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This Sunday, 12th July, All Saints Ilkley will re-open its doors for private prayer.  The building will be open from 1pm to 3pm every Sunday and anyone is welcome to come to the church for a short time of individual prayer and reflection.  In order to maintain social distancing, we will allow a maximum of six people in the building at any one time.  If you do visit us, and we have reached maximum capacity, we may ask you to wait outside for a short while until a space becomes available.  To find out more about what to expect when you visit the church, please watch the video below:

The Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is one of our four Mission Partners here at All Saints Ilkley.  Our main connection is through the Parker family and prior to the lockdown we were looking forward to welcoming them to Ilkley to hear more about their mission and ministry in Uganda.  Although they can’t be with us in person, we were really pleased to be able to catch up with Andrew via Zoom last week.  To hear more about the work of MAF, click on the link below.

This Friday we will have a new Dots session going live on our YouTube channel at 10am.  If you fancy some tasty treats for afterwards, why not try making our crunchy lemon cake?

You will need:

4oz Margerine

4oz Caster Sugar

2 Eggs

4oz Self-raising flour

Grated Rind of 1 Lemon

Method:

1. Heat your oven to Gas Mark 5 or 180 degrees.
2. Add the margerine and caster sugar to a bowl and beat together.
3. Add the beaten eggs to the mixture.
4. Fold in the flour.
5. Once the mixture is the right consistency, add the lemon rind.
6. Bake until golden.

For the topping:

1. Add the juice of one lemon to 4oz of Caster Sugar.  Mix together to form a paste.
2. Spread over the cake as soon as it comes out of the oven.

Enjoy!

Hear the latest update from our Vicar, Revd Mike Coe!

Traditionally, the second week in May has been a week for giving to Christian Aid via the familiar little red envelopes in church or through our street collections.  This year, due to the coronavirus emergency, we’re not able to collect your donations in the usual way, but the need is – if anything – even greater, as some of the world’s poorest countries try to cope with the virus, on top of all the other problems they face such as a lack of clean water, healthcare and education.

Please remember them in your prayers.  And you can still give your financial support!  We’ve set up an e-envelope, which allows you to make an online donation quickly and easily, with the money going directly to Christian Aid.  Please go to All Saints e-envelope.  Alternatively, you can call 0207 523 2269 to make a donation over the phone.

Join us for our next Quiz Night, this Saturday at 7.30pm!  We will be live on our YouTube channel with a brand new set of questions to put your knowledge to the test!  To subscribe to our YouTube channel, search ‘All Saints Ilkley’ and hit the subscribe button.  All are welcome to join us!

We know how much our Dots and adults LOVE cake time!  And although we can’t meet in person at the moment, we thought that it would be a good time to share some of our favourite bakes.  This week we have Fork Biscuits!  They are super easy to make and perfect for little ones to have a go too.

Fork Biscuits

Ingredients

100g Softened Butter

50g Caster Sugar

150g Self-Raising Flour

Method:

1.  Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees.  Lightly grease two baking trays.
2. Measure the butter into a bowl and beat to soften.  Gradually beat in the sugar and then the flour.  Bring the mixture together with your hands to form a dough.  Form the dough into 16 balls about the size of a walnut and place well apart on the pre-prepared baking trays.  Dip a fork in a little water and use this to flatten the biscuits.
3. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 15-20 minutes until a very pale golden colour.  Lift off the baking tray and leave to cool completely on a wire rack.

Are your children missing Monday morning assemblies with Revd Mike Coe?  Not anymore!  Start your Monday mornings with Mike and a Collective Worship assembly over on our YouTube channel.  Subscribe to get regular updates for services and assemblies.  We would love for you to join us!

Back by popular demand, our next Virtual Quiz night will be held this Saturday, 11th April at 7.30pm.  All are welcome to join us!  The quiz will be held live on our YouTube channel.  Simply search ‘All Saints Ilkley’ on YouTube or click here to subscribe.

The church building might be closed but our Easter services are going ahead and we would love for you to join us!  You can view the full list of Easter services here.

How can we tune in to services?

To view our live streamed services via YouTube, please subscribe to our YouTube channel ‘All Saints Ilkley’.  You can do this by clicking here.

We know that not everyone is online and therefore we have also set up a ‘Dial in’ service plan.  Please share this with any friend, neighbour or relative who is not online.  You can join the ‘dial in’ services by following these quick and easy steps:

• Dial telephone number 03331133293.
• You’ll be asked to enter the conference room number which is 27942996#.
• You’ll then be asked to enter the Guest Pin number which is 1375#.