What We Believe

· We believe that God has given us good news in Jesus Christ.

· We believe that, through Jesus Christ, God can be known as our heavenly Father and that through the Holy Spirit we may trust, love and worship him.

· We believe that the Bible is God's book, written by human authors under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, so that what the Bible says, God says. It is in the Bible that we meet God, and he teaches us what to believe about him and how to live for him.

· We believe that the world's greatest need is to hear and respond to this good news. That is why we want to encourage all people to come to know Jesus.

· We accept the full and final authority of Holy Scripture in all matters of faith and conduct, and subscribe to the doctrine of the Church of England as set out in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, The Prayer Book, and The Ordinal.

Vision Statement

To win people for Christ and to build them up in Christ.

To win people for Christ

Our aim is to be a Church:

Praying that the Lord would open the hearts of many to believe, equipping and enthusing one another to share our faith, having regular evangelistic activities, showing compassion to the community around us and publicising both the message of the gospel and the work of the church.

To build people up in Christ

Our aim is to enable people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds to grow in the grace and joy of Christ and become mature Christians. The following are, therefore, key parts of our work as a church and our goals as individuals.

· Prayer: Encouraging prayer for all areas of our work and seeing regular prayer as a mark of mature faith.

· Teaching: Teaching the Bible so that people will grow in understanding and be stirred up in faith.

· Worship: Enabling worship to be uplifting and God-focussed.

· Gifts: Identifying and enabling people to use the gifts God has given them in His service.

· Leadership: Training people to be leaders in various areas of ministry.

· Service: Loving our neighbours and doing good to all.

· Fellowship: Living as a family and household of faith.

· Obedience: Being faithful to Christ, regardless of the cost.

· Pastoral Care: Caring for one another and especially for those in particular need.

· Family life: That whatever our circumstances, our home life would be honouring to Christ.

· Workplace: Seeing work as part of our Christian service, to be done to the praise and glory of God.