Four steps closer to The Emmanuel Centre, as Gift Day raises £40k-plus

As a church community we’re on a journey towards opening The Emmanuel Centre.

The Emmanuel Centre will include a 500-seat auditorium, which will host our main church meetings, as well as conference and other commercial business during the week.

We embarked upon this project because God has blessed us with amazing growth, and The Durham Centre, our home for the past ten years, is approaching capacity. In our children and youth work, for example, which once The Emmanuel Centre is completed will have sole use of The Durham Centre on Sunday mornings.

The Emmanuel Centre is next door, and we recently completed the purchase.

During November, we held a Gift Day - encouraging our members to pray about what God was prompting them to give into The Emmanuel Centre project.

We’re very pleased to announce this raised £42,421 including Gift Aid. Thank you to everyone for their generosity.

Our target for this project is to raise £1 million, which Alan encouraged us to think of as One Hundred Steps of £10,000. So our Gift Day has taken us four steps closer to our target!

If you would like more information about supporting the church financially, please visit our Giving page.

Hundreds enjoy Christmas Family Fun Day!

Over 500 people enjoyed our fantastic free Christmas Family Fun Day!

Thanks to everyone who came along - we hope you had a great time.

If you enjoyed it, maybe you’d like to come along to one of our other Christmas events? We have a family brass band concert on Sunday 15th December, a family service on Sunday 22nd December and a short service on Christmas Day. For all the details, click here. We’d love to see you again soon!

Stepping into the promises of God

We are excited at the growth with which God is blessing us - and we want to trust his promises over us for the future.

Right now, we are trusting God for our Emmanuel Centre project: to transform an empty factory opposite our current Durham Centre building into a new 500-seat auditorium.

During the week, this would allow us to welcome more conference and business trade. On Sundays, this would be our main church meeting venue, with The Durham Centre entirely devoted to our ever-growing children and youth work.

On Sunday 24th November, the elders led us into The Emmanuel Centre, which we now own but is still an empty shell, to pray and consecrate ourselves before God as he takes us forward into the next phase.

Listen to John’s talk about stepping into the promises of God here

And enjoy the photos below!