Building the Church Building the Kingdom

To proclaim Christ in our worship and in our community and make disciples of all generations

Welcome to St Cuthberts Ormesby

Always know you will be very welcome and we hope that you find us open and friendly people who can provide you with relevance and meaning in your daily life. There has been a church here for over a 1000 years and we want St Cuthbert’s Church to be here for all future generations.

Parish Safeguarding Policy

Dementia Friends

Dementia Friends and St Cuthberts

We are a Dementia Friendly Church

St Cuthberts on Social Media

Contact Details

Life Events: Weddings, Funerals and Baptisms

Christening and Wedding booking Sessions are held between 11am and 12noon each Sunday morning.

No need to book, just come along.

If you cannot make one of these Christening and Wedding Booking Sessions, then please use the online enquiry forms found on the Life Events pages of the church website (Life Events) or contact us by email or phone 01642 050687 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday 10am to 5pm). Please note that we will still need to meet you in person at one of the Open Sessions.

For Funerals please contact Revd. Robert Opala by phone 01642 050687  (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday 10am to 5pm) or email him here.

For all other parish enquiries, please call one of the Church Wardens (see details under Contact menu) or email the church administration.

What’s On

Online offerings

We are all using contactless methods more often, it is easy to make an offering using the Give a Little link if you are unable to attend a service in church or make a donation to our JustGiving appeal and wish to support your local church.

Give A Little online offerings

The work of our church in the community, and its future, is reliant on people’s generosity, a generosity that is a hallmark of a lived-out faith and a testament to it. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry.

  • Donate using your credit or debit card via the the Give a Little link below. If your donation is below £30 we can claim extra money under the Small Gifts Scheme. You can choose to receive a receipt by email.

Non-Gift Aided offerings - please note that only donations below £30 can be used to claim extra money from HMRC under the Small Gift Scheme (GASDS).

Click on the give a little button

Thank you for your support

A new roof for the church cost us £215,000 and we still need to urgently raise funds for restoration work on the tower, an internal re-ordering and a new lighting scheme.

Weʼre raising £5,000, please help us to help you by donating - click on the logo below.

Latest Posts

Tickets for the Consecration of the Bishop of Hull

The Revd Canon Alison White, Priest-in-Charge of Riding Mill in the Diocese of Newcastle and Diocesan Adviser for Spirituality and Spiritual Direction, is to be consecrated as the Bishop of Hull in York Minster on Friday 3 July at 11am.

The new Bishop of Hull

The new Bishop of Hull, The Rev’d Canon Alison White photographed during a visit to All Saints’ church in the village of Kilham, East Yorkshire part of her new diocese.
© Tony Bartholomew

Whilst the service is open to anyone, congregational tickets are available in reserved areas of seating (red tickets), and for clergy and readers who would like to robe (blue tickets). Vesture for clergy who wish to robe will be choir habit.

All tickets are available electronically, either for printing by individuals or to display on phone screens on arrival at the Minster. If you would like to receive your ticket this way please email kirsty.mccullough@yorkdiocese.org by Wednesday 24 June indicating the number and type of ticket(s) required. It is hoped that the majority of tickets will be supplied in this format.

Should you require your tickets in paper format please apply either in writing or by email to kirsty.mccullough@yorkdiocese.org by Wednesday 3 June again indicating the number and type of ticket(s) required and the address to which they should be sent. You can write to: Kirsty McCulloch, Diocesan House, Aviator Court, Clifton Moor, York, YO30 4WJ.

Please email Revd Jen: vicar@stcuthbertsormesby.org.uk if you would like to go and we could get a group ticket

Learn British Sign Language

Rev Jen Croft will be giving a free six-week Introductory course in Britich Sign Language at Ormesby Library, starting 25th June at 7:00pm. For adults, 16+ and over; limited places so please contact Ormesby Library librarians if you wish to attend.

See Poster.

A note of thanks!

We had a marvellous church social on Thursday 21st May at the Ormesby Institute & Club.  A huge thank you to Audrey Robson who organised it, and the evening treated us to music, singing, bingo, a raffle and delicious pie and peas!  It was great to share in friendship and fellowship with one another and we eagerly await our next church social event.  On another great note – we managed to raise £600+ for the church so we are very grateful to everyone who came and supported it, and then took part in the evening’s entertainment.  Thank you everyone! 🙂  Revd Jen

Thanks to Janet Danks for Photos from the Church Social.

Here’s Elvis the Donkey!

Gary the Camel’s Column

There’s such a growing gang of us now at St Cuthbert’s; because there is me, Elvis, Lizzie, Precious, Brother Thomas and Canon Henry Gordon Throckmorton, we’re quite a clan. That’s not forgetting Jim the rabbit, Digit the monkey and Spit the dog. You never know which one of us is going to turn up at the Family Service.

As you know, I’m a very famous camel; I am THE camel, because I helped to guide the wise men to the Bethlehem star. I told them not to interfere with my calculations or cramp my style with their pomposity! Spit!* They were cool. I liked the wise men. Us camels are very clever and can navigate the night sky. Spit*!

Elvis is a very famous donkey too. He is THE donkey, not just any old donkey… but THE donkey. He carried Mary when she was pregnant with baby Jesus, and then when Jesus was grown up, he carried Him into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. How cool is that?

Elvis

Elvis

I’m sure that you’ll join with me to say a very warm welcome to Elvis and the others in the clan. Spit!* 🙂