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Welcome!

It's great to have you visiting this Website. We have activities that cater for all ages so feel free to browse this website or contact us if you can't find what you are looking for.

Pastor Phill Brown leads our ministry team. Our songs of praise spans from the wonderful hymns of old to the latest spiritual songs. You will find us at the end of Cowplain shops in Durley Avenue. Why not pay us a visit?

What are we talking about in Church, these days?
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Living a Stress Free Life

This Sunday, 22 November, at our Discovery Service, Pastor Phill will be looking at
God's answer to Fearing the Future.
A lot of people spend their lives worrying about tomorrow. Why?
Because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow!
As we conclude our series looking at Psalm 23, we discover that if we have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ we have nothing to fear about the future.
We will see that the future is secure for the believer, and it's a wonderful future too
Come along to Sunday Morning Discovery Service, beginning at 10.30am
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Just Walk Across the Room

We continue our series, looking at how to develop personal evangelism. Stories are powerful as they engage and affect people. If we want to be better at sharing our faith, there are two stories we need to know.
God's story - that is the gospel.
Our story - our own faith story of how the gospel changed our life. Not only do we need to know these stories, we need to be able to tell them as well.
This evening we look at how to do that. If you're serious about sharing your faith, or you want to know how to really make an impact when your friends ask you questions about your faith, then tonight's message will help you enormously.
Come along this Sunday evening to hear part 3, and realise'The Power of Story'

Pastor Phill said,"This 4-part series of talks are Practical, Down to Earth and Do-able."
The series is based on a book of the same title, which will be available to buy at a discount price.
Sunday Evening Discipleship Service, begins at 6.30pm


If you miss any of the talks, you can order a free CD at the Church Information Desk, each Sunday, or use the Email Link to Pastor Phill below
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What's it all about?

Beginning in November
You are invited to join this 8 week course, which looks at what Chrisitianity is all about and what it means to us today.
It usually runs on a Thursday evening 7.00-9.00pm.
  • Includes coffee and biscuits
  • No need to come on your own, bring your friend too
  • Are you looking for something more beyond the natural?
  • Are you wondering, which religion?

    • Join this course as part of your life's journey.
    For more details, email Pastor Phill, via the link at the bottom of the page or ring the Church Office.
    No Fees to pay! This is a CEC Sponsored Community Activity

    Believer's Baptism!!

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    On Sunday Morning, 11 Oct, the baptistry was opened for a number of believers to be Baptised, which was part of our Discovery Service at 10.30am.
    Each person shared part of their own 'Faith-Story' in the meeting.
    We invite you to come along and watch when we have our next Baptism Service.

    Following the Baptisms, Pastor Phill brought a short talk, entitled 'Everyone needs a Saviour'
    It turned out that even Superman agreed that,
    Everyone needs a Saviour.

    My Faith Story - Karen shares hers.

    My Aunty Jan, my Mum's older sister used to look after us during the holidays and I used to look forward to going to her church. She brought us up to know and love God.
    She said,"If there was one verse in the Bible that I should learn, it was this.... John chapter 3 verse 16 ...

    'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
    that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.'

    Karen just before she is baptisedI began my relationship with God when I was 14 at Summer Camp in Great Yarmouth. I had listened to a talk in the morning and the speaker had said that if we really believed that there was a God! Then it wasn't enough to just believe, in Him but we needed to accept HIm into our life as our personal Saviour and ask God for forgiveness of our sins. During the day I thought about what had been said, and I knew I believed God existed, and that night I took God into my heart. From then on I prayed regularly to God, and attended church occassionly. I never stopped believing in God, but never put Him first in my life, He was always on the sidelines.

    It wasn't until my Mum became very ill with cancer that I began to talk to God in earnest. But as she got worse, I felt helpless. Mum was in a tremendous amount of pain and I felt angry at God for letting Mum suffer so much.

    'You were supposed to be a caring, loving God, so why let someone suffer so much?'

    What I hadn't realised at the time, was that if Mum hadn't suffered so much, then I wouldn't have been so affected by it, so as to speak to God like that!

    I look back now and I can see that God had been calling to me, at different times before in my life. When Kylie and Ellouise were little, before I had Sabrina, I had felt so guilty about not taking the children to church; I never did anything about it. When my nephew Lee, became ill, and when I became ill and when I nearly lost my sight in one eye; these were just a few of the times, but God did not get my full attention. It took my Mum's suffering to make me sit up and realise how far behind I had left God. It was at this time that we were led to this church for my Mum's Thanksgiving Service. Everyone was so friendly and I was amazed on the following Sunday to receive a CD of the Thanksgiving Service. People, who didn't even know us were giving up their time to be with us. I felt so overwhelmed but also felt a sense of peace.

    I then started attending the church regularly and began studying the Bible and not just reading it. Pastor Phill's sermons helped to unlock some of my queries. The fellowship group urged me forward and were there to help me on occasions when I stumbled. Phill gave me a book to read called, 'The case for Christ' by Lee Strobel.
    This answered a lot of my questions and at the very end of the book is a quote by Martin Luther King Jr. -

    I may not yet be the person I should be.
    Or the person, with Christ's help I someday will be
    ....but thank God, I'm not the person I used to be.

    God no longer sits on the sidelines, but is placed firmly in front of me, leading and guiding me to where I am today. This is only the beginning of my journey and I thank you all for coming this morning and for your help and support in getting me this far. I am reminded of a hymn we used to sing at Bible Camp in Great Yarmouth.

    I know who holds the future and He'll guide me with His hand.
    With God, things just don't happen, everything by Him is oplanned,
    And as I face tomorrow, with its' problems large and small,
    I'll trust the God of miracles give to Him my all.

    Karen is married to Nigel and has 3 daughters, Kylie 21yrs, Ellouise 19yrs, and Sabrina 13yrs.



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