WHAT WE DO - our MINISTRY and MISSION
Our principal activity is to worship God, to try to get to know and love him better, and to try to help others to do the same. We seek to serve him and learn more about him.
Use the links below to find out more about our activities, including news and announcements, the diary of events, details of our regular services of worship and our worship and teaching programme. There is more about our faith and ministry below the links. If you need practical information such as how to get to the church or how to get in touch please go to the General Information page. If you are interested in hiring the hall or one of our other rooms please go to the Hall Hire page.
- News and notices. Latest news, notices and other announcements, including changes to our programme.
- Immanuel Parish Diary. Details of this week's services and a diary of coming events, including any variations in the normal pattern of activities.
- May we help you? We hope you will find something to help you in this section, perhaps with prayer, the Bible, or Christian living.
- Services and other activities. Our regular programme, which normally follows a monthly pattern.
- Worship and Teaching Programme The "Seasons of the Spirit" Teaching Programme.
- Fair Trade Stall. Make a difference - Fight poverty through trade!
- Church Flowers. A way to brighten our church and services - and remind us that, when God created the universe, he "saw that it was good".
- Immanuel and St. Andrew C.E. Primary School and Immanuel Youth Centre. The church has close links with the school and the youth centre, both founded as part of the church's ministry, one in the 19th century and one in the 20th.
- Our new CMS Mission Partners, Sue and Richard Kellow. We support the church overseas through CMS (the Church Mission Society), and are just beginning a new link with Sue and Richard, our new Mission Partners, who will be working in Rwanda. You can still view the pages about our previous Mission Partner, Toks Akinbadewa., who was working in Uganda.
Note. (The Retreat pages are still available - they are now part of the 'May we help?' section.)
We also regard it as an important part of our ministry to make our building available to the wider community, particularly to voluntary and community groups, at a reasonable cost. Our hall and some other rooms are available for hire. Please go to the Hall Hire page for more information or call the parish office (020 8679 6888) for details of rates and availability. The hall was extensively refurbished in 2002.
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More about Immanuel and its faith and ministry.
Immanuel and St Andrew (usually just called "Immanuel") is a Parish Church of the Church of England in the Diocese of Southwark, UK. It serves a diverse parish in an urban priority area, and the congregation is drawn from a wide variety of walks of life. Ethnic minorities, particularly from African and Caribbean countries, are well represented. It is a church where many have found a welcome, including those who have had little contact with the church prior to coming to Immanuel.
You can view a map showing the Parish boundary from the A Church near You website.
Why "Ministry" and "Mission"? These are "church jargon" words - although they are also used by politicians and in business! In practical terms, "Ministry" and "Mission" mean the same thing; both mean "what we do" - as the page title says. But they bring out different things about it. The word "Ministry" means service, and what we do is aimed at serving - serving God, serving one another, and serving the wider community. But we do this, not just because we think it is a good thing to do, but because Jesus sent us to do it - it is our mission. The word "mission" means something we are sent to do. Jesus said to his disciples, 'As the Father has sent me, so I send you." (John 20:21) - they, and we, are to continue his work of teaching, serving and proclaiming the good news of God's love and grace.
Good News - that's what Jesus' message was - and is - for those willing to receive it. By the grace of God, through Jesus' death on the cross, our sins are forgiven (Romans 3:23-25) and we are reconciled to God (Colossians 1:20). For us, eternal life has begun - for eternal life is not just life going on for ever beyond physical death but life enjoyed for ever in fellowship with God. Eternal life is to know God - and to know Jesus - (John 17:3), as a friend who knows and loves and cares for us as well as the Lord and God whom we worship and adore. As one of the most well known verses in the Bible puts it, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son - Jesus - so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life (John 3:16).
You may find the history page, the Hall Renewal Project page and the pages about the embroidered banners. and the altar and altar cross. of further interest in connection with the life, ministry and faith of Immanuel.
In 2004 Immanuel Church celebrated its 150th Anniversary, and was a partner church in the just 10 south london mission with evangelist J.John. You can click on these links or visit our Web Archive for more information.
Links to the main pages are at the TOP of the page.
Page last updated 18 July 2007.
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Morning Service at Immanuel and St. Andrew's Church