Christ Church Sowerby Bridge

The Church of England Digital Learning Labs 2019

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On Saturday 7th September the Church of England held it's very first learning labs in Diocese of Leeds. Over 150 people from across the diocese and beyond attended a great day. Our Churchwarden Peter, along with a Adam a member of our congregation attended the day. Peter had been invited to be a part of the panel who spoke about using Social Media in their church.

Bishop Nick Baines began the day with a key note speech on the importance of engaging with the secular world through social media, before the CofE’s Head of Digital, Adrian Harris explained the many merits of A Church Near You’s new free website service.

Director of Lay Training, Hayley Matthews spoke during the afternoon session, which ended with a questions to a panel that included Philip Lickley, comms and marketing officer for Bradford Cathedral, Paul Magnall from All Hallows, Leeds and Peter Henry of Christ Church, Sowerby Bridge.

Adam Made comment on how he thought this day would have been boring and he thought he would lose intreat, he went on to say that this was totally different, it kept him enthroled during the whole day, Adam especially liked the use of VR within the church, and how this could help us.

Peter described the day as a learning opportunity, having done the 2 workshops he found new ways of promoting the use of social media within the church.