This Sunday is Christmas Eve – and in case you didn’t know the day after is Christmas Day!
Sunday 10.30am – Our Scripture reading will be from Luke 1.67-79 on Christmas Eve in the morning service that won’t be livestreamed.
Sunday 5pm – In the evening we will livestream our Carol Service and readings will be some of the famous readings for a Carols by Candlelight.
Monday 10.30am – On Christmas Day we will meet for All Age Communion and read Luke 2.1-14
To see the live stream of the service click here. We will start streaming at 4.55pm for the Carols n Christmas Eve and at 10.25am “on Christmas Day in the morning”
Notices
(To get notices on this page please email notices@bradfordwest.church – we can’t promise to put all on – but will do our best!)
New Year /Epiphany Saturday Discipleship Brunch
Start 2024 with us reading God’s Word together on Saturday 6th January 2024 – 10.30am – St Paul’s Manningham
Bubble Church
We are starting Bubble Church in January at St Martin’s Heaton. This is a new style of service aimed at young children and their families. Please pray for this new venture and let us know if you feel you can volunteer to help with it. All the details are on our Bubble Church page.
Giving
Christmas time is all about giving and receiving. We know many of you like to give to our church but can we remind you about the 3 best ways.
1 Parish Giving Scheme – if you pay taxes and give regularly this is the best way – it takes all the admin away from us and works really well. This organisation is so good it was just bought by the Church of England! Joining the Parish Giving Scheme makes it all so much easier for us – and easier for you too! Basically you give to them – they claim the tax and give us a bigger gift than you gave! 25% more!
2 Using the Card reader at the back of church. If it is not working you can give by Card and include Giftaid here. Please remember we can claim 25% back on gifts of £30 and under.
3 Cash in the collection – we like this! But it is the hardest way for us to process and claim the tax back. But if you need to give that way – bless you and thank you! Please remember we can claim 25% back on gifts of £30 and under.
United Service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Will be at Bradford Cathedral at 6pm on Sunday 21st January.
The theme for this service is: “Be-Longing: Praying for Unity amidst Injustice” and is an attempt to explore how Christian Unity might contribute to the promotion of justice across all levels of society, particularly this year, the 30th anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence, concentrating on racial justice.