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IMPORTANT NOTICE RE. TIMES OF SUNDAY SERVICES
Dear
Friends
TIMING OF SUNDAY SERVICES
I am writing to inform you of the circumstances surrounding the
change in the times of the Sunday services.
As you will be aware I was appointed the priest in charge of
Bramhope (again!) and Ireland Wood on 20 January 2009. At that point
we were expecting that another priest would be appointed to St
Paul’s Ireland Wood to give two days plus Sunday. Despite
advertising that has not happened.
What has happened is that we have been blessed with an assistant
curate David Ford who will be ordained deacon on 28 June. However it
does mean that I will be stretched over the coming 12 months to
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Cover the services at two churches and
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Supervise the training of David and
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Continue with my regular presence at St Giles and
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Continue with our mission here in Bramhope
The only way I can solve this is by both St Giles and St Paul’s
churches changing times of service to enable me to be in both
churches most Sundays. To facilitate that I have discussed with the
PCCs of both churches the timing of services. Both PCCs have now
agreed to changes in the times of the services.
A decision has been made to change the service times at St Giles to
9.30 am from 5 July 2009. And in consequence of this I
will request that the 8.30 am service go back to 8.15 am to give
sufficient time between the two morning services. The evening
service will remain the same at 6.30 pm.
Some of you I know will find these time changes more difficult than
others but I hope that with good will on all sides we will come
through this change. We will look again at the timing of the
services in 12 months.
Yours sincerely
Janice
Priest in Charge |
