The Parish Church of Immanuel and St Andrew, Streatham
Registered Charity 1131245
452 Streatham High Road · London · SW16 3PY · Tel: (020) 8679 6888
WHAT WE DO: Our MINISTRY and MISSION
Morning Service at Immanuel and St. Andrew
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Discover what goes on at Immanuel...
The links below and on the left will take you to pages telling you something of the life and work of Immanuel and St Andrew, including details of our regular services of worship, the latest news and announcements and our diary of events. You can read more about Immanuel and St Andrew and its faith and ministry below the links.
If you need practical information such as how to get to the church or how to get in touch please go to the General Information section. If you are interested in hiring the hall or one of our other rooms please go to the Hall Hire section.
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The Ministry and Mission sections:
- Services and other activities. Our regular programme, which normally follows a monthly pattern.
- News and notices. News, notices and other announcements.
- Immanuel Parish Diary. A diary of coming events, with details of services, including any variations in the normal pattern of activities.
- May we help you? We hope you will find something to help you in this section, perhaps with prayer, the Bible, or Christian living.
- Worship and Teaching Programme. Worship and teaching, mainly for our Junior Church; the "Seasons of the Spirit" material.
- Fair Trade Stall. Make a difference - Fight poverty through trade!
- Church Flowers. A way to brighten our church and services - and remind us that, when God created the universe, he "saw that it was good".
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- Immanuel and St. Andrew C.E. Primary School and Immanuel Youth Centre. The church has close links with the school and the youth centre, both founded as part of the church's ministry, one in the 19th century and one in the 20th.
- Our CMS Mission Partners. We support the church overseas , in particular through CMS (the Church Mission Society) and our links with our CMS Mission Partners.
- Hall Hire We also regard it as an important part of our ministry to make our building available to the wider community, particularly to voluntary and community groups. Our hall and some other rooms are available for hire. Please go to the Hall Hire section for more information or call the parish office (020 8679 6888) for details of rates and availability. The hall was extensively refurbished in 2002.
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More about Immanuel and its faith and ministry.
A Parish Church
Immanuel and St Andrew (usually just called "Immanuel") is a Parish Church of the Church of England in the Diocese of Southwark, UK. It serves a diverse parish in an urban priority area, and the congregation is drawn from a wide variety of walks of life. Ethnic minorities, particularly from African and Caribbean countries, are well represented. It is a church where many have found a welcome, including those who have had little contact with the church prior to coming to Immanuel.
You can view a map showing the Parish boundary from the A Church near You website.
Ministry and Mission: sent to serve
Our principal activity is to worship God, to try to get to know and love him better, and to try to help others to do the same. Prayer, the sacraments and listening to scripture and to teaching about it are some of the ways we get to know God better. Loving God often involves service to one another and the wider community.
Why "Ministry" and "Mission"? These are "church jargon" words - although they are also used by politicians and in business! In practical terms, "Ministry" and "Mission" can mean much the same thing. Both mean "what we do" - but they do bring out different things about it. The word "Ministry" means service, and what we do is aimed at serving - serving God, serving one another, and serving the wider community. But we do this, not just because we think it is a good thing to do, but because Jesus sent us to do it - it is our mission. The word "mission" means something we are sent to do. Jesus said to his disciples, 'As the Father has sent me, so I send you." (John 20:21) - they, and we, are to continue his work of teaching, serving and proclaiming the good news of God's love and grace.
Good News - that's what Jesus' message was - and is - for those willing to receive it. By the grace of God, through Jesus' death on the cross, our sins are forgiven (Romans 3:23-25) and we are reconciled to God (Colossians 1:20). For us, eternal life has begun - for eternal life is not just life going on for ever beyond physical death but life enjoyed for ever in fellowship with God. Eternal life is to know God - and to know Jesus - (John 17:3), as a friend who knows and loves and cares for us as well as the Lord and God whom we worship and adore. As one of the most well known verses in the Bible puts it, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son - Jesus - so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life (John 3:16).
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You may find the history page, the Hall Renewal Project page and the pages about the embroidered banners. and the altar and altar cross. of further interest in connection with the life, ministry and faith of Immanuel.
In 2004 Immanuel Church celebrated its 150th Anniversary, and was a partner church in the just 10 south london mission with evangelist J. John.
'Promoting the whole mission of the Church.'
That phrase, at the top of the page, are the words at the heart of our object as a Church and charity - 'Promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical' - as laid down in the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) measure 1956!
Some long legal words - but embodying an important purpose. They appear in our entry in the Register of Charities.
Links to the main pages are at the TOP of the page.
Page last updated 05 July 2011.
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