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Our History
We were founded on 5th April, 1908 by Thomas Dawson, a Scripture-reader from Wadsley Bridge Church. The Church became known as the Sovereign Grace Mission.The Church met in several private homes then in 1945 the congregation moved to a building on our present site, which was known at that time as the Wycliffe Memorial Chapel. The first service held there was one of thanksgiving for the end of World War II hostilities in Europe. Our new church building was officially opened in April 1994.
When Thomas Dawson moved to Derby, Harry Platts, one of the founding young men, became Paster until his death in 1955. The oversight then passed to Harry Denman until his death in 1972. In 1973 Irfon Hughes from South Wales accepted a call to the pastorate and ministered here until March 1984, when he moved to a Church in Massachusetts, U.S.A. Shortly afterwards, John Waite, at that time Principal of the South Wales Bible College at Barry, accepted the call to become the next pastor of the Church, was inducted on 30th March 1985 and retired on 30th December 2000. In September 1995 Conrad Pomeroy was inducted as Assistant Pastor, until called to a church in Dundee. A new pastor was called and started in early autumn 2001. He is Spencer Cunnah from South Wales.
We regard this history as a cause for great thanksgiving to God. We believe that it is only because of God’s good hand upon us over these many years that we have remained a Church where the Gospel of the grace of God is loved and preached.
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