Bradwell St Barnabas – About Us
Welcome!
At St Barnabas we feel privileged that the church and its churchyard have been part of community life in Bradwell for many generations. We treasure our connections with the community, through traditional services such as Christmas and Remembrance, as well as through activities like Community Cafés, Ladies’ Fellowship Group and the popular St B’s Baby Group.
Whether you have just moved to the area, are a visitor to the village or have lived in Bradwell all your life, we hope you will feel welcome at St Barnabas. We meet most Sundays in church for worship, and share our Vicar, Louise, with St Peter’s, Hope and St Edmund’s in Castleton.
Our worship style is fairly traditional; most services include communion. However we have introduced a Worship Together service on the first Sunday of each month, that is short, relatively informal, and encourages interaction. This service is still evolving, and we’d love your feedback. We also have one service a month, on the fourth Sunday, that is a Benefice Celtic based service, which takes place outdoors from April to September and indoors in chilly months.
We seek to extend a warm welcome to all those who visit, whether joining us for worship or simply taking time to enjoy the peace and tranquility of St Barnabas during the week. We pray that all those who visit will find something of God in our church community, in the building itself or in its surrounding grounds. The church is open every day from 10am-4pm.
We feel strongly that St Barnabas belongs to everyone, as God welcomes all. If you have suggestions about how we could improve our service and witness to the community, or could better meet your needs, we would love to hear from you.
If you would like to receive our Benefice weekly newsletter via email, which contains details of services, news and notices, please email Jane (Churchwarden) on: churchwarden.stb@gmail.com or phone 01433 621172.
You can also use the links below to find out details of our service times and all our events.
Monthly letter from our Vicar.
Louise’s message for September 2026 Moving on
This month our three churches of Hope, Castleton and Bradwell say goodbye to our curate, Rev’d Lisa Price, who has been with us for the last two years. Rev’d Lisa has completed her curacy with us, a training post, and is moving on to a new post in Andover. Whilst we share Rev’d Lisa’s excitement at this next step in her ministry, we are aware of how much she has blessed us in her time with us, and how much we will miss her.
As I reflected on Rev’d Lisa moving on, I found myself reflecting too that the Christian Church has always been a ‘church on the move.’ Jesus himself was a wandering rabbi travelling, as rabbis in his time did, from place to place talking to people about God, and God’s love for all. Much of the New Testament describes how the early Christian faith was spread after Jesus’ death and resurrection, by believers who travelled all around the then known world, taking with them the accounts of Jesus’ life and death. And throughout Christian history, there have always been missionaries of various kinds; people who take the good news of God’s love, as taught by Jesus, to new people and new places.
Many of us, of course, will be ‘rooted’ in one geographical location, if not for a lifetime then certainly for a while. Christianity teaches that even for those who do not travel geographically, the Christian Church is still called to be a ‘church on the move.’ The work of a missionary – the work to make Jesus known to new people – is the calling of every Christian, and it is something that can always happen, wherever we are, however long we are there for.
As Rev’d Lisa moves to her new position, she will take with her something of her ministry in this place, and she will leave behind something of how she has blessed us. Rev’d Lisa’s ministry has grown and changed in her time with us, and we have also grown and been changed by her time with us, as we have shared our experiences of faith together. My prayer for us all is that, even as Rev’d Lisa leaves us, we will continue to be a ‘church on the move;’ a set of churches committed to sharing the wonderful news of God’s great love for all, with all of our communities around us. And I pray that we will be continually aware of God at work in us, helping us to discover new ways of making God’s love visible to all, and especially to those who have not yet discovered for themselves God’s love for them.
Yours in Christ,
Louise Petheram
rev.louise.p@gmail.com 01433 621918
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