Category: Church News

Thanks to our Vicar Graham for baking this Lighthouse cake to celebrate our 1st anniversary of the start of the children’s Lighthouse service. Thanks to Denise and to the worship team for all their creative work with all the crafts and singing.

  A lovely afternoon of festive fun. Even the Vicar joined in. A festive bucks fizz was drunk and plenty of nibbles tasted. We all went home with a lovely handmade Christmas wreath to hang on our doors or to lie on grave in remembrance of loved ones. Thanks to everyone for making it a...

St.Bartholomew’s church held their annual remembrance service at 10am today. The church was beautifully decorated with various poppy displays. We read out some of the soldiers names from our church war memorial.     Our vicar Graham officiated at his first Gt.Harwood town remembrance service afterwards at the war memorial in the park on a...

We were joined by the Cubs at the Light House Service. They showed us their badges and certificates. Some of them are moving on to Scouts. They have worked really hard enjoying, camping, canoeing and raft building. We are really proud of you all, well done. What a great bunch of young lads

We recently held our Wave of Prayer Service in Church. It is an annual service where all Mothers’ Union members worldwide are remembered along with all the valuable work they do with families everywhere. MULOA refers to the theme for 2019 which is Mothers’ Union Listens, Observes and Acts.

The Bishop of Blackburn’s Harvest appeal for 2019 was entitled ” Dignity and Hope”. As we celebrated God’s good gifts at our Harvest church service donating to our local food banks we will try to help others do the same. Generosity from all churches in the diocese at Harvest time went to help the people...

Following our monthly Lighthouse Service, we will be having a Bring and Share Picnic. Bring your own Picnic and a little extra to share. A gift for the food bank would be welcome. See you on Sunday 6th October 10 am Lighthouse service.  

On Saturday 14 th September we held another Messy Praise event for young children. We had a fun time singing action songs and making lots of noise with tambourines, bells and shakers. The theme for the morning was ‘Superheroes’. In our craft activity we made Superheroes masks. We thought about our own Superheroes and Graham...

Don’t miss these October events/services coming up…   Gift Day 5th October                10am – 3pm Time for reflection and prayer. Tea, Coffee and biscuits will be served. Rev Graham, Joyce and Bill will be in church to receive your gifts, stay and chat, enjoy a cup of tea/coffee...