Dates for your Diary – Nov 2017 to Dec 2017

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November

Sun 5th All Saints

Fri 10th 2.45pm Collective Worship (in Church)

Sun 12th Remembrance Sunday

9.45am Parish Communion (Note earlier start time)
10.55am Act of Remembrance at the War Memorial, to include the 2 minutes silence and laying of wreaths.

Tue 14th 7.30pm Licensing of the Revd Julie Bacon

Tue 21st 7.30pm Episcopal Area Forum

Sat 25th St Andrew’s Fair (in Church)

Sun 26th Christ the King

Mon 27th 7.00pm Prayers for the Parish & World Church (Parish Rooms)

Tue 28th 6.30pm PCC meeting (Parish Rooms)

Thu 30th ST ANDREW’S DAY

7.30pm Patronal Festival Eucharist. Preacher: The Revd Canon Philip Gray, Area Dean

December

Sun 3rd ADVENT SUNDAY

Fri 8th 2.45pm Collective Worship (in Church)

Thu 14th 2.00pm and 6.00pm Nativity EYFS/KS1 (in Church)

Tue 19th 6.00pm Christmas Carol Service

Article from ‘The Bridge’ October 2017

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Sponsor a Slate!

You’ve been sponsoring!  We’ve not had a “mega-launch” of this scheme, but the total has just been quietly climbing.  It is an idea that appeals to visitors, too.  Their visit to our fine old church turns into a pilgrimage as they leave behind them a firm and solid mark of their visit and their appreciation of the peace and prayerfulness of the building.

One visitor has travelled all the way from Maryland in the USA (he is, in fact, a Canadian!) One of the main purposes of his trip was to look up evidence of his ancestor, one William Cockshott.  William was a churchwarden and his name was inscribed on the treble of the old ring of six bells, cast in 1780.  This inscription has been copied onto the 2nd bell of our current “new” ring (cast in 1914) and so we were able to take him up to the bell chamber to see the bell and photograph the inscription.  His name will now join that of his ancestor in the fabric of St Andrew’s.

So far, we’ve raised nearly £2,000 – and quite a lot of that comes from the Government!  Many of the donations are Gift-Aided, so some £340 is “free cash”!

What’s not to like?

Regular Events

Interim Priest in Charge of St Andrew’s Kildwick and Interim Priest in Charge of St John’s Cononley with St Mary’s Bradley

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The announcement of the Revd Julie Bacon as Interim Priest in Charge of St Andrew’s Kildwick and Interim Priest in Charge of St John’s Cononley with St Mary’s Bradley.

Andy Jolley, the Archdeacon of Bradford, is delighted that this announcement can now be made. He says “It was a privilege to be part of the meeting that Julie had with the representatives of the three churches last week. Julie is an exceptional priest with fantastic experience before and after her ordination which will be a great asset as she takes up this new interim role working in these two parishes and with these three churches. The interim role is for a period of three years and, in addition to covering familiar parish priest duties, will involve taking on the challenges identified in the profiles produced by the two parishes and myself. The main aim is to establish a new shared vision and put in place structures and relationships which will support the future flourishing of the church in these two parishes.”

Julie says,

“I am really excited to have been appointed to serve these two parishes as they prepare to enter into a new relationship with each other, and to seek God’s vision for the future in Kildwick, Cononley and Bradley. I’m looking forward to getting to know people in all three churches and villages, and finding out what God has in store for us over the next three years. I moved to Ilkley in 2000 with my husband, Matt, and children, Jack and Kate, and then to Shipley in 2014 when I became curate at St Peter’s Shipley, and I’m delighted to have the opportunity to explore and get to know the most northerly part of the Bradford Episcopal Area.”