Emmanuel Church
Emmanuel Church in Loughborough is an Anglican Church with an Evangelical twist. The morning service starts at 10am and is your traditional Anglican service. However the evening service starts at 6.30pm and is a bit more relaxed and very student based. Think Soul Survivor music, plenty of ministry and a solid sermon and that pretty much sums up this church. The evening gets extended further as most of the students tend to use the time to get to know one-another better and head out to socialise afterwards. It’s a very friendly, welcoming church with some solid Bible teaching and a great Ministry team driving the Church forward.
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Holywell Free Church
“The good teaching has helped me grow as a Christian.” “The church provides a home away from home – Sunday lunch and the chance to get to know Christian families.” “The church welcomes students, but also encourages CU involvement.” “It’s got a good number of students, but it’s not just a student church.”
Those are some of the answers students have given when asked why they come to Holywell Free Church.
Holywell Free Church is a short walk from the campus. We aim to be a gospel-centred, Bible-teaching, God-loving and Christ-honouring church. At 11am each Sunday about 170 people of various ages and nationalities meet, including undergrad, postgrad, uni, college, home and international students. Afterwards lunch is always offered to students. We meet again at 6:30 on Sunday evenings.
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Grace Church
Grace Church is a small family based church with a big vision for the community in which God has placed us. Our strap line says “Reformed and continually reforming” which pretty much sums us up. We believe that the Bible is God’s word to us and that it tells us all that we need to know to live this life in a vital relationship with God. We believe that the Holy Spirit brings the words of Bible to life in our hearts and convicts, instructs, trains, corrects, challenges, rebukes and encourages us. We believe that the church is about real people worshipping the one, true God in an honest and authentic way.
Our services have a relaxed and informal style, contemporary worship and teaching which focusses on practically applying and living out the things that God says to us in His Word. We believe that the church is a family and that we should love and care for each other but that we should also challenge each other and be accountable to each other. Living as a Christian community is an important part of the Church’s life. We have regular social events and there is always a meal for the students after the service. Located at Burleigh College, just a few minutes walk from the Student Union building, everyone is welcome to join us and to be as involved as you would like.
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The Well Church
The Well is Loughborough’s New Frontiers Church. It’s a friendly and vibrant community of people from all backgrounds and ages including a thriving student population. Worship is contemporary, lively and charismatic and the church elders provide solid Biblical teaching each week. There’s loads to get involved with like music, kid’s work, community groups and evangelistic events driven by our passion to reach the town of Loughborough and see lives transformed by God.
The Sunday service starts at 10.30am and free taxis are laid on from the swimming pool car park at 10.15am for students on campus.
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Gorse Covert Free Church
Gorse Covert Free Church is a bible based Jesus loving church. The church and takes about 20-25 mins to walk to. Our recently appointed pastor, Trevor Allin has brought the church a renewed energy and focus, which is great for students who want to get involved. The congregation is diverse and welcoming and the teaching is challenging, relevant, and helpful. The worship style is conservative but compliments nicely LSUCU’s more contemporary style. Feel free to come and check us out.
Additionally, we have free lunches, awesome bant and crazy aggressive kids!
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Open Heaven 1
Open Heaven is a lively church based at the heart of campus, with main Sunday gatherings at 4 down in the Union for lively worship and dynamic teaching. Open Heaven 1 is a student based church with a vision of raising 21st Century disciples, having a people passionate about serving God and showing his love in a practical way. At Open Heaven there are many ways of serving those around you by participating in student alpha to club mission. Open Heaven encourages those who attend to dream big, step out, step up and live radically.
Main Service: Sunday, 4pm, Student Union.
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Elim Church Centre
Elim is a lovely Pentecostal church conveniently located halfway between town and the university campus! The church is very friendly and welcoming allowing you to meet with God in a relaxed atmosphere. Sunday services commence at 10:30 in the morning, and 6:30 for the evening service. There is also a student group that meets once fortnightly for fellowship, bible study and a lot of fun. Hope to see you there!
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www.elimchurchloughborough.org.uk
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The Crowded House
There are two TCH congregations here in Loughborough – TCH 9:10 and TCH Great Central. We meet regularly in homes for teaching from God’s word, to sing, pray, and eat together, to equip us to be on mission as God’s people here in Loughborough. We desire to see people come to know Jesus and we have a particular heart for the marginalized people in Loughborough (see Matthew 9:10). We would love to invite you to join us on mission to the marginalized of Loughborough; to become part of a church family where we disciple each other to live out our identity in the gospel both in Loughborough town and on Loughborough campus. Please contact me to find out about meeting times. TCH Loughborough is part of a wider church planting initiative, for more information please visit our website!
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Woodhouse Eaves Evangelical Baptist Church
We are an informal, welcoming and Bible-based fellowship.
The Baptist church in Woodhouse Eaves is a small, informal and friendly fellowship with a family atmosphere. The worship format is modern, led by a music group and using a large proportion of recent Christian songs. Sermons are usually expository.
Woodhouse Eaves is a small village about 4 miles from Loughborough. The church draws people of all ages from the village and from Loughborough. Several current students at the university come regularly and we are happy to arrange transport for any who would like to come to our services. There is a good chance that visitors will be invited to lunch! The pastor, Andy Thomson, is originally from Zimbabwe, but spent the 30 years before coming to Woodhouse Eaves helping the Church in Thailand, Burma and Malaysia. Main Service (with music group): Sunday 10:30am.
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