The Start of Work

The first opportunity we had as a whole church to visit the building and give thanks to God came on Sunday 14th February. After the evening meeting, we transferred the people to the new building, all piling in, some seeing the inside of the building for the first...

“Be strong and work!”

After eighteen months of prayer interspersed with intermittent action, the work was about to begin in earnest. As we wandered around the building on the Saturday after exchanging contracts, it was evident that there was a lot of work to be done. The building, although...

A New Start

January 2010 started with snow. There had been snow in December, but more came down during that first week of 2010, starting on 5th January. One of the church elders who was away on holiday decided to cut short his trip because of the bad weather. It was a good job he...

From There to Here

The process of buying a new building is not always an easy one. First of all, there was the funding application. (Unless you’ve tackled one of these things, you really have no idea what a massive amount of work has to go in to this!) Then there was the question of...

A New Chapter

2010 – the year that Goldthorpe Pentecostal Church saw a dream come true! This blog is dedicated to charting the church’s progress in renovating the building formerly known as St Mark’s Methodist Church. The story of how we come to be in this...