Our Interim Priest-in-charge is Rev Julie Anderson who took up the post in January 2024.  

Julie is also the Area Dean of Almondbury and Kirkburton Deanery. 

Her group of churches includes the churches of Emley, Flockton-with-Denby Grange, Lepton and Kirkburton, 

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When she joined us, Rev Julie Anderson wrote to all her parishioners, to introduce herself:

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I am a north-eastern lass – born just outside of Durham City – where mum and dad still live.  I am over 60 – that’s about as far as I’m prepared to go with that and I am a daughter, a sister, a mother, a mother-in-law, a grandmother, an auntie and a friend and I am a widow.  I was married to Pete for nearly 17 years but have been a widow now for over 17 years. 

My late husband was in the RAF and so we moved around quite a bit and I have had many jobs including Air traffic controller, running a pub, practice manager in a doctors’ surgery, a hydrology assistant at the National Rivers Authority and a till operator in a supermarket.  We eventually settled in Cambridgeshire where I built (single handedly) the now not so new A1(M) between Peterborough and Huntingdon. 

After Pete died I changed my job and worked at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge as a PA to 2 gynaecologists, where I helped to run the uro-gynaecology department. 

I have been a churchwarden and a Reader before I was called to ordination and I trained at St John’s College Nottingham.  I was ordained in 2011 and served my curacy at Christ Church Norris Green in Liverpool and then served 3 years as Team Rector in 5 villages in Cambridgeshire, and left the Emmanuel Team in Newsome, Armitage Bridge and South Crosland to come and join you.

I love to cruise and I would love to learn how to ballroom dance.  I hate gardening and sand with a passion but love spending time getting to know people.  The other thing you should know is that I am passionate about telling folk about Jesus.  I just want everyone to know the love he has for them and I will do my best to get that message across any way I can.  What I don’t do however is preach the Bible at people willy nilly!  I just try to love others and show them by my actions that Jesus loves them too. 

So, I would love to come and have a cup of tea with you and get to know you. 

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Thank you

Julie Anderson