On Monday 15 June more than 120 people gathered at Bankside Space in Southwark, London – which will be home to The Globe Church – to hear about this new venture.
The Globe Church is being planted in an area of art galleries and entertainment venues with theatres, restaurants and hotels on its doorstep. It’s also home to tens of thousands of people who live in Lambeth and Southwark. The new church is a joint initiative between several FIEC churches in London and the capital’s Co-Mission network of evangelical churches.
Support and vision
Among those gathered for the reception were local Christians as well as representatives from FIEC and Co-Mission. Jonty Allcock will pastor The Globe Church and he explained that their mission is two-fold: ‘Firstly it’s about making disciples of Jesus. We want to proclaim Christ, thinking of creative ways we can engage with art and music, finding ways that we can make Jesus known to the people who live, study and work here.
‘The second part of the vision is that we want to train up workers – we want to multiply the work by taking people who come to London for a few years and investing in them, training them up and seeing them sent out to different parts of the UK.’
FIEC National Director John Stevens and Co-Mission Director Richard Coekin shared their excitement for the new venture during the reception evening and there was music from members of The Globe Church core team.
At the moment the core team who will form The Globe Church is meeting for prayer and Bible study in a local hotel, before the official launch on Sunday 20 September.
