Homecoming for new vicar for Brownhill

Homecoming for new vicar for Brownhill  

She’ll be going back to where it all began when the Revd Lesley Mattacks is installed at St Saviour’s Brownhill.

For Lesley’s first curacy was at Birkenshaw just up the road and on Monday 22 June the former RE  teacher will be made the vicar of St Saviour’s in front of an esteemed audience that includes family, friends, colleagues , the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Professor Bob Cryan, the Mayor of Kirklees, Coun Paul Kane and his consort, the Archdeacon of Halifax, the Venerable Anne Dawtry and the Area Dean, the Revd Capt  Paul Knight.

The Bishop of Huddersfield, the Rt Revd Dr Jonathan Gibbs will conduct the service.

Lesley joins St Saviour’s Brownhill from the Parish of Middlestown with Netherton in the Wakefield Episcopal Area where she has been a Training Officer for Readers and a staff member of the Wakefield School of Ministry.

Before training for ordained ministry she was a secondary school teacher and her specialism was Religious Education. Originally from Walthamstow in London, she moved to Yorkshire just over twenty years ago and is married with two grown-up children.

When she has the chance, she enjoys reading historical fiction and visiting places of historical interest and she has recently rediscovered the pleasures of quilting and is looking forward to the next  phase of her ministry in the busy church community of St Saviour’s, Brownhill.