{"id":678345,"date":"2026-01-06T19:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678345\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:44:19","slug":"deaf-ministry-team-help-people-enjoy-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678345\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaf Ministry Team help people enjoy Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OMmNhFo2fAlSbOtzZbBI3ikhrrAo7o5VUbE8rGY9.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right; width: 40%;\"\/>Users of British Sign Language were able to take part in Christmas services and events throughout December 2025 thanks to the Diocese of Leeds Deaf Ministry Team.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the team\u2019s BSL-Led Congregation held a \u2018Dress-Up Nativity\u2019 at Pellon, Christ Church, where Deaf people and sign-language learners used BSL to confidently re-tell the story of God\u2019s coming among us and they shared together in signed editions of Christmas carols.<\/p>\n<p>The team also provided interpreters for services in the Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, and Wakefield areas.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Deaf Ministry across the Diocese of Leeds, see <a href=\"https:\/\/leeds.anglican.org\/how-we-can-help\/ministry-mission\/deaf-ministry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Users of British Sign Language were able to take part in Christmas services and events throughout December 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-678345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115849872565516888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}