Skull plans to bring new life to Brighton’s dry bones
Association of Grace Baptist Churches (SE)
Date posted: 1 Feb 2021
David Skull (aka Skully) has been serving Grace Church Guildford for the past 13 years. In July he will be moving with his wife Naomi and their four children to lead Grace Plant Brighton. He explains how this happened.
Back in 2012, Montpelier Place Baptist Church sadly closed. It represented a community of Christians who had been gathering in Brighton since 1834. The building was demolished in 2017, but we don’t believe this is the end of the story. Grace Plant Brighton is sowing the seeds of a new church in central Brighton in 2021.
Taking the High Road
Association of Grace Baptist Churches (SE)
Date posted: 1 Aug 2020
Would you accept a call to pastor a church
of six or seven people?
That
is what David Wilson did back
in 2015. High Road Baptist Church
in
Finchley had reached a low ebb and, when
David was inducted in February 2016, his
mission was to ‘re-establish’ the church.
A planner’s dream and a church’s vision
Association of Grace Baptist Churches (SE)
Date posted: 1 May 2020
Thamesmead was
the brainchild of
the
Greater London Council’s city planners:
a new town on the south bank of the
Thames estuary. Building on marshland
east of Woolwich, developers
initially
experimented in the new urban architecture
of
the 1960s before returning
to more
conventional Barrett housing in the 1980s.
When phase
two was built, Titmuss
Avenue Baptist Church was planted, with
a new building overlooked by high-rise
homes and aerial walkways. The initial team
under Michael Toogood established a small
fellowship
that
then
received wonderful
pastoral
care
through
the ministries of
Derek French in the later 1980s and Robin
Dowling
in the 1990s. In the 2000s the
church struggled
for direction as Sunday
attendance (paradoxically) increased.
Lord of Lord’s
Association of Grace Baptist Churches (SE)
Date posted: 1 Feb 2020
St John’s Wood is west of Regent’s Park in London, a neighbourhood made famous by Lords Cricket Ground. The Edgware Road is also a centre for London’s Arab population.
At the heart of this community is St John’s Wood Road Baptist Church, a Grace Baptist church that has served this area for well over a century. In 2005 it had fallen on hard times, but Chris and Helen Hawthorne came to revitalise it, gathering a growing community around God’s word. During their time they sent a member to church-plant in Bordeaux, and another returned to serve in Assam, India. Finally, in 2018 the church sent Chris and Helen through GBM to head up Proclamation Institute Zambia, leaving Scott Little as the new pastor.