The boss of a Bradford web design business is using his talents to spread the word of God.

Adrian Riley, co-founder of Thornton Road firm Electric Angel, is also a lay preacher for the Methodist Church.

Mr Riley, pictured, who founded the firm with his wife Rebecca, is currently the University of Bradford and Bradford College's Methodist chaplain.

He uses a range of new media techniques in his services - from projecting website images across the congregation to using contemporary dance and chill-out tunes.

One musical track created for services has even been picked up on by publishers in London and is due to be released on a compilation album later this year.

The album will be accompanied by a book of worship, which Electric Angel has designed the cover for.

Apart from hi-tech additions the worshippers also use multi-sensory techniques such as moulding play-doh, dabbling their hands in bowls of water, feeling pebbles, touching sand as part of their services.

Mr Riley said: "It's about acknowledging that we live in a media-rich culture and looking for God in that culture.

"We see the world through the TV news and get our stories from films, we go to pubs and clubs where dance music and multimedia provide the backdrop to relationships and celebrations, we use technology in our work or study that puts us a mouse click away from people the other side of the planet.

"We eat in places that fill our nostrils with rich aromas from around the globe. This is contemporary urban life, this is where we explore and express whatever beliefs we have.

"So it seems perfectly natural, essential in fact, that all these things also belong in church. To do otherwise would be to deny what our lives are about."

Mr Riley, who is also a director of bmedi@ - Bradford's network of new-media related professionals, bucked the trend and opted out of giving up chocolate for Lent - ditching multi-media technology instead - but only in his spare time.