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Brief Church History

Fartown Christian Fellowship is the Pudsey branch of Struthers Memorial Church, and has its roots in the mid 1960’s. At that time, the late Mr Hugh Black visited the Bradford area of Yorkshire to minister and a number of people were drawn to the quality of Christian life and teaching which came through Mr Black.
As a result of this a group of Christians hungry for God began to meet in the home of a Christian family in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, resulting in a house conference in August 1970 at which Mr Black ministered. From that conference the Pudsey Church came into being, holding our first service on the first Sunday of September of that year as a small house church.
Within three years a delightful Sunday School building in an ideal location came to the market and ultimately was purchased. The building was not easily won. There was competition from industry and a shoe factory in particular, nevertheless we prayed about it in the name of the Lord and wonderfully, one day, out of the blue, the building was offered to us at a very reasonable price. We held our first service there in the Spring of 1974.

Our Goal, God Himself

When the church was founded one hymn was very special to us. It was and still is our aim and goal.

“My goal is God Himself not Joy or Peace;
Nor even blessing but Himself my God.
'Tis His to lead me there, not mine but His...
At any cost, dear Lord, by any road.

“So faith bounds forward to its goal in God,
And love can trust her Lord to lead her there.
Upheld by Him, my soul is foll'wing hard,
Till God hath full fulfilled my deepest prayer.

“No matter if the way be sometimes dark,
No matter though the cost be oft-times great,
He knoweth how I best shall reach the mark,
The way that leads to Him must needs be straight.

“One thing I know, I cannot say Him nay;
One thing I do, I press on towards my Lord.
My God, my Glory here from day to day,
And in the glory there, my Great Reward.”

We pray our meetings and lives reflect that desire that burns in our hearts, to know God Himself.