Welcome to the Churches in and around Kirkby Lonsdale. All are welcome!

This week’s churches’ notice sheet

All the details of worship in the churches in and around Kirkby Lonsdale are in the current notice sheet – available here in PDF form.

Kirkby Lonsdale Community Recovery Partnership

The Communications Liaison of the KL Community Recovery Partnership has been formed to provide confidence around information coming from official channels regarding the recent Kirkby Lonsdale fire. Their function is to ensure that official communications can be rapidly and reliably distributed as they are released.
If you are interested please follow their Facebook page:
facebook.com/klcrp.communicationsliaison

St Mary’s Events

To see what’s on at St Mary’s please click here.

Worship in Churches

Our churches are open for face-to-face services. We have provided guidance around attending for collective worship here. Please read this before attending. All will be welcome at any of the services. The current pattern of services is below (showing the Sunday of the month). Please check the latest information on the Notice Sheet.

Sunday –	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
St Mary’s	11:00 HC	11:00 MS	11:00 MS	11:00 MS	11:00 *
			6.30pm E
KLMC	10:30 *	10:30 *	10:30 *	10:30 *	10:30 *
St Joseph’s	9:00 Mass	9:00 Mass	9:00 Mass	9:00 Mass	9:00 Mass
Barbon	10:30 MS	10:30 MS	10:30 HC	10:30 MS	10:30 MS
Casterton				10:30 *
Hutton Roof		11:00*		11:00 *
Lupton	9:30 MS		9:30 HC
Mansergh		11:00 HC
Preston Patrick	9:30 HC	9:30 MS	9:30 MS	9:30 MS	9:30 *

HC – Holy Communion, MS – Morning Service, E – Evensong. * – format varies. Cowan Bridge and Middleton Churches are currently closed.

The following churches are open for Private Prayer:
St Mary’s – Daily from dawn to dusk.
St Joseph’s Catholic Church – always open.
St Peter’s, Mansergh – always open.
St Bartholomew’s, Barbon – During day time.

Online Service

It is with great reluctance that we have had to give up the creation of the weekly online service that we have been running since the pandemic.
Most of our previous services are available on Youtube here or go onto Youtube and search for @kl.church.
Regular online services are provided nationally with the following links
• Church of England
• Methodist Church
• Roman Catholic Church.

Morning Prayer

8.15am on weekdays, the clergy meet together for Morning Prayer using ‘Zoom’. This is open to everyone to join. Please email info@kl.church for details. The readings for the day can be found here (just select the right date). The orders of service are as follows (click on the day) Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday.

Around Kirkby Lonsdale

Everything happening in Kirkby Lonsdale can be found in our own magazine AKL! Online version here

Family Projects

During term time, there are wonderful groups for families: story time groups, drop in chats, messy church, foresty and more! Please check out the events tab for date and time information.

Family Projects Facebook page

Our Messy Church Facebook page.

Mens Breakfast

We meet about 4 or 5 times a year on a saturday morning from 10am to noon…ish .. usually in the Methodist Church Hall.  As the group name suggests – men only!  We share a cooked breakfast ( probably the best cooked breakfast in the Lune Valley – no watery bacon and over-breaded sausages for us!)  Then we have a short talk – usually but not exclusively faith based. Speakers in the last year have included our MP, Tim Farron, and Adam Green sharing his transatlantic rowing experience.

If you would like more information or want to attend on a specific date please email Simon Kaye on mensgroup@kl.church

The Community Cupboard and Hub

We support the efforts of the community initiatives which have proved so useful during the pandemic. A food box for donations/uptake of supplies is in St Mary’s Church porch. The contact number is the same as the Hub: 015242 36404 between 10:00 and 13:00. Website here: https://klcommunity.co.uk

Our local ecumenical covenant

Kirkby Lonsdale is notable for the very close links between our different churches. The covenant signed by the clergy to emphasise those links is available as a PDF file here.

Links

Safeguarding

This week’s Notice Sheet