Moortown Baptist Church MBC Moortown Baptist Church - Leeds UK - loving God, living generously, following Christ

Welcome to MBC

Good afternoon and a very warm welcome to Moortown Baptist Church. MBC is a community of Christians that seeks to love God and live generously. We are an active church based in the Moortown and Alwoodley area of North Leeds, while at the same time gathering many people from surrounding towns and villages. We are a church of people from different cultures and backgrounds. We are here to help people meet God, to grow in relationship with one another and to make a difference in today's world. There are many exciting things happening here at MBC, some of which you will see highlighted below. For more information please visit our About Us page and have a browse around our site...

MBC is looking to recruit a new Children & Families Worker

December 4, 2018 News

This is an exciting opportunity to work with children and their families (up to age 11), building on the good work done in recent years, which has already seen growth and innovation.

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Christmas 2018 at MBC

December 3, 2018 News

From a Crib Service on Sunday the 23rd of December right through to Feast and Fun on the 27th Moortown Baptist Church is holding a number of festive services. Read more here.

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A big thank you from Traidcraft – but there’s still much work to be done

December 3, 2018 News

Many thanks to all who supported the Fairtrade Stall on Sunday 25th of November – this raised £303 for Traidcraft. This means that in total the 3 autumn stalls raised over £900. Traidcraft and Traidcraft Exchange are continuing their work into 2019 but in a new format [ more details later]. However, there is a special Christmas […]

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Christmas Choir 2018 : Carol parts for download

December 2, 2018 Choir

Please find below the MP3 files of the different parts for this year’s Carol Service. You can either listen to them by clicking on the link, or download them by right-clicking on the blue title link, then choose “Save link as …” to save them to your hard disk. You can even transfer them to […]

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Moortots Alternative Nativity. As the search for their successors starts join us at 3pm this coming Sunday to say au revoir and thank you to Moortot’s dynamic due Diane and Pauline

December 2, 2018 Children

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Over the years Diane Towns and her Moortots team have earned something of a reputation in regard to their nativities. Admittedly Jesus, Mary and Joseph plus of course any number of shepherds, angels and kings are a constant. However, quite how they have got away with introducing to the plot numerous Santa’s, a scruffy life […]

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Rewind to Christmas and the light of the world shines brightly

November 28, 2018 News

With Shelley Dring making a brilliant Rewind debut and old timer John Sherbourne coming out of retirement MBC this week hosted Rewind to Christmas. For the first time in many years the entire 2018 team was made up of volunteers; a total of thirty people who in four sessions over two days hosted 380 Year […]

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Say it as it is! some wonderfully honest feedback. Read and see what our young guests thought of Rewind to Christmas

November 27, 2018 News

This year, for the first time, we asked all the schools that attended Rewind to Christmas to take enough evaluation forms back to school to allow each of their children to have their say. The results were amazing. Comments ranged from the best bit being “when all the teachers had to stand up and shout” […]

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An Environmental Plan A – Caring for God’s Creation. John Sturges continues his series on Christian stewardship of our world

November 20, 2018 News

Not long ago my friend Haddon Willmer lent me a book, as he shares my interest and concern for our world’s environment. It was the autobiography of Sir John Houghton, former Chief Executive of the Meteorological Office, and a committed Christian. I have indeed enjoyed reading it; it is interesting, informative and also challenging. Sir […]

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Another word where silence is NOT ON! Haddon Willmer adds to his 7 November blog:

November 20, 2018 Haddon's Blog

Two quotes from George Monbiot’s article: The earth is in a death spiral – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/14/earth-death-spiral-radical-action-climate-breakdown It was a moment of the kind that changes lives. At a press conference held by climate activists Extinction Rebellion last week, two of us journalists pressed the organisers on whether their aims were realistic. They have called, for example, for […]

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Grandparents at the crib. Graham’s blog

November 19, 2018 Graham's Blog

If things go according to plan, Margaret and I will become grandparents for the first time on Boxing Day! So, a new perspective comes into our lives. With my new identity I have noticed that there are no grandparents in the Christmas story. Now I am not arguing for 2 new fabled figures around the […]