Update on thethirdplace

thethirdplace, the home-based church we started a year ago, has been meeting for prayer, care for one another, conversation focused on readings from the Bible, and a simple meal including the Lord’s Supper. We’ve had as few as three of us and as many as 20 plus for some of our gatherings...

We meet and relate to one another on the simple promise of Jesus: “wherever two or three gather in my name, there am I in their midst.” It depends on His apprentices faithfully “devoting themselves to the apostle’s teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” It depends on Jesus adding “to their number daily those who were being saved.”

 

But thethirdplace isn’t the only home-based or simple church in the Fellowship of Churches of Christ. There is also Kairos from Redditch, Saltway from Droitwich, and Hillfields Christian Fellowship (HCF) from Coventry. These churches have a variety of histories. HCF includes 3 couples and 1 baby who have a heart for the poor and homeless. Saltway has a café-style, meeting in a local coffee shop. Kairos is a community of people committed to one another who date back to Church Hill Christian Fellowship.

On 5 April, these four home churches met together in a village hall just outside Redditch for a joint gathering to meet one another, hear each other’s stories, pray for one another, have a meal, worship, and celebrate communion together. It was experimental, and we deliberately facilitated a day that didn’t look like a typical Sunday morning worship service. The 25 of us who gathered were encouraged by one another!

We want to do it again.We are hopeful that we will start to form an embryonic network of churches that are simple and organic; of a kind that will be reproducible and demonstrating Kingdom of God values.

Pray for us!

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