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Sunday 20th April 2025 – Easter Sunday

This week there is a lot on – so notices are arriving early!

There are full details about Easter here

But please try to journey with us over the coming days as we go to the the Table with Jesus and his Disciples this Thursday at 7pm and then the cross on Friday at 1pm.

Sunday is Easter Sunday and we’ll start with Churches Together celebration on Heaton Hill at 6.30am with Breakfast afterwards in the Village Hall

Then an All Age communion service at 10.30am at St Paul’s Church. We will be reading from Luke 24:1-12

Our live stream of the Sunday 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!

Electoral Roll

This year we are entirely renewing our Electoral Roll.  To be a member of the church, you will need to remain on our electoral roll or to join it for the first time. In order to do this, please can you fill this form in. Paper copies will also be available after church.

Our final list will be agreed at our APCM –  on 11th May 2025

City of Culture – a Letter to the Future

Bradford 2025 is creating an installation in Salts Mill called Letters to the Future 

The idea is that we all send a wish, a poem, a song, a memory, an essay, a story, a sense, a description, a history, a list, a book to the future –  there are details in this document  Letters to the Future  and more of an idea in this video that features St Barnabas School – and someone we know!  Please get involved and submit ideas on the website

Dates for your Diary

Summer Bus Trip – Saturday 26th July 2025 – Bolton Abbey

This will be a church trip – with a bus taking us there and back.  We will have a room to use at the Abbey and hopefully have a fun day in a beautiful place.  We hope to make this affordable for everyone.  Book some time to spend with your Church family!

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Sunday 13th April 20205 – Palm Sunday – Breakfast Church

This Palm Sunday we will be reading from Luke 19:28-40 

It is Breakfast Church this week and we start as usual at 10.30am at St Paul’s Church.

We don’t usually livestream this service – but we will this week – starting from about 11am

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!

Electoral Roll

This year we are entirely renewing our Electoral Roll.  To be a member of the church, you will need to remain on our electoral roll or to join it for the first time. In order to do this, please can you fill this form in. Paper copies will also be available after church.

Our final list will be agreed at our APCM –  on 11th May 2025

City of Culture – a Letter to the Future

Bradford 2025 is creating an installation in Salts Mill called Letters to the Future 

The idea is that we all send a wish, a poem, a song, a memory, an essay, a story, a sense, a description, a history, a list, a book to the future –  there are details in this document  Letters to the Future  and more of an idea in this video that features St Barnabas School – and someone we know!  Please get involved and submit ideas on the website

Dates for your Diary

More details about Easter here

Summer Bus Trip – Saturday 26th July 2025 – Bolton Abbey

This will be a church trip – with a bus taking us there and back.  We will have a room to use at the Abbey and hopefully have a fun day in a beautiful place.  We hope to make this affordable for everyone.  Book some time to spend with your Church family!

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Sunday 6th April 2025 – 5th Sunday of Lent

On the fifth Sunday of Lent, we will be reading from Philippians 3.4b-14

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.

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!

Brunch with ‘The Chosen’ – Tomorrow – Saturday 5th April at 10.30am

 We’ll have Brunch and watch the next episode of this re-telling of Jesus’ life.

Electoral Roll

This year we are entirely renewing our Electoral Roll.  To be a member of the church, you will need to remain on our electoral roll or to join it for the first time. In order to do this, please can you fill this form in. Paper copies will also be available after church.

Our final list will be agreed at our APCM –  on 11th May 2025

City of Culture – a Letter to the Future

Bradford 2025 is creating an installation in Salts Mill called Letters to the Future 

The idea is that we all send a wish, a poem, a song, a memory, an essay, a story, a sense, a description, a history, a list, a book to the future –  there are details in this document  Letters to the Future  and more of an idea in this video that features St Barnabas School – and someone we know!  Please get involved and submit ideas on the website

Dates for your Diary

More details about Easter

13th April 2025 – Palm Sunday 10.30am – Breakfast Church – St Paul’s Manningham

4.30pm – Bubble Church – St Martin’s Heaton

16th April 2025 – Wednesday 10.30am – Mid Week Communion – St Barnabas Heaton

17th April 2025 – Thursday 7pm – Upper Room Communion  – St Paul’s Manningham

18th April 2025 – Good Friday – 1pm Good Friday Interactive Lament Experience around St Paul’s that starts after Drop in Café so café users and the church can experience Good Friday together.

20th April 2025 – Easter Sunday – 6.30am Heaton Hill service followed by breakfast at St Barnabas Village Hall  – we really need volunteers to help cook

10.30 All Age Easter Service

4.30pm – Bubble Church plus Egg Hunt – St Martin’s Heaton

 

Summer Bus Trip – Saturday 26th July 2025 – Bolton Abbey

This will be a church trip – with a bus taking us there and back.  We will have a room to use at the Abbey and hopefully have a fun day in a beautiful place.  We hope to make this affordable for everyone.  Book some time to spend with your Church family!

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Sunday 30th March 2025 – Fourth Sunday of Lent

This is the fourth week of Lent and also Mother’s Day! This Sunday we will be led by our Youth and the reading is Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Our all age 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.

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!

Electoral Roll

This year we are entirely renewing our Electoral Roll.  To be a member of the church, you will need to remain on our electoral roll or to join it for the first time. In order to do this, please can you fill this form in. Paper copies will also be available after church.

Our final list will be agreed at our APCM –  on 11th May 2025

City of Culture – a Letter to the Future

Bradford 2025 is creating an installation in Salts Mill called Letters to the Future 

The idea is that we all send a wish, a poem, a song, a memory, an essay, a story, a sense, a description, a history, a list, a book to the future –  there are details in this document  Letters to the Future  and more of an idea in this video that features St Barnabas School – and someone we know!  Please get involved and submit ideas on the website

Brunch with ‘The Chosen’

Saturday 5th April at 10.30am – We’ll have Brunch and watch the next episode of this re-telling of Jesus’ life.

Dates for your Diary

More details about Easter

13th April 2025 – Palm Sunday 10.30am – Breakfast Church – St Paul’s Manningham

4.30pm – Bubble Church – St Martin’s Heaton

16th April 2025 – Wednesday 10.30am – Mid Week Communion – St Barnabas Heaton

17th April 2025 – Thursday 7pm – Upper Room Communion  – St Paul’s Manningham

18th April 2025 – Good Friday – 1pm Good Friday Interactive Lament Experience around St Paul’s that starts after Drop in Café so café users and the church can experience Good Friday together.

20th April 2025 – Easter Sunday – 6.30am Heaton Hill service followed by breakfast at St Barnabas Village Hall  – we really need volunteers to help cook

10.30 All Age Easter Service

4.30pm – Bubble Church plus Egg Hunt – St Martin’s Heaton

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Sunday 23rd March 2025 – Third Sunday of Lent

This is the third week of Lent. On Sunday we will be reading Isaiah 55:1-9

Our All Age 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.

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!

Churches Together Stations of the Cross
On Wednesday 26th March at 6pm we will join our Catholic brothers and sisters for a special Churches Together Lent Stations of the Cross. At Saint Cuthbert’s Church, 53 Wilmer Rd, Bradford BD9 4RX

 

APCM – 11th May 2025

We have had to change our APCM date this year.  It is now going to be held on May 11th – which is a Breakfast Church.  It will be a little longer than usual but we hope to have our Breakfast, the service and our Annual Meeting all at once!

City of Culture – a Letter to the Future

Bradford 2025 is creating an installation in Salts Mill called Letters to the Future 

The idea is that we all send a wish, a poem, a song, a memory, an essay, a story, a sense, a description, a history, a list, a book to the future –  there are details in this document  Letters to the Future  and more of an idea in this video that features St Barnabas School – and someone we know!  Please get involved and submit ideas on the website

Dates for your Diary

More details about Easter

13th April 2025 – Palm Sunday 10.30am – Breakfast Church – St Paul’s Manningham

4.30pm – Bubble Church – St Martin’s Heaton

16th April 2025 – Wednesday 10.30am – Mid Week Communion – St Barnabas Heaton

17th April 2025 – Thursday 7pm – Upper Room Communion  – St Paul’s Manningham

18th April 2025 – Good Friday – 1pm Good Friday Interactive Lament Experience around St Paul’s that starts after Drop in Café so café users and the church can experience Good Friday together.

20th April 2025 – Easter Sunday – 6.30am Heaton Hill service followed by breakfast at St Barnabas Village Hall  – we really need volunteers to help cook

10.30 All Age Easter Service

4.30pm – Bubble Church plus Egg Hunt – St Martin’s Heaton

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Sunday 16th March 2025 – The Second Sunday of Lent

This is the second week of Lent. On Sunday we will be reading Luke 13: 31-35.

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.

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!

Church Party 
You are all welcome to the GHM International Church Party on Friday 21st March from 7pm.  Come and celebrate Nowruz (Persian New Year) and the start of spring.  There will be music, food and dancing.  Could you bring some food from your home country to share?  Or share some of your favourite music?  Please sign up at the back of church so that we have an idea of numbers and also if you are able to bring food or music to share with us.

APCM – 11th May 2025

We have had to change our APCM date this year.  It is now going to be held on May 11th – which is a Breakfast Church.  It will be a little longer than usual but we hope to have our Breakfast, the service and our Annual Meeting all at once!

City of Culture – a Letter to the Future

Bradford 2025 is creating an installation in Salts Mill called Letters to the Future 

The idea is that we all send a wish, a poem, a song, a memory, an essay, a story, a sense, a description, a history, a list, a book to the future –  there are details in this document  Letters to the Future  and more of an idea in this video that features St Barnabas School – and someone we know!  Please get involved and submit ideas on the website

Dates for your Diary

More details about Easter

13th April 2025 – Palm Sunday 10.30am – Breakfast Church – St Paul’s Manningham

4.30pm – Bubble Church – St Martin’s Heaton

16th April 2025 – Wednesday 10.30am – Mid Week Communion – St Barnabas Heaton

17th April 2025 – Thursday 7pm – Upper Room Communion  – St Paul’s Manningham

18th April 2025 – Good Friday – 1pm Good Friday Interactive Lament Experience around St Paul’s that starts after Drop in Café so café users and the church can experience Good Friday together.

20th April 2025 – Easter Sunday – 6.30am Heaton Hill service followed by breakfast at St Barnabas Village Hall  – we really need volunteers to help cook

10.30 All Age Easter Service

4.30pm – Bubble Church plus Egg Hunt – St Martin’s Heaton

Bonhoeffer
a film about the famous theologian and pastor is showing for a second week at Leeds Showcase until Thurs. 20th March.
 
Performance times from today will be:
 Leeds Showcase   Batley WF17 9TB 
Sat. 15th March at 10.40am;
Sun.16th March at 4pm;
Mon. 17th to Thurs.20th March daily at 1.45pm;
also: Thurs. 20th March at 6.45pm.
For details, trailer and to book go to: bonhoefferfilm.com
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Sunday 9th March 2025 – Ten Commandments – Jealousy

This week we have reached the end of our series, on the Ten Commandments. On Sunday we will be looking at the  of last of the Ten Commandments – Jealousy.

Our Breakfast Church service is at 10.30am at St Paul’s Church.  Please remember to invite your friends along – this is our ‘invitation’ service.  

We don’t usually livestream this service – but we will this week – starting from about 11am

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!

Church Party 
You are all welcome to the GHM International Church Party on Friday 21st March from 7pm.  Come and celebrate Nowruz (Persian New Year) and the start of spring.  There will be music, food and dancing.  Could you bring some food from your home country to share?  Or share some of your favourite music?  Please sign up at the back of church so that we have an idea of numbers and also if you are able to bring food or music to share with us.

Dates for your Diary

More details about Easter are on the way.  But please note:

Palm Sunday 13 April 2025

Good Friday 18 April 2025

Easter Sunday 20 April 2025

Giving

There are many in our parish who regularly give to the church through a Direct Debit to our bank account. If you do – firstly thank you so much for your generosity! It would be a great help though if you transferred across to using the Parish Giving Scheme. As charity rules, tax claims etc become more complicated it is increasingly becoming a big task to claim back the 20% we can get on top of your gift. Joining the Parish Giving Scheme makes it all so much easier for us – and easier for you too! Please speak to Zarine if you want to know more about it – or click the links!  If you don’t get around to giving during the service you can give anytime online!

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Sunday 2nd March 2025 – The Transfiguration of Jesus

This week we will be looking at the Transfiguration and reading from Luke 9:28-36

Our communion service is at 10.30am at St Paul’s Church.  We will be having a sermon in 3 parts with 3 new preachers – please pray for them as they prepare!

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!

The Chosen Brunch
On the first Saturday of each month, we meet together to eat and spend some time together to deepen our discipleship. Next month we will watch another episode of “The Chosen
That is TOMORROW – Saturday 1st March – 10.30. Hope to see you there!
Lent and Ash Wednesday
Lent begins next week.  We will have a quiet service of Holy Communion at St Barnabas on Wednesday 5th March at 10.30.  We will put Ash on our foreheads and remember that we are but dust!  Lent is also a time of great self reflection. One way to do that is using the Church of England Living Hope Reflections – you can sign up for a daily email or download an app.

 

Giving

There are many in our parish who regularly give to the church through a Direct Debit to our bank account. If you do – firstly thank you so much for your generosity! It would be a great help though if you transferred across to using the Parish Giving Scheme. As charity rules, tax claims etc become more complicated it is increasingly becoming a big task to claim back the 20% we can get on top of your gift. Joining the Parish Giving Scheme makes it all so much easier for us – and easier for you too! Please speak to Zarine if you want to know more about it – or click the links!  If you don’t get around to giving during the service you can give anytime online!

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Sunday 23rd February 2025 – Love your enemies

This week as we are exploring the issue of ‘Loving our enemies’. We will be looking at Luke 6:27-38

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.

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!

The Chosen Brunch
On the first Saturday of each month, we meet together to eat and spend some time together to deepen our discipleship. Next month we will watch episode 2 of “The Chosen”
Saturday 1st March – 10.30

 

Celebrate Bradford’s diversity as UK City of Culture 2025

tAa concert featuring the Bradford Catholic Youth Choir (BCYC) and Bradford Festival Choral Society and Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra: Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
📅 Saturday, 29 March 2025
📍 St George’s Hall, Bradford
🎟️ Book tickets at: https://www.bradford-theatres.co.uk/whats-on/yorkshire-symphony-orchestra-bfd-festival-choral-society

Thank you for helping us spread the word about this celebration of cultural harmony and the transformative power of music.

If you have any questions or would like us to visit your community to talk more about the event, please don’t hesitate to reply to this email or contact me directly at 07860 889766.

Giving

There are many in our parish who regularly give to the church through a Direct Debit to our bank account. If you do – firstly thank you so much for your generosity! It would be a great help though if you transferred across to using the Parish Giving Scheme. As charity rules, tax claims etc become more complicated it is increasingly becoming a big task to claim back the 20% we can get on top of your gift. Joining the Parish Giving Scheme makes it all so much easier for us – and easier for you too! Please speak to Zarine if you want to know more about it – or click the links!  If you don’t get around to giving during the service you can give anytime online!

 

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Sunday 16th February 2025 – Lectionary

The lectionary is a cycle of readings that runs through the church year, which begins with Advent. This week as we study the Beatitudes, a series of blessings taught by Jesus, we will be looking at Luke 6:17-26

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.

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!

Celebrate Bradford’s diversity as UK City of Culture 2025

tAa concert featuring the Bradford Catholic Youth Choir (BCYC) and Bradford Festival Choral Society and Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra: Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
📅 Saturday, 29 March 2025
📍 St George’s Hall, Bradford
🎟️ Book tickets at: https://www.bradford-theatres.co.uk/whats-on/yorkshire-symphony-orchestra-bfd-festival-choral-society

Thank you for helping us spread the word about this celebration of cultural harmony and the transformative power of music.

If you have any questions or would like us to visit your community to talk more about the event, please don’t hesitate to reply to this email or contact me directly at 07860 889766.

Giving

There are many in our parish who regularly give to the church through a Direct Debit to our bank account. If you do – firstly thank you so much for your generosity! It would be a great help though if you transferred across to using the Parish Giving Scheme. As charity rules, tax claims etc become more complicated it is increasingly becoming a big task to claim back the 20% we can get on top of your gift. Joining the Parish Giving Scheme makes it all so much easier for us – and easier for you too! Please speak to Zarine if you want to know more about it – or click the links!  If you don’t get around to giving during the service you can give anytime online!