Welcome to the WYEC Website
Thank you for visiting the website of West Yorkshire Ecumenical Council (WYEC).
WYEC brings together the churches of West Yorkshire and much of North Yorkshire in common witness and mission.
JOB VACANCY AT WYEC - Part time (12 hours) Secretary/P.A. to the County Ecumenical Development Officer. For details and application pack, click here
UNITY POST 2010, the latest WYEC newspaper, is out now! It reports on the amazing things being done by churches working together across central Yorkshire. A page by page download is also available. Unity Post is distributed by your local Churches Together group. (Note to Churches Together groups collecting your copies from Halifax - the collection point has changed. It is not Salem this year but The King's Church, Park Road, HX1 2TS. 01422 250872)
COMING UP -
17 February - WYEC Church Leaders make an Ash Wednesday public statement about community values. Watch this space for more details.
18 March - 'Authority and the Church'. The Bishop of Wakefield and Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor in dialogue at Wakefield Cathedral. Follows 7pm Evensong.
THE WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY, 18-25 JANUARY
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 2010, saw large scale pulpit exchanges from Wakefield to Wetherby, daily ecumenical prayer groups in many churches across the region, and countless united services following the national theme 'You are my witnesses'. In Golcar, Huddersfield, the Week of Prayer was marked by the signing of an Ecumenical Covenant between the local Anglican, Baptist and Methodist churches.
ECUMENICAL WELCOME
| Congratulations to the churches of Upper Wharfedale which have become the first in the WYEC region to offer an Ecumenical Welcome to Christians of any tradition in their area. The Declaration of Ecumenical Welcome was made in Kettlewell Parish Church and the other churches in the area on 3 January. |  |
CHRISTIANS LEARNING ACROSS YORKSHIRE
The latest (January - September 2010) CLAY leaflet for ecumenical short courses and training is available here.
BANGING THE DRUM FOR PEOPLE SEEKING SANCTUARY
In a colourful - and at times noisy! - carol service in Bradford Cathedral, West Yorkshire church leaders celebrated the Christmas story along with asylum seekers, refugees and their supporters. Bible readings were heard in Farsi and Assyrian, and musical contributors included people from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The Sambalifax Band from Halifax had us dancing in the aisles!
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WYEC partner launches new website
Leeds Churches Together in Mission has a bright new informative website. See it here.
West Yorkshire Ecumenical Council consists of church leaders and ecumenical officers from: |
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The Anglican Diocese of Bradford |
The Yorkshire Baptist Association |
The Anglican Diocese of Ripon and Leeds |
The Yorkshire Synod of the United Reformed Church |
The Anglican Diocese of Wakefield |
The Yorkshire Division of the Salvation Army |
The Catholic Diocese of Leeds |
The Lutheran Church in Yorkshire |
The Leeds District of the Methodist Church |
The Yorkshire District of the Moravian Church |
The West Yorkshire District of the Methodist Church |
West Yorkshire African Caribbean Council of Churches |
The Yorkshire General Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) |
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Together, we are committed:
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