It’s on our heart to offer a warm, welcome, inclusive and safe space for everyone! Why not join us and see how you like it? We offer prayer during and after the service and have a designated prayer corner.
Sunday 10.30 am
This is a mixed-style service, formal and informal, with robes and candles, traditional hymns played on the organ, and contemporary worship led by a singer and band.
The service lasts approximately 75 minutes. Children are welcome to
take part in supervised craft activities and play at the back of the Church with parental supervision.
Every 2nd Sunday of the month is “children’s church” incl. Bible story and action songs. We are a multi-ethnic congregation with members spanning a wide range of ages from toddlers to the elderly and lots of families.
Refreshments are available after each service.
Wednesday 9.45am
A Said Eucharist with one hymn. Service sheets are used. It usually lasts about 40 minutes, and refreshments are available afterwards.
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Suggestions how to keep on track journeying with Jesus Christ
(please feel free to contact Revd Chris for further advise)
SPIRITUAL ROUTINE
Why not receive each day with gratefulness and as a new gift every morning, invite God’s presence and commit to him afresh.
Why not release the day at night by recalling God’s closeness and care and moments when we felt disconnected; then giving thanks, confess our failing, and then letting go and leaving in God’s hands things that we left undone and that threaten us.
Why not use the following Acronyms:
P.R.A.Y.: Praise, Repent, Ask and Yield;
A.C.T.S.: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication);
‘The Seven Ps of Prayer’: Presence, Praise, Purpose, Petition, Pardon, Protection and Persistence.
Daily Devotions – Online
Lectio 365 is a free daily devotional app that helps you pray the Bible every day. See https://www.24-7prayer.com/resource/lectio-365/
The Church of England’s Time to Pray presents everything you need for Prayer During the Day and Night Prayer. See https://www.chpublishing.co.uk/apps/time-to-pray
Read the Bible in-a-year with Read the Bible with Nicky and Pippa Gumbel @ https://bible.alpha.org/en/
Read Daily Meditations from the Centre for Action and Contemplation – Theme for 2026: ‘Good News for a Fractured World’ @ https://cac.org/daily-meditations/
Praying the Daily Office with the Northumbria Community @https://www.northumbriacommunity.org/offices/how-to-use-daily-office
Daily Devotions – Books
Brueggemann, Walter, Gift and Task. A Year of Daily Readings and Reflections (Louisville, Kentucky, 2017)
Chambers, Oswald, My Utmost for His Highest (Grand Rapids, MI, 1992)
McLaren, Brian D., Seeking Aliveness: Daily Reflections on a New Way to Experience and Practice the Christian Faith (London, 2017)
Rohr, Richard, A Spring Within Us. A Year of Daily Meditations (London, 2018)
Rohr, Richard, Yes, And … Daily Meditations (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1997)
Bible Commentaries
Charles B Cousar et al (eds.), Texts for Preaching. Year A. Year B. Year C. (Louisville, Kentucky, 1993ff)
David L. Barlett and Barbara Brown Taylor (eds.), Feasting on the Word (Louisville, Kentucky, 2010).
LITERATURE
Wanting to go deeper on how to read the Bible, or what it means being a Christian?
(many available as 2nd-hand books):
Bauerschmidt, Frederick C., The Love that is God (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2020)
Beck, Richard, Stranger God. Meeting Jesus in Disguise (Minneapolis, 2017)
Bentley Hart, David, That All shall be Saved. Heaven, Hell & Universal Salvation (London, 2019)
Bentley Hart, David, Atheist Delusions. The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (London, 2009)
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, The Cost of Discipleship
Borg, Marcus J., Reading the Bible Again For the First Time (San Francisco, 2002)
Brown, Brene, Daring Greatly. How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead (2013)
Brueggemann, Walter, Journey to the Common Good (Louisville, 2010)
Brueggemann, Walter, The Bible Makes Sense (London, 2016)
Campbell, Douglas A., Paul. An Apostle’s Journey (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2018)
Campbell, Douglas A., Pauline Dogmatics. The Triumph of God’s Love (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2020)
Cone, James H., The Cross and the Lynching Tree (New York, 2020)
Church of England, Living in Love & Faith. Christian Teaching and Learning about Identity, Sexuality, Relationships and Marriage (London, 2020)
Halík, Tomáš, The Afternoon Of Christianity. The Courage to Change (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2024)
Ivereich, Austen, First Belong to God. On Retreat with Pope Francis (Dublin, 2024)
Jersak, Bradley, A More Christlike Word (New Kensington, 2021)
King, Martin Luther, A Testament of Hope. The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr (New York, 1986)
Lohfink, Gerhard, Jesus of Nazareth: What he Wanted, Who he Was (Collegeville, Minnesota, 2015)
McLaren, Brian D., Life after Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart (2024)
Nouwen, Henri J., The Road to Daybreak. A Spiritual Journey (London, 1988)
Pope Francis, On Fraternity and Social Friendship (2020) – see https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html
Pope Francis, On Care for Our Common Home (2015) – see https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html
Pope Francis, On The Call to Holiness in Today’s World (2013) – see https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20180319_gaudete-et-exsultate.html
Pritchett, Chris and Marjorie J. Thompson, On Retreat with Henri Nouwen. Engaging Life’s Big Questions (London, 2021)
Rohr, Richard, Falling Upwards (London)
Rohr, Richard, The Tears of Things. Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage (London, 2025)
Rohr, Richard, The Universal Christ (London, 2019)
Swamy, Muthuray, Reconciliation (London, 2018)
Volf, Miroslav, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation (2019)
Volf, Miroslav et al., Life Worth Living. A Guide to What Matters Most (London, 2023)
Wells, Samuel, A Future that’s Bigger than the Past (London, 2019)
Wells, Samuel, Walk Humbly. Encouragement for Living, Working, and Being (London, 2019)
Williams, Rowan, Being Christian (Cambridge, 2014)