We are excited to be partnering with Besom again to help those in need across the city.

As a church community, going out into the community, we will be spending the project days gardening and decorating (and maybe more) for those in York who could do with a bit of extra help.

Come as a Belfrey Group or we'll put together teams of individuals and smaller groups to "Love York" in practical ways.

Join us at the 6pm service as we celebrate Pentecost with an extended time of worship

Join us for our Open House worship night, where we open up the House of the Lord to rest in His presence, to worship, pray and spend time with God.

Across the day at our services, Emma Worrall will be joining us from Open Doors.

Do you have an eye for photography? We’re inviting you to send in your best images of York and enter our ‘Capturing York’ Photography Competition!

We’re looking for your images of York’s landmarks and landscapes across the seasons, to feature in a Belfrey 2026 Fundraising Calendar, as well as beautiful wintry or Christmassy shots for a charity Christmas card. 

Find out more here and don’t forget to enter by this date!!

Our annual parish meeting to look back on 2024 at all we did as a church across all our ministries. 
We will also sign off our financial accounts and elect our church council members and church wardens.

For more information visit the Annual Meeting page.

Spring cleaning your wardrobe? Bless your Belfrey family and swap your clothes for something new!

We want: Clothes, shoes, bags, belts, (non-piercing) jewellery - all in a condition you would be happy to receive yourself

We DON'T want: baby/children's clothing, undergarments, non-clothing items (games/books/toys etc.)

£1 entry and £1 cake - All money raised will go to our Impact project, and remaining clothes will be given to Restore & York Food Bank. Please bring items you'd like to swap before Wednesday the 30th of April to Emma Vincent on Sundays, Mondays or Wednesdays, and baked goods on the day with an ingredient list.

For more information please contact Emma Vincent emma.vincent@belfrey.org

Hear from guest speaker, Rachel Arnold, Head of UK Church Engagement for CAP as well as as an update of what our CAP debt centre here at The Belfrey has been doing over the last year and what the future looks like.

Our celebration that Jesus rose again! With worship, teaching, communion and an opportunity for baptism.

We will have two services at 9am and 11am - please book a free space as we are expecting these services to be busy but have a limited capacity in the building.

Our 11am service will be more family friendly with kids activities and will be livestreamed for those who can’t make it in person but both services are open to everyone!

A time of reflection and celebration of the light of Christ returning after the darkness. 
Join us afterwards for pastries and coffee. 

A time of reflection and prayer, remembering the three hours when Jesus hung on the cross before His death.

Journey with the characters from the Easter story to the cross. A family-friendly event with interactive activities and crafts. Followed by refreshments and hot cross buns.

A reflective service with sung worship, liturgy, communion and foot washing, taking us through the night before Jesus died.

Join us for our Open House worship night, where we open up the House of the Lord to rest in His presence, to worship, pray and spend time with God.

This week we will be hearing an update about our CAP Debt centre and all the work it has done the last year to help those in need as well as hear from Rachel Arnold from CAP as part of our talk.

We’’ll be marking the start of Lent with a time of prayer and worship together as well as the opportunity to receive ashing.

Join us for our Open House worship night, where we open up the House of the Lord to rest in His presence, to worship, pray and spend time with God.

A chance to gather with others in our congregation to pray for our mission partners and their work across the world.

Email sue.lawrence@belfrey.org for the zoom details to join. The team gathers online once a month on the second Wednesday of the month so please do make a note for your diaries.

Join us as we celebrate together the birth of Jesus. We’ll have two services, one at 9am and a second service at 11am.

Join us to celebrate Christmas at this interactive, family-friendly service as we learn about the Christmas story together, telling it piece by piece and finishing with a beautiful candle-lit carol!

Our 4pm service will be an interactive, Messy Church style Christingle, with activities, crafts, story and carols. Everyone is welcome, but especially suitable for pre-school/young primary aged children.

Our 5:30pm service will be a more traditional family-friendly Christingle service, with carols and a short talk.

A quiet contemplative service for those who might be struggling during this time or not looking forward to Christmas this year.

Join us for our annual Carol Service in York Minster. All are welcome so do be inviting friends and neighbours. Doors will open at 6:45pm and the service will start at 7:30pm and last for around an hour. We’ll spend time hearing from the Word, singing carols and more.

We’ll be offering the opportunity to get baptised across the day at each of our services on this Sunday.

If you’d like to be baptised, please get in touch with one of the team or email hello@belfrey.org to find out more and get linked up.

We’ll be taking a break from our regular sermon series to spend time remembering those who have and are fighting in conflicts across the world as well as all those loosing loved ones.

Join us for an evening of Prayer and Worship as we gather together as a church family. Led by Andy, we’ll be having prayer stations around the De Grey Rooms and Thom and the team will lead us in worship and response.

We’ll be offering the opportunity to get baptised across the day at each of our services on this Sunday.

If you’d like to be baptised, please get in touch with one of the team or email hello@belfrey.org to find out more and get linked up.

Other dates for baptisms this term are:

• 24th November

Jesus and His Church: Why the Pastoral Epistles are all about Jesus, not about women in leadership.

Lucy Peppiatt will be speaking on the centrality of Jesus in the Pastoral Epistles and what this means for churches and church leadership today. 

Lucy has been Principal at WTC since 2013. She teaches courses in Christian doctrine and in spiritual formation. Lucy’s research interests are Christ and the Spirit, Charismatic theology, theological anthropology, discipleship, 1 Corinthians, and women in the Bible. Lucy is part of Crossnet Church in Bristol and loves serving in the local church. She and her husband, Nick Crawley, are committed to teaching the Bible and discipling young people.

The Belfrey’s Social Action Team would love to invite you to an evening to celebrate everything that has been achieved through our Post Pandemic Fund and Social Action Programme over the last 3 years. We are incredibly grateful for the gift of £1million that enabled us to set up the Fund in 2021, to help the community of York recover from the Covid pandemic.

Come and celebrate with us and hear stories about the difference that this fund has made in the city, from the charities and churches that we’ve supported with grants, and from the social action ministries we’ve been able to start here at The Belfrey. We’re excited to share about all we’ve seen God do, and about our vision for the future.

This free ticketed event will be on Wednesday 9th October, 7.30pm at the De Grey Rooms. and you can book your ticket below

We’ll be offering the opportunity to get baptised across the day at each of our services on this Sunday.

If you’d like to be baptised, please get in touch with one of the team or email hello@belfrey.org to find out more and get linked up.

Other dates for baptisms this term are:

• 27th October

• 24th November

Join us for our Open House worship night, where we open up the House of the Lord to rest in His presence, to worship, pray and spend time with God.