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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...

Youth Worker wanted

May 17, 2012 News

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An appreciation of Sue Keir

May 17, 2012 News

Sue Keir died on Monday and we shared prayers of thanks for Sue’s life and peace, hope and comfort for Dave and their children Emma and Jamie and their families.
We knew Sue as a woman of great gentleness, faith, courage and determination, which was an inspiration to so many. The name “Sue” means Lily in

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Leeds Half-Marathon encourages our hospitality

May 17, 2012 News

We had a lot of fun last Sunday morning! Knowing that the annual Leeds Half Marathon goes right past our door at or close to the four-mile mark is just a sheer nuisance to some, given that the necessary road-closures can disrupt our journey to church.

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Beautiful Spring evening for the Moortown Derby

May 17, 2012 News

Tonight saw the match of the season in the Under 17 Onside football league – it was Moortown City (previous winners of the title) versus new boys Moortown United.

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Youth news update

May 17, 2012 News

Important updates and announcements from the Youth team. Please read carefully in case they apply to you and yours. Glenda.

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Holiday Bible Club

May 16, 2012 News

Holiday Bible Club has played an important part in MBC’s children’s ministry for more than four decades. This year, with many of the regular HBC team otherwise engaged on our mission trip to Kenya, we are looking for just one or two more people to join a core planning team which will pull together the

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Pedal power – Dave gears up for 800km charity fundraiser

May 15, 2012 News

It all started just over a year ago when to mark the charity’s 25th anniversary Leeds and Moortown Furniture Store’s Chair of Trustees John Sherbourne announced that he was organising a 25 kilometre fund-raising walk. A year on and it was local runner Andrew Webster’s turn to raise the bar by representing the Store in

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Locally Grown plant sale raises £880

May 12, 2012 News

MBC’s 2012 Locally Grown plant sale has reached new heights. Last May the sale raised a little over £600 which went towards the cost of a Scripture Union X-Site holiday. However, with the tills now closed this year’s beneficiaries - Simon on the Streets, a charity that helps the homeless and CROP (The Coailtion for the Removal

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Deacons’ Election: A profile of Helen Pemberton

May 10, 2012 News

Hello, I’m Helen and I have lived just down the road from church for the past 6 years. I moved back to Leeds from Sheffield in 2006 and my mum and I bought a house together which we share with my two children; Virág (15) and Joseph (13).

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Andrew’s London Marathon run raises close on £1,000 for L&MFS

May 10, 2012 News

With a time of just 3 hours, 22 minutes and 7 seconds Andrew Webster’s efforts in the 2012 London Marathon raised almost £1,000 for the Leeds and Moortown Furniture Store. Overall, from a field of 37,000 runners, Andrew finished 3,403… no mean achievement for this 44 year old from Meanwood, Leeds. To everyone who supported