The Joined Up Conference in Sheffield is hosted by:
Mike North from Sheffield Diocese
Contact Mike at mike.north@sheffield.anglican.org
Megan Tillbrook from the United Reformed Church
Contact Megan at megancyp@urcyorkshire.org.uk
Philippa Dand from the Sheffield Methodist Circuit
Contact Philippa at philippa.dand@sheffieldcircuit.org.uk
Victoria Loveday from the Sheffield Methodist District
Contact Victoria at cy@sheffieldmethodist.org
Fiona Walton, formerly of CaSS (Christians and Sheffield Schools) Details of the closing of CaSS below.
News about CaSS (from https://www.cass-su.org.uk/)
Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses. He sets the time for birth and the time for death, the time for planting and the time for pulling up. Ecclesiastes 3: 1-2
CaSS is 40 years old this year, and we will celebrate this on Thursday 3rd July. During this long time we have employed two excellent Advisers who have linked churches and individual Christians with schools in a great variety of imaginative and effective ways. Linda Chambers and Fiona Walton have faithfully served God and Sheffield Schools, with very good administrative help in recent years. Linda retired after 26 years in 2011, and Fiona retires this summer after 14 years. We owe them both so much.
Over the last 9 months or so, the Trustees have thought deeply and prayed often about our future direction. We have seen other Christian groups move into several areas that were previously ours exclusively. We have felt that God was closing doors which were previously open. Following much discussion amongst ourselves and with Christian colleagues and supporters, the Trustees formally and unanimously agreed on Thursday 27th March that we will finish our work on 31st August 2025, and close the Sheffield Schools Christian Worker Trust on 30th September 2025. We do this with sadness, but with a deep conviction that this is right.
Fiona continues to be part of our Joined Up planning team as we work towards our next conference on 7th March, 2026.
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