Friday evening, 14th February 7:30pm 

‘Young Victoria’ (2009)

Emily Blunt takes the title role in Jean-Marc Vallee’s dramatisation of the early years of Queen Victoria’s rule, which began when she was just 18 years old, and her enduring romance and marriage to Prince Albert (Rupert Friend).  Jim Broadbent and Miranda Richardson co-star as King William (Victoria’s uncle) and the Duchess of Kent respectively.  The  story depicts the suffocating lifestyle that a young Victoria was subjected to, as well as the intricacies of court politics and meddling from many sources, including Victoria’s own mother; Lord Melbourne the Prime Minister; and even foreign royalty.  With beautiful locations and costumes and superb performances by the whole cast, we see how an 18 year old queen overcame a risky start to set up a hugely successful reign.

Doors open 7pm, film start 7.30pm

Free admission, tea & coffee; bring your own popcorn!

MAPP’s organises social events every month for men from each of the four hurches in the united benefice, St Mary’s (M), St Anne’s (A), St Peter’s (P) and St Paul’s (P). 

This month’s MAPP’s Men’s Group meeting we have a guest speaker – Richard Sellens, who only recently retired as a pathologist and whose talk we’ve labelled “Blood and Guts!” 

Richard will have much to say about his “line of work” and will tell us, for example, what happens to the samples we give to our doctor and who does what between our leaving the surgery and returning for the results! It’s all a matter of detective work!

We shall meet at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday 12th in the Kirkland Hotel in Outwood. (If at the last minute we are prevented from doing so we shall simply go across the road and into the Church vestry.)

This is not just for men in our churches, it’s an evening open to men in our wider community who would like to join us for the evening. Please do join us, you will be most welcome.

The next coffee morning will be on Saturday 8th February at St Peter’s church from 10.30am – 12.30pm with lots of great stalls: cakes, raffle, jigsaws,  tombola and refreshments including delicious bacon butties.

The coffee mornings dates for the rest of the year are shown below: they will take place on the 2nd Saturday of each month at St Peter’s church, and will continue to take place from 10.30am – 12.30pm. 

Please join us!

Saturday 11^th January 10.30am-12.30pm

Coffee morning with all the usual great stalls including cakes, tombola, raffle, jigsaws and refreshments.

At St Peter’s Church

MAPP’s organises social events every month for men from each of the four hurches in the united benefice, St Mary’s (M), St Anne’s (A), St Peter’s (P) and St Paul’s (P). 

The next meeting will be on: Wednesday 15th January at 7.15pm at Wrenthorpe village hall for indoor bowling. 

In addition to bowling we can also try our hand at curling. If you haven’t played this before it’s great fun. (Curling is normally played on ice, of course, but not in this case. It’s on the hall floor and the “stones” are on small casters!) No previous experience is needed either for bowling or curling, just the intention to have a go.

Friday 10^th January 7.30pm 

Free Film club showing the romantic comedy ‘Just go with it’. 

Doors open 7pm, film starts 7.30pm.  Free tea and coffee.

Just Go with It is a 2011 American romantic comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, starring Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson and Brooklyn Decker.

It is based on the 1969 film Cactus Flower, which is itself an adaptation of the Broadway stage play written by Abe Burrows, which in turn was based upon the French play Fleur de cactus!

Reminder of our Christmas services over the next few days:

Sunday 22nd December
10am St Peter’s Sunday Service
4pm Carol Service – a service by candlelight at St Peter’s Church featuring traditional Bible readings and carols.

Christmas Eve (Tues 24th)
2pm Christmas Eve Crib service – a very popular service for all ages at St Peter’s Church, with carols, dressing up, crafts and refreshments.
11pm Christmas Eve Communion Service – at St Peter’s Church for traditional communion services to welcome Christmas Day.

Christmas Day (Wed 25th)
10am Christmas Day Family Service – celebrate the birth of Jesus.

MAPP’s Men’s Group

MAPP’s organises social events every month for men from each of the four churches in the united benefice, St Mary’s (M), St Anne’s (A), St Peter’s (P) and St Paul’s (P). 

The next meeting will be on: Wednesday 13th November at 7.30pm at St Peter’s church in Stanley for:

An evening with chocolatier David Greenwood-Haigh 

Discover everything about chocolate from the expert! 

And there will probably be a fair bit of tasting…..

A warm welcome to all men from Stanley and elsewhere!

Bereavement course: ‘Living with Loss’

5 weeks from Tuesday 12th November, 2pm

Rev Glenn Coggins is holding a short 5 week course at St Peter’s church to talk through some of the issues faced around bereavement.  The first  meeting is on Tuesday 12th November starting at 2pm with refreshments.  Each session will last no more than around an hour.  If you are interested in attending or wish to find out more, please contact Glenn on 01924 218484 or cogginsglenn@gmail.com or just come along on 12th November.