A church planted in Oxford in 2013 is launching an evangelistic evening service designed to share the gospel with students.
This second service at Trinity Church will take place in term-time and complement the morning all-age worship. A Baptist church building in the centre of Oxford will be the home of these new outreach services, while the main morning service now meets in a venue just outside the city centre where there is more space and room for parking.
Robin Cooper is one of the elders at Trinity Church, which is affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC). He is excited about the plans for this new outreach but acknowledges there are challenges too. ‘Trinity’s vision is to invest deeply in the spiritual lives of successive generations of Oxford students in the hope that, with God’s grace, they will be useful in the Kingdom both here in the UK and throughout the world. We believe that quality Bible teaching within a loving church is key to realising this goal.’
Trinity Church’s regular morning services now take place in the Brent Building at the City of Oxford College – their third home since launching.
Permanent building?
Robin added: ‘City centre locations, which we see as essential to attract students, are like gold dust. Our longer-term challenge is to find a more permanent building large enough to accommodate growth. In God's kindness, we have been provided with funding for a student worker and we were offered the evening use of a Baptist church superbly situated right in the centre of town. We are still working on the precise format of our evening meeting but we are clear on one thing: the need to provide nourishing food, both spiritual and physical!’
