Grief and growth in Basildon
Jim Sayers
Date posted: 1 Apr 2022
With news of how God brings blessing and
new life out of the darkest of situations in
His church, Jim Sayers of the Association of
Grace Baptist Churches writes:
What happens when your church building
gets destroyed in an air raid? That happened
to the church in Chatham Road, Wandsworth
Common on 15 October 1940. After World
War 2, large numbers of Londoners moved
out to the new towns. A number of Grace
Baptist churches were planted in these new
towns in the 50s and 60s, a time of real
social change. So Fryerns Baptist Church was
planted in Basildon, Essex in 1954 to replace
the church in Wandsworth.