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Celebrate Recovery: In Leeds? Celebrate Recovery are looking for churches in the Leeds area to catch the vision and think about starting a Celebrate Recovery group in their area. More ... Celebrate Recovery Romance Academy Starting in Moortown Hannah Dey (youth worker at the Chapel Allerton Youth Project) and Glenda at Moortown Baptist are joining forces once again for a new initiative. More ... We've moved! Details of our new address... More ... New LYCN Website and Apps! LYCN is an inter-denominational project born out of the unity of Christians in Leeds. It is a project which is playing a part in shaping the church of this next generation here in Leeds. More ...

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Events

Worship Development Retreats - April WORSHIP, LEARNING, PLANNING + GROWING FOR WORSHIP LEADERS AND CORE WORSHIP TEAMS: TWO YEARS, FOUR WEEKENDS, POTENTIAL RELEASED More ... From Connect 11 - The scandal of inequality: So What? - Feb At Connect 2011 we talked about Leeds as a city of gross inequalities and described this as a scandal. Well, as we've talked to people we realise that many have been thinking through what this might mean and how we might respond. More ... The Gospel Unplugged: What's life when you strip it down to basics? - Feb Whta's life when you strip it down to basics ? Please come and join us and bring along some friends to hear the unchanging gospel in a fresh and creative way. More ... Leeds Youth Cell Network Cell Celebration - Jan All the info about the next Cell Celebration! More ... Roots, hosted by Christian Aid - A day of action for 16-25s in Leeds to tackle poverty - Feb Roots is to be held here in Leeds on Saturday February 4th, and will be a day of action for 16-25 year olds to tackle the root causes of poverty. More ... Personal Discovery weekend and 30% off in April at Whitemoor Lakes Activity Centre We have been offering 30% off for the weekends 13th – 15th April and 20th – 22nd April at Whitemoor Lakes if booking a minimum of 24 places More ... Jon Munt Scripture Union Holidays: Book now! Many of you, before Christmas, will have received a copy of our 2012 Holidays Brochure. Like last year, all of our holidays are available to book online More ... Hearing the Voice of God: prophecy conference at St Matthias Church, Burley Their prophetic ministry, which is characterized by the Father's love brings healing, restoration, vision, and direction to the lives of people, churches, and ministries as it reveals the destiny God has planned for them. More ...

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Diary

Saturday 28 January 7:00pm LYCN Cell Celebration @ Cottingley Church, 115 Cottingley Approach, Leeds Sunday 29 January Crucible Stream 1: Urban Challenge @ International Mission Centre, 24 Weoley Park Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham Crucible Stream 2: Becoming Human @ International Mission Centre, 24 Weoley Park Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham 1:30pm Holocaust Memorial Day @ Leeds Town Hall,The Headrow 2:30pm Homelessness Sunday @ St George's Crypt, Great George Street, Leeds 3:30pm Leeds Arabic Fellowship @ South Parade Baptist Church, Headingley, Leeds Tuesday 31 January 9:45am Trustees: can’t work with them – or without them! @ St George's Centre, Great George Street, Leeds 7:00pm EWI (Encountering the World of Islam) @ Gateway Christian Centre (Elim Church), Vulcan Street (off Tong Street), Bradford Wednesday 1 February NL E-bulletin due @ Leeds 1:15pm Leeds in your Lunch Hour @ Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane,Leeds City Centre Thursday 2 February 10:30am Business Partnerships Seminar @ St George's Centre, Great George Street, Leeds 7:30pm Refugees and Asylum Seekers - Prayer and Presentation evening @ The St. Georges Centre, Great George Street, Leeds

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Stories

God surprises Earth with Heaven URC Minister Angela Hughes writes with a powerful reflection on the message of 'God with us'. More ... Angela Hughes Bringing the Good News to all people in Leeds James Barnett is Pioneer Minister to New Communities in Leeds. As titles go this is a fairly hefty one, but what does it mean? More ... Susy Pinnington Compassion - Start Small, Think Big - Personal reflection from Susy, Network Leed's newest volunteer The first in a series of reports we are running on various different charities / organisations. Written by Susy, our new volunteer More ... Susy Pinnington Money, Mammon and Market Society At the height of the financial crisis two years ago, Gordon Brown declared that “markets need morals”. Of course, our former Prime Minister will understand his own words as paradoxical. Adam Smith’s “invisible hand of the market” is amoral... More ... Philip Bee

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Newsletters

Bethlehem Centre, Romania - Winter 11 Update Like always, over the Christmas Season we were busy running all sorts of Christmas projects for our various groups, and sorting out the delivery of a few thousand Christmas shoeboxes. More ... Breathe: 2012 Lent Consumer Detox This is an invitation to take part in the 2012 Lent Consumer Detox. More ... Fellowship of European Broadcasters: News Snippets January 2012 In this Edition: Europe; Africa; Asia; Australasia; Global; Latin America; Middle East; USA More ... Happy New Year from New Wine! Please take a few moments to have a look at some important information about up and coming events. We have also given you a link to some talks. Why not click 'play' and take in some great teaching? More ... Celebrate Recovery Details of their year in 2011 More ... Celebrate Recovery Beehive Newsletter - Jan 2012 The Beehive is open again! More ... Beehive

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Jobs

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Development Worker - Crossroads - Deadline Extended to 6th Feb! Crossroads is a small local project in the heart of Middleton running activities for young people (currently some detached work and a weekly community youth club based at St Cross Church). More ... Asst Curriculum Leader Of Science - Leeds An enthusiastic and forward-looking teacher is required to join our Science team and take the teaching and learning agenda forward across our 11-16 school. More ... Part Time Housing Support Worker - Leeds Abigail Housing provides supported housing to individuals at the end of the asylum process. More ... Trainee Vacancies for 18-24 year olds at Whitemoor Lakes Activity Centre, We are currently recruiting young people aged between 18-24 years old to become an Activity Instructor Trainee. You will live on site and all your training and meals are paid for and you will earn £50 per week. More ... Youth Worker - Chapel Allerton We are looking for a team player who can lead and sustain growing work among young people both inside and outside the church. This vibrant project is jointly run by the Baptist, Anglican and Methodist Churches in Chapel Allerton. More ... Hope Housing - Housing Support/Move-on Worker Do you have a heart to support homeless people? An exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic Christian charity tackling homelessness has opened up in Bradford. More ... High School Pupil Welfare Officer - Harrogate To manage health related issues for students at the school including administering first aid. More ... Class Teacher - Year 1, Temp. full time To cover Maternity Leave from 20th Feb to July, to join the join the hard-working, friendly and supportive staff in this popular and successful school. More ... Triangle C of e Primary School House for Duty Priest - Knaresborough This is a busy, historic market town with a strong sense of community and a number of rural villages in picturesque North Yorkshire. More ... Development Worker - Children/Youth - Leeds The Boys’ Brigade is seeking to recruit an innovative and committed Development Worker to help us improve and extend our Youth and Children’s Work in the Leeds area. More ... Head of Youth and Children’s Work - York Do you have experience in leading and growing youth and children's ministry? Is this your passion? Could you develop and lead a team in an exciting new vision and strategy across a multi-site/multi-congregational church? More ...

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Devotionals

Inside Out “Imagine if you had some deep, dark secret ... something that brought you tremendous shame. But instead of being able to hide it away, you had to wear it on your skin, so that the first time anyone saw you, they saw your secret.” More ... Seeds of the Kingdom Faith takes action One Sunday at church, as the speaker shared the word of God, I realised that Christians may not be understanding faith as they should. Some people are taking faith to mean believing in God to do something for them, instead of believing God will help them More ... Seeds of the Kingdom Word for you today adapted for young people Gary Larson captured a common misconception of Heaven in one of his Far Side cartoons. In it a man with angel wings and a halo sits on a cloud, doing nothing. A caption reads: 'Wish I'd brought a magazine.' More ... UCB Media The great unchangeable I AM I’m writing this seed on New Year’s Day, having had time to reflect on the past year, and recalling my experience of the faithfulness and steadfast love of God through varied, changing circumstances of my life. More ... Seeds of the Kingdom Matthew 2:13-23 - Week 8 - Day Five Not long after the wise men had left the area, Joseph was once again visited in his dreams by a messenger from God. More ... Simon Hall

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