Breakfast Church
We meet on Sunday mornings from 10am, every week except for the first Sunday of the month, at Love's Farm House - the community centre on Love's Farm.
We try and make our welcome warm and relaxed. We want anyone who visits to feel as though this is somewhere they could belong.
As a church we meet at the heart of our community and seek to have the community at the heart of the church – so we’re involved in lots of community based activities through the week.
Our Sunday mornings begin all together in the main hall of Love’s Farm House with a full breakfast and conversation around the tables. After half an hour or so we'll take some time to look at a story from the Bible and explore how it might have something to say to us today. Each Sunday morning has its own ‘menu’ to guide people through the programme. We try and use a variety of media to engage with the main theme of the morning.
There are lots of children at Breakfast Church and a good number of people who haven't been part of a church before. We count ourselves as learners and also as pretty flexible, which means that although there's a pattern to Sunday mornings it's not rigid.
Three key words express the heart of what we hope for as a church: community, encounter and discipleship.
Community is really important to us, both the one that gathers on a Sunday morning and the wider Love’s Farm and Wintringham community that we’re part of. Encounter also matters because we believe that faith is not the absence of doubt but something much more dynamic, involving relationship and journey. So faith is not something we either have or don’t have; it’s a journey that we’re on and a relationship we’re a part of.
The word 'Christian' is only used three times in the Bible, but 'disciple' is used over 260 times. Jesus still invites people to become his disciples – which means apprentice or learner. When we get together on a Sunday, we try to work out what following Jesus looks like – learning to live and love and walk and work like he did and like he would if he was living our lives. So community – encounter – discipleship are words that we’ll often refer back to.