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Kairos church member Sam Blakey, who also volunteers as a youth leader at Starbeck Youth Club, plans to help raise funds for the Create Space youth project by taking part in the half marathon at The Leeds Running Festival in Roundhay Park, on August 30th. 

She says: “I love working with the kids at the youth club. When I was growing up it was these clubs that gave me a combination of shelter and fun. 

“A designated space is priceless. A space where young people can form new friendships or simply be with their school friends in comfortable surroundings, having a laugh and bonding together.”

Sam is hoping to extend her challenge to include the ‘Run My Way’ virtual London Marathon next April.

“I’m also hoping some of our young people will join me for parts of the last 10km of the race – around The Stray – and get their own sponsorship to boost the building fund even more.

“It would be a fantastic way to get the youth more involved in the project; after-all, it is all about them!”

Pipping Sam at the post is Helen Brocklehurst, who is walking the Three Peaks later this month to help raise funds for the project. As the new charity Lead for Netmakers, a Kairos community partner, she plans to complete the 24 mile and three climbs walk in an impressive 12 hours. 

“I usually do this walk with a large group, so that often dictates pace,” says Helen. I’m hoping to complete it in under 12 hours walking it solo.”

The duo are sharing a Just Giving fundraising page on the link below.

Sponsor Sam and Helen

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Jesus Name Above All Names

To the mountains that I face
There’s one name that’s higher
To the empires of our age
There’s one name that’s greater
To the giants in my way
There’s one name that’s higher
To the evil that prevails
There’s one name that’s greater
There’s one name that’s greater

Jesus You’re the name above all names
Over my fears over the storms
I’m gonna sing that Jesus is Lord
Jesus You’re the name above all names
Here in the night then at the dawn
I’m gonna sing that Jesus is Lord

To the burden of my shame
There’s one name that’s higher
To the battles that still rage
There’s one name that’s greater
To the doubts that steal my faith
There’s one name that’s higher
To the idols that enslave
There’s one name that’s greater
There’s one name that’s greater

The miracle making
City wall shaking
Prodigal chasing
Lazarus raising
Destiny waking
History changing
Powerful name of God

Tom Eccleshall
CCLI Song #7198480
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Worthy Is The Lord

Jesus Jesus Son of God
The perfect image of the Father’s love
He suffered died and was raised to life
By the Spirit now we testify
Jesus is alive He reigns on high

Who is like our God
So merciful and good
And His love endures
Forevermore
Let the whole world see
The glory of the Lord
Let the nations sing
Worthy is the Lord
Worthy is the Lord

Holy Spirit Breath of God
Dwelling in Your daughters and Your sons
Groaning longing crying out
The Spirit interceding with the Son
Praying Father would You let Your kingdom come

Worthy is the Lord
Worthy is the Lord

Holy holy
Holy holy
Come and bow before Him
Worship and adore Him

Abba Father Faithful One
Your open arms now beckon us to come
Drawn by mercy ever close
Surrounded by the dance of perfect love
The oneness of the Father Spirit Son
We’re forever lost in wonder with our God

Caz Talbot, Joe Hardy, Rich di Castiglione
CCLI Song #7276003
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Adoration

I fall to my knees
I lay it all down
This moment is Yours this moment is Yours
The best that I’ve got
I give it to You
All blessing is Yours

Jesus no one is more wonderful
No one is more powerful
Worthy is Your name
Jesus high and seated on the throne
All the praise is Yours alone
Worthy is Your name

Before You I stand
In worship and praise
The honour is Yours the honour is Yours
And all my days
My soul will for
The presence of God

All worship (all worship)
And honour (and honour)
Belongs to the Saviour
Forever amen
We join in (we join in)
With heaven (with heaven)
You’re worthy You’re holy
Forever amen

Jesus forever I will sing this song
All to You and You alone
Worthy is Your name

Jamie Pritchard, Joe Hardy, Jonny Bird
CCLI Song #7282065
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Forever YHWH

Adonai
Elohim
Great I Am
Lives in me
El Shaddai
Prince of Peace
Emmanuel
Here with me

Your Name is great
And greatly to be praised
Your Name is great
And greatly to be praised

Worthy You were
Worthy You are
Worthy You will be forever Yahweh

And we adore You forever Yahweh
And forever worthy of my praise
Oh You are worthy
And You are worthy of my praise
Yes You are worthy and
You always always always will be
You are worthy
You are worthy of my praise
No other name no other name

Brandon Lake, Chris Brown, Pat Barrett, Steven Furtick
CCLI Song #7188355
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This Present Moment

This present moment is filled with God
This in between is filled with God
This silent waiting is filled with God
So trust in the slow work of God

By The Porter’s Gate & Pray As You Go ft. Dee Wilson
© 2026 The Porter’s Gate. All rights reserved.

Do With It What You Will

You have given all to me;
To you, O lord I return it
Everything I have is yours
Do with it what you will
I lift it up.
I lay it down.

By The Porter’s Gate & Pray As You Go ft. Hannah Boesen
© 2026 The Porter’s Gate. All rights reserved.

Who Else

I am an instrument of exaltation
And I was born to lift Your name above all names
You hear the melody of all creation
But there’s a song of praise that only I can bring

Who else is worthy who else is worthy
There is no one only You Jesus
Who else is worthy who else is worthy
There is no one only You Jesus

You are the infinite God of the ages
Yet You chose to make my heart Your dwelling place
You healed my brokenness showed me Your glory
So I have songs of thanks not even angels sing

Lamb of God anointed one
Who was and is and is to come
Seated on the throne above
Holy holy
Righteous One who shed His blood
You proved to us the Father’s love
Jesus Christ be lifted up
(Holy holy)

Abbie Gamboa, Josiah Funderburk, Zac Rowe
CCLI Song #7223119
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CCLI Licence No.187063

I Speak Jesus

I just want to speak the Name of Jesus
Over every heart and every mind
‘Cause I know there is peace within Your presence
I speak Jesus

I just want to speak the Name of Jesus
‘Til every dark addiction starts to break
Declaring there is hope and there is freedom
I speak Jesus

(‘Cause) Your Name is power
Your Name is healing
Your Name is life
Break every stronghold
Shine through the shadows
Burn like a fire

I just want to speak the Name of Jesus
Over fear and all anxiety
To every soul held captive by depression
I speak Jesus

Shout Jesus from the mountains
Jesus in the streets
Jesus in the darkness over every enemy
Jesus for my fam’ly
I speak the holy Name Jesus

Abby Benton, Carlene Prince, Dustin Smith, Jesse Reeves, Kristen Dutton, Raina Pratt
CCLI Song #7136201
© 2019 BEC Worship; Raina Pratt Publishing Designee; WriterWrong Music; For Me and My House Songs; Integrity’s Praise! Music; Anchored In Hope Music; Give It A Lift Music
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CCLI Licence No.187063

Lead Me Well

I will trust You I will trust You
To lead me well
Down the mountain through the valley
Who can tell
Where the road goes
You alone know
Bid me follow Lord
I will follow
I will trust You I will trust You
To lead me well

Doug McKelvey, Jonathan Lowry
CCLI Song #7276819
© 2026 Centricity Music Publishing; FortyHourDays; Songs Without Borders
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Jesus is alive!

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On Easter Sunday we gathered to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection. Thanks to Debs for our beautiful banner. We read John 20:11-18. With the help of some binoculars, a magnifying glass and a lightbulb, Ben asked us, how do we perceive or understand the risen Jesus? Does he seem distant or have you realised that he is close and that he loves you? You can listen here or using the player below.

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Simon of Cyrene’s story

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‘…they led Jesus out to crucify him. A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.’ (Mark 15:20b-21)

A man named ‘Rufus, chosen in the Lord’ is included in the greetings at the end of Paul’s letter to the Romans (16:13). Could this be Simon’s son? Was this meeting the beginning of a journey of faith for Simon and his family? Ben’s reflection describes Simon’s life-changing encounter with Jesus.

Simon – In from the country, on his way.

I had always been nervous in cities; necessary journeys, but anxious ones. 
You never knew what trouble you might get caught up in: an overzealous believer, a belligerent soldier, a tax collector who saw you as an opportunity.

Yes, I took extra care in the Holy City.  I was kicking myself when I heard the crowd of wailers, looked for a route to slip away.  But the mass of people surged, there was no chance of escape.  It was all I could do to hold on to my wits, as I became another witness.

The condemned man stumbled at my feet.  Brutal hands seized me, barked instructions in a language not my own.  Suddenly I was shoved towards this broken body. His cross now mine to carry.  

We stumbled on together, sharing such a heavy yoke. I knew the distance well, but couldn’t tell you how long we walked.  In truth, I’m still walking.  Seized by more than Roman hands.  

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Learning to Pray

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It was great to connect with so many in the prayer room last week, and then at the Central Gathering on Sunday as we talked about living spectacularly ordinary lives for God:  wherever we are and whatever we do.

One thing that those who took part in the prayer room kept saying is that they felt God’s presence in a new or deeper way as they prayed.  If prayer has a goal, I think it’s that – to find a deeper and more continuous connection with God. Now that’s a big goal, and points to our eternal future: people and God together forever.  But we can take lots of small steps that help develop that connection.  I’ve found two things have helped me:  learning to pray on my own, and learning to pray with others.

Learning to pray on my own. 

Show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.  Song of Songs 2: 14. 

Learning that God is interested in me, God wants to be a part of my life and spend time with me has massively helped me want to develop time with God.  My goal is to find as close-to-unbroken connection and conversation as I can.  Sometimes that feels a long way off.  But periods of silence, breathing prayer (slowly repeating a prayer or scripture with my breathing), written prayers, listening to music or getting out in nature all help. 

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. James 5:16. 

Learning that God not only listens but answers has helped too.  Writing down the requests I make of God, noticing his answers, giving thanks for them.  Learning to pray for healing for people, or for provision for people and acknowledging when God works.  All this had grows my confidence to pray more boldly! 

My current pattern is to find 3 moments of prayer in my day – morning, midday and evening.  In the morning I get a bit of time to sit with God, read a part of the bible, maybe write down some thoughts or a prayer of my own.  At midday I pause for a few moments, say the Lord’s prayer and let one phrase draw me to deeper prayer.  At night I simply try to remember the things from the day that I’m thankful for and the things that have caused hurt, worry or fear. Then offer all to God as I go to sleep.  These don’t have to be long – when I was a teacher or training I used to used my commute to pray.  Sometimes my midday pause is a snatched moment in the car, or on the move. 

Like lots of you I often use the Lectio 365 App to focus my prayers, which have reflections for morning, midday and evening.  It’s a great place to start if you want to try a daily prayer rhythm.  My advice would be don’t start with all three – pick one that most often works and then build from there. 

Learning to pray with others.

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.   Acts 2:42

There is something special that happens when we get together with others and worship or pray.  Making some time to pray with others either with the bible, or a particular focus is a massive boost to mission. 

There are lots of regular times Kairos people gather to pray.  Your Kairos community might already have its own rhythm. 
You are welcome to join at any of the following.

Expresso Prayers, 8am, hosted by Kindle – 10 minutes prayer on zoom, Monday to Friday.

9:30am Prayer – Half an hour every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday in the Kairos room.

Netmakers Prayer – Prayer for the town with people from lots of different churches.  
Tuesdays at 9:30am in the Kairos Room.

Prayer for young people and youth work across the town with the Netmakers team. 
Second Sundays, 6pm at St Andrew’s Starbeck.

Worship and Prayer night – 6:30-8pm, 4th Sundays.
A longer bit of time to linger in God’s presence, listen to His word and pray together.  
Happening next – Sunday 24th September.

Starting Soon –

Prayer for Knaresborough.  Weds 24th Sept, 7-8:30 and thereafter fortnightly.   Venue TBC. 

Prayer for Children and Families.  Sunday 28th September, 11am in the Kairos Room.

If you or your community want to learn more about praying you could try –

The Prayer Course

How to Pray, by Pete Greig. There is also a great version for younger explorers.

Beholding, by Strahan Colemen – Helen and I loved this!

What’s helped you pray? How is God taking helping you increase you connection with him?

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Listening Carefully… Choose

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Sadly we weren’t able to record last Sundays Central Gathering sermon. Ben talked about the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 7:13-48. Jesus shares a set of picture-parables to prompt his listeners to a choice.

The narrow and wide gates. Jesus says that the way to life is narrow, its hard and involves careful thought and intention. But it leads to life!

Sheep and wolves, fruit trees and thorn bushes. Jesus says that there will be some who look good, but are actually trying to destroy life. Perhaps we all face that temptation. He encourages his listeners to look beyond specatular signs and to seek good fruit fruit. Are our lives become more kind, more holy, more loving?

The house on the rock and the house on the sand. Jesus recognises that in times of crisis everyone wants to build shelters. He says that those who listen and obey Him will be like builders who build on rock. When trouble comes they will have a house that stands firm. This links back to one of his earlier picture parable in this part of Matthew – a town on a hill. As we build on the rock together, but listening to and obeying Jesus words, we become a bright city – that offers light and shelter for each other and those around us.

So that leaves a choice – who are you following?
Will you listen to and obey the way of Jesus.

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Bonus Content – In this series has we’ve mentioned a couple of resources.

The Bible Project. You can watch their final sermon on the mount video below.

The Narrow Path by Rich Villodas. You can get the book here, or listen to an interview with him about it here.

We have used these resources to produce a booklet of discussion questions and ideas. You can get that here.

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Encountering the risen Jesus

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As we celebrated Easter Sunday, Ben spoke about Jesus’ transformative meeting with two discouraged disciples as they walked from Jerusalem to Emmaus, talking (or perhaps arguing) together and finally recognising him through the familiar gesture of breaking bread.

‘Resurrection power triumphs, God’s love is victorious.’ How can we live in the light of that reality? Jesus walks with us, he can handle our pain and anything we’re wrestling with; Jesus is present in our ordinary lives; Jesus sends us to day-to-day places to demonstrate his glorious, powerful, resurrecting love as we pray, care, listen, share and welcome others. The reading is Luke 24:13-35. You can listen here or using the player below.

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Launch Week – January 6th – 12th 2025

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We believe that prayer is powerful and are looking forward to beginning January with a week of 24-7 prayer, thinking about anchors, foundations and roots.

The prayer room will be available from 9:30am on Monday 6th January. 
Booking an hour or more means we know that the prayer room can be kept open. 
You can do that here:  https://signup.24-7prayer.com/signup/873d46.

If you’d rather just turn up and pray the room will be open for drop ins –
Monday 6th to Friday 10th 4-6pm. 
 
New for Launch week 25. 
We are hosting 3 Prayer Workshops, 7:30 – 8:30pm.
Monday – Praying the Bible
Wednesday – Creative Prayer
Thursday – Contemplative Prayer

We’ll finish the week with a worship and prayer evening from 7:30pm on Sunday 12th January.

Cold Weather Update

Because of the cold weather we are making some more changes.  
We are going to extend the prayer room until 12noon next Thursday. This should give people the chance to visit in (slightly) warmer weather. 

Tonights Creative Prayer Workshop is rescheduled to next Wednesday, 15th Jan, in the Kairos Room.  

Tomorrow’s Contemplative Prayer Workshop will be on zoom, Thursday 9th Jan, 7:30pm.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84737969046

Meeting ID: 847 3796 9046
Passcode: pray

The prayer room is bookable during the day this week: https://signup.24-7prayer.com/signup/873d46. 
You can also pop in and pray without booking between 4-6pm weekday evenings. 
It is quite icy around the hall so please don’t come down later in the evening or night for the next few days!

The cold weather will mean that some people aren’t able to travel to the prayer room, or don’t feel comfortable there.  Helen B has put together a prayer home guide using the same themes.  Thank you Helen!  You can download that here:  Launch Week Pray at home Jan 2025.pdf

We’d love to hear what you feel God is showing you, or leading you, as you pray this week. 

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An invitation to… simplicity

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Continuing our exploration of the kind of life God invites us to live, Chris reflects on simplicity and encourages us to take steps to simplify our own lives. The reading comes from Luke ch12 v22-34. You can download the MP3 file here or listen below. To help us in our response, Chris suggests that we think about our own rule of life, and three steps we could take (things to add or give up) in order to simplify our lives.

The ‘paradoxes of simplicity’ attributed to A.W. Tozer in this talk should be credited to Richard J. Foster.

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This Sunday – who could you connect with?

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October has an extra Sunday, and so doesn’t quite fit with our usual patterns.  How might you use the extra time to connect with others and build community?

There are lots of simple things you could try: meet a friend or another family for food or a drink, go for a walk with someone, try out 9am Communion and perhaps bring a friend, gather a few people to pray and worship together.  Many of our young people will be at the Harrogate Church’s Youth Glow Party.  

If you are around next Sunday see if you can make some time to connect with someone.

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