Planning today to get back into the chapel area under the rear gallery - hopefully for Easter.

We've loved our time at The White Lion - and are really grateful to their fantastic team of staff. 

Out-of-the-blue, a note and a cheque arrive from a church in the Midlands.

Thank you everyone at Desford Free Church! The money is helpful, but the encouragement is priceless. 

A thing of the past? Oh no it isn't!

Outdoor Baptismal Service:
Sunday 27th March

In the garden in front of Hope Chapel - alongside the main road.

Now THAT is the way to celebrate Easter Sunday - and possibly bring the traffic to a halt!

Volunteer Power at Hope!

A fantastic spirit as a gang of church friends rolled up their sleeves to mop floors, disinfect woodwork, clear out the baptistry, jetwash plastic chairs, cover soft furnishings, rip up old floorcoverings, tear out sodden insulation, remove kitchen doors and white goods and much more besides.

Thank you, thank you!

Card and cakes from our friends at Shipley Baptist Church to accompany tea and coffee provided by our friends at the White Lion.

How nice was that!!

Using communion silver from the 1800s ...

Four new members add their names to the book first signed by John Fawcett in 1777 ...

All in the White Lion pub this morning.

'All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people.' (Acts chapter 2)

We may be here two thousand years later, but the first century church is starting to sound very appealing.

Pop-Up Hope Baptist Church: 10.30am in the White Lion on Sundays - and aiming to pop-up around the town - especially where people tell us there is need.