87 things we did in 2025

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Family Fun Day
Walking 22,100 laps of the church
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Wednesday Drop In
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Alpha
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Ladies' Walk to Sutton Reservoir
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Pancake Race Charity Fundraiser
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Newcomers' Tea​
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Christingle
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Playing Games
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Nativity Service
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Alternative to Halloween
At HTH we want to increase discipleship. By this, we mean growth in:
  • individual discipleship, and 
  • the number of disciples.​
Accordingly, here are some of the things we did last year.

Church services
We held services each week at 8:30 and 10:30 am, also streaming the latter live on YouTube. Our 10:30 service included four groups for kids and youth: 
  • A tots corner (within the main worship space) and an unsupervised creche area (in the coffee lounge) with toys for children (age 0-3) and seating for their parents and carers.
  • Little Sparks and Superstars (pre-school to year 2)
  • Trailblazers (years 3 to 5), and
  • Pathfinders (years 6 to 9).
 
Prayer
  • Thy Kingdom Come prayer meeting at 7:15 am every Thursday in the Hurdsfield Community Hub and live online through Zoom.
  • Six evening prayer gatherings for the whole church to come together to pray.
  • Prayer ministry team meeting before our 10:30 am service to listen to God and pray; then available to pray with anyone after the service.
  • Five prayer walks around our neighbourhood as part of the wider initiative, Thy Kingdom Come.
  • Training and refresher session for those leading our intercessory prayers on Sundays.
  • HTH News (our weekly email newsletter with 284 subscribers) includes a prayer diary, requesting prayer for specific individuals and situations.
  • Creating a Prayer Labyrinth on our front lawn in September as part of the wider Christian initiative Season of Creation, with prayer points along the path to help people pray and reflect on their roles in caring for creation.
 
Discipleship
  • About 150 people meeting weekly in 13 small groups to study the Bible, pray, worship God, and support one another. This includes Evergreens, a large daytime group for older people.
  • Three people from HTH attending the Alpha conference to learn about leading Alpha courses. Alpha is a series of group conversations to explore the basics of the Christian faith in an open, friendly environment.
  • Alpha course for 12 guests, meeting once a week for 10 weeks plus a full day.
  • Youth Alpha course, in conjunction with St Michael’s Church, held at HTH, and with 25+ guests.
  • More than 40 people camping together at the New Wine summer festival in Shepton Mallet for teaching, worship, and ministry.
  • Our youth minister, with Jonny Aitken of St Barnabas, running a Youthscape Essentials training course for 12 youth leaders from three churches.
  • Our whole staff team enjoying three days of teaching, equipping and encouraging at the New Wine Leadership Conference.
  • Five ladies from HTH enjoying a day of teaching, equipping and encouraging at the New Wine Women’s Reset Day.
 
Mission
  • Giving 10% of our unrestricted income (money not given for specific purposes) to selected partners working locally and around the world.
  • Newly formed Creation Care and Justice Group helping us to care for God’s creation.
  • Hosting a spoken performance of Mark’s Gospel, raising money for Tearfund.
  • Quiz night, with more than 100 people raising £1,614 for Tearfund (including amounts given direct rather than through HTH).
  • Hundreds of people, from toddlers to 90 year-olds, walking (some running) 22,100 laps of the church over 14 hours, raising £6,677 for Tearfund’s work in Mozambique (including amounts given direct rather than through HTH).
  • Visit by Tearfund’s Country Director for Mozambique.
  • Staff team running in the Macclesfield Pancake Day Race, raising funds for East Cheshire NHS Charity.
  • A whole-church self-completion survey to link people into volunteer roles they’re suited to and enjoy.
  • Hosting a singleness course, Securely Single.
  • Weekly Drop In: company, refreshments, chat, games, and help with things like filling in forms.
  • Weekly food pantry where people can fill a carrier bag with surplus food (and flowers) for £3.
  • Weekly exercise class, Stand Tall, designed to increase core strength and help prevent falls.
  • Visiting those who have recently been bereaved.
  • Visiting or telephoning around 10 people each week who are housebound or otherwise isolated.
  • Weekly litter picking around the parish.
  • Monthly evening community meal for 25-30 invited local residents.
  • Making nearly 50 meals for seven local families.
  • Emergency food and clothing vouchers for those in desperate need.
  • Harvest collection of food for the Silklife Foodbank.
  • Giving Christmas hampers to households in need.
  • Taking an HTH Christmas card to every home in Hurdsfield.
  • Sharing our Hurdsfield Community Hub with two AA groups, Activity in Retirement, Higher Hurdsfield Parish Council, Macclesfield Recorders (music group), Parish Safeguarding Officers Network, Cheshire East NHS Authority, Cheshire and Warrington Carers Trust, lots of kid’s birthday parties, and others.
 
Kids
  • Hurdsfield Tots: our weekly term-time group for pre-school kids, their parents and carers.
  • Leading 30+ assemblies at Hurdsfield Primary School and one each term at Puss Bank School.
  • Holding three whole-school services at church for Hurdsfield Primary School.
  • Hosting a station for the town-wide ‘Experience Easter’ event at St Michael’s Church.
  • Weekly one-to-one reading with about 40 kids at Hurdsfield Primary School.
  • Valentine's themed Messy Church.
  • Family Fun Day with more than 200 people enjoying games, crafts, refreshments, and a petting zoo.
  • Messy Harvest craft event.
  • Light on the Green, as an alternative to Halloween, at The Green In The Corner Café, with more than 50 people enjoying crafts, hot chocolate, snacks and treats.
  • Hosting Hurdsfield Primary School’s KS2 Christmas concert.
  • The Big Christmas Hangout with crafts, games, refreshments, Christmas film, and gifts.
  • Cupcake Christingle service on Christmas Eve, with 207 people attending.
  • Our youth minister joining Hurdsfield Primary School’s year 6 residential trip.
  • Our kids and families minister joining Hurdsfield Primary School for a day trip to Manchester.
 
Youth
  • Pathfinders: our weekly term-time early Sunday evening group for years 6-9.
  • Fusion: our weekly term-time Sunday evening group for years 10-13.
  • Taking 25 young people to the Limitless Christian Festival.
  • Four AMPLIFIED youth worship events and silent discos, in partnership with other local churches.
  • Our youth minister supporting the Christian Unions at All Hallows Catholic College, The Fallibroome Academy, and Tytherington School, and regularly joining their meetings.
  • Leading, with the support of local Christian charity Cre8 and Rev Martin Stephens of St Michael’s, two carol services for The Macclesfield Academy at St Michael’s Church.
  • Supporting and resourcing other local churches through the Hope Youth Forum.
  • Providing mentors for seven young people to meet regularly.
  • Our Fusion group packing hampers to bless particular people in our church family at Christmas.
 
Eating together
  • Indoor February picnic lunch.
  • Passover Family Meal.
  • June BBQ.
  • August picnic in Victoria Park.
  • October Harvest Lunch.
  • Ladies’ Cream Tea and Book Swap.
  • Men’s curry night.
  • Two Women’s Breakfasts.
  • Three Hello & Welcome Newcomers' Teas.
 
Other social events
  • New Year bonfire.
  • Monthly 20s and 30s group.
  • Four board games afternoons.
  • Ladies' Walk around Sutton Reservoir.
  • Men’s walk to Bollington and Kerridge Hill.
  • Ladies’ Advent Craft Evening.
  • Men's Christmas pub trip.
 
Other services
  • Good Friday reflective service.
  • Open-air service with other churches in Macclesfield Market Place.
  • Outdoor baptism service at which we baptised five adults.
  • Taking Home Communion to the housebound.
  • Service of Remembering for those who have been bereaved, whether recently or long ago.
  • Carol service at church for residents of Edge 360, a local communal living initiative for women.
  • Evening carol service.
  • Encounter Immanuel evening service.
  • DIY nativity service, with congregation in costume.
Safeguarding

Here at Holy Trinity Hurdsfield we work hard to maintain a safe environment for all. 
We are committed to implementing the House of Bishops' safeguarding policies and good practice guidance. You can read about how we do this ​here

If you have any concerns or enquiries regarding safeguarding, please contact our safeguarding officer Jen Vincent: [email protected]