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Our largest congregation meets at 10.30am on Sunday morning, with crèche for really young ones, and children and young people’s programme from about 10.50am.

Our services last for about one and a half hours. They are usually led by one of our worship groups and one of our pastors. We begin with the whole congregation together and then we cater for children and young people in their own groups.

Usually our morning service will include:

• Contemporary worship
• Bible reading, prayers and teaching
  Our senior pastor, John Smith, normally blogs his sermon notes on our Sermon Notes page.
• Communion – usually on the third Sunday in the month
• Prayer ministry at the end of the service

From time to time, we have all-age services and youth led services.

Everyone is invited to stay after church for tea and coffee and to chat. Children and Young People
Our church family includes a lot of children and young people.  For more details about children’s ministry on Sunday [click here].  For details of our Youth Ministry, go to our special site: youth.godmanchesterbaptist.org

New to our Sunday morning congregation?

We all know what it’s like to go somewhere new for the first time – so we try hard to be friendly!

There will be someone at the door to welcome you and show you where to go. The words of the songs and hymns we sing are projected on a screen so we very rarely use hymn books. There are Bibles available to use – and we also have the words of Bible readings projected as they are read.

Those in the GBC family who are church members or regular attenders at services contribute to the work of the church. Some of this money is collected during Sunday services but there is no expectation for our guests to contribute.

Some people want to come to church and just sit and be quiet and they don’t really want lots of people talking to them. Others come and they would like it to be a place where they can make friends. Either way, we respect people’s wishes and try to be sensitive.

Many people find that after they have been coming on Sundays for a few weeks they would like to join one of our small groups that meets during the week. These are a really good way to get to know others [more on small groups].

For people who live on their own for whatever reason there are regular Sunday lunches in people’s homes.