Holy Communion

Services of Holy Communion are conducted in sign language once a month in the following centres:

Barnsley
Moorland Avenue Day Centre, 2.00 pm on the 1st Wednesday

Dewsbury
Deaf Centre, 10 Oxford Road, 7.00 pm on the 2nd Wednesday

Halifax
All Souls Church, Haley Hill, Boothtown, 7.00 pm on the 3rd Wednesday

Huddersfield
St Philips Church, Birchencliffe, 3.00 pm on the 1st Sunday

Huddersfield
Deaf Centre, Trinity Street, 11.00 am on the 3rd Wednesday

Wakefield
Deaf Centre, 7 South Parade, 11.00 am on the 1st Thursday

Many of these services have mixed congregations of deaf and hearing people. Hearing people are warmly welcomed, and voice-over translation is provided.

Baptisms, weddings or funerals

If you are a deaf person involved in a baptism, wedding or funeral, help can be offered by either providing an interpreter (with support from the Chaplain) or the Chaplain can conduct the service in sign language, with voice-over translation for hearing people. Clergy involved are invited to contact the Chaplain.

Carrying the Light

A fellowship group, called Carrying the Light, meets in its members homes in the Halifax/Huddersfield area, once a month on a Sunday evening, for fellowship, prayer and Bible Study. There is an aim to set up similar groups in other areas for interested people.