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Oxford Place Centre
The centre is situated between the Leeds Town Hall and the Combined Courts.
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Worshipping Together
The congregation from Leeds St Peter's (Leeds Parish Church) and from St Mary's in Lincoln Green joined the congregation at Oxford Place for morning worship on Sunday 22nd January 2012 in the middle of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The worship took the form of a Covenant Service led by the Revd Adrian Burdon (Superintendent of the Leeds Methodist Mission), the preacher was the Revd Sue Wallace (Vicar at Leeds Parish Church) and Holy Communion was celebrated by the Revd Tony Bundock (Rector of Leeds Parish Church). After the service the congregation shared a buffet lunch. |
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Official opening of Nurture at Oxford Place
The Rt Hon Hilary Benn cuts the ribbon watched by Richard Cavadino At lunch time on 25th November, The Rt Hon Hilary Benn, MP for Leeds Central, officially opened the Nurture at Oxford Place Lounge Café. The opening was attended by representatives of St George's Crypt, Leeds Methodist Mission and other city centre churches. Also present were representatives from various organisations involved in or linked to the larger Nurture project based at St George's Crypt. Nurture at Oxford Place OpensThe Lounge Café, now run by Nurture at Oxford Place, opened on 24th October 2011. 
The café will be open each weekday from 10.00am until 2.00pm serving sandwiches, hot snacks, tea and coffee – eat in or take away. Nurture is a project run by St George's Crypt that helps those who have had periods of homelessness, or find themselves excluded from employment for other reasons. It also offers training to prisoners on day release from local prisons to prepare them to return to work. A particular aspect is training people to work in catering. The Lounge Café is a place where trainees can apply what they have learned. You can follow Nurture at Oxford Place on Twitter ... Follow @NurtureOP 176th Anniversary
At our anniversary service on Sunday, 9th October the preacher was Michael King (Pictured with our superintedent Adrian). Michael is Vice-president designate of the Methodist Conference and will begin his year in office at the end of the Conference next summer. His sermon drew on the lectionary reading from Matthew's Gospel (22:1-14) in which Jesus tells the parable of the king who invited guests to the wedding of his son, but no one turned up. The king sent out his servants to invite anyone they could find ... Michael stressed that we all invited into the Kingdom of God. Jesus ends the story by telling how one guest is ejected for not wearing clothes appropriate to the occasion. Michael suggested this means that when we respond to God's invitation we must change ... 
The Revd Liz Smith, Chair of the Leeds Methodist District, brought greetings to Oxford Place. The service was followed by lunch to which all were invited and many came.
A wedding
On Saturday, 1st October, the Revd Caroline Ryder (the Methodist Chaplain to the universities in Leeds) married Paul Arrowsmith at the Abundant Life Church in Bradford. We wish them much joy in their life together. Nurture at Oxford PlaceThis is a new venture that is in its early stages.Nurture is a project run by St George's Crypt that helps those who have had periods of homelessness, or find themselves excluded from employment for other reasons. It also offers training to prisoners on day release from local prisons to prepare them to return to work. A particular aspect is training people to work in catering, and Oxford Place is presently negotiating with Nurture towards the granting of a licence for Nurture to run a café on our premises where trainees can apply what they have learned. More information about this will be found in Life and Work ... Exchange of MinistersOn 22nd July our Superintendent Minister, the Revd Adrian Burdon, travelled, with his family, to Canada. Adrian is exchanging places with a Canadian minster, the Revd Robin Wilkie from Hamilton Ontario. Robin, with his wife Susan, arrived in Leeds on 23rd July and we will welcome them at the Sunday morning service on Sunday, 24th July. Robin and Susan will stay in Leeds for five weeks. Adrian and his family will return at the end of August. On Sunday 14 August Robin preached his final sermon at Oxford Place. After the morning service we said thank you and farewell to Robin and Susan and presented them with a gift and a card as mementos of their time in Leeds. He and Susan will return to Canada on Friday 19th August. More information about hsi will be found in Life and Work ... The Revd Richard Davison
A service to celebrate the life of Richard Davison, who died on the 20th April aged 86, was held at the Chorlton Methodist Church in Manchester on 5th May 2011. The church was full with family, friends and colleagues, and with many from the various places where Richard had served as a minister. Richard was superintendent minister at Oxford Place from 1974-1988. This time saw the change from a Victorian preaching house seating around 2000 to the building we have today, a change which because of Richard's vision and inspiration led to new ways of communicating the Gospel to the city of Leeds. Adrian's visit to MyanmarIn March Adrian, our superintendent minister, attended the Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, Upper Myanmar, as the representative of the Methodist Church in Britain. He has written a report (including photographs) which may be viewed or downloaded. 
AnniversaryOver the weekend of 9th and 10th October 2010 we celebrated the 175th Anniversary of Oxford Place Chapel, now Oxford Place Church within the Oxford Place Centre. The original building (which we still occupy, though much changed inside) was opened on 9th October 1835. On the actual date of the anniversary of the opening we had a Church Family lunch followed by a talk by the Revd David Gamble (President of the Methodist Conference 2009-2010). On the Sunday we had an anniversary service when the church was full to overflowing. The weekend was judged a great success. For a report of the weekend with photographs Click here
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Oxford Place Centre The Church with a Mission
If you would like a copy sent to you by post at a total cost of £4 please contact our Administrator at Oxford Place. Oxford Place Church is a community of people of different:
All are welcome to share in the worship and the life of the Church. Oxford Place Church is part of the Methodist Church of Great Britain, The Leeds District of the Methodist Church, and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. It is a member of Leeds City Centre Churches Group and the Methodist City Centre Network. Worship at Oxford Place
Sunday morning: All-age worship at 10.30am. The Lounge Café
The Lounge Café opened on Monday 24th October under the management of Nurture. (See news item)More information about weekdays ... Can you help?Why we are asking...In addition to being a place of Sunday worship, the Leeds Methodist Mission has a distinctive weekday ministry to Leeds City Centre. As we are a relatively small congregation, the continuance of this ministry depends upon the support of volunteers from throughout the district. Please help us to maintain a Methodist presence in Leeds City Centre. We can accept offers of any amount of time – a day per week, or perhaps every couple of weeks, or even monthly. Read more and make us an offer! Online information from the Methodist ChurchThe Methodist Church of Great Britain provides a number of on-line resources:
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Colin Dews, of the Wesley Historical Society in Yorkshire, has compiled a history of Oxford Place (1835-2010).
This 70-page book is available from Oxford Place Methodist Church and costs £3.
