Grace Church Wakefield
Pastor
Ian Goodson
Location
Jubilee Hall, Townley Rd, Lupset, Wakefield
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about the church
Grace Church Wakefield kind of started in 2014, when a group of five members of Dewsbury Evangelical Church were encouraged to pray and dream about what God might do. They aimed to be a gospel church for the whole city, but with a focus on two of the council estates in the west of the city: Lupset and Flanshaw.
Ian Goodson pastors the church. Initially bi-vocational, as the church grew Ian was able to be full-time employed thanks to the generosity of some outside supporters and through the giving of the local church, which has slowly grown in number. Jamie Mason serves part-time as an employed elder. Both serve alongside a wonderfully committed and gospel-hearted membership.
The church meets every Sunday in Jubilee Hall, a community centre on the Lupset estate
In 2019 a small and elderly evangelical church in Eastmoor, another council estate in the city, closed. The building was passed into Grace Church’s care. The ambition is to plant a new church in Eastmoor using the building. Plans are to start a weekly afternoon service on Sundays from September.
Like most working-class northern towns and cities in England, there is little to no evangelical heritage. There is no one just waiting for a bible-believing church to appear. The urgent need is to make new disciples of Christ, grow them to maturity, and envision them for the task of reaching their neighbours and training their own children to follow the Lord Jesus.