NEW SAFETY MEASURES: due to the spread of the new form of the covid-19 virus in Bradford, St Paul's PCC has decided to implement new safety measures in our church.<div></div><div>1/ From Easter, most seats in church will be set up with 1.5m of social distancing between each bubble. Some seats will still be set up with 2m of social distancing for families with children or people who cannot wear a facemask for medical reasons.</div><div>2/ The weekly service in church will still be a Service of the Word. A decision about resumig or not the celebration of the Holy Communion will be taken in April. As the celebration of a HC is still temporarily supended in our church, the midweek HC is also still temporarily suspended until further notices.</div>3/ The service will be reduced to 40 min.These decisions will be kept under constant review, and may be changed according to the evolution of the infection rate in the Wibsey ward.Photo: Image by Markus Winkler from Pixabay
NEW SAFETY MEASURES: due to the spread of the new form of the covid-19 virus in Bradford, St Paul's PCC has decided to implement new safety measures in our church.<div>1/ From Easter, most seats in church will be set up with 1.5m of social distancing between each bubble. Some seats will still be set up with 2m of social distancing for families with children or people who cannot wear a facemask for medical reasons.2/ The weekly service in church will still be a Service of the Word. A decision about resumig or not the celebration of the Holy Communion will be taken in April. As the celebration of a HC is still temporarily supended in our church, the midweek HC is also still temporarily suspended until further notices.3/ The service will be reduced to 40 min.These decisions will be kept under constant review, and may be changed according to the evolution of the infection rate in the Wibsey ward.Photo: Image by Markus Winkler from Pixabay
You can watch on our Facebook and Youtube accounts our services. However, it is advised to watch them rather on Youtube, as Facebook has partially muted our videos suspecting wrongly an illegal use of copyrighted material. All our videos are perfectly respecting the copyright laws, as the music videos they contain are legally bought and their owner has given the explicit consent to use them for online services (and therefore FB is violating themselves the copyright laws by changing without our consent the content of our copyrighted video). YOu can find below the list of services you can watch, with the links to Youtube; it will be regularly updated.TRADITIONAL CAROLS SERVICES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1AKT42C-s4The carols are sung by a traditional choir (St Martin's Voices). They are: O come, all ye faithful; Hark, the herald angels sing; O come, O come, Emmanuel; Silent Night; Away in a manger; Joy to the world; In the bleak midwinter; God rest you, merry gentlemen; We, three kings of orient, are; O little town of Bethlehem; It came upon the midnight clear; O Holy night; Once in Royal David’s city.MODERN CAROLS SERVICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kxcys5JiMYThe carols are sung with a modern instrumental accompaniment. They are: O come, all you faithful; Joyful, joyful, we adore thee; Ding, dong, merrily on high; Silent Night; Away in a manger; While shepherds watch; Angels from the realm of glory; The first Noel; We, three kings of Orient, are; O little town of Bethlehem; What can I bring; Go, tell it on the mountains; Once in royal David’s city.TODDLERS CHRISTMAS SERVICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlEW9uiGT7k&t=2sA little service for the little ones: the story of the first Christmas with 3 beautiful video-songs for toddlers.CHRISTINGLE SERVICE: to watch on Youtube from Wednesday 23rd December, 4pm. https://youtu.be/GQMjQ_x6zskMIDNIGHT HC: live streamed on Facebook. The link to our FB account is given at the bottom of the column on the left of the webpage.CHRISTMAS SERVICE: live streamed on Facebook. The link to our FB account is given at the bottom of the column on the left of the webpage.Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
We have now a Facebook account, to complementarise our website. You can discover it by clicking the icon 'f' for Facebook in the tab 'Social' located at the bottom of the left column on this webpage.Services will be live streamed from the 1st Sunday of December.Carols service and Christingle will be also placed on our Facebook account, as well as our Youtube account.