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Hello and welcome to our church. If you are a new visitor, we have a page for you to get to know us and learn more about planning a visit.
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Planning your Visit

A Warm Hello 

mitchell-leach-OoaoPYz-E3M-unsThe following information is specifically for those planning a visit, so that you know, beforehand, what to expect on Sundays. Both services are also Zoomed - if that's a more helpful way for you to engage, please contact us for the details.

Where and When

We meet at the Church Building (details here) for our Sunday Services starting at 10:45am and 6:00pm. For your first visit, we recommend arriving 10-15 minutes early to ensure you get a parking space and find somewhere to sit before the service begins. When you arrive, you should be greeted by someone on our Welcome Team who will offer you hymn books and a Bible.

Accessibility: There is wheelchair access, and a sound loop installed. Toilets, including a disabled toilet, are across in the church hall.

Our Morning Service

The service begins at 10:45am with a warm welcome from the person leading the service. We will then sing and pray and hear the Bible being read and then listen to a message preached from the Bible. After the sermon we usually share in what is known as the Lord's Supper or Communion - a sharing in bread and wine to remember the death of Jesus in our place (we use gluten-free bread and non-alcoholic wine). Once a month we close the service after the sermon with refreshments and an opportunity to stay and chat informally.

Our Evening Service

The service begins at 6pm is similar in format to the morning service. We share in the Lord's Supper on one evening each month.

What about my kids?

During term-time we run a Creche and a Sunday School for children up to Year 6 during the morning sermon time (these meet over in the Church Hall). For more information about what happens in the children's work please visit the Children's Ministry page.

Children stay with their parent or grown-up at the start of the service for the welcome, songs and notices. We really value worshipping God all together as a family. Children leave for Creche and Sunday School just before the sermon, generally during the third hymn. If you’re a visitor and you’d like to accompany your child to Sunday School, you’d be very welcome to do so. Please pick your children up as soon as the service finishes.

Children

Getting Connected

 

While Sundays are a great way to meet new people, it is often in smaller settings you can really get to know others. We alternate meeting to pray together (1st & 3rd Tuesdays) with meeting in homes (2nd & 4th Tuesdays) to study the Bible and pray. We also have a Zoom-only prayer meeting on a Friday evening. Coming along to those groups allows you to make new friends, share together and support each other. Please do use the contact form below to ask for more details. We'd love to see you.

Get in touch with us to plan your visit
If you would like to come and visit the church beforehand you are more than welcome! Get in touch and we can arrange a time that suits you.
 
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Next, we will contact you by email to say hello and help arrange anything necessary for your visit.