Bradford North Circuit

4th Sunday in Lent and Mothering Sunday Service Sheet (pdf) Call to worship: Let us thank God for the love that holds us in being, moment by moment, ever welcoming us home. Song:  Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy (Hymns and Psalms 552; Singing the Faith 526)  Introduction to the theme: On Mothering Sunday, we appreciate the presence and importance of nurturing love for us. Life’s challenges can mean we forget this love. We can become lost through the mistakes and wrong choices we make, or perhaps by the pressure and responsibility we feel under to get things right. The joy is that God’s outrageous love is always, always there, welcoming us home again. Opening prayer: On this Mothering Sunday, we open our hearts before you, faithful God, bringing those we love, and those we struggle to love, those we have lost, and those we are afraid of losing. We bring our tears and our joy, our disappointments and our hopes. We bring all that we carry and all that we long to lay down – in Je

As well as being printed for Circuit distribution, this service will be held on this date at St Andrew’s Church, 10.30am. H&P 7 Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Introduction All round the world and even here in Britain many live under threats of many kinds, pressures which make us feel afraid or insecure: loss of friends; housing, jobs or money; health or danger to life – and that’s just a few. So what should we do when such things affect us? The Bible suggests we should begin by drawing close to God in worship. Worship isn’t an escape, some cosy place away from the world. It’s a recognition that God is in charge; praising him for his sovereignty; and turning our lives over to him so that he may direct our ways. Then we can face our difficulties. Reading:  Psalm 63 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. 1 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. 2 So

Wednesday 13th April Circuit Prayer Zoom for Holy Week, 7.30pm, led by Rev Nick Blundell Please email ministers@bradfordnorth.org.uk if you would like the Zoom link to join this event. Maundy Thursday 14th April Communion Service at Bolton Methodist Church , 7pm, l ed by Rev Phil Drake. Communion service with fellowship meal at Saltaire Methodist Church , 7pm, led by Rev Christine Crabtree. Tenebrae with communion at Wilsden Trinity Church , 7pm, led by Rev Nick Blundell. Good Friday 15th April Service at Crag Road Methodist Church , 10am, led by Rev Christine Crabtree Service at Baildon , 10am, led by Local Pastors Peter Jackson and Claire Nott Service at Thornton Methodist Church , 10.30am, led by Rev Phil Drake Shipley Christians Together Walk of Witness for Good Friday: 11.30am assemble at St Paul’s, Shipley, for tea, coffee and hot cross buns 11.45am short service at St Paul’s 12 noon start of walk of witness from St Paul’s 12.30pm arrival at Market Square with short service at 1

  An introduction to the Methodist Way of Life  S ervice Sheet (pdf) This service is led by Rev David Goodall, the Missional Communities Enabler of the Yorkshire West District.  He says, it is a joy and a great privilege to have this service with you and to begin this series on A Methodist Way of Life.  My work across the Yorkshire West District is to help and encourage Circuits and local churches to discover the joy of a Methodist Way of Life and to think about how they can use it and embed it in their lives together. This is the first of 13 online services which will help you as a Circuit in Bradford North to reflect on a Methodist Way of Life; in this first service I will introduce you to a Methodist Way of Life, and then each of the next 12 services, one each month for a year, will introduce you to one of the commitments in the Methodist Way of Life and will help you think about how you might live it out in your daily discipleship.  Along with this service sheet and video, and eac

Welcome to worship with the Bradford North Methodist Circuit this morning. This service will be shared this morning by Rev Nick Blundell and the members and friends at Christchurch, Windhill. Service sheet (pdf) Call to worship We come to praise the Father for his goodness, to thank Jesus for his open hands of love, and to seek the Holy Spirit’s blessing. Come, therefore, and worship God. God of the mountains and the sky, of our minds and our hearts: we look up to you in awe; we reach out to you in longing; we worship you in gratitude; we sing to you in joy. For you are our God, and we are your people – today and always. Amen. Hymn: You might like to sing, or reflect on Horatius Bonar’s hymn at Hymns & Psalms 136, I heard the voice of Jesus say, ‘Come unto me and rest.’  Prayers Living God, creator and sustainer of the world, we pledge to live well and with humility, in harmony with your creation; we pledge to look to your Son for truth and guidance; we pledge to make time for pra