To talk, walk and share Jesus, inviting others to meet Jesus and live the Jesus way.
On Saturday 13th November 2021 Refreshed, our Cafe and Charity Shop will be holding a Christmas Fayre running from 10am to 1pm. Whether you’re looking for decorations, gifts, cards, party clothing and accessories, toys or just bric-a-brac, books, music or DVDs there is bound to be something for you. Not to mention our Cafe will also be open serving bacon butties.
Our Harvest Festival takes place this year on Sunday 10th October. As in recent years we are this year collecting tinned goods to be given to Caring for Life and the North Bradford Foodbank. If you would like to donate goods to be donated to these two fantastic charities then please either drop them off in Refreshed, our cafe and charity shop during opening hours, or bring them to church on Sunday 10th October.
Further details of what goods each charity is requesting can be found on their websites which are link to the logos below.
Now that our charity shop and cafe, Refreshed are open, our Senior Pastor, Ashley is offering our community an opportunity to meet and chat with him. Ashley is offering sessions on the first Friday of each month and anyone wanting to chat with Ashley should email him to book a time. As the poster below says you can ask anything, chat in confidence about any circumstance. Questions about faith, prayer and God are all welcome.
Refreshed, our charity shop and cafe will be open next week with revised opening hours:
Refreshed has always been a place where members of our community can come in for a cuppa, hot meal or simply to browse the shelves and clothes racks in our charity shop. Now that we’re (nearly) back open we are also here for so much more than that. Visitors will still be able to do all of those things, but we are also re-emphasising that we are a church whose primary focus is ‘to talk, walk and share Jesus, inviting others to meet Jesus and live the Jesus way‘.
We want to be a touch point, a place where people can come to find out more about our christian faith, prayer, worship, the church or God. As such there will be someone on hand during opening hours whether that is to talk, listen, pray or simply just be friendly.
We look forward to seeing you…
Our Senior Pastor, Ashley Evans has had a dramatic change to his appearance this weekend when he shaved off his hair and beard in order to raise money for Christians Against Poverty (CAP) who preached at Bolton Villas in February 2021.
You can watch the video of Ashley’s head shave, as well as see before and after pictures on our Facebook page.
If you would like to find out more about the work of CAP then please visit their website.
We are pleased to announce that this year we are offering two Christmas Eve Communion Services. The first one, starting at 3pm will be family-orientated, with the second service starting at 7pm. Both services will be relatively short in duration (30 minutes maximum).
Due to the Coronavirus restrictions in place we would ask everyone interesting in attending to book place(s) by clicking on one of the following links:
We also request that everyone who attends should bring sufficient bread and wine/juice with you for you/your family.
Our Christmas Day Family Celebration will take place at 10.30am on Facebook and YouTube. Links for the service will be posted on our Facebook and YouTube channels nearer the big day.
Please also note that there will be NO service on Sunday 27th December 2020.
We’re now in one of the most important seasons of the Christian year, Advent, a time when we remember that God sent his Son to earth, born as a baby boy in a stable in Bethlehem. We celebrate Jesus’ birth, we celebrate the Saviour of the world coming to earth as an ordinary human baby.
As we gear up to celebrate Christmas in this most difficult and strangest of years, we pray that everyone will be filled with hope and joy. We pray that God will give you a peaceful, love-filled, joyous Christmas.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace. Romans 15:13.
So the hair cut & head shave are happening this afternoon 26th April 2020. Justin is doubling up with his mum who has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing Chemotherapy and as such her hair is falling out. Getting it shortened will make it simpler to deal with.
Justin is also going to get his hair cut, and his beard & head shaved today after he has been growing it since Movember.
The reasons behind this hair loss are to raise awareness of the youth work at Bolton Villas Family Church and emerge, as they both support young people they have regular contact with, in new and different ways at this time. So please dig deep and support them as they going through this hair loss experience.
You can review the Bolton Villas and emerge Facebook pages for pictures of both events, please don’t forget to support us by visiting: https://donate.giveasyoulive.com/fundraising/hair_today_gone_tomorrow_again
The current Coronavirus pandemic has not deterred Justin from continuing with his fundraising efforts to raise money for youth work at both Bolton Villas Family Church and emerge. The picture below shows the growth so far.
Justin’s fundraising page on Give As You Live is still active, and we would encourage you to consider donating money to both these worthy causes. We do of course, realise that we live in difficult times and as such want people to give as they are able to.
If you are confused as to what this is about, look back at the entry on 7th March 2020 to find out more.
We may not be able to meet in person, but our hearts are very much open. As our thoughts turn to Easter please do consider joining us for one of our online events. God bless.
