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Rutland Road Church
Meets in Bedford town centre, just off Midland Road. We are a small, friendly church and run a range of activities throughout the week.
Whether you are looking for a place, during the week, to bring your toddler to and meet other mums, somewhere to worship on a Sunday morning or somewhere you can learn more about your creator God you are most welcome. Just use this site to find out what's happening and come along.
We are an independent church which maintains friendship with other local churches. We work together with other Churches across the town in proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ and in worshipping together periodically. Our membership is made up of Christians from various cultures and backgrounds. It is our prayer that we will be "a house of prayer for all nations". Mark 11:17. To this end we welcome people of all backgrounds to join us in worship.
We are also members of Partnership UK, a network of churches of largely Brethren background, who seek to support and encourage one another. And members of the Evangelical Alliance, which seeks to provide a Christian voice to the nation on behalf of evangelical Christians.
For more detailed information on what's happening at our church have a look at our calendar or feel free to contact us at anytime.
Latest blog post
Values!
‘Value’ is not just a well-known supermarket’s brand name for cheap products – value is what you place on something!
As a church we have a series of values which we try to live by.
We believe that putting Jesus at the centre is at the heart of the Christian faith – after all, it is all about him! So we try to look to Jesus in everything, putting him at the centre of our meetings, our services, our worship, and our lives individually and together.
Being together is important. God designed human beings to be together, to live in positive relationships together as a community and to welcome others into that community. It’s all part of being made in God’s image, in his likeness. So our second value is building community. We seek to do this through our cell groups, small groups of folk around the life of the church who gather together in people’s homes. But we seek to do it in wider ways too. Through social activities like our Carpet Bowls, TimeOut craft and games afternoons, CAMEO ladies social activities and other events. Through involvement in the local community through Resident’s Associations, through local schools, whether as teachers, Governors, or members of Open the Book teams taking Bible stories in to school assemblies and through any other means that seek to work for the good of the local community – such as community clean up days and so on.
As community, we are then about helping one another, and we define that in three ways, helping one another serve, helping one another grow and helping one another share our faith.
In a positive community everyone needs affirming, needs to be valued, and part of being valued is recognising that we are all valuable, we all have a role to play, we are all parts of the body. We all need to grow too, to develop as human beings into all we can be, and part of that is through growing in our spiritual lives through our relationship with God in Jesus Christ. One of the greatest ways in which we grow is when we share what we know with others.
As part of our plans to see these values being worked out amongst us we have called 2012 a year of mission – globally, locally and personally. We want to equip and enable one another to be all we can be in Christ, to find our purpose and fulfilment in life through him, and to help others come to find that joy for themselves by sharing our faith with them.
Come and join in the journey!