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Trinity Church in Ossett in the Wakefield area have been able to launch a new Messy Church service, thanks in part to a small grant from the Diocese of Leeds.
Twelve women in His Majesty’s Prison and Youth Offenders Institute New Hall recently publicly affirmed their faith in Jesus through baptism and confirmation.
The Revd Canon Dr Philip Hobday has been appointed as the next Dean of Wakefield.
The Diocese of Leeds was pleased to welcome the Rt Revd John Msuma of the Diocese of Tarime in Tanzania for a visit recently.
Over 50 people who work with children and young people gathered at St George’s Lupset recently to be thanked, equipped, network and work out what they can do next.
A group of seventeen young people aged between eleven and eighteen from the Wakefield Episcopal area travelled to Walsingham to join in with over three hundred young Christians for a week of worship, prayer, fun and camping at the Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage.
Revd Canon David Gerrard, currently Area Dean of Wakefield and vicar of St Catherine’s Wakefield, will be the next Archdeacon of Sheffield and Rotherham.
St Paul’s Alverthorpe has marked 200 years of worship with events and a celebration service.
Dean of Wakefield Simon Cowling was joined by many well-wishers at his farewell service, held in what he called “a cathedral without frontiers”.
Some 530 people across the diocese have heard about plans for an improved approach to Parish Share at a series of online meetings.
