Welcome to the Church of England parish of Christ the King, Battyeford - on the Brighouse side of Mirfield, West Yorkshire. We serve, within some rather quaintly drawn parish boundaries, just short of half the population of Mirfield, the rest are served by our neighbours at St Mary's Mirfield and St Pauls Easthorpe. If you live here (and even if you don't) we hope you feel you could ask us if you feel we could be useful to you. We try - as you would expect of any church – to follow, preach and encourage that Godly path of life which was lived and described by Jesus Christ. We believe in open, community-based approaches to being a church of the people, run by the people, in existence for the people.

    We hope you could come to us whether or not you are convinced by everything you suppose Christians believe. Many people search for a faith with which to make sense of the life they live – and if that includes you, we hope you might come and join us on our journey. We hope you can consider this as much your church as it is our church.

    We know it’s never easy to walk into a church [or any other community for that matter], so if you’re new to it all and want help, please ask. You can contact one of the Church Wardens  to start with – and they may well be able to find others who could help you dip your toe in our pool. If you have some general enquiry to make and want to do it more anonymously, you may find the bits and pieces we've  put at our“"What If?" pages useful.

    If you happen to be well into church life already, there’s a stack of other information on our other pages which may help you. But please don’t bother with it all at once if you’re new. That way lies indigestion. 
If you’re interested in real church life, your first browse here may have told you something, but there’s no substitute for coming and seeing us – and if you’d like to put us to the test, you need to find Stocksbank Road [off the Mirfield to Huddersfield Road]. If you find a monastery called the Community of the Resurrection on your left, keep going, you’ve nearly found us too. We’re just round the corner. Our service times are on this page – and you will be welcome at  any time.

        Greetings, welcome and love 

I need help, feel sick, lonely, depressed - life just gone wrong in some way?

Nobody has all the answers – but if you suspect we can help, ask us. We really will try.

 Please contact the Vicar email maggie@christ-the-king.co.uk  or one of the Church Wardens  but if you don’t think they the right persons for you, you could try the following people, who will be pleased to try to guide you to somebody else who may be of better help:

• Write to or telephone the Revd Dominic Whitnall at the Community of the Resurrection, Stocksbank Road, Mirfield Tel: [01924] 483335

• Telephone the church's licensed Reader Ian Grange. ( See Who's Who)

• Contact the church's lay pastoral ministers (See Who's Who)  

      See who's who for full details of the Vicar and churchwardens, who may think of other suitable support for you

I have an elderly relative in the parish?

Perhaps an elderly relative has church connections but cannot get to church any more. If someone in your family is in that position, we hope we can help. Perhaps the one of us can pay a visit. If your relative is used to receiving communion, we could perhaps take communion to him/her. To discuss the situation, please contact Mrs M Jones, ( see Who's Who ), who looks after our ministry to elderly people, so we can get in  touch with your relative.  

Are you new to CTK? If you are here are a few questions you may like to ask:

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At 10am services on Sundays, special things happen on the first two Sundays in most months. On the first Sunday in certain months the young people in scouting and guiding organisations come on parade to join in. On the second Sunday the prayers include special "Laying on of hands" for those who are ill or in any type of distress in their lives. Baptisms may be included on some other Sundays.

The Church is open daily for private prayer

The Blessed Sacrament and Holy Oil is reserved

A supervised Crèche is available in the Church during the main Sunday service for children under 4 years

Christ the King is a Stewardship parish. This includes regular and realistic financial giving as well as weekly worship and witness. Envelopes can be obtained from the Vicar, Churchwardens. For information about arrangements for planned regular giving under 'Gift Aid', please contact the Vicar.

Ever heard a sermon and later wished she could have explained more, or maybe it did not sink in the first time
Here's a new Idea from Maggie that will help Click here to find out more

Have you heard the Buzz. Its going all over Battyeford Click Here to find out more

Christ the King  can now provide Worship Music With Bite. For More Information Click Here  

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