Safeguarding Policy for Welshpool Community Church

Welshpool Community Church is committed to creating a healthy church environment. We want everyone who comes into contact with us to feel safe, valued, and cared for. We believe that each person is made in the image of God, and as a result have an inherent dignity and worth.

We also recognise that we live in a sinful world, where human beings rebel against God and his ways for us, and harm one another in innumerable ways. We therefore recognise that within our church there is the opportunity for individuals or groups to harm, abuse, or exploit others. 

We as a church stand against any misuse of power, abuse, harassment, exploitation or other forms of harm. We all have a responsibility to care for and protect each member of our church community, but particularly those who are weaker or more vulnerable.

To support this, we have implemented policies, procedures, codes of conduct and systems that support the positive culture that we seek to create by ensuring that those responsible for leading safeguarding in the church are competent and that our safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Click here to access our church's safeguarding policy as a Google document.

Lego-themed event for all the family Saturday 12th April

On Saturday 12th April, we'll be running our "Saturday Brick Bonanza" from 10am until 12pm at the United Chapel on New Street (the church with the blue door).

An event for all the family, we'll be hearing about the tree-climbing Zacchaeus in the Bible and how his encounter with Jesus left him completely changed!  There'll also be loads of Lego to use for building and for optional Lego challenges.

The event is free to attend, and free refreshments will be served.  Please note: all children must attend with a responsible adult (and all adults must attend with children!)

Accessing Sermon Recordings

If you're not able to get to our services in person, one easy way to hear the messages preached during our Sunday morning worship services is to watch the livestream on YouTube: a link is shared on the church's Facebook page when the livestream begins.

But another way of hearing the messages is to visit the Soundcloud website and search for "Welshpool Community Church".  On our profile page, you can listen to our sermons for free, but if you want to download a sermon onto your device, then you will need to register a Soundcloud account (again, this is free).

Here's a link to the church's profile page on Soundcloud, where you'll find lots of the church's playlists covering a variety of sermon series, including the current series based on the Old Testament book of Nehemiah.

Welshpool Community Church Soundcloud Profile Page

An enjoyable Saturday Brick Bonanza that built us up!

It was great to have nearly 20 visitors at our recent Saturday Brick Bonanza.

For the first bit of the event, we heard about the Bible's account of David's battle with Goliath (presented in Lego pictures, of course!) and how God sent Jesus Christ to be a champion who would defeat death on our behalf.

Then it was time for the Lego building challenges while refreshments were served and everyone chatted - I've included a couple of pictures below of the models built, but the rest are on the church's Facebook page.

As a church, we were definitely built up and encouraged by the event and will be setting a date for the next one soon!

Worship with Friends on Thursday mornings

Would you like to learn more about the Christian faith?  

Or do you feel like you've drifted away from God and you miss Him?  

Or do you just want to meet some other Christians during the week and feel supported in your faith? 

Consider coming along to Worship With Friends, a meeting held every Thursday morning at 10:30am.

A simple half-hour worship service is followed by refreshments and an opportunity to chat, to be encouraged and to ask questions in a warm and welcoming atmosphere.

The meeting is held in the United Church building on New Street (in between the Cock Pit and New Street Baptist Chapel).  Everyone is welcome.

Listening to our sermons online

If you want to hear sermons preached in the past at Welshpool Community Church, they are usually uploaded to SoundCloud, an online audio/music sharing website.  The easiest option is to listen to the sermons streaming, but it's also possible to download tracks.

A lot of the sermons there have been put into playlists.  As an example, click the link below to go to the playlist for a recent sermon series in which we explore various topics regarding life as a local church:

Soundcloud Playlist: The Local Church

3pm Worship Service on January 16th

We've had to change the time of our Sunday Worship Service on January 16th, so we'll be gathering at 3pm instead of 10:30am.

Pastor Tom Magness will be starting a new teaching series looking at the fundamentals of the Christian life, called "Ground Floor Christianity".

We'll be following the current Welsh government guidelines for worship services (e.g. wearing masks unless exempt), but the service will still include songs, prayers and Bible teaching, and refreshments will be available afterwards.