HOPE Together & HOPE Revolution

Dear friends,

You are personally invited to attend an exciting evening at Bradford Academy that we hope will bring people together from Bradford and Leeds to see how further Unity, Prayerful Worship and Missional Transformation can develop between the two cities.

Back in July 2012, we saw over 50 young people, 12 leaders and several churches from across Bradford and Leeds join together in a 2 day pilot mission. We partnered with a local church in Bradford to share and witness to Christ's love in word and deed. In addition to this, we included young people in the conversation of ways in which to help connect both cities in the future.

There are many people interested in exploring the potential of developing something on a larger scale, culminating in a week of mission across the two cities in 2014.

Your attendances and input will help shape the way forward:

We would like to invite you to an exciting evening of information about HOPE Together and the youth strand HOPE Revolution. There will be testimonies from people who took part in the recent pilot mission and an opportunity to discuss how we move forward together.

The address for our time together is Bradford Academy, Lister Avenue, BD4 7QJ. Please drive to the Lister Avenue school gate entrance and use the school car park provided. For sat nav users please use Lister Avenue instead of the post code as we found that some sat navs do not necessarily get you to the right entrance.

Please RSVP to this letter indicating whether you or a representative will be attending our time together at Bradford Academy on Wednesday 21st November at 7pm - 9:30pm by using the following contacts:-

RSVP to the Hope Revolution contact in Bradford:
Sonya Redfern-Price 07976091335

RSVP to the Hope Revolution contact in Leeds:
Ben Jones 07815077836 RSVP by Email to: mission@hopeleeds.co.uk

If you are interested in reading more about this exciting development please visit

http://www.hopetogether.org.uk and http://www.hope-revolution.com

We look forward to hearing from you ...

Yours in Faith, Bradford and Leeds Hope Team

Bradford Facilitators
Christy Moore: Leader at Church of the harvest, Bradford
Josh Carr: Bradford Cathedral Youth Worker
Rev Sonya Redfern-Price: Leader Allerton Community Church
Stephen Bykar: Community Development Worker, Bradford

Leeds Facilitators
Ben Cordy: Leeds Youth Cells Youth Worker
Ben Jones: Leeds Youth Cells Youth Worker
Nick Shepard: Church Army Officer, Leeds and Ripon

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