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We are the Diocese - writing prayers together

This week the latest film in a year long campaign to tell our story gives a glimpse into a day in the life of a school chaplain at one of our 245 church schools and May 11 - June 2 Good Grief! An academies. Trinity Academy, Halifax has its own prayer which exhibition of stitched, antique is prayed daily but in the film it is being rewritten by current handkerchiefs exploring loss & grief. students. Watch it here More.

May 11 Visitation with Nick Archbishops highlight place of faith in Election 7.30pm, Bradford . More. Faith has a central role to play in politics and in this general election, the Archbishops of May 13 Spirituality & Trauma led by Canterbury and York have written in a Revd Elizabeth Baxter, 9.30-4pm, Holy House, Thirsk. More. pastoral letter to They urge people to set aside "apathy and cynicism" and follow the Christian May 13 Mindfulness & Psychological virtues of "love, trust and hope". Full story here Find Therapy A Christian Perspective led by resources, information and tips on organising hustings on our Dr Frank Wills & Wendy Wilby. General Election page here 10am, The Mirfield Centre. More. Bishop Nick tells churchwardens, "Church will May 13 Why bother with - need to think afresh" POSTPONED This event has been postponed until after the General In the annual Visitations (when Election. More here churchwardens are sworn in) Bishop Nick has been speaking in each Episcopal Area about the challenges facing the CofE in the coming years. More here. May 13 Exploring Faith - with the Bishop Hundreds bid farewell to Bishop James of Durham, Paul Butler, Rokeby Inn, Hutton Magna, 10am - More here Hundreds of friends, colleagues and May 13 & 14 Open Gardens 12-5pm, parishioners from across the diocese and Oatlands, Harrogate. More. beyond bid a fond farewell to Bishop at a service in on April May 14 Open Day for 6-11year 30 to mark his retirement. Bishop Nick led tributes to Bishop olds with Ripon Cathedral Choir. More. James for his twenty year ministry in the area during the Festal Eucharist - report and pictures here May 16 Dementia Friendly Service 2pm St James the Great, Chapelthorpe. More. Signing off - Bishop James writes in Yorkshire

Post May 16 Fashion Show & Pop Up Shop 7pm, St Philip's Community Centre, Writing in the Yorkshire Post, Bishop James Birchencliffe. More. Bell has said he is hopeful for the future of the rural church describing many positive May 17 Visitation with Bishop Nick signs of growth and renewal. He has also 7.30pm, Halifax Minster. More. recorded a video message in which he describes many of the 'fresh expressions' emerging in rural May 18 What on Earth are we here North Yorkshire churches. Read the article and watch the for? A theology of work. Bishop video here Jonathan's lecture at Huddersfield University. 6.30pm. More.

Bishop Tony encourages Dementia Awareness May 18 Visitation with Bishop Nick 7pm, Cathedral. More. The is urging people to join hands around Wakefield Cathedral on 17 May 18-21 Leeds Anglican Cursillo May to show they are 'United against Dementia'. It takes place Weekend at Wydale Hall. More. during Dementia Awareness Week, 15-21 May, More on the

May 20 Coastliner Way - for Christian Wakefield event with Bishop Tony here , and find out what Aid . More. other churches are planning to mark the week here

May 20 The Big Night Out for school Spring Harvest announces move to Harrogate years 7-11. Rides, entertainment & concert. 2-9pm, Lightwater Valley Theme Spring Harvest, the annual Christian teaching Park, Ripon. More. and worship event, which attracts thousands May 20 Manchester Chorale Evening of Christians, including many Anglicans, has The Earthly Rose. 7.30pm, Cawthorne announced that it will be held in Harrogate in Church, Barnsley. More and more here. 2018. The traditional Butlins venues at Skegness and Minehead still remain but Harrogate will become a third centre May 22 Bishop Nick on Radio 4's from 3-8 April 2018. More here Beyond Belief (Religious & Public Life in Germany), 4.30pm. Gargoyles and stained glass - 2 cathedr al

initiatives May 23 Health & Safety and Risk Assessment Training from Wakefield and Ripon have both Ecclesiastical Insurance, sponsored by just announced new initiatives to help Leeds DAC. 1.30-3.30pm, St Aidan's, preserve and renew their heritage. At Ripon Hellifield. More. Cathedral voting has opened for two new designs by local schoolchildren to replace May 23 Explore Together A practical medieval gargoyles - more here. Meanwhile, at approach to Bible study for all ages. Wakefield, scaffolding has gone up for work to conserve its 7.30pm Otley. More. famous stained glass - more here May 24 Can contemporary art be devotional art? Lecture by Prof Ben EVENTS Quash, King's College, London. 6.30pm,

Bradford Cathedral. More. Visitations 2017

May 24 Summer Charity Concert, Holy Trinity Idle, Bradford, 7pm. City of Bradford Brass Band concert in aid of the Licensed Clergy, Licensed Lay Workers and Streetlight Trust Churchwardens for 2016 and 2017 of every are to attend one of the remaining May 27 Calligraphy Workshop 10-3pm, Visitations with Bishop Nick: Wakefield Cathedral. More. 11 May , 7.30pm, . 17 May , 7.30pm, Halifax Minister. May 27 Michael Card in Concert, Holy Trinity Ripon, 7pm, with Biblical 18 May , 7.00pm, Wakefield Cathedral. More here. Imagination Day from 10am. More here

What on earth are we here for? May 27 Training on How to Engage Bishop Jonathan is giving an inaugural with your MP on Climate Change 9.15- lecture at Huddersfield University entitled 1pm Diocesan Office Leeds. More here 'What on earth are we here for? A theology of May 27-29 Arts Festival 2-5pm, work for today's world' at 6.30pm on 18 May . Kirkheaton . More. Free, but places are limited, so please register. More here. May 30 An Audience with Revd

Richard Coles 7.30pm, Victoria Theatre, The Big Night Out Halifax. More. Christian Youth event for school years 7-11. June 1 Whitsun Workshop Flame filled Rides, picnic & open air concert at Lightwater family fun for Pentecost. 1-3pm, Valley Theme Park, 20 May . More here. Wakefield Cathedral. More.

June 2 - July 2 Picture of the Land Art meets theology at Bradford Cathedral exhibition by Sharon Snaylam, Bradford Cathedral. More. A series of lectures, events and exhibitions on the theme of faith and art has got June 5 Bishop Nick's Thought for the underway at Bradford Cathedral. On May 24 Day Radio 4, approx 7.45am at 7pm , Professor Ben Quash, the Canon Theologian at Bradford Cathedral, will pose June 5-9 Anglican Association Retreat the question 'Can Contemporary Art be Devotional Art?' The with Revd Preb Bill Scott at Parcevall free lecture starts at 7pm. Full details of this and other events Hall. More. here June 6 Leading your Church into 'Thy Kingdom Come' p rayer across the diocese Growth Course for Huddersfield Area. 10am, Mirfield. More. Bradford ( May 25 ), Ripon (May 28) & Wakefield Cathedrals (June 4 ) will hold June 9-11 Creative Conversations 'beacon' events as part of 'Thy Kingdom Retreat Holy Rood House, Thirsk. More. Come', a national prayer campaign between Ascension and Pentecost. More details and June 10 Developing a Pastoral Prayer examples of how churches in Huddersfield, Ministry A New Wine training day with Calderdale and Harrogate are responding here . Elaine Wainaina, Huddersfield. More.

Hollin House Open Garden June 10 Hollin House Open Garden 12-5pm in aid St Gemma's Hospice. The garden of Hollin House (the home of More. Bishop Nick & Linda Baines) will be open to visit on Sat 10 June (12-5pm) in aid of St June 12 Bishop Nick's Thought for the Gemma's Hospice, for which Bishop Nick is Day Radio 4, approx 7.45am patron. Donation on entry. More here .

June 13 Creativity & Dementia Listening to God in our Everyday Life Friendly Church A day led by Livability at Leeds Church Institute. More. Seeing God in all we do from happiness to heartache. A day led by Revd Canon Judy Hirst, Missioner in Durham Diocese. 10- More events on our Events pages here 3.30pm, Thursday 15 June at the Mirfield Centre. More. Clergy vacancies For clergy vacancies across the The Great Get -Together - what will you do? diocese click here.

Educational Vacancies Picnics, BBQs & sports days are being For educational vacancies across the planned by communities to mark the diocese click here. anniversary of Jo Cox's murder. Organised by the Church Urban Fund with support from Other vacancies Brendan Cox, the Jo Cox Foundation and Archbishop Justin For non clergy vacancies across the Welby, churches are urged to hold "Great Get-Togethers" over diocese click here. June 16-18 . More here

Embracing Difference

A day to encourage awareness of the riches Safeguarding and challenges of inter-cultural relationships, For safeguarding issues, contact: marriage in particular, in a diverse society. Jenny Price 07800 740001 Speakers include Toby & Henriette Howarth, Jenny Leccardi 07872 005189 or and Janet Fraser-Smith. 17 June at Narinder Lyon 07872 005309 Harrogate Grammar School. Book by 31 Safeguarding Training in 2017 . May. More here.

Pilgrimages

Forthcoming pilgrimages include the Holy Land & Armenia with Canon Gordon Dey and Rome & Assisi with Bishop . Also Pembrokeshire, Whitby and Iona. More Useful contact details here. The Who's Who directory lists clergy & diocesan staff (email addresses & AROUND THE AREAS phone numbers). Access it here

Moves and Announcements BRADFORD Revd Christopher Lawton, Assistant News to [email protected] Curate, St Matthew's Leyburn with St 'We Need a Vicar!' was the plea of the John's Bellerby; to be Priest-in-Charge for the Gateway Group of Parishes in Lower Junior Choir at St Paul's Shipley, and their Wensleydale (Ripon EA) video message went viral with TV and newspoaper appearances. Now they've Revd Cindy Sheard to be licensed as appeared on Look North again after their SSM Assistant Curate in Training in prayers were answered. This weekend, Revd Heckmondwike and Liversedge Henriette Howarth will be installed at St Paul's and has joined (Huddersfield EA) the children in a new YouTube video to celebrate. More here

Revd Tim Thomas , Assistant Curate, the HUDDERSFIELD Walkden with Little Hulton Team Ministry (Manchester); to be Priest in Charge of News to [email protected] Bowling St John (Bradford EA) Graeme Genty, Headteacher at St Chad's Primary, Brighouse and his son are taking on Revd Mark Harlow , Assistant Curate, St a tough Coast to Coast cycling fundraising George's, Leeds; to be Priest in Charge challenge in the name of a 23 year old of St Paul's, Ireland Wood (Leeds EA) teacher from his school who lost her battle Revd Caroline Harrison to leave the with bowel cancer earlier this year. Read Parishes of Royston and Felkirk to more and help here. complete her curacy at St Mary Magdalene, Lundwood under the LEEDS supervision of the Area , the Revd News to [email protected] Canon Stephen Race.

The Revd Maureen Browell , Vicar of the Benefice of Barnsley West, comprising Cawthorne, Dodworth, Hoylandswaine & Silkstone, has been appointed as Dean of Women's Ministry (Wakefield EA).

*********************************** 100 years after his death, a member of St Revd Ann Challenger R.I.P. Ann, who Chad's Headingley has been honoured for was assistant priest at St Augustine's and his role in World War I. More here. St Clement's Bradford, died in hospital on Can you meet with election candidates in 5 May. The memorial and celebration for your constituency? More . Ann's life will be held at St Augustine's Church Bradford on Monday 15 May at Open garden at Hollin House (Bishop 2.30pm. More details here Nick's home) on 10 June. More . And discover All Hallows' unusual auction of Subscribe here promises here . Do you receive the Diocese of Leeds e-news regularly? If not, subscribe to RIPON the E-news here News to [email protected] Communities up and down the Yorkshire

Dales have been giving thanks for the lambing season with services at farms in Ribblesdale and Swaledale. More here . More than 1500 people enjoyed this year's Ripon Cathedral Beer Festival on Bank Holiday Monday. The event raised a record £13,500, More here WAKEFIELD News to [email protected]

May Day was celebrated in style as Trinity Church, Ossett came second in the local community May Procession with their Creation float and Hoylandswaine held a special Mayday service and indoor picnic for young and old, including Dementia friends and carers. More.

In Silkstone, Frank Bramall, a forgotten war hero finally had his name added to the village War Memorial on the centenary of his death. More here. RESOURCES

Download the Leeds Diocesan Bulletin for June The free monthly paper bulletin for June is available for download as a PDF. This month, news of Thy Kingdom Come events, the General Election and area news. 27,000 copies are now being distributed to churches. Download, or find out where your copies are being delivered to here

Prayer acros s the diocese

The April and May and June Prayer Diaries are now online and can be downloaded here. Prayers for our overseas links here too. General Election - resources and ideas for

churches Ahead of the General Election, June 8, you can find information for churches who want to engage with the process on our election page.It contains guidelines, information and resources for churches on holding local hustings. More here

New DAC Appointments Three new appointments have been made to the Diocesan Advisory Committee following the retirement of its secretary Sylvia Johnson. Lisa McIntyre has been appointed as the new DAC Secretary and Jen Read and Stephen Craven have both been appointed as Assistant DAC Secretaries. More here

New PCC members - Parish Resources help

If your APCM resulted in a new church treasurer, or new PCC members you can point them towards the Parish Resources website. For treasurers topics include accounting, funding and gift aid - more here. There is a video clip and helpful guides for new PCC members. More here Music for school or church from Skipton

musician

Retired church school head teacher, Brian Beresford, has published a new CD of original reflective music together with music and words for schools and churches based around the 'I am' sayings of Jesus. Brian, who leads the music at Holy Trinity Parish Church, Skipton, has been running song workshops in primary schools for many years. More details here

Team Cycling Challenge for Ride + Stride

Each year the Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust run an event called Ride + Stride , which involves people getting sponsored to visit as many churches in a day as they can, either by foot, on a bike or by car. This year they are introducing a Team Challenge for Cyclists for teams of up to eight cyclists. Find out more here.

Journey of the Magi Get ready for Christmas 2017 by hosting a performance of Journey of the Magi by Springs Dance Company. Delights audiences of all ages. The show portrays the original Christmas story whilst drawing hilarious and poignant parallels with our own preparations for Christmas day. More here. MEDIA

Musings of a restless bishop Bishop Nick's blog also includes his Thought for the Day and Chris Evans show scripts. Take a look at it here

Mark becomes the Twitter voice of the CofE

Our CofE is an intitiative by the communications department which invites a different person each week to share insights into their work using Twitter. All this week our Urban Mission Officer , Mark Waddington, is tweeting about his work in our diocese. You can follow his posts on Twitter by searching for @OurCofE Watch 'We are the Diocese of Leeds ' in full 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

Follow us on Twitter Get the latest news by following @LeedsCofE. And Bishop Nick - @nickbaines - and our three cathedrals: @riponcathedral , @wakecathedral, @Bfdcathedral

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