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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.
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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.
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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
Latest Posts
A Prayer for the new King, Charles III
Everlasting God, we pray for our new King.
Bless his reign and the life of our nation.
Help us to work together
so that truth and justice, harmony and fairness
flourish among us;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Remembering Her Majesty, The Queen

We have an online book of condolences page available for those wishing to leave a message of condolence for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Book of Condolence.
The church will be open after services on Sunday and Wednesday this week for anyone wishing to spend time in prayer or contemplation or sign a book of condolence in church. We will be open for several hours after the morning service on Sunday 18th September as well.
Harvest Festival 2022
This year’s Harvest Festival will take place on Sunday the 25th of September 2022 at 10am. It is also our monthy Family Service so bring the children along.
We will also be a Harvest Supper, in Church, at 7pm on Monday 25th September 2022. Entertainment will be provided by Vintage Singer Yvonne. Tickets are £5 and are available from Janet Danks.
Harvest Festival donations will be donated to the DEC Pakistan Floods Appeal. ‘Floods have destroyed or badly damaged more than a million homes in Pakistan, sweeping away entire communities, livelihoods, crops, schools and roads. With a third of the country estimated to be under water – an area the size of the UK – people urgently need food, clean drinking water and shelter.’
The DEC’s 15 member charities are: Action Against Hunger, ActionAid UK, Age International, British Red Cross, CAFOD, CARE International UK, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide UK, International Rescue Committee UK, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Oxfam GB, Plan International UK, Save the Children UK, Tearfund and World Vision UK.
If you are not able to come to the Harvest Festival Service but would like to support our Appeal on behalf of the DEC Pakistan Flood Appeal, then please click on the image below which will take you to our Give a Little appeal page. Thank you for any donation you can make.

Click on this image to donate to our Harvest Festival Appeal

Platinum Jubilee Events

Friday 3rd June 2022, 12 till 4pm, St Cuthberts, Ormesby
A Jubilee fete will be held in the church grounds on Friday 3rd June. It will include various stalls, tea and cake, including a cake stall and second-hand books. If you can help or want to run a stall, see Janet Danks.
We will have Jubilee themed flowers in the church that weekend.
Sunday 5th June 222, 2pm, Church of the Ascension, Berwick Hills

Tuesday 7th June 2022 at 1:30pm, St Cuthberts, Ormesby
We will be showing a film of the Coronation of the Queen followed by afternoon tea and entertainment by Yvonne, a vintage singer. Tickets £5, available now from Janet Danks.