Welcome to Holy Nativity Church

Welcome to Holy Nativity Church, a friendly and inclusive Christian community serving Mixenden and Illingworth in North Halifax! Our community accepts and welcomes everyone. We would love to see you!

Please have a look around the website and find out more about life here in The Pennines!

Sunday Service at 10am every week.

Events

Rock Mass

  • 6:00 pm
Come and worship LOUD! Rock Mass is a service for people who love it loud! Come and join in, everyone is welcome at Rock Mass!  Holy Nativity and the band Metanoia gather people together from far and wide to worship with songs that come from hymnbooks such as Kerrang Radio and Planet Rock. Metanoia have a lot of experience playing at services together with their alternative hymnal and the amps cranked to 11! Holy Nativity is the home of Rock…

Communion Meal

  • 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Second Sunday of every month, 6pm, Holy Nativity Church. The Communion Meal is an informal evening service once a month. We gather around the table and share food together as part of the communion service. What can you expect? A friendly, family atmosphere with people of all ages. Good food and time to talk together.  There will also be many of the elements of a typical Church of England Communion Service, such as prayers and readings from the Bible. At…

Giving

There are lots of ways to support the work of Holy Nativity. You may give a financial gift to the church online by clicking below.

If you would like to find out more about volunteering with us, click here.

News

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Fantastic Funding Update!

National Lottery Funding Helping Us Grow as a 7-Day-a-Week Community Hub We’re delighted to share that we’ve been awarded funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to help us continue and expand our work here in the heart of the community. This grant allows us to expand the role of our Caretaker Lee to recognise the amazing work he does with our growing community of volunteers as well as all he does to ensure that we can keep our doors…

Help us design a community church for the future

On the 5th of April we will be launching the next stage of our plan to develop Holy Nativity Church Building for the next 70 years of Life with God here in Mixenden. We want as many people as possible to have their say about how they’d like their church to look as well as what they’d like their church to be and so we are inviting children in school years 0 – 6 to join in and design us…

Revd Lindsey’s New Post as Vicar

For the last two years we have had Revd Lindsey Barber working as a curate at Holy Nativity. During these two years, she has touched all of our lives with her pastoral care, spiritual guidance and wicked sense of humour. Yesterday, we took our last official steps with her as we attended her licensing to a group of parishes the other side of Huddersfield. The service at Emmanuel Church in Shelley was led by Bishop Smitha and Archdeacon Bill. Ruth…