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Diocese of South West Virginia Exchange Trip 2018

Will you be aged 15-18 in summer 2018?

Would you like the chance to visit the USA and make friends with Christians your age from another country?

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Gospel Street had young people spellbound

Submitted by jane-bower on Mon, 13/11/2017 - 13:46

YOUNG people from across the Wakefield Area were invited to a special evening of theatre, comedy, spoken word and music in St George’s Church, Lupset to watch Riding Lights’s latest touring show,...

Churches urged to welcome families with additional needs

Submitted by john-carter on Sat, 04/11/2017 - 16:24

Representatives from churches across the diocese have been meeting together to examine ways to help churches become more welcoming to families with additional needs. A ground-breaking gathering of...

Thank you for heat and warmth in Barnsley church

Submitted by jane-bower on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 10:54

It’s not often you say thank you for a new boiler…but that’s exactly what the children of Brierley Church School and the Mayor of Barnsley did last week when they gathered in their local church for...

And then they were one! Hello and welcome Honley school.

Submitted by jane-bower on Tue, 24/10/2017 - 13:38

It was a celebration for parents and families in the village of Honley and beyond when the Bishop of Leeds, the Rt Revd Nick Baines and local MP, Thelma Walker joined staff and children for an...

Heavenly host invite for Dewbury shops and businesses

Submitted by jane-bower on Mon, 23/10/2017 - 18:52

Crafty people at Dewsbury Minster are busy knitting angels to take round all the shops and businesses in town with a message of hope and an invitation to come to church on Christmas Eve. Knitters...

BBC weather presenter at Lepton school the day the sky turned red!

Submitted by jane-bower on Mon, 23/10/2017 - 18:04

It couldn't have been better timing when BBC Look North's weather presenter Abie Dewhurst visited Lepton CE Primary School last week. She came the day the sky turned red! She has been invited in to...

Our Archbishop of York young leaders speak of their experience

Submitted by jane-bower on Wed, 18/10/2017 - 16:45

Three of our former church school pupils were given time off from their new secondary school to speak about their experience on the Archbishop of York’s Young Leaders Award to head teachers and other...

Abseiling challenge to heat Halifax church

Submitted by jane-bower on Wed, 18/10/2017 - 15:55

There are easier challenges to be had as a newly licensed curate than throwing yourself down your church tower, but that is exactly what new curate, the Revd Linda Maslen has chosen to do…..and she’s...

Huge and important role of our rural schools says Bishop Jonathan

Submitted by jane-bower on Wed, 18/10/2017 - 13:59

The Bishop of Huddersfield, the Rt Revd Jonathan Gibbs who chairs our Board of Education met with three Wensleydale schools which are facing a deficit of £95,000 by March next year and suggested they...