Stocksfield Baptist Church
Stocksfield
Northumberland

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Welcome

We are a friendly Christian community who live in different parts of the Tyne valley aiming to get to know and love God and one another through the Lord Jesus Christ. We warmly welcome visitors from all walks of life and Christian traditions.

The church was founded in 1652, and has been in Stocksfield since 1905. Our vision has always been to apply the unchanging Christian faith relevantly in each generation, to see individuals, our community and the wider world transformed by the love of God in Jesus Christ.

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Pete Jorysz

Minister

01661 836978

Kevin & Lynne Frost

Church Secretary

01661 836978

Stocksfield Baptist Church's building is located in the village of Stocksfield, 10 miles west of Newcastle/Gateshead on the A695 road. The village is served by bus by service 602 between Newcastle Eldon Square and Hexham, and by train on the Newcastle-Carlisle railway line.

By bus: from Newcastle/Gateshead take A602 (from Eldon square via Metro Centre, Blaydon, Ryton, Crawcrook & Prudhoe) and ask for either Branch End (just before the church) or Birches Nook (just after the church). When coming from Hexham (via Corbridge & riding Mill) ask for Birches Nook.

By train: from Stocksfield station there is a walk of about a mile to the church: turn left from station car park onto A695 road and follow road past the First School and Cricket Club, then uphill. Cross road and the church is on the sharp left hand bend.

By car: from Newcastle/Gateshead, take A695 west towards Hexham, via Blaydon and Prudhoe. After passing Prudhoe and passing through Mickley you enter Stocksfield. Church building is on the left hand side at the sharp right hand bend. From the west: take A695 towards Prudhoe & Gateshead. From Broomhaugh roundabout (junction with A68) Stocksfield is the next village you come to, after 2 miles. Pass railways station, First school and Cricket Club on your left, then travel uphill and the church is on the right at the sharp left hand bend. The church has a sizeable car park. For main services enter by the main door facing you; for other events you may need to use the entrance up the stairs on the right hand side of the building.

Sunday Worship

We meet together for worship every Sunday at 10.00am at our building in Stocksfield. Our Sunday worship services incorporate many dimensions:

Our worship style is a blend of traditional and modern music with a commitment to creativity and use of different media.

Our preaching and teaching style aim to apply the unchanging truths and principles of the Bible to the challenges and complexities of 21st century living.

We value the sacraments of baptism and communion and celebrate these regularly.

We encourage the use of spiritual gifts such as prophecy and healing.

Our morning worship includes a full programme of teaching and activities for children and young people, with a creche for pre-school children.

On the first Sunday of every month we hold a special service where visitors are particularly welcome. 'First Sunday' offers contemporary music and other media, and explores key life issues from a Christian perspective.

Our morning service is followed by a time for refreshments and chat.

Visitors are warmly welcome to join us for our Sunday worship.

Service Times last updated on the 5th of February, 2018

Children's Work

Our children's work is called 'Lighthouse' and covers all ages from birth up to the end of middle school (13 years old).

Pre-School

Every Sunday there is a supervised crèche which starts after a short time all together in the church service.

'Stay & Play' baby and toddler group meets on Tuesdays from 10.00 - 11.30 am (in term times) and involves craft, story, singing, refreshments and loads of fun for children and parents/carers.
First & Middle School

Sunday Groups meet during the morning service (10.00 - 11.30 am)

Little Stars - Reception & Year 1 (4-6 years old)
Rocks - Years 2 & 3 (6-8 years old)
Palms - Years 4, 5 & 6 (8-11 years old)
Red Bananas - Years 7 to 10 (11-16 years old)

Buzz Club: This is a larger gathering featuring games, music, DVDs and craft on a Christian theme, where all the children join in together. It takes place one Sunday each term from 10.00 - 11.30 am.

All-Age Services take place once a term when the children stay in for an interactive time of worship and teaching.

Holiday Club takes place for a week, usually at the beginning of the school summer holidays. This is a lively, fast-moving, action-packed programme for 5-11s, featuring songs, drama, DVDs, crafts, interactive teaching and refreshments.

Seasonal Events are organised throughout the year.

All our children's leaders are CRB checked and receive annual training. They are approved to work with children according to our church's child protection policy.

Youth

Young people are important to us. We have a part-time youth co-ordinator, Eilidh Talman, who leads a team of experienced youth workers.

Our youth group is called Red Bananas (don't ask why...), who meet at the following times, during school term times:

Sunday mornings at 10.00am, meeting at the church, for years 7 to 10, as part of our regular Sunday worship service. This group meets for Bible based, interactive teaching.
Sunday evenings, 7.00 - 9.00pm, meeting in homes in Prudhoe, Stocksfield & Riding Mill. The programme involves topical discussion and fun with friends for School Years 7-13.

In addition, we visit local middle and high schools to take assemblies, RE lessons, Christian Union group meetings and engage in other educational activities. We also take young people away for an activity weekend at least once a year and join in with larger Christian youth gatherings in the region, such as Ninth Hour and Harvest.

All our leaders are CRB checked and approved to work with young people according to our church's child protection policy.

Community Groups

Several groups and organisations use the church premises for their meetings. To find out more details, contact the listed leaders.

Rainbows & Brownies

There are three Guiding groups which meet at Stocksfield Baptist Church.
Rainbows, for girls aged 5-7 years meet on Wednesdays from 4.15-5.30 pm
Contact Suzanne Ramsay 01661 843614 for more information
Brownies, for girls aged 7-10 years meet:
2nd Stocksfield Brownies meet on Mondays from 6-7.30 pm
Contact Linda Holmes 01661 844235 for more information
1st Stocksfield Brownies meet on Wednesdays from 6-7.30pm
Contact Jill Scott 01661 843705 for more information

Scottish Country Dancing

A friendly group who meet to learn traditional Scottish country dances.

Meets every Tuesday from 8.00 — 10.00pm.

Prudhoe Community choir

The choir meets on Wednesday evenings between 7.45pm and 9.45pm at Stocksfield Baptist Church.

We sing a variety of light music for mixed male and female voices in three and four part harmony under the direction of Paul Davies, our conductor and Humphrey Graham, our piano accompanist. This includes songs from West-End shows and other popular vocal arrangements. We usually perform two concerts each year and are sometimes invited to sing at local functions and events.

You don't need to audition, just come along and join in! Subscriptions are £15, payable 4 times per year. The first term is free to new members.

For more information contact Amy Furniss (Chairperson) 0191 4135090 or Catherine Edge (Secretary) 01661 835738.

Stocksfield Retired Men's Association

The Stocksfield Retired Men's Association is a non-political and non-denominational group which aims to foster and develop new and existing friendships amongst the retired men of Stocksfield and surrounding areas. There are currently around 90 members.

Meetings are held in the Baptist Church Hall on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month, except August. On these occasions a speaker is arranged to talk on a subject which might reasonably interest the group and we try to encompass a wide range of topics. Members assemble for coffee from 9.30am and the meetings start promptly at 10.30am and finish by 12.00 noon. The Annual General Meeting is held in December, at which a Committee is appointed to run the Association, and this is normally followed by a Carol Service and a Christmas Lunch.

In addition to the Thursday morning meetings, we also have an annual full day outing to a place of general interest and ladies are invited to join us on this occasion. Other shorter outings to places of special interest, e.g. local industrial and commercial concerns, are also organised.

There is no annual subscription but members pay a nominal fee (currently £1) at each meeting they attend to cover expenses.

To join, contact the Secretary, Ian Newton, on (01661) 843898 or just come along to one of the meetings. You will be very welcome.

Stay and Play

This is a group for parents, carers and small children, aged 0-3. It was originally set up thirty years ago as the 'Mums Club' to help support new mothers in the village, and has been running continuously ever since.

Stay and Play offers a friendly welcome, the opportunity to make new friends and share the experiences of parenthood and caring for young children, as well as offering stimulating activities for your little ones. We have a wide range of toys, books and games. We offer craft activities and a weekly story and song time. At the end of each term we have a special party with a puppet show. We occasionally organise trips, outdoor activities and a 'toddler praise' worship service as well.

Meetings:

Every Tuesday during school term-time, from 10.00-11.30am. The weekly fee is £1, which covers the costs of refreshments and activities.

Luncheon Club

Luncheon Club is a place for people of all ages to come and enjoy a good quality meal and friendly company. It takes place twice a month. At our main Luncheon Club lunch we serve a hot, two course lunch followed by coffee and mints. All food is freshly prepared on the premises and only the finest ingredients used. On the alternate fortnight we hold a short Luncheon Club Christian worship service followed by a 'lesser lunch'. Lunch includes a selection of sandwiches, quiches, scones and cakes - some very healthy and others very naughty! There is no charge for the lunch but voluntary donations cover the cost of the ingredients. Any surplus money goes towards special meals and gifts at Christmas and Easter and to summer outings.


Come alone or bring a friend... there is always a welcome at Luncheon Club. Transport can be arranged if necessary. Please contact the church to arrange this.

Meetings:

Luncheon Club Service and 'Lesser Lunch' - Second Thursday of each month (except August) at 11.00am
Main Luncheon Club Lunch - Fourth Thursday of each month (except August) at 12.00 noon

Uhuru Ministries

Church Member Terry Newton has set up and developed this project in Kenya which reaches out to children on the street, to orphans, to families and includes those affected in some way by HIV/AIDs. It runs a small residential home for ex street children and also provides support to children living in the community. Much of the work involves getting children to school, college/university or into some form of craft training, all of which is aimed at providing youngsters with hope for the future.

For more information about this work, visit the web-site: www.uhuruministries.org.uk.

BMS World Mission

This is the international mission agency to which most UK Baptist churches are affiliated. We support the work of Roger and Nikki Pearce in Albania, working in education and healthcare in the capital Tirana. To find out more about their work and about BMS World Mission, visit the website: www.bmsworldmission.org.
And more...

Our church members are involved in caring for and helping others through their daily work, many serving in caring professions and service industries. In addition, church members are involved in the following projects and ministries:

People's Kitchen - A charity working with homeless people in Newcastle upon Tyne www.peopleskitchen.co.uk
Heading West Music - A music ministry with a particular concern for issues of global justice www.headingwestmusic.com.
Mission East - A relief and development agency working in Asia www.miseast.org.

Church History

The origins of the church go back more than 350 years, when in 1651 Thomas Tillam was appointed to the post of lecturer at Hexham Abbey. A passionate evangelist with Baptist convictions, he baptised his converts and formed them into a Baptist church in July 1652. After Tillam left the Abbey a few years later, and with the restoration of the monarchy, the church was prevented from meeting in Hexham and for the next 180 years met in homes and farmhouses.

It soon expanded into the Derwent and Wear valleys, and eventually separated as congregations , each erecting its own premises for worship, firstly in Hamsterley, then Rowley. The Tyne Valley congregation met primarily in the kitchen of Hindley farmhouse, and also at Juniper Dye House. During these years evangelists and ministers from the church travelled widely through the North of England, helping to establish churches in new places such as Conston and Stockton. The church was also a founder member of the Northern Association of Baptist churches in 1690.

In 1835 the Hindley congregation moved to a new purpose-built chapel in the village of Broomley. A fruitful period of growth then saw the church build a second chapel in Broomhaugh (Riding Mill) in 1842. This was built on land which belonged to the Angus family, the distinguished leading family in the church for most of its life, who had already established a Baptist burial ground there. These two congregations remained a similar size - about 50 members - throughout the rest of the nineteenth century.

Then at the turn of the Twentieth Century, under the leadership of Peter Slater, the church's longest-serving pastor, the Broomley congregation took the strategic decision to move to Stocksfield, which was then a growing commuter village, while Broomley had suffered from depopulation. The Broomley chapel was demolished and the stones were used in the building of the new premises on the main road in Stocksfield. In the following years the congregation grew to its largest size, almost a hundred members.

Like many British churches, Stocksfield and Broomhaugh Baptist churches saw slow decline in life and membership over the post-second world war years, and the Broomhaugh church was closed in the 1960s, the building being sold to Riding Mill Methodist Church.

However the 1980s and 1990s saw new growth especially under the ministry of Andy Fitz-Gibbon, who led the church through charismatic renewal. The church has continued to flourish since the millennium, and seeks to be a significant force for good and for the Kingdom of God in the Tyne Valley and beyond.

God has been faithful to the church for more than three and a half centuries and Baptist people have faithfully witnessed to his power and love through many generations. We believe as a church that our story is also a small part of God's story, and we give him thanks for all that he has done: "Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness." (Psalm 115 verse 1)

If you would like to read a more detailed account of the church's history, please contact us and we can mail you a copy of the booklet Baptists in the Tyne Valley by Paul Revill