On October 12, 1974 Heaton Moor Evangelical Church’s first building was opened on Green Lane in Heaton Moor.

The church began five years before that, when Sunday services started on October 19, 1969. The idea of its formation came even earlier at informal meetings of interested folk in 1967 and 1968. Yet the unseen beginnings, go back to the 1930s when a small group of believers began praying for a local Bible centred church in the neighbourhood. So from unseen beginnings over more than 40 years, and since then another forty years as an active evangelical church.

To the founder members the idea of a local church was very appealing. It would provide spiritual food for those who up to then had lacked it; it would be a local fellowship for those who had hitherto been church-commuters; and it would be a witness in the locality to the one gospel.

All the early developments came as God worked through the fellowship of believers. What struck those who came into the church was the particularly warm and vibrant sense of belonging together in the Lord. The church appreciated gifts such as teaching, administration, caring, giving and hospitality and from the beginning sought to actively involve the majority of members in the day-to-day work of the church.

On October 12, 1974 Heaton Moor Evangelical Church’s first building was opened on Green Lane in Heaton Moor.

The church began five years before that, when Sunday services started on October 19, 1969. The idea of its formation came even earlier at informal meetings of interested folk in 1967 and 1968. Yet the unseen beginnings, go back to the 1930s when a small group of believers began praying for a local Bible centred church in the neighbourhood. So from unseen beginnings over more than 40 years, and since then another forty years as an active evangelical church.

To the founder members the idea of a local church was very appealing. It would provide spiritual food for those who up to then had lacked it; it would be a local fellowship for those who had hitherto been church-commuters; and it would be a witness in the locality to the one gospel.

All the early developments came as God worked through the fellowship of believers. What struck those who came into the church was the particularly warm and vibrant sense of belonging together in the Lord. The church appreciated gifts such as teaching, administration, caring, giving and hospitality and from the beginning sought to actively involve the majority of members in the day-to-day work of the church.