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Welcome to MBC

Good morning 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...

Feast and Fun… a great time was had by all

April 5, 2018 News

This year our Easter celebrations included Feast and Fun, an all age open house event that ran alongside our showing of The F Word Exhibition. With table tennis, cake, pool, cake, table football, cake, craft, cake, board games, cake etc. etc. etc. you can imagine it was highly popular.

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Three images that provide a moving commentary to the sadness and the joy of Easter

April 3, 2018 News

MBC has many talented members, no more so than our Administrator Kate Slater. And it’s Kate we need to thank for the three amazing windows that were on show over Easter. The first two, that’s the two below were on display on Palm Sunday. However, the unveiling of a third, pictured above was reserved for […]

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After the F Word…forgive me for asking but what should we do next?

April 3, 2018 News

In her foreword to the brochure that accompanies The F Word Exhibition, the founder of the Forgiveness Project, Marina Cantacuzino, says this… “The stories aim to open up a debate around forgiveness, calling into question our often fixed beliefs about right and wrong, good and evil, justice and morality. Forgiveness is not held up as […]

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PULSE – a message from Cas to all team, parents and carers

April 1, 2018 Children

Parents: Our Pulse groups on Sunday mornings are going really well, and we would love to help you engage as a family. To this end you can download a free app called parent cue which will keep you up to date with everything your children are learning about and experiencing. Likewise for leaders: Thank you […]

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Notes of a Meeting on Dunstarn Lane. By Haddon Willmer

March 30, 2018 Haddon's Blog

Last summer, a green leaf danced in the wind turned gold and red Fall came, it fell rain soaked through winter imprinting on the pavement – till a silver star…. …..waiting, waiting for the poor man who once found a sixpence on the road and thereafter, anxious for another coin, never saw a star again…until […]

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Palm Sunday – The F Word, two “new” windows and lots lots more

March 26, 2018 News

If the old adage is right and variety is the spice of life then Palm Sunday at MBC really was a hot place to be. Musically it started with a hymn composed in 1905 and an hour and a half later finished with a lusty, impromptu rendering of an upbeat children’s chorus. In between came […]

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Moortots presents yet another angle on the subject of forgiveness

March 24, 2018 News

When you’re trying to get to grips with the concept of forgiveness quite where Scruffy, a rag tag hound with floppy ears and face paint whiskers come in I’m not at all sure. But last week, in a role shared by Diane Sunter and John Sherbourne Scruffy was the star of three Moortots Easter celebrations […]

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REWIND to Easter 2018

March 7, 2018 News

Two weeks ago our Children’s Worker Cas Stoodley put out an urgent appeal for people to join our Rewind to Easter team. This evening (Wednesday March 7) as we look back over the last two days we once again wonder at how a simple request (accompanied of course by a bucket load of prayer) came […]

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Despite the big freeze there was a warm MBC welcome for Andor, Zsuzsi and Bence

March 5, 2018 News

Having flown in to the UK during one of the coldest snaps on record there was a warm welcome for Andor, Zsuzsi and Bence Ferko as they joined us on Sunday. Here for just a week and staying with Karen and Michael Ross the couple’s ties, but Zsuzsi’s in particular go back a long way […]

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FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT: February 26th to 11th March

February 21, 2018 News

During this annual encouragement to support trade justice and marginalised traders around the world The Beehive will be supplying churches, schools and community groups around Leeds with Fairtrade products. We will be holding a Fairtrade stall here at Moortown after morning our Sunday on the 11th of March when Fairtrade Real Easter eggs will be […]