Weekly Activities
Sunday Services:
From the 11th September, our Sunday morning service will be held at Bushfield School at 11am and incorporates an optional Sunday School for children of 4 to 10 years. A room is available for parents with very young children if they wish to take them out of the service for a while. We also operate a crèche. Children over ten years stay in the main meeting. Occasionally the service is followed by a lunch.
The evening service will still be held at Emmanuel Hall at 6.30pm and tea and coffee are served afterwards.
The preaching at both services normally takes the form of an exposition of a Bible passage and is consecutive from week to week.
We celebrate the Lord's Supper on the first Sunday of each month, either morning or evening. Visitors are welcome to this service but we ask that only those who are baptised believers and who are in membership with a church take bread and wine when it is passed round.
Other meetings:
Christianity Explored: For details, click here.
Bible study and prayer meeting: Wednesdays at 8pm.
Ladies' informal Bible study and prayer meeting: Mondays at 10am (during school terms).
Missionary prayer group (OMF): Mondays at 8pm monthly.
Parent and toddler group: Tuesdays 1.15pm at Emmanuel Hall (during school terms).
Three times a year we join with other local evangelical churches for times of special ministry when a guest speaker is invited to take a particular topic of general concern or of topical interest.
On Fridays between 8:30am and 3:00 pm we have a market stall at the local Agora Shopping area where we display Christian books.
A Men’s prayer breakfast is held once a month at 8.15am on Saturdays.
Childrens activities:
Explorers: Fridays, 6pm at Emmanuel Hall, for children in school years R-6; includes games, creative activities and Bible talks.
Youth Group: Fridays, 7.45pm at Emmanuel Hall, for young people in school years 7-13.
Bible Class: Alternate Sunday afternoons, for teenagers.
They worshipped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.
Luke 24 v. 52-53
They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and prayers. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their numbers daily those who were being saved.
Acts 2 v. 42, 46-47
Roy
I was born in Liverpool into a family where going to church wasn't the thing to do. When I was in my early thirty's and apparently quite successful, I began to realise that possessions are not all that there is to life. I had a wife, a young family and had a good job but there was no real satisfaction. One day after a conversation with a neighbour, I began to read the Bible and I discovered that I had no satisfaction because I wasn't right with God. I learnt that I was a sinner whom God had the right to condemn but that instead of just writing me off, God had actually sent His own Son to die on the cross in my place. I soon asked God to forgive my sins and give me a new direction in my life. This He did and I now have the joy and peace of knowing that He is with me at all times.