Life February 2021 fv1

As we served coffee and hot chocolate outside
the Townsend Community Centre in the lead
up to Christmas, people asked the team, 'Who
are you?'
Who are you?!
The answer was simple - we are the church
for Townsend!
Strouden Park Chapel and Lansdowne Church
agreed, back in 2014, that together we would
partner to ensure that there was a long
term gospel presence in this community.
With nearly 6 years here getting to know
the community, over the past 18 months
we have been developing a small group of
Lansdowne members and attendees who are
committed to growing into the church for this
community.
As wider Lansdowne prepares for the long
awaited move into the new building in 2021,
we are preparing to launch a new daughter
church here in the Townsend community.
The group of people making up our Launch
Team for this new church have been growing
together in unity as we meet each Sunday
evening to prepare. As our little family has
grown, so has our desire for mission here.
Opportunities like Lockdown Coffee and our
Tuesday Community Meal and Bible Study
have given us the chance to make the church
visible in this community.
We're excited to see what God brings for
us in 2021, with lots of new relationships
growing in the community, the potential of
Sundays together using the school hall, and
discipleship still taking place daily within our
little church family. Please pray with us in all
these things and more. Pray that God would
be leading us to the people he has prepared to
be part of his kingdom, that we would have
opportunities to speak to them, and that God
would be pleased to save them! Pray too for
just a few more of the right kind of people to
join our launch team over the coming months
before we launch.
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Tom Davenport | Community Worker