Ecumenical partnerships for training in Yorkshire
Regional Training Partnership
An Enabling Group is working towards a covenant partnership between churches, dioceses and training institutions to oversee and co-ordinate their provision of training across Yorkshire:
- Education for Discipleship -
- Readers / Lay Preachers / Local Preachers -
- Ordained Ministers -

Chair: Bishop John Packer
Facilitator: Rev. Hilary Ison
URC representative: Rev. Stanley Jackson
CLAY Group
A gathering of training officers from different churches and dioceses who want to share their work for the benefit of people in the churches and communities of Yorkshire

Click CLAY for details of events coming up
and vision statement

Chair: Viv Morrissey
URC training officer: Mick Maskell
Adult Christian Education Project
An ecumenical project employing a
Director of Adult Christian Education
based at the Mirfield Centre
to serve the churches across Yorkshire.
The project is overseen by an
Education Development Committee.

Chair: Fr. George Guiver


Director: Rev. June Lawson
Representatives of colleges, courses and schemes
for training for ordained and lay ministries,
and training officers of Anglican dioceses and partner denominations,
meet to work out the details of implementing (under the Yorkshire Regional Training Partnership) the proposals of the reports
"Formation for Ministry within a Learning Church"
and "Shaping the Future",
popularly called "the Hind process"
after the author of the first report, Bishop Hind.

Chair: Rev. Lesley Bentley
URC participant: Mick Maskell
Youth & children's workers
Ecumenical gatherings of
youth & children's work trainers
prepare joint programmes of training
in South, West and East Yorkshire

URC YCWT: Mick Maskell
Fresh Expressions
Fresh Expressions is a network across England to share experience, understanding and recognition of newly emerging forms of church life

Partnerships are being developed, under the auspices of Yorkshire Trainers, to deliver their new course "Learning for Pioneer Ministry"
locally in various places around Yorkshire

Co-ordinator: Rev. Richard Andrew
URC contacts: Rod Morrison, Anne Parker

Click to see website of Fresh Expressions