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...

Most people know that the Christmas story is about a baby being born. That, in itself, is wonderful - children are a real blessing and...

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...

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...

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...

Joanne was recently baptised at Grace Church Wakefield. Someone is baptised when they personally trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for their...

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

We commonly find that when we try to explain Christianity to our neighbours and friends in Wakefield they think we are suggesting that...

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...

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...

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

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

Ian Goodson says our instinctive response to pray in a crisis shows that many people are 'closet believers' in some sort of God....

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...

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...

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

Throughout the pandemic, we have sought to obey the government guidelines to the letter, whilst maximising every opportunity for...

Before coming to Christ I grew up in a loving Christian home. Through my childhood, we went to church just about any time the doors were...

Ian Goodson suggests the BBC's Line of Duty shows we all carry a sense of guilt. But the modern world, unlike Christianity, gives us no...

As we emerge from the restrictions it will be without some of those we have loved who are no longer with us. The GCW family will miss...