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Is there Deliverance from Disappointment? A review of the first LIFE event
On Wednesday evening, we (Grace Church Wakefield) hosted our first LIFE event called “Is there Deliverance from Disappointment?”. It was...

Grace Church Wakefield
Apr 1, 20225 min read


The joy of normality
After days of tragic and sometimes terrifying news from Ukraine, at last a good headline: the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and...

Grace Church Wakefield
Mar 18, 20223 min read


'Seek Him with all our heart ...'
But weren't you brought up Christian? Many people assume that your religion is something you are brought up with, that it's not so much a...

Grace Church Wakefield
Mar 4, 20224 min read


Slow Cooker Sunday returns!!!!!
This Sunday Slow Cooker Sunday returns. The last was 1st March 2020! SCS is simple - dinner together following the church service served,...

Grace Church Wakefield
Feb 4, 20222 min read


New Year anxiety
Over the New Year period my family and I spent a week on the Isle of Wight, where I grew up. It sometimes surprises people up here in...

Grace Church Wakefield
Jan 5, 20226 min read


Why are Christians still so bothered about Jesus at Christmas?
Most people know that the Christmas story is about a baby being born. That, in itself, is wonderful - children are a real blessing and...

Grace Church Wakefield
Dec 21, 20215 min read


Two tragedies
December is sometimes a bitter-sweet month when the festive fun jars with tragic events we see in the news and experience in our own...

Grace Church Wakefield
Dec 17, 20215 min read


You can't just start a church, can you?
Are you a cult? As I write, ‘cults’ are again in the news. Cults control and manipulate their members. While they very often use the term...

Grace Church Wakefield
Dec 3, 20214 min read


Is Grace Church Wakefield a great church?
What makes a great church? A church might try to encourage you to belong to it by telling you it is a 'great church'. But I often want to...

Grace Church Wakefield
Nov 26, 20213 min read


"At sixteen I made the decision to leave"
Joanne was recently baptised at Grace Church Wakefield. Someone is baptised when they personally trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for their...

Grace Church Wakefield
Oct 28, 20212 min read


Covid-19 measures from Sunday 24th October 2021
We have previously highlighted 24th October 2021 as the date we would remove the majority of our Covid-19 restrictions for Sunday...

Grace Church Wakefield
Oct 21, 20211 min read


Christianity is not about being good!
We commonly find that when we try to explain Christianity to our neighbours and friends in Wakefield they think we are suggesting that...

Grace Church Wakefield
Oct 8, 20214 min read


I’m certain that I will be with God for all of eternity because Jesus died for me.
I won’t lie, I have always kind of liked church. As a child, I went to Roman Catholic church a lot with my school or with my parents. I...

Grace Church Wakefield
Sep 3, 20214 min read


Gift Fund update
We set aside 10% of all the ‘offerings’ received by GCW to support outside causes. We were recently glad to have been able to send gifts...

Grace Church Wakefield
Aug 4, 20211 min read


August opportunities and uncertainties @ GCW
A message from Ian Goodson (Pastor, GCW) Being a Christian is amazing. True peace with God, real forgiveness, the power to change,...

Grace Church Wakefield
Jul 30, 20212 min read


Church life after 19th July
Acting responsibly From Monday 19th July legal restrictions relating to Covid-19 are due to be lifted. However, the government clearly...

Grace Church Wakefield
Jul 16, 20212 min read


"Pray for Christian Eriksen". Why we know there's a God out there really.
Ian Goodson says our instinctive response to pray in a crisis shows that many people are 'closet believers' in some sort of God....

Grace Church Wakefield
Jun 28, 20213 min read


If I ever stop to think about it, I end up thinking ‘why would I not want to be at church?!’
It's something I've always done … I’ve always gone to church. And I am now so thankful that my parents dragged me along church meetings...

Grace Church Wakefield
Jun 18, 20213 min read


"I can’t imagine that the highlight of the week might be washing the car or weeding the flower bed."
Ian Goodson tells us why Sundays are so special for him. As we hopefully head out of the pandemic restrictions, you might like to join us...

Grace Church Wakefield
Jun 4, 20214 min read


3 Big Things from the Fear and Anxiety Seminars
GCW recently gathered (online) on four Sunday evenings to watch the Living with Anxiety and Fear seminars from Word Alive. Steve Midgley...

Grace Church Wakefield
May 22, 20213 min read
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