Peter Willox News Today

DURING this time of mourning for HRH Queen Elizabeth II, St Johns Church, Ben Rhydding will be open every day for personal prayer and reflection.

BEN Rhydding Community Choir will give their first public indoor performance since 2019, on Saturday, July 9th.

LAST Tuesday St Johns Church, Ben Rhydding threw open its doors at the launch of a new project.

The Rev Peter Willox by the Rev Peter Willox, Vicar, St John’s, Ben Rhydding LAST week, due to changing government guidelines, my wife had to change her plans. She was running a singing retreat in the Lake District and discovered a few days before she was due to go that singers were now not allowed to sing indoors, as had been originally allowed under step 3, except in groups of 6. With 20 participants this caused the need for some flexible thinking and planning. Flexibility in planning...

The Rev Peter Willox Rev Peter Willox, vicar St John’s, Ben Rhydding Last week I was interviewing. I am a trustee of CTI2000, a charity that runs groups in Ilkley for people with additional needs. The project leader of our allotment group is having to step down, so we were interviewing for her replacement. Doing the interviews reminded me how nerve wracking they can be when you are on the other end of the questions. I am just thankful that we don’t have to be interviewed to be accepte...

THANKS to sponsorship by its members and the community, a local church will be illuminated for three weeks over the Christmas. From 4pm -10pm each evening until January 3 part of St. John’s Ben Rhydding will be swathed in a festive glow of colour. The low key switch on event in early December illuminated the church tower, the west window, the windows on Bolling Road and the trees in the garden. For many years Christingle services on Christmas Eve have seen every pew occupied at St. John...