CROWTHORNE BAPTIST CHURCH
About us
We are a group of ordinary people of all ages who have found meaning, purpose and hope for life in a relationship with God through His Son, Jesus Christ. Our Vision is 'to build a Christ-centred community', and we aim to base everything that we are and do on that vision. The vision can be broken down into five areas:
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Teaching God's word
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Telling others about Jesus
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Treating through pastoral care
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Transforming lives through God's Holy Spirit
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Togetherness - regularly meeting with one another on Sundays, in small groups and socially
We pride ourselves on being inclusive, and our Sunday services are friendly, welcoming and lively, as we seek to work out what it means to live the Christian life in the 21st Century.
We recognise that the church is part of the local community and has a calling to serve that community in whatever way we can. Our position in the middle of the High Street next to the Library gives us a sense of being at the heart of the village, so we are keen to continue the idea of being a “Chaplain to the High Street” that was started by a previous Pastor. We have links with Crowthorne Parish Council, Crowthorne Good Neighbours and we currently host a Cash Hub operated by the Post Office.
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The Ark Pre-school was started by a church member and we maintain strong links with it.
HopeZone's Zone6 and Zone78 youth drop-in clubs, which operates during term time, have strong links to CBC.
Schools and Open the Book
We maintain contacts at several local primary schools and with our local secondary school. Early in 2020 a small group of members started working with a local primary school to present the Bible Society's "Open The Book" once a month. "Open the Book" is an initiative set up by the Bible Society to tell Bible stories to children in primary schools. At CBC we have a small team of people who now go into two schools to tell both Old and New Testament stories. It is a small team because the children dress up and take part in the stories. They are never short of volunteers!! The aim is to make the experience a visual and memorable one for both children and adults alike and an enjoyable time. Each Assembly concludes with a prayer and a challenging thought which is relevant to day to day living for both old and young.
The story of Jonah and the big fish
Mary and Joseph look for the boy Jesus in the Temple
The parable of the lost sheep
The story of Elijah and the widow
Our buildings
There has been a Baptist church in Crowthorne since 1914. The present church building opened on our High Street site in 1953 and the front was modernised by the addition of a foyer in the late 1980s. In 2019 we obtained planning permission for our New Heart project to refurbish the existing building and to construct a new and larger worship space at the rear of the site. Building commenced early in 2020 and was completed in Spring 2021.
The old building with tin roof
New building 1953
New foyer added
Current buildings
CBC is a member of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Evangelical Alliance and Churches Together in Crowthorne.
