Our Mission

We aim to “know Jesus and make Him known”, whether that be in our parish or through the many other social networks that we are all part of through the week.

We believe that our calling is, with others, to bring the Kingdom of God to our parish, our city, our region, our nation and to the ends of the earth. This is a reflection of Jesus’ final words in Matthew’s Gospel, Chapter 28

We also know that Bath is a City which has seen the Holy Spirit move in great ways in the past, and we long to see a move of God through the whole City. We aim under God to ‘win, train and send’ labourers into this end-time worldwide harvest field.

Our History

St Luke’s Church, Wellsway, is sited where it is today due to the foresight of a few people who in 1864 saw that the then southern outer reaches of Lyncombe Parish and its church dedicated to St Mark which was sited at its extreme northern end would need a new church to cater for the expanding housing on the south side of the city. Not everyone they contacted was in agreement that there was such a need and there ensued a long battle to get a church built in Wellsway on what was a Market Garden. To get a real understanding of the “politics” of the day the Parish has published the original notebook kept to record the huge effort put in to get the church built, and this, under the title “The Birth of a Church" can be viewed by contacting the church office.

The church as a building was enlarged in 1913 to cater for the expanding congregation, and this was almost entirely due to the efforts of the Rev. Charles Doudney, a very dynamic figure in the church’s history until he died of wounds in 1915 following a spell as Chaplain to the Forces in the First World War. To mark the Church Centenary in 1967 the late Reg Kedge profiled the Parish and its vicars up to that time and that has now been re-printed as it gives a real feel for the different personalities that made a mark on the church and its growing involvement with the Mission Church at Odd Down.