What to Expect
Sundays are the main opportunity to gather together as a church. Together we engage in corporate teaching, worship, prayer and fellowship as well as practising the ordinances of the Lord's Supper and Baptism. From time to time we have special occasions such as family services and thanksgivings for new additions to families.
All our services have an eclectic blend of contemporary and more traditional styles and songs. We seek to apply God's Word to the contemporary world. We aim to be welcoming to all and have a friendly feel to our services.
If you don't often go to church and are thinking of attending one of our services then please don't feel pressured to join in with anything you're not comfortable with. You are welcome to simply observe what goes on. You don't need to dress in formal clothing, most of us don't. A service leader will normally tell you when to stand up and sit down. If you wish to sing, the words will be on a screen at the front. And there's free tea or coffee afterwards. We trust that you'll feel warmly welcomed when you do join us.
We have three regular services on a Sunday:
Morning Service
Our main service is a large gathering of people from all sorts of backgrounds and of all ages. Children and Youth have their own groups which they go to halfway through the service (details on the groups page). In addition we run a crèche for under 3s.
We meet at 10:30am on a Sunday morning at Roundwood School and everything is normally finished by 12 noon. See the location page for a map.
Term Time Church
Term Time Church aims to serve three groups of people:
- Those who are unable to make it to the main service and would like to have an earlier service.
- The many who serve in the main service and therefore are unable to be in the main teaching session.
- Those who simply like a more close-knit service.
It usually follows the same teaching as in the main service.
We meet during the school term, 9:00-9:45am on a Sunday morning at Vaughan Road. See the location page for a map.
Evening Service
Our evening services follow a different teaching programme to our other services. They are more close-knit than our morning service and are even more relaxed with various elements included from time to time.
We meet at 6:00pm and services usually last around an hour. We meet at Vaughan Road most weeks but once a month we meet at Fish Street, Redbourn. See the location page for maps and see the full programme below for details.
Current Teaching Programmes
For the Autumn term we have the following series:
- What on Earth do you think you're doing? A brief look at our core values. During our Morning Services & Term Time Church
- That was the Week that Was Studying John 17-21. During our Morning Services & Term Time Church
- Anarchy in the UK Studying the book of Judges. During our Evening Services
Full details of our programme are found in the Taste and See booklets:
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