Mellor Parish Church News & Announcements

  Dear Friends,   Please find attached your November edition of our United Benefice magazine, which is absolutely bursting with church and community news from across our local area.   The reports in this month’s magazine show that October has been a month with much to celebrate across the Benefice, including the crowning of Mellor’s new Rose Queen, our Harvest Festivals and our United Benefice Confirmation Service. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the wide variety of articles in November’s magazine, but especially to the younger members who have written items, including both Mellor and Samlesbury’s Rose Queens, several of this year’s Confirmation candidates and one of our local Brownies!   There is much to look forward to in November and December and so many dates to put in your diaries. Please see both the special posters section and the magazine itself for further details of all the following services and events:   Our United Benefice Commemoration of The Faithful Departe

October 2022 Magazine In this edition, it’s lovely to have the return of articles from our three United Benefice schools as the new academic year begins. We also welcome new contributors with a report of September’s Mellor Village Show and Rebecca Lamond kindly describing an event held at The Village Hall to remember our late Queen Elizabeth II.    There is so much happening in the next three months. Please use our diary dates page to fill in your own diaries and please support events across the three parishes of our benefice. Within the posters sections are details of: The Harvest Supper at St Leonard’s Balderstone, FOSMS events, a concert at Mellor Brook Community Centre, a first aid course for 11 – 16 year olds at Mellor Village Hall, a Festive Afternoon Tea at Samlesbury Memorial Hall and a Christmas Fayre at Mellor Village Hall.   Our advertisements include new lunchtime yoga classes and new yoga classes for Mums and babies at Hot Pod Yoga Ribble Valley, based at Huntleys, while M