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Welcome to Bungay's Emmanuel Church

2008 --- It is 350 years since the nonconformists started meeting in Bungay - 2008

Rev'd Bruce Waldron

Welcome
If you are a visitor in Bungay or its surrounds, please feel free to pop in and worship with us on a Sunday morning at 10.45, then stop and chat after the service over a cuppa. The folk at the church are always welcoming and are a mine of information about the town so if you would like to meet some locals and learn a bit about Bungay, Emmanuel is a helpful place to visit.

Our worship services are also held at 6.30pm on most Sunday evenings (except August) and you would be very welcome.

Warm and Informal
Worship at Emmanuel Church is typical of a church that is both URC and Methodist - warm and informal, gentle and encouraging and we are proud of both sides of our heritage. We are also proud of our beautiful Pipe Organ and lovely buildings and we leave the front doors open in the mornings so that visitors can enjoy our place of worship or come and have a moment of rest with God in its peaceful warmth. When the weather allows, please take a few moments to enjoy our beautifully tended gardens.

Most of all at Bungay, we value God's love for us and we enjoy sharing that with each other and folk who comes to worship with us. There is plenty of activitiy at Emmanuel, to cater for all ages.

We have a varied selection of activities for you to enjoy - here is a sample:

  • Pilots, our children's group, meets on Wednesdays at 7.00pm in the Orange Hall. New members are welcome to join - just call and ask.
  • The choir is very active at Emmanuel and is always open to new members, providing they can sing of course. Practice is on Friday nights at 7.30, in the church.
  • The Luncheon Club provides a nutritious and tasty meal for the elderly on alternate Fridays.
  • The Women's Fellowship
  • Junior Church, our Junior Mission for All.

Click the Current Events link to see what's happening this month, or why not just come along and enjoy the really friendly fellowship and lovely worship.

About the Church
Emmanuel Church, in Upper Olland Street, is so-called from the joining together as one congregation of the members of the former Congregational Church on that site and those of the Methodist Church previously in Trinity Street, in 1976. It tries to incorporate into its life and witness the Christian experience and insights of both these denominations. It does so in two ways:

Firstly, it forms part of the United Bungay Circuit (which operates as a typical Methodist Circuit) under the direction of the Minister and two Circuit Stewards, Ann Eland and Stephen Johnston.

The Circuit comprises three Methodist Chapels: Ilketshall St. Andrew, Rumburgh and Woodton, and two URC Chapels: Denton, Wortwell. The Denton Chapel shares its life with the Church of England members in the village, worshipping alternately at the Parish Church and at the Chapel.

Secondly, its Ministry is provided alternately by the United Reformed Church and by the Methodist Church. Our previous Minister, Revd. Helen Mills came to us via the Methodist Church; our present Minister, Revd. Bruce Waldron came to us from the Uniting Church of Australia via the URC. Although the procedures by which a Minister is called differ slightly between the two traditions, the final decision is made by a United Meeting of the whole Circuit, in which everybody has a voice and comes to a decision by a free vote.

On this site, we hope to share with you something of our history and traditions and beliefs; give you a description of the Sunday-by-Sunday and day-by-day activities of our Church; and post notice of events as they are about to occur.

  


SEPTEMBER 2008


Emmanuel Church
Upper Olland St, Bungay, Suffolk


NEWS

350 Years
Denton to Bungay
Pilgrimage

A Lenten Reflection



 NEW

Selected Articles
from the
Church Newsletter

The Letter

Check out some of
the Collage Group's work


MINISTER'S MESSAGE

Read Bruce's message on
"FORGIVENESS"

A Lenten Reflection


FEATURES

"Now and Then"
Emmanuel Church

Roy Robinson's
"Thoughtful Guide
to the Bible"


Many past sermons are now available on line

Memories of Bruce's sponsored bike ride from Lands End to Lowestoft


FORTHCOMING
EVENTS

will appear here

Alphabetical Article Archive




If you have any comments or queries for our Minister,
Reverend Bruce Waldron,
please contact him by telephone on
01986-896501
or by e-mail at
bruce.waldron@uwclub.net

If your question or comment is just a general one about this site, please e-mail emmanuelbungay@hotmail.com

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