BEN Rhydding Methodist Church celebrated its Harvest Festival on Sunday with the service conducted by new Minister, Rev Shannon DeLaureal. Shannon is from Louisiana but for the last ten years has served the Methodist Church in Ireland. She has now come to live in Addingham and serve as Minister of the Methodist churches in both Addingham and Ben Rhydding.

Ben Rhydding’s church has been conducting an appeal for household cleaning items throughout September, to be given to Bradford Cyrenians for distribution to people being helped off the streets into homes of their own. It has met with generous support especially from users of the church halls as well as from church members. The appeal is running for three months. The focus in October is on: soap, toothpaste and toothbrushes, hair brushes and combs, shampoo, sponges and facecloths, toilet rolls and deodorant. Donations may be left at the church.