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 to minister and several 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 together 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 in 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 a shoe factory in particular, nevertheless we prayed about it, and the building was offered to us at a very reasonable price. We held our first service there in Spring 1974.
When the church was founded one hymn was very special to us. It was, and still is, our aim and goal.
