St Luke's Church Eccleshill, Bradford, UK

Churches Together in North Bradford

Who we are

The ten churches
which cover 'North Bradford'

Churches Together in North Bradford (CTNB) is a group of ten churches which seeks to serve the area of "North Bradford" (as defined by local government): Bolton, Eccleshill, Fagley, Ravenscliffe and Undercliffe. We encompass four denominations, which are all members of Churches Together in England. (For a list of the ten churches, click here.)

CTNB began in 1962 as the "North Bradford Christian Council" with the aim of providing Christian Unity in North Bradford by Ecumenical Services and joint activities. We have recently adopted two logos on the left to describe what we are about: the bottom one shows the area of the city which we cover and the locations of our buildings, and the top one uses this shape as the sails which catch the wind of God's Spirit and power the ecumenical ship. (You can read a magazine article on this.) There are ongoing discussions of various aspects of how we can better achieve our aims.

CTNB is run by a Committee which consists of the minister and two representatives from each of the member churches. Other church members are welcome to the meetings to observe and speak (but, of course, not to vote). A chairman, vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer are elected annually. The Committee meets three times a year, and is answerable to an Annual Meeting.

What we do

The main activities of CTNB over the past few years have been:

an annual joint Sunday morning service in the week of prayer for Christian Unity, with a visiting preacher from a different denomination from the host church;
one or two other joint services on Sunday evenings during the year;
a joint Lent course (not every year);
prayers at one church, a procession with a cross to another church, followed by a service at the second church, on Good Friday evening;
services at various homes for the elderly and the local community hospital (see the diary section of this web site);
a service on Remembrance Sunday at the War Memorial on the Recreation Ground;
Christmas Hymn Singing on a Saturday near Christmas in the local shopping centre;
a fellowship lunch together near Christmas.

Minutes are kept of CTNB meetings, but we also produce an informal report of each meeting so that representatives have something to refer to when reporting back to their own Churches.

The ministers of the churches also meet occasionally as the Ministers' Fellowship.

Programme of activities for 2012

Date	Time	Place	Event
Sunday 29th January	10.30am	St James Bolton	United Worship. Speaker: John Froud
Monday 27th February	7.30pm	Bolton Methodist Church	Committee Meeting
Good Friday 6th April	7pm	St John’s Fagley	Brief prayers, then a walk to …
Good Friday 6th April	7.30pm	St Andrew’s Undercliffe	United Worship for Good Friday.
Monday to Friday 14th-18th May	All week	Morrisons Enterprise 5	Christian Aid Week: Collecting
Pentecost Sunday 27th May	6.30pm	Eccleshill URC *	United Worship for Pentecost
Thursday 21st June	7.30pm	St Luke’s Eccleshill	Committee Meeting
Date to be arranged	All day	Coach trip	Trip to York
Wednesday 5th September	7.30pm	St Clare’s RC Fagley	Committee Meeting
Saturday 29th September *	7pm	St Clare’s RC Fagley	Harvest Faith Supper and Social evening
Sunday 30th September	6.30pm	St Andrew’s Undercliffe	United Worship for Harvest Time
Sunday 11th November	3pm	War Memorial, Eccleshill Recreation Ground	Remembrance Sunday Service
Thursday 22nd November	7.30pm	Eccleshill Methodist Church	AGM & Committee Meeting
Saturday 22nd December	10.30am	Morrisons Enterprise 5	Christmas Carol Singing

* Subject to confirmation.