Author: Chris Chorlton

Change of Plan

Our service is at 10.30am at St Paul’s Church tomorrow.  Unfortunately, due to the bad weather, our usual food deliveries have not arrived. Sadly, this means breakfast will not be available at this service.

We are going to move our breakfast service to the following Sunday instead!  So Breakfast Church – next week – 19th January

So this week we are beginning a new series – it is only 3 parts but we are beginning the new year looking at our giving

Giving to Society – Giving our Time – Giving our Money.  We’ll start this week with Giving to Society by looking at what we do as a Parish for those in our community who do not attend our Church.

Our live stream of the service is here. We will start streaming at 10.25am.

If for any reason, if you are unable to attend church on Sunday, then please subscribe to our YouTube Channel and you’ll get notifications of each new video.  If you aren’t subscribed and you’d like to be click here.

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!

Inn Churches starts on Monday!

Reminder that from 13th – 20th January 2025 we are hosting Inn Churches – a in St Paul’s, it is a night shelter for the homeless during the coldest months of the year.

We have people from outside the Church offering to help – but we would love to have more of our own congregation members to help.  This is a very clear way to demonstrate the love of God to people who would otherwise be sleeping outside.

What can you do?

• Stay overnight – from 10pm to 7am?  You’ll get half a nights sleep.
• Come early to to cook breakfast for us?  6am start!
• Cook an evening meal for 12 guests and 6 volunteers? For 7pm
• Come and be a friend from 6pm – 10pm?
• Bring underwear, warm socks and toiletries for our guests?

If you can help in anyway please Contact us straight away with the days/times you’re available.

Sunday School Leaders

Can you help with our Primary School Children when they go out during the sermon?  It is a small commitment of only 12 times per year.  You don’t need to prepare or deliver the lesson only be the “2nd person” in the room.  We need help on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the Month – but not every month.  This would bless our teachers and helpers greatly!

Mission Support

We support Beacon as one of our areas of Mission in the city.  They have an AGM on Tuesday 21st January from 5.30pm-7.30 pm at Kala Sangam.
(41 Bank Street, Bradford, BD1 1RD)

As well as Beacon we give to Sue and Ian and the Torrens family in Ukraine – Here is the Torrens’ latest family News

Reminder that from 13th – 20th January 2025 we are hosting Inn Churches – a in St Paul’s, it is a night shelter for the homeless during the coldest months of the year.

We have people from outside the Church offering to help – but we would love to have more of our own congregation members to help.  This is a very clear way to demonstrate the love of God to people who would otherwise be sleeping outside.

What can you do?

• Stay overnight – from 10pm to 7am?  You’ll get half a nights sleep.
• Come early to to cook breakfast for us?  6am start!
• Cook an evening meal for 12 guests and 6 volunteers? For 7pm
• Come and be a friend from 6pm – 10pm?
• Bring underwear, warm socks and toiletries for our guests?

If you can help in anyway please Contact us straight away with the days/times you’re available.

Happy Christmas everyone.  From all of us at the Parish of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham we’d like to wish you a very Happy Christmas and a Joyful, Peaceful New Year.

We’ve had quite a lot of celebration already in the past 2 days.  Two more services to go!

Tuesday 24th Dec – Christmas Eve  Bethlehem Carols – 9pm – St Paul’s Manningham (Carols and Christmas Message)

25th Dec – Christmas Day – All Age Christmas Celebration – 10.30am – St Paul’s Manningham

Carols and Candles at St Barnabas – Sunday 22 December 2024

Pop up Nativity at St Paul’s – Sunday 22 December 2024

This Sunday is the 3rd in Advent and we will be looking at the story of John the Baptist and his challenge to the people of his day. Our Reading will be Luke 3:7-18

Our communion service is at 10.30am at St Paul’s Church.

Our live stream of the service is here. We will start streaming at 10.25am.

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!)

Christmas Services 2024

This is what we’re doing this Christmas

The Church of England has made some resources for Advent – you can sign up here

Carol Singing at the BRI

Last year a group of us went to the BRI to sing Christmas carols to raise the spirits of those who are in hospital over Christmas time.  This year we’re doing that again on Wednesday 18th December. Meet at 5.30 by Costa Cofee to sing on the wards from 6-7pm
If anyone is free and willing contact us for more details.

Churches Together New Year’s Eve – Watchnight Service

There will be a Watchnight Service at Westgate Baptist Church on New Year’s Eve – 10.30pm to 12.30am! Come along and see in the New Year with worship and prayer! You are very welcome.

Bradford Festival Choral Society Christmas concert – 14th December 2024

Christmas Planning – this Wednesday at 7.30pm

We’re always open to rethinking how we celebrate the birth of Jesus!

If you want to come and talk/pray about how to communicate this wonderful message to the Parish please come to St Paul’s this Wednesday 18th September at 7.30pm.

Many people have a variety of traditions and ideas that are particularly important to them – we’d really love our Christmas events to reflect the people who come to church in our Parish.

An extra post this week – so you can be up to date with the documents you need for our annual meeting on Sunday

Documents

Our Report this year is Downloadable below – it would be great if you can have read it by the meeting and come with questions.  Paper copies were at Church last Sunday and we have a few left

We have also prepared a budget – it isn’t great reading, so brace yourself.

Minutes for last year’s APCM are also available as well as an Agenda

Downloads

Agenda for 2024 APCM

Minutes for last year’s APCM 2023

Report and review of 2023

Deanery Synod Report

Update

2024 Budget

2024 ReStore Budget

Timings

We hope the morning looks like this – thanks for understanding if it doesn’t follow the plan exactly.   The video review of the year will be on our Youtube Channel after the meeting.

9.30am Prayer

10.30am  All Age Communion Service

11.45am Coffee with our Election of Wardens Meeting

12noon APCM begins

In these Sundays from Easter to Pentecost we are looking more carefully at the Cross of Jesus and what it means

This week we will continue with: RECONCILIATION

Our service is at 10.30am at St Paul’s Church.  This is a service with Sunday School, Sunday Youth and Communion.

Our reading will be 2 Corinthians 5:16-21

The live stream of the service is here. We will start streaming at 10.25am

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!)

Lantern making – TOMORROW – 20th April 

Cecil Arts are hosting a lantern making workshop in St Paul’s Church tomorrow 10-1 (snacks provided).  We will be making them for the lantern parade at 8pm in Robert’s park in Saltaire on Saturday 27th April.

Bubble Church

Special Service for young children and their families – 4.30pm this Sunday – St Martin’s Heaton

Annual Church Meeting – APCM

This will take place NEXT Sunday – 28th April.  We will send out the papers, reports and information in a separate email very soon.

Roots and Routes – Sunday 5th May

You’ll remember we made a recipe book filled with stories for Christmas.  We’re going to celebrate that with an event on Sunday 5th May (Not 20th April 2024 as previously announced) at St Paul’s Manningham – this will be a special service combined with meeting the people in the stories and tasting the food!  10.30 for church – 12 noon for the celebration.  Bishop Toby will join us for this event.

Pentecost – 19^th May 2024

On Pentecost Sunday Churches across Bradford are holding a wonderful public act of witness in City Park on 19^th May 2024 – in the afternoon.  Please keep it free and more details are coming!

Summer Dates

More information to come – but save the dates!

30th May – Heaton Hub Community Day – Family Fun at Half Term
8th June – Celebrating 160 year of St Barnabas Church – Afternoon Tea and Service
16th June – Manningham on Sea – Community fun day in Manningham
6th July – Heaton Gala – Community fun day in Heaton

In these next Sundays from Easter to Pentecost we are looking more carefully at the Cross

We will be looking at the following ideas and themes each week – Substitution, Reconciliation, Adoption

This week we will start with: SALVATION

Our service is at 10.30am at St Paul’s Church.  This is a service with Sunday School, Sunday Youth and Communion.

Our reading will be Ephesians 2:1-10

The live stream of the service is here. We will start streaming at 10.25am

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!)

Saturday Discipleship Brunch 

TOMORROW!! Saturday 6th April March at 10.30 – St Paul’s Manningham

Bubble Church

Special Service for young children and their families – 4.30pm this Sunday – St Martin’s Heaton

Roots and Routes – Sunday 5th May

You’ll remember we made a recipe book filled with stories for Christmas.  We’re going to celebrate that with an event on Sunday 5th May (Not 20th April 2024 as previously announced) at St Paul’s Manningham – this will be a special service combined with meeting the people in the stories and tasting the food!  10.30 for church – 12 noon for the celebration.  Bishop Toby will join us for this event.

Pentecost – 19^th May 2024

On Pentecost Sunday Churches across Bradford are holding a wonderful public act of witness in City Park on 19^th May 2024 – in the afternoon.  Please keep it free and more details are coming!

Summer Dates

More information to come – but save the dates!

30th May – Heaton Hub Community Day – Family Fun at Half Term
8th June – Celebrating 160 year of St Barnabas Church – Afternoon Tea and Service
16th June – Manningham on Sea – Community fun day in Manningham
6th July – Heaton Gala – Community fun day in Heaton

We remembered this awful event today at St Barnabas

If you want to know what happened next….. please come to our All Age Communion Service on Sunday at 10.30am

If you can’t make it you can read about it yourself in John 20. 1-21

Or if you don’t want to do that the live stream of the service is here. We will start streaming at 10.25am

Other Options to find out the end of the story are available – like……

Bubble Church

Special Service for young children and their families – 4.30pm Easter Sunday, followed by an Easter Egg hunt and Hot Dogs – St Martin’s Heaton

Dawn Service

Our Churches Together Easter Celebration meeting will be at 6.30am on  – Heaton Hill – with Breakfast afterwards in St Barnabas Village Hall

On Friday we had an Easter Service in St Barnabas Church – this year as we told the story the school created a Latin American Cross.  Each panel was made by a different year group telling a different part of the Holy Week story.

During Holy Week on Monday to Friday churches across Bradford are providing an opportunity to enact ‘natural evangelism’

We will meet at the Cathedral at midday for prayer and prep. Then walk down to Centenary Square with a cross for 12.30pm. Sung worship, a 5 minute talk, handing out things (palm crosses, chocolate, etc.) and having conversations.  On Thursday it is at 2.30 – 3pm due to Eucharist.  If anyone would like to go and be a supportive presence you would be most welcome!

Also….. we hope to see many of you at our services over the rest of the week

Wednesday

10.30am Communion Service – St Barnabas Heaton

Maundy Thursday

7pm – Communion with footwashing  – St Martin’s, Heaton

Good Friday

3pm – Reflective Service – St Barnabas Heaton

Easter Sunday – 31st March

(Clocks go forward overnight!)

6.30am Churches Together Easter Celebration – Heaton Hill
(Breakfast afterwards in St Barnabas Village Hall)

10.30am All Age Easter Celebration – St Paul’s Manningham

4.30 – Bubble Church  – St Martin’s, Heaton