New Chester church begins

A new church in Chester is getting under way.

On Sunday 5 September, Trinity Church Chester held its first Sunday service, meeting in the Welsh Presbyterian Church building in Chester city centre. There was a congregation of 27, including two passers-by who caught the final five minutes of the sermon, and the service was taken by the Revd Deiniol Williams (see photo).

Trinity Church Chester is a church plant of the International Presbyterian Church (IPC), a family of Christian churches in the Reformed and Presbyterian tradition spread across Great Britain, Europe and Korea since 1954. IPC has been seeking to plant and strengthen churches in the UK and has also begun an annual conference – ‘Catalyst’ – open to all and held at IPC Ealing each June. This plant is a result of a prayerful exploration of gospel need and opportunity. Local church ministers as well as regional networks such as the North-West Gospel Partnership agreed that there is a need for an evangelical church plant in the city of Chester. Trinity Chester aims to focus on reaching non-Christians and growing the church through evangelism. Part of this evangelistic strategy is the faithful public worship of God by a small (at least at first) group of believers committed to the work.