Join us this Sunday

Sunday 10.30am and 6pm
We’d love to welcome you to one of our Sunday services. Join us for worship, Bible teaching and a chance to hear about Jesus and meet new people. All welcome!

Emmanuel Creatives

Every 3rd Saturday, 10.30am-12.30pm
If you’re aged 16+ and love to get creative, whether that be painting, drawing, knitting, sewing, calligraphy, or anything else, bring your materials and latest projects along and meet fellow creatives in our church family.

There will be refreshments, a brief devotional and the chance to share in fellowship.

Emmanuel Bookclub

Thursday 22nd May, 8pm
Join us at our next meeting where we will be discussing The Insanity of God by Nik Ripken.

The Insanity of God is the personal and lifelong journey of an ordinary couple from rural Kentucky who thought they were going on just your ordinary missionary pilgrimage, but discovered it would be anything but. After spending over six hard years doing relief work in Somalia, and experiencing life where it looked like God had turned away completely and He was clueless about the tragedies of life, the couple had a crisis of faith and left Africa asking God, "Does the gospel work anywhere when it is really a hard place? It sure didn't work in Somalia.

Nik recalls that, “God had always been so real to me, to Ruth, and to our boys. But was He enough, for the utter weariness of soul I experienced at that time, in that place, under those circumstances?” It is a question that many have asked and one that, if answered, can lead us to a whole new world of faith.

The Insanity of God tells a story—a remarkable and unique story to be sure, yet at heart a very human story—of the Ripkens’ own spiritual and emotional odyssey. The gripping, narrative account of a personal pilgrimage into some of the toughest places on earth, combined with sobering and insightful stories of the remarkable people of faith Nik and Ruth encountered on their journeys, will serve as a powerful course of revelation, growth, and challenge for anyone who wants to know whether God truly is enough.