Exciting news!  We’re delighted to inform you all that a New Vicar for #Meltham Parish was announced today!

The Bishop of Leeds, The Rt Rev’d Nicholas Baines is pleased to announce that the Rev’d John Dracup, currently serving as Assistant Curate at St. John the Baptist, Coley has been appointed as Vicar of the Parish of Meltham Christ the King in the Huddersfield Episcopal Area subject to the usual checks and formalities.  The data of the Licensing Service will be announced soon.

Please pray for Rev’d John and his family as they prepare to join us in Meltham and thank you for all your prayers during the interregnum – they have certainly been answered!

John trained for ordination at Cranmer Hall in Durham and has served his curacy at Coley. Before going to Durham John was a member of All Saints Church in Normanton for most of his life and served as a Church warden and a member of the PCC. When he left school he started working on a local farm and spent most of his working life in farming except a few years in his mid-twenties which were spent driving bulldozers and other ‘big boys toys’. He is married to Fiona and they have two children, Isaac and Rebekah. He enjoys family camping holidays in their trailer tent, walking and real ales.