Why I like small churches

Michael Lockwood  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Oct 2002
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Getting on for two and a half years ago, Michael Lockwood moved from Thornhill Baptist Church with his wife and two daughters to join with four believers in fellowship at Hall Green in Haworth, West Yorkshire. He tells us what happened...

We went with an awareness of some of the inherent difficulties of life in a small church and prepared as well as we could for the hardships ahead. What we were not prepared for, however, was the enormous blessings we would experience, not despite the church being small but because it was small.

Here are three unexpected blessings experienced in the last two years, which we hope will be an encouragement to those in similar situations.

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