Welcome to the Enews for June 27
Welcome to the latest Enews, celebrating 25 years of women's ordained ministry, with
events, resources, news
and more.
Click through on headlines or pictures for more details.
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The diocese is being encouraged to pray for its new deacons and priests, being ordained at ongoing ‘Petertide’ services over the next few weeks. All the details of those being ordained, the areas where they will serve and the dates of the different services can found on the diocesan website.
Read more here
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People from across the diocese packed Ripon Cathedral to mark the Silver Anniversary of the ordination of women as priests in the Church of England. The special service was presided over by the Rt Revd Nick Baines, Bishop of Leeds, and the Rt Revd Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, Bishop of Ripon, was the preacher.
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Wellsprings Together - a joint venture between the Church Urban Fund and the Anglican Diocese of Leeds to help communities tackle a range of social issues has been officially launched. This independent charity aims to encourage and support churches, community groups and other faith groups working together to enable flourishing neighbourhoods.
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The Cathedral Academy, Wakefield is celebrating after winning Secondary School of the Year at the national Times Educational Supplement Schools Awards 2019. The awards recognise outstanding contributions made by education teams and individuals to help students around the country to succeed.
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The Church of England's LentPilgim and EasterPilgrim campaigns achieved great digital success with an overall reach of 6.9 million through the national Church’s social media accounts, the app, email and Alexa. They series of reflections were available in printed form, or digitally with the latter including recordings of prayers and reflections for each day during Lent and Easter.
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Ordinations of our new deacons will take place at Wakefield Cathedral at the end of this month with 15 new folk ready to work across the diocese. Bishop of Leeds, the Rt Revd Nick Baines will conduct ordination services at 11am and 3pm on Saturday, June 29 and here are introductions to all those preparing to serve, in their own words.
Read more here
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Bradford Academy is celebrating after being
winning the Community and Collaboration Award in this year's prestigious Times' Educational Supplement Awards
. Delighted Executive Principal at the CofE Academy, Tehmina Hashmi said: "The awards...recognise outstanding contributions made by education teams and individuals to help students around the country to succeed."
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Churches, faith communities, social groups and civic bodies all joined in the
Great Get Together
Weekend
in Batley, which marked what would have been the 45th birthday of murdered MP Jo Cox. Four days of shared activities began on Thursday last week with “Step into the Future” when some 1,000 children joined together to parade down the closed main street to the Batley Bulldogs Rugby Ground.
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All creatures great and small filled St Peter’s Church in Rawdon last Sunday for their tenth Animal Blessing Service. The Bishop of Kirkstall, Rt Revd Paul Slater, was in attendance and blessed all the animals who brought the church building alive with yelps of excitement as they led their human companions to the pews.
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The lives of 1,000 vulnerable children around the world are being changed thanks to the support of people from across the Harrogate postcode.
The HG1000 campaign
has seen churches, schools and businesses from across the area come together over the past five years to sponsor 1,000 children who are living in poverty.
Read more here
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Children at Horbury Bridge Academy have been doing their bit to combat climate change
by spreading the word amongst schools on how they can help the environment and create a more sustainable lifestyle. A group of Year 6 Young Leaders and Eco-Rangers invited other schools to attend a Global Goals school conference.
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On Saturday, September 7 the first
Church of England’s Labs Learning roadshow will be taking place. Held at St George’s Church, Leeds, the day-long digital conference aims to inspire and equip Church of England churches to sh
are Good News, grow people’s faith and bring more people to faith by harnessing digital and social media.
Read more here
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Taking place in each of the areas, we are inviting people to join us for
Social Media Skills Camps.
These evenings aim to bring people to
gether to share, discuss and discover how we can best use social media in our churches. The next will be at St Catherine's Centre, Wakefield on Wednesday, July 3 at 7pm.
Find out more and book a place here.
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Heritage Open Days
is England's largest free festival of history and culture and brings together over 2,500 organisations, 5,000 events and 40,000 volunteers each year. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of HODs, 2019 will be the biggest festival yet, taking place between 13 - 22 September. In 2018, almost 100 parishes across the Diocese took part, why don't you this year?
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Visitors to Bradford Cathedral, until the end of August, are being invited to walk the
Prayer Labyrinth
which has been cut in to the grass in the gardens surrounding the Cathedral. The Labyrinth, which follows a one way route in
and out to the centre, represents the journey of life and offers a journey into your heart to meet with God.
Find out more here
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The latest edition of the Environment e-bulletin,
God's Green Fingers, came out in May. I
t is very much worth a read, this edition includes events, resources and all the latest environment news.
Read the latest edition here.
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The
Bible Art Gift shop is an independent online shop, which combines Bible verses with modern ca
lligraphy, photography, watercolour and digital media.
Find out more here.
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"Take responsibility for your discipleship ...join the online learning community" urged Bishop Nick at the close of last year's Diocesan Lay Conference. The
Digital Learning Platform is full of great information - and you ca
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join up now by visiting it and registering here
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The June and July editions of the
Prayer Diary are now online to download.There are fresh prayers for Sudan as well as prayers for Tanzania. Download prayers
here.
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Riding Lights Theatre Company are now taking bookings for their Autumn Tour 2019 Kaleidoscope, featuring their brand new show – BREAKING GROUND. They'd love to share this flexible and dynamic tour, designed to fit in w
ith the unique landscape of each community it visits, with churches in our Diocese.
Follow this link read more about their tour and how to get in touch.
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The free
monthly printed news for July will be delivered around the diocese today -
check pick-up points and where your church's are here. This month's issue includes: social media users gathering for a day of training with the national digital team, a royal visit, an 'ark' for vulnerable species and the diocesan celebration for Thy Kingdom Come.
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.is the name of Bishop Nick's blog, which includes his appearances in the House of Lords and can be viewed
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In between Ascension Day and Pentecost churches across the world were encouraged to pray for people to come to know Jesus as part Thy Kingdom Come. Here is a video from St Matthias Church with Riverside in Leeds, sharing what they got up to.
Watch the video here
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Clergy from the Diocese of Leeds came together for the start of a new cricket season, competing in their second match of the 69th Church Times Cricket Cup. This year we will be following the teams progress via a video blog, sharing their time together and journey to try and win the Cup.
Watch the video here
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Bishop of Leeds, the Right Revd Nick Baines gave his first Presidential Address at Diocesan Synod last weekend after returning from his sabbatical.
Watch it here
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The Diocese of Leeds wishes to recruit a Finance Assistant that will support the Finance Supervisor and Finance Manager in the smooth running of the team.
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The parish of Upper Wharfedale are seeking to appoint a gifted Youth & Children Worker to Project Reverb, an established Christian youth and children’s work project in the area.
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For all other vacancies across the diocese please follow the links below:
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Useful links & Information
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For safeguarding issues, contact:
Jenny Price
07800 740001
Narinder Lyon
07872 005309
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Moves and Appointments
The Revd Stephen McCaulay to be Priest in Charge of the Washburn and Mid-Wharf Benefice (Ripon EA)
The Revd Hannah Lievesley to be Team Vicar of Far Headingley St Chad’s (Leeds EA)
The Revd Canon John Lawson to be an Honorary Canon of Wakefield Cathedral
The Reverend Stroma McDermott to be Team Vicar in the Knaresborough Team Ministry (Ripon EA)
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The Who's Who directory lists clergy & diocesan staff (email addresses & phone numbers).
Access it here
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Contact us with your news
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Please 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 June 27. Area news stories to
[email protected]
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