Category: Events

St Asaph was abuzz on Saturday 26^th May between 10am and 5pm, as the first ever abseil down the St Asaph Cathedral tower took place at the top of the hill, and an exciting Spring Fair in and around the Parish Church was in full swing at the bottom of the hill. The theme of the day was “Looking after our Environment”, so the children of the VP Infants school and Esgob Morgan Junior school had made delightful bunting, depicting their anxieties about the state of our planet and wish to save our resources by acting responsibly.

35 daredevils abseiled, ages ranging between 12 and 83, while a number of supporters and well-wishers sat on the grass, in the sun, encouraging and applauding each “landing”. We are very grateful to the Dean of the Cathedral for allowing us access to the tower for this venture.

 Meanwhile, in the churchyard, the Rotary club barbequed “Neil the butcher’s homemade burgers and sausages to perfection to feed the large number of visitors. Vale Scale Model Club encouraged the inner child in dads with the chance to drive their model lorries and tractors.  The birdbox construction stall soon sold out as did the cake stall. Craft-making, face-painting, plant sales, other charity stalls, and the St Asaph Community Association plied a good trade, while raffle tickets and lucky dips offered the element of chance! The Bridge restaurant supplied ice creams to those feeling the heat!

Two local Police Community Support Officers were ‘in attendance’ to offer excellent advice on cycling, road safety, and crime prevention; and to security-mark bikes.

The weather was very kind, enabling all our visitors and abseilers to have a wonderful time. It was a great pleasure to be able to welcome so many of our local community and visitors alike to the church and its grounds, and to demonstrate the even greater potential for community use in our planned fully renovated building.  Thank you to everyone who helped and supported this dual event, your generosity will now enable us to make a sizable donation to Tŷ Gobaith and will also boost the church’s renovation project fund.

We had a great time in Holiday Club today! As it was Valentine’s day, we learnt about how God loves us so much, that He will forgive us even when we make mistakes and don’t live by His rules, so long as we come to Him and say sorry. We heard the story of the Prodigal Son, and then made Valentine cards and iced yummy biscuits. We wrote our names in a big heart to remind ourselves that God loves us and that we are safe in Him.

This is the Rainbow Big Heart of Names.

At today’s Messy Church, on Creation Sunday, we enjoyed singing, painting and glueing. We created decorated worlds held in hands (see photo below). Accompanied by a duo of guitars we sang ‘He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands’, and we learnt that GOD uses our hands to help us to look after this wonderful world that HE created for all of us.

We listened to stories about how we can help to look after what GOD has given us, and when we had finished all our creations and prayers there were lots of really tasty cakes, cheese sticks, quiches and drinks for all of us to enjoy. There were many here today, really looking forward to seeing everyone next time.

There is a Messy Church Holiday Club at 10.30 am on Wednesday 14^th February. Come along, everyone is welcome.