August 10-28 Melanie Wilks Exhibition of drawings & stone carved sculpture, Wakefield Cathedral. More.
August 11-13 St Cuthbert & St Oswald Winksley Centenary Celebration Talk on St Cuthbert, photos, concert & Songs of Praise. More.
August 12 West Yorkshire History Centre Visit 10-1pm. Uncover stories of Wakefield in WW1.
More.
August 13 Summer Sunday Cafe Church, worship, bouncy castle etc. 11-2pm, Christ Church, Ossett.
More.
August 21 Bishop Nick's Thought for the Day,
Radio 4, approx 7.45am.
August 21 Open Quiet Day on Mary led by Revd Canon Paul Greenwell. 10-4pm, Parcevall Hall.
More.
August 24 Supporting Dying & Bereaved Adults through loss & grief Day for clergy 9.30-4.30pm, St Michael's Hospice, Harrogate.
More.
August 25-28 Charity Jigsaw Festival Over 1000 jigsaws, crafts, food & more. St Martin's, Brighouse.
More.
August 26 Church on Show @ Wensleydale Show Competition, chat & prayer.
More.
August 28 Bishop Nick's Thought for the Day,
Radio 4, approx 7.45am.
September 8 Men's Spirituality Weekend Holy Rood House, Thirsk.
More.
September 9 Ride + Stride for Churches get sponsored & visit Yorkshire's churches.
More.
September 9 Standing Alongside A reflective day led by Revd Christine Dodd. 10-3pm at the Mirfield Centre.
More.
September 9&10 Romaldkirk Music Festival Baroque & Medieval Music. Vocal masterclasses, concerts & evensong.
More.
September 11 Theology Reading Group Open to lay & ordained. The Death of Christian Britain. 2pm, St James' Vicarage, Pudsey.
More.
September 11-14 Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer Retreat led by Revd Canon Charles Dobbin at Mirfield.
More.
September 16 Discipleship that works Workshop day, 9.30-4pm. Kairos Network Church, Harrogate.
More.
September 16 Exploring Silence workshop led by Dr Alison Woolley 3-5.15pm, Bradford Cathedral.
More.
September 19 Beyond Grants for Places of Worship A workshop looking at recent changes & what HLF can offer. 7-9pm York Place, Leeds.
More.
September 21 Huddersfield Ceremony of Peace to mark the UN day with art & reflections from schools. 1.30pm, Huddersfield Parish Church.
More.
September 21 Finding our way in prayer led by Alison White, Bishop of Hull. Wakefield Area Follow Me 4 series. 6.30pm, Wakefield Cathedral.
More.
September 21 Visit Sudan in 2018
A meeting to explain more, 7.30pm, Bradford Cathedral.
More.
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For safeguarding issues, contact: Jenny Price 07800 740001
Jenny Leccardi 07872 005189 or
Narinder Lyon 07872 005309
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The Who's Who directory lists clergy & diocesan staff (email addresses & phone numbers).
Access it here
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Moves and Announcements
Revd Sue McWhinney,
Assistant Curate in the Benefice of Baildon (Bradford EA) ; to be Assistant Curate of St. Wilfrid's, Calverley (Leeds EA)
Revd Paul Atkinson, Priest in Charge of Ravensthorpe and Thornhill Lees with Savile Town (Huddersfield EA); to be Vicar of Holy Trinity, Cookridge (Leeds EA)
Revd Darren Percival, Assistant Curate, St Mary and St Paul, Barnsley; to be Interim Priest-in-Charge of Hunslet with Cross Green with particular oversight for Cross Green (Leeds EA)
Revd James Milnes, formerly Chaplain at David Young Community Academy; to be Team Rector of the Castleford Team Parish (Wakefield EA)
Revd. Gerald Sykes, Priest in Charge of Alverthorpe (Wakefield EA); to be Vicar of St Alban and St Patrick Highgate and Chaplain to St Alban's Academy (Birmingham).
The following are appointed Canon Emeriti following their recent retirement
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Wakefield Cathedral:
The Revd Canon Stephen Kelly
The Revd Canon Felicity Lawson
The Revd Canon Ian Wildey
Bradford Cathedral:
The Revd Canon Ann Turner
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For this week's film in the year long campaign to tell the story of life in the Diocese of Leeds, we follow the Church About the Dale ecumenical trailer taking welfare and worship to some of the further reaches of our diocese. The trailer visits market places, and show grounds, signposting people to food banks, debt relief, farm crisis, or suicide prevention helplines
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Bishop Nick has been in Sudan with the Archbishop of Canterbury at celebrations to inaugurate the 39th province of the Anglican Communion.
Hundreds of worshipers joined
guests from around the world in Khartoum. More here and Bishop Nick's interview on Vatican Radio here.
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Susan Rundle has been appointed as Diocesan Director of Parish Resourcing,
a new role to set up a team to resource parishes in accountancy, stewardship, governance and funding. With a team she
will bring together the existing Finance Services Team and the Stewardship, Funding and Development Teams. More here
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Young people from across the diocese are in Ripon this month for a 'life-changing' holiday to remember, joining with hundreds of others from around the country.
Some 240 teenagers and young leaders are taking part in the venture weeks at Ripon Grammar School, led by married clergy couple, Rector of Leeds, Sam Corley, and Curate at St Edmunds Roundhay, Claire Corley. Read more here
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Fiona Hill has been appointed as the diocese's first Disability Officer, a two day a week post which will involve visiting churches and helping parishes become more disability friendly.
Part of Fiona's job will be to help churches become more inclusive, something which since the Equalities Act of 2010 has been a legal requirement. More here
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A group of young people from the link Diocese of Southwestern Virginia are homeward bound after an action-packed programme of visits across the diocese included a trip on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, visits to some of our most famous beauty spots and worship at a variety of churches. See what they got up to here
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A village church and a cathedral, both in this diocese, are pitted against each other in the Church Times Green Church Awards shortlist announced this week.
Both Bradford Cathedral and St John's, Sharow, near Ripon have been shortlisted in the 'Bio-diversity' category with a prize for the award winner is £1000. More here
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'Growing our Church' is a series of events and activities that St Stephen's, East Hardwick, has undertaken - all designed to get them out of the church building and into the community to be with people who might not come to church very often, if at all.
Read more here.
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The Three Inch Fools are a five-strong troupe of actors with all manner of musical instruments, who
perform Shakespeare in almost any kind of setting. On August 11 they will be bringing Romeo & Juliet to Ripon Cathedral. Tickets here
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 Ride & Stride, an annual sponsorship event to raise funds for churches, chapels & meeting houses is on
Saturday 9 September. Get sponsored and visit as many churches, as possible on foot, by bike or by car. And make sure your church is open. More
here and
here.
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 Two free workshops for those with little or no experience of the traditional Christian spiritual discipline of silence-based prayer led by Dr Alison Woolley at Bradford Cathedral on
16 & 27 September.
More. The film 'In Pursuit of Silence' and a performance of John Cage's 4'33'' will also take place on 27th. More
here.
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The Harrogate School of Theology and Mission has announced a new programme for the 2017/18 academic year.
Speakers will
include the former Bishop of Oxford, Rt Revd John Pritchard. The
programme begins on
Saturday 16th September with
Dr
Casey Strine
of
Sheffield University
More here
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 Recent changes to Heritage Lottery Funding (HLF) means that Grants for Places of Worship are no longer available to churches. A workshop on
19 September at York Place, Leeds with the Stewardship, Funding & Development Team will look at HLF Funding and how churches can access this funding.
More.
A number of
Finding Funding Workshops will follow on from the HLF workshop during the autumn. More
here.
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 Join a group visiting Khartoum in February - March 2018 to experience Sudanese life & culture and see their church in action.
Two meetings to explain more are on
September 21 at Bradford Cathedral and
September 28 at Christ Church, Skipton. More information
here.
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'Open the Book' began in 1999 and since then thousands of children have discovered Bible stories, during assembly and collective worship.
St John's Great Horton will be hosting an evening led by Bob Hartman - author and story teller from 'Open the book' on Monday 25 September, 7.30pm, More details here
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 A day pilgrimage to Ampleforth and Stanbrook Abbeys on
Saturday 14 October looking at Benedictine hospitality in the ecumenical movement. Arranged by the Ripon Support Group of the Anglican Centre in Rome. More
here.
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 Slow Jerusalem and Slow Galilee are two retreats in Israel led by Bishop John Pritchard in
Spring 2018 which experience the land where Jesus lived at a slower pace. Other pilgrimages to Whitby, Armenia, Assisi & more
here.
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AROUND THE AREAS
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Bradford Cathedral has received nearly £80,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for an exciting project to share restore its peal of WW1 bells and develop exhibitions, booklets and tours.W
ork will start later this month to repair and restore the bells and improve accessibility to the bell tower so that the bells can be heard ringing across the city again. More here
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A flood damaged church has re-opened its doors to worshippers, more than 19 months after the Boxing Day floods of 2015.
St Michael's in Mytholmroyd, near Hebden Bridge, held its first service on Sunday after undergoing extensive restoration including new underfloor heating. Read more here.
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Elissa Lyon, from Cookridge Holy Trinity Primary School, is the only finalist from a C of E school in this year's election of the Leeds Children's Mayor. Could you vote for her?
More
And join MP Fabian Hamilton as he cycles to help African children go to school on an egg.
More.
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Wellspring, Therapy and Training
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the Harrogate-based counselling and training centre is moving to new premises after raising
more than £171,000. The charity will relocate to
St Andrew's Vicarage, after refurbishment.
More here
'If you go down to the woods today', you could expect a big surpise at
St Mary-le-Ghyll Church at Barnoldswick near Skipton. The
lawns were transformed as families took up the invitation to enjoy a family fun day with a teddy bear theme - more here
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There were fire eaters and six different choirs when the Revd Canon Bob Cooper, vicar of Giles and St Mary's, Pontefract, was installed as a Canon of Musoma Cathedral in Mara, Tanzania. For Bob it was a '
humbling and joyous moment' - read more here
Find out how Christ Church, South Ossett will be transformed this Sunday the 13th as a Summer Funday
for families here
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RESOURCES
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The free monthly paper bulletin for September will be going out to the collection points around the diocese on August 16 - check where your church's are here. This month we report on a life-changing summer event for young people and changes to the Children, Young People and Families team.
Download a PDF here
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 Please continue to pray for those in our diocese who have recently been ordained.
The August edition of the Prayer Diary is online as well as the September edition.
Also prayers for our overseas links.
Download them all
here.
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 A Harvest Resource Pack from Self Help Africa to help plan your harvest celebration. Includes stories from Africa, suggested prayers & hymns, children's activities & fundraising ideas. Self Help Africa helps smallholders across nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa develop knowledge & skills.
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 The Priory Church at Bolton Abbey welcomes around 150,000 visitors a year and is keen to recruit new welcomers to its friendly team of welcomers operating from Easter - October.
Find out more.
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 St Hild College now offers a range of academically stretching & ministry-focused courses validated by Durham University. Students can specialise in biblical theology, leadership, liturgy or ethics. Flexible programmes based at Mirfield or Sheffield.
Find out more.
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 Launched to widespread approval, 'We are the Diocese of Leeds' is the full length film from which short social media clips will be featured throughout the year. It is hoped it will be used widely by parishes, schools and house groups.
More here
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 If you are a Facebook user you can now follow the latest news on our Diocese of Leeds Facebook page. To keep updated on your home feed, please 'Like' our page
which you will find here. Comments are welcomed but will be moderated!
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 You can contact the Communications Team with your news for future editions. The e-news is published twice a month. The next edition will be sent out on
August 31.
Either use one of the addresses above for area news stories or
enews@leeds.anglican.org
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