We are entering the harvest season.  Sunday 3rd in Llanasa and Gronant, then at Ffynnongroyw the following week beginning with a Harvest Supper on Saturday 9th, and the service on 10th.  The services at Llanasa and Ffynnongroyw will be an Agape… If you’ve never experienced one, then you’ll have to come alone!

Sunday 26th September is ‘Back to Church Sunday’

Back to Church Sunday is an opportunity to reconnect with church, but as the cartoon (link above)  suggests, not everything happens within the walls of the church building!  On the 26th    September (and any other sunday for that matter) you are welcomed back or even for the first time to church.  There are many ways of being in touch with God, and only some of them take place within a church building, many of the services or events which the church oranises are centered around our communities and you are welcomed to celebrate, remember, give thanks, weep, mourn, encourage and strengthen. For all of life is here in abundance.  You may find the services strange or unfamiliar, or perhaps they are an old friend, but however you    experience back to church Sunday this year, remember that spiritual needs are as important as physical ones and we must not overlook them.  Above all you are invited unconditionally.  Of course, you may have another reason for going back to church.

We are in need of some colour!!

Any photo’s of past events in the parish would be great to liven up our site.

Remember to get the permission of those in the pictures first though! (no-one will be named)

The coffee morning on Sat. raised almost £400 to be split between the church and Marie Curie Cancer research. Well done everyone!!

The car boot sale on Monday raised over £1300 Well done and many thanks to all who helped out.

Rev’d Stuart Elliott is the new Parish Priest, married to Helen with two girls.

Both Helen and I moved (separately) to Bangor for university in 1994, we met, married and have stayed in Wales ever since.  After graduating I worked as assistant to the Chaplain at the university for six years.  During this time we did many creative and wonderful things.  We arranged pilgrimages to Taize in france and to Iona in Scotland.  We arranged visits to Palestine with the Chaplain, I was always left to hold the fort!  The community at the chaplaincy was always a multinational one and there were rooms for 25 students to live in the building.  This gave us a enormous challenge to keep the community living alongside one another with a variety of cultural differences – not least the strange and various cooking which went on.  I did though get to try many new flavours, some of which I wont be trying again!

Whist working for the Chaplain we bought a small house in Llanrug. (between Caernarfon and Llanberis)  Living in this area ensured that we both learnt Welsh, Helen accomplished this far quicker than me!  The house we bought had no running water or toilet and was in desperate need of refurbishment.  We turned it into a small eco-house, and although it was not quite finished by the time I had been called to move to Cardiff to train for the priesthood, it was a great project and experience.  Whilst in Cardiff Helen trained through the Mudiad Ysgolion Feithren to be a nursery worker, she was fortunate to get a job in the Ysgol Gwenffrwd shortly after moving to Holywell.

There is of course much more to be told, we too should like to hear your stories and journeys through life.  May God Bless us as we share our life together.