Emmanuel Church
Chadwell St Mary Essex

St Mary’s and Emmanuel are two churches in Chadwell St Mary, Essex – part of the church of England.

Our church family is a group of people of all ages and backgrounds who meet together to learn from the Bible about Jesus Christ and what it means to follow Him today. Whether you are a Christian or not, you are very welcome at any of our activities. There’s something for everyone – whether you are young or old, already a Christian or just wanting to find out.

 

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Growth Groups – An opportunity to meet together with a small group of church family members to spend time together, study God’s word and pray together.

Little Fishes – A chance for carers and babies/toddlers to meet, chat and play. This takes place on Wednesdays at Emmanuel (10.00am-11.30am) during school term time. There is a limited number of spaces which are given on a first come first served basis. If you have any questions please contact us.

Craft Meeting – A chance to get together for craft and fellowship. The group meets every two weeks on a Wednesday afternoon.

Foodbank – Is an opportunity to serve our local community and demonstrate an aspect of God’s love, whilst at the same time praying and taking appropriate opportunities to speak of God’s love for us in Christ.

Investigating Christianity – Every so often we hold events for people wanting to consider the claims of Jesus. We also hold regular Christianity Explored courses which gives you time and space to think through who Jesus is and why it

Loaves and Fishes – Is a community Café that runs on a Friday morning. It offers tasty and very reasonably priced food and a relaxed atmosphere to enjoy existing friendships and make new friends. Every so often, their is also a short opportunity to consider an aspect of the Christian faith. The cafe is open most Friday’s during school term time between 10.15am and 12.30pm (last orders for food 12:15pm). Please check the church calendar to confirm if it is open on a particular Friday.

Praying together – Once a month, we meet as a church family to pray together at ‘Prayer Works’.

Short courses – Every so often a short course will be run on a particular subject, e.g. Marriage enrichment.

Social times – Time to enjoy being together. This varies from picnics, to film nights, to parties. These take place once every month or so.

Time away – Going away together on a day conference (or longer) where we can be encouraged and grow in our Christian life.

Youth Group – Details for our Youth Group can be found here: http://www.chadwellparishchurch.org.uk/2014/08/13/youth-and-children/






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The Birth of a Church

When The Reverend Allan Sirman came to Chadwell St Mary in 1965 (1965 – 1975) he had an idea of building a church in the northern end of the Parish.

The existing site in Sleepers Farm Road was not the original site to be considered there was the possibility of land being available in the area of Defoe Parade. With the development of the estate including Godman Road and the building of the three blocks of flats (Poole House, Gooderham House and George Tilbury House,) the decision to build on the corner of Sleepers Farm Road was made. The land at that time was occupied by Laings, who were building the three blocks of flats in Chadwell and their centeen was on the site

Rev’d Sirman negotiated with Laings to enable the Church to use the works canteen on a Sunday as a place of worship. Therefore the first place of worship was a works canteen where the Sunday services, which included Holy Communion and Baptisms, were held.

The building of Emmanuel Church was carried out and the stone laying was carried out by the Ven. W.A.Welch, Archdeacon of Sothend on the 2nd March 1968.

The Rev’d Peter Turner came to Chadwell St Mary in 1966 as Curate (1966 – 1969) and the church continued to grow in numbers. When Rev.d Frank Allred came to Chadwell in 1975 he introduced a uniformed group of Campainers into the church to provide further activities for the growing number of young people within the Church. With the need to provide more room at Emmanuel it was decided to build an extension to Emmanuel Church therefore making the hall next to the Rectory redundant and it was sold to a playgroup.

Over the following years various other developments and alterations have taken place including removing the flat roof on the Church and replacing it with a pitched roof, and the refurbishment of the kitchen to provide the Lunch Club, to encourage non church members into the building in a relaxed atmosphere.