Coming for the first time
Nothing on this page is a commitment. It is here because almost everybody who walks in for the first time has the same four questions, and asking them out loud is the hard part.
Getting here
Market Place, in the middle of town. Shaw Croft car park is two minutes away and free on Sundays; four accessible spaces are in the church yard off Church Street. The Swift bus stops at the top of the square.
Open in mapsWalking in
Use the Market Place door. Somebody on the welcome desk will say hello, hand you an order of service if you want one, and then leave you alone — which is usually the bit people are most worried about.
What happens nextAfterwards
Coffee at the back for about half an hour. Nobody will take your details, put you on a list, or ring you during the week unless you ask them to.
Ask something firstWhen we gather
- Sunday 10:00 Morning worship
If you are coming for the first time and would like someone to look out for you, say so on the form and we will.
Things people worry about beforehand
I have not been to church since I was a child.
That describes a good third of the room. The order of service tells you what is happening and when to sit down; nothing else is assumed.
I would rather nobody spoke to me.
Take an order of service from the desk and sit in the gallery or the back three rows — that is understood here as "leave me be", and people will.
My child does not sit still.
Neither do most of them. There are books and a rug at the front, and the noise genuinely does not bother anybody.
I am not a Christian.
Come anyway. Nothing on a Sunday requires you to say or sing anything you do not mean, and nobody checks.