A Tale of Two Churches

Sanctum, as it is now, is the result of the coming together of two congregations.

The Christian rock group "Fire Fly", who had members attending St Bartholomew's, had for some time been involved in supporting Christian events and missions across the world. It occurred to them that it was ridiculous that they were not doing anything locally so "Embryo" was born - a multi-denominational alternative worship event hosted by different churches and run by a team of headed by Fire Fly and friends, on a bi-monthly basis. It became clear that this event was the only contact with church that some people were having but it lacked the continuity, teaching, community and pastoral care needed to be real church. In response to this Sanctum was born, a weekly alternative church service based at St Bartholomew’s. Meanwhile a small congregation at St Barnabas had faithfully been working towards the vision of a new building. The decision to pool the resources of both congregations led to the community based fresh expression that is Sanctum today.

An unlikely combination, that through God’s grace has seen real growth. The Story continues………