen McTigue May the light around us guide our footsteps…..