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

Communion Meal

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…

Rock Mass

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…
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Multi Arts Retreat October 2025

Grief and death are two experiences that will at some point touch us all. And yet, though unavoidable, they remain taboo topics, both undesirable to face ourselves, and uncomfortable to face with others. How can art help us look and understand grief and death better? At this creative arts retreat, “Grief: Giving Sorrow Words and Death Dignity,” we will consider how the bible, Christian tradition, and various art forms allow us to approach grief and death, and inspire us in…

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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Check out our Arts Retreat!

Take a look at this short video of all the creative fun we had at our last Arts Retreat day. We are always amazed at the creativity that comes out at these days, especially from people who tell us ‘I didn’t know what to expect and I don’t think I’m creative’. Just look at the beautiful work that was produced! If you like what you see and would like to get involved our next arts retreat is in October and…
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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…