Worship
At The Minster
A wide variety of traditional and contemporary worship and
music styles of the highest calibre are offered week by week.
Holy Communion is available in worship at least once each Sunday.
Find out more about the Music, Organ and Bell
Ringing at the
Minster. [Prayer link?]
There are rotas for helpers during most
services. Among the
tasks are: welcoming, taking the collection, carrying the elements,
reading the lessons, serving the Chalice, being sacristans
and servers who first put out the bread and wine and then help
to get it ready in the service, preparing the intercessions
or prayers, and most importantly, serving refreshments afterwards.
If you are wondering whether to share in this ministry yourself,
please don’t hesitate to ask the Rector or
Wardens or anyone you see already doing them, for the way to
proceed. All are worthy and everyone is needed.
A general ‘up keeping’ collection is
taken at all services to finance the upkeep of
worship, ministry and the building, which costs at least £1000
a week. That’s about £1.40 for our ministry to
each of the 700 or more people who enter. People are encouraged
to consider what they can, by God’s help, cheerfully afford:
perhaps 10%, 5%, 2% etc of their income. To ensure steady
weekly giving, many use a set of Orange Weekly Giving Envelopes,
placing the amount they decide on, in one envelope every
week. If they are away, they bring them the next time they
come. Others set up a Direct Debit on monthly or yearly terms.
Cash on the plate is also most welcome.
Occasional Services at the
Minster include: Town Centre Open Air Services; Memorial services;
Brief Lives Services with Dewsbury District Hospital; Civic,
Deanery and Diocesan Events. Team Ministry to the elderly including
Holy Communion at the Grange Day Centre (with increasing lay
involvement), Tentercraft Sheltered Housing, and Residential
and Nursing Homes. Home Communions arranged. School Assemblies
and Special Services conducted by request.
The Minster and the Team Parish are recognised for their
good practice and are regularly called upon to Support Ordinands
in training for the Ministry.
See the Diary for worship dates in 2007.
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