It was a glorious summers day on 28th July, when the chink of best china could be heard in the church hall to accompany a delicious Strawberry Tea with home made cakes all served on beautifully embroidered table cloths.

The hall was packed with Strawberry Tea revellers who all enjoyed a friendly atmosphere along with their goodies. The sum of £285 was raised for church funds.

A big thank you to all who supported this very cheerful occasion, and who worked so hard on the day to make it such a success.

During the service, we were treated to a great story about how Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. There was even a great donkey cake and crafts provided after the service, enjoyed by many! 

We hope if you attended either of these events, that you thoroughly enjoyed yourself. We look forward to welcoming you next year!

Remember to check out our Events page to not miss any of our upcoming events.

What a delight to be in the audience for Borderlands Mission Area’s production of “Moses the Pantomime”.  This marvellous show presents the story of Moses in pantomime format with Hope Church’s worship leader and choir member, Chris Rees, in the cast.  In fact he has a very important part … Pharaoh who, as the pantomime villain, gets lots of boos!
The show includes all you would expect in a pantomime … singing, dancing, comedy … and is marvellous family entertainment performed by people of all ages
The pantomime’s opening show was in Penyffordd and it now ‘goes on tour’ to Shotton and to Buckley.
Congratulations to all who have worked so hard to put on this production including of course Revd Gill Standing who wrote, produced and directed the show.  Proceeds from ticket sales are going to the Diocesan Charity of the Year, The Alzheimer’s Society.

Our new Hope.4.All service is now one month old, and with so much going on - you just have to be there to experience it!

Each service has been planned to suit all ages, in Hope Church at 4pm.

Every service starts with refreshments for everyone, and a chance to catch up on the week.

The services involves lots of interactive aspects, including where the congregation are able to share news from the week. The younger members of the congregation go and spend some time doing some fun activities while those remaining listen to a sermon.

We also now have a 3 piece band, who are playing more modern worship songs, including some we are able to dance too! With Claire on the keyboard, Nigel on the guitar and one of our younger members on a drum box. If you would like to take part, please speak to Claire.

The feedback has been fantastic so far, with many enjoying the relaxed feeling of the service.

Have you been to one of our Hope.4.All services? Let us know what you though!

If you would like any more details, please send us a message through the contact page.

The annual Cytûn Christian Unity Service was held at Hope Church this year.

It was planned by the Tuesday House Group, who decided to involve prayer stations as part of the service. The service was led by Sally-ann, and included some of the church's favourite hymns. Before being given time to focus on prayer, Pam gave a sermon about working together as Christians including a great analogy about a boat!

Refreshments were served as everyone arrived, and the feedback was that the service was both enjoyable and moving.

Below are some pictures of the prayer stations set up around the church.

Christmas started in Hope on Advent Sunday where a large congregation was greeted at the church by the life-size crib figures seen in this photo. They had been decorated by local schools and uniform groups.

The Wise Men (and their camel) can be seen in the next photo talking about the Big Epiphany Celebrations taking place on 7th January.

The Angel Gabriel and Roman Centurion played their parts in preparing Mary and Joseph for the journey to the stable.
The whole congregation followed them out of the church and across the road to the “Inn”. Mary and Joseph reached the stable as the Christmas lights were switched on and the church bells rang out.

The following Saturday afternoon Hope Church became a nativity grotto and visiting children were invited to follow the Stable Trail. Below you can see some of the characters that the children met .

At Emmanuel’s MMM Night (Music, Mince pies and Mulled wine) Elwyn Kirkham and his fellow band members provided the music and were joined by Alice for some of the songs. The evening was greatly enjoyed by the appreciative audience and the money raised will be divided between the church and Nightingale House.

At the Pop In Christmas party everyone enjoyed soup and mince pies, with carol singing, Christmas crackers and entertainment as you can see in the next photo.

Thank you to all who contributed to these events and thank you to Adam for reminding us all that “Christmas begins with Christ”.