WHO WE ARE

OUR STORY

In 2016, Phil, Anna and their family were invited by Bishop Alastair to gather a team of people and plant a church at St Werburgh’s in Derby.

St Werburgh’s is an iconic building and was sold off as a church about 30 years ago, it has been an indoor market and Chinese restaurant and was completely closed for 7 years.

On the 17th September 2017, St Werburgh’s reopened its doors with an evening service, which was the first to be held there for many decades.

Since then we’ve launched both AM and PM services as well as planted two churches across the city:

OUR VISION

“We want to build an authentic community, which is Christ centred, that plays our part in transforming the city and beyond.”

OUR VALUES

Our values are made up of five words all starting with the letter G and they encompass everything we do at St Werburgh’s.

  • The church I see is shaped by GRACE, it is full of people who know we have been saved by grace, that Jesus has done it all, all we need to do is accept this free gift of salvation through faith. We are saved in order to show grace to the world around us.

  • The church I see is marked by GENEROSITY, people who live wide open lives - open hearts, open arms, open homes, knowing that all we have belongs to God.

  • The church I see is full of GRATITUDE expressed in joyful, exuberant worship where the Holy Spirit is welcomed and free to move. There is an attitude of thankfulness for all that God has done for us that shapes how we live.

  • The church I see is a church that GATHERS people to itself in large and small ways. Gatherings full of life, freedom, worship, prayer, fun and friendship that flow naturally into smaller gatherings of honest and real relationships that spill out as lights shining in our world. In all these gatherings authentic community is being built.

  • The church I see is pursuing a GROWING relationship with Jesus. We take seriously and intentionally the call to follow God, developing patterns of Spiritual growth, constantly learning and searching without ceasing for the more he has for our lives so that we may become people who stand out and stand up to play our part in transforming the city and beyond.