Welcome
St Giles Church is in the heart of our community of West Bridgford. Whilst our church building is traditional, we are a broad, welcoming church family - we offer different services and different worship styles - there is something for everyone!
Our Mission
We are a community of disciples seeking to grow wider, younger and deeper through our witness to Jesus in West Bridgford and beyond.
Our Vision
Growing Disciples: Wider
We aspire to reach more widely into our community. Through our witness, we want more people to know Jesus – our friends, our colleagues and those who are strangers to us. We believe we should be less restrained by our church building, beautiful as it is!
We envisage more ‘relational evangelism’ – showing God’s love in action in West Bridgford and beyond, from which we can build relationships and introduce more people to Jesus.
We recognise we need a stronger invitational culture, ensuring our church is as welcoming and as engaging for newcomers as for those who are already part of St Giles’. We want to offer easy and accessible ways in, including specially designed invitational services and events.
We want to use social media more broadly and effectively, to connect with some of those who we are not currently reaching, enabling people to discover more about the life of our church and how we live our faith.
We envisage more ‘relational evangelism’ – showing God’s love in action in West Bridgford and beyond, from which we can build relationships and introduce more people to Jesus.
We recognise we need a stronger invitational culture, ensuring our church is as welcoming and as engaging for newcomers as for those who are already part of St Giles’. We want to offer easy and accessible ways in, including specially designed invitational services and events.
We want to use social media more broadly and effectively, to connect with some of those who we are not currently reaching, enabling people to discover more about the life of our church and how we live our faith.
Growing Disciples: Younger
Our children’s ministry is already strong; it is well placed to accommodate more children when we draw more young families to St Giles. Our local (nondenominational) schools are keen to have more contact with St Giles’ and we see that as another way to reach out into our wider community – and ultimately to help more people to know Jesus.
We are developing plans so we can once again support a paid Youth Worker. We also want to ensure the 18-35 age group, present in
substantial numbers in our local population, can find a place at St Giles. We envisage re-establishing additional worship and fellowship, open to all, but focused on this age group including the significant local student and young adult population without children.” They are, of course, potentially the families of the future, too.
We are developing plans so we can once again support a paid Youth Worker. We also want to ensure the 18-35 age group, present in
substantial numbers in our local population, can find a place at St Giles. We envisage re-establishing additional worship and fellowship, open to all, but focused on this age group including the significant local student and young adult population without children.” They are, of course, potentially the families of the future, too.
Growing Disciples: Deeper
We envisage a church family where individuals can continue to nurture and develop their faith, through varied expressions of worship and fellowship, but
where all are still united by a common core of scripture based teaching & discipleship.
We have a vision for a bold and courageous church family: equipped to act as witnesses to Jesus and comfortable contributing to the life of the church
through service or leadership roles.
We want to create a space where we can have confidence to develop, explore and express the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
We want to be more collectively prayerful, as a key to spiritual growth, offering people different opportunities to have a more active relationship with Jesus through prayer.
We have no doubt that with ongoing prayer, and further supportive and enabling leadership, we can more fully realise our calling to know Jesus, to do his work in the modern world and to grow new disciples.
where all are still united by a common core of scripture based teaching & discipleship.
We have a vision for a bold and courageous church family: equipped to act as witnesses to Jesus and comfortable contributing to the life of the church
through service or leadership roles.
We want to create a space where we can have confidence to develop, explore and express the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
We want to be more collectively prayerful, as a key to spiritual growth, offering people different opportunities to have a more active relationship with Jesus through prayer.
We have no doubt that with ongoing prayer, and further supportive and enabling leadership, we can more fully realise our calling to know Jesus, to do his work in the modern world and to grow new disciples.
