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Hero lines
- There is a seat for you
- Sunday mornings, 10:30
- A community, not an audience
We gather on Sunday mornings, share lunch afterwards, and keep the hall open the rest of the week for whoever needs it.
Come as you are, sit at the back if you like, and leave when you need to – nobody will stop you.
Two hundred years of Sunday mornings on this corner, and still the same question at the door: how are you, really?
Team bios
Ellen Whitcombe — Minister
Ellen has served here since 2016, after nine years with a much smaller congregation two towns over. She writes her Sunday talks on Thursday afternoons in the café on the corner and will happily be interrupted. She keeps bees, badly.
Samuel Adeyemi — Music director
Samuel took on the organ and the choir in the same week, which he says was one job too many. He arranges most of what we sing and holds to a standing rule that no rehearsal runs past 20:30. Four children, one very loud dog.
Nadia Halloran — Community coordinator
Nadia runs the pantry, the hall diary and the volunteer rota – about 70 people between them. She started as a Tuesday volunteer in 2019 and was doing the job unofficially long before anyone thought to give her the title.
Quotes
“I came for a funeral in February and I have been back nearly every week since. Nobody pounced on me and nobody asked what I believed. Someone just kept saying good morning.”
Gordon Pyle, Attends Sunday mornings
“My daughter was three weeks old and I had not slept in a fortnight. The Thursday group took the pram off me and handed me a cup of tea. That was four years ago!”
Alice Bergström, Parent-and-baby group
“They opened the hall for a wake at two days' notice and would not take the €14 an hour. I am not a member of anything, and it made no difference to them at all.”
Faisal Karim, Local resident
FAQ answers
What should I wear on Sunday?
Whatever you already have on. On any given week you will see suits, work boots and pyjama bottoms under a coat. The question we hear most often is “will I stand out?” – and the honest answer is that nobody is looking.
Do I have to give money?
No. The basket passes down the row and most weeks about a third of people put nothing in it, which is entirely normal and entirely unremarked. Our annual accounts go up on the noticeboard each April if you would like to see where it goes.
Can my children come with me?
Yes, and they do not need to be quiet. There is a carpet and a box of books at the back, and a supervised group for ages 4–11 that leaves after the first twenty minutes. Around 45 children are on the register at the moment.
Are you part of a wider body?
We belong to a regional association of independent congregations that meets twice a year and shares child-protection training and standards. Day to day, decisions are made here by a council of nine, elected by those who attend for three-year terms.
Closing lines
If you are thinking about coming, you do not need to tell anyone first. Turn up at 10:20, take a seat wherever there is room, and decide afterwards whether you want to come back the following week.
The office is staffed Tuesday to Friday, 09:00 to 15:00, and the building itself is unlocked most weekday afternoons for anyone who wants to sit in it alone. That happens more often than you might expect.
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