Belper Baptist Church

23/09/2026

This Sunday, we’ll be having our all-age Harvest Festival service, which will remind us of God’s generosity. As we're in Fairtrade Fortnight, we will also be thinking about Fairtrade.

There's a tradition of bringing gifts to Harvest Festival services and any gifts of food or other items brought to the service will be given to the Hope for Belper's Food Bank. The Food Bank has a lot of tinned soup at the moment, so that’s not a priority item, but all donations will be gratefully received and the attached list shows the things most needed for the Food Bank, with the red items being the priority ones.

See you on Sunday. 🙂

04/09/2026

September will be a time of change for many children and young people; some will be going to schools, colleges, training or jobs for the first time and, for others, there may be new classes, new teachers, new courses, or a new focus in work. With all of this in mind, we will be praying for our children and young people during our service this Sunday as they navigate their “new beginnings”.

This Sunday, our adult congregation’s new beginning will be starting to look at the New Testament letter to the Ephesians. Put simply, this letter is about God’s blessings and purposes - it can be really helpful in understanding God’s love for us, for learning about God's purposes for his Church and for thinking about ways of living well as Christians in today’s world.

Meanwhile, in their own Sunday groups, our children and young people will be looking at more of the stories about God’s people in the Old Testament. Each week will focus on a different person, such as Moses, Joshua and Caleb.

Also, on the last Sunday of this month, we’ll be holding our Harvest Festival, with an all-age celebration service followed by a shared lunch. All donations of food brought to our Harvest Festival service will help Hope for Belper’s Food Bank.

Whatever changes we are going through in life, it’s good to be part of a church community. At Belper Baptist Church, we meet on Sundays at 10.30am and we are always pleased to welcome new people who join us.

20/08/2026

The forecast is for dry weather on Saturday afternoon, so why not join us for our summer walk and afternoon tea? Looking forward to seeing you there. 🙂

13/07/2026

This Sunday, we will begin a new series for our adult congregation called “Jesus is …” in which, from now until the end of August, we will look at all seven of Jesus’ “I am” sayings that can be found in John’s gospel. We’ll begin with “I am the bread of life”, which will help us to think about our need for spiritual nourishment. During this week’s service, we will also be sharing Holy Communion as we will remember Jesus sharing bread and w**e with his friends.

Our children and young people will also be starting a new series about Bible Characters this week, beginning by looking at Adam & Eve, then looking at a number of the other people in the Old Testament who encountered God in various ways.

Our Sunday services start at 10.30am and finish around 11.45am, when refreshments are served. We’re located on Bridge Street and we’ll look forward to seeing you.

26/06/2026

If you look at this picture, you may be able to make out the shape of a person in the centre but the image is out of focus, so it's hard to be sure what the person looks like. When Jesus met with people lots of people didn’t really understand who he was or what difference he could make to their lives; it’s as though their image of him wasn’t quite in focus and that can be that same for people today.

This Sunday morning at 10.30am, we’ll all be together in church for another all-age service. We’ll be continuing our series about Jesus’ teaching and a number of all-age activities will help us to explore John 9:35-41, which will help us to think about what “spiritual blindness” may mean. (Clue: it’s something to do with whether we really understand who Jesus is!)

We’ll also be serving refreshments and doughnuts before the service! We’ll look forward to seeing you there.

05/06/2026

How do you decide what to do in life? Whether you’re making a potentially life-changing decision, or what may seem like an unimportant choice, do you just do what you think is best? Or do you take the views of family members, friends, sports personalities, pop stars, politicians, TV commentators, writers, social media influencers, or even random strangers into account?

For Christians, the teaching of Jesus is really important in working out what’s right and wrong as we go through life because, when it comes to being in tune with God’s way of living, nobody can give us better guidance than Jesus can. So, in our Sunday morning services at 10.30am over the next few weeks, our adult congregation will be hearing about some of Jesus’ teaching in John’s gospel. We’ll also be continuing our weekly activities to help children and young people to learn more about Jesus. If you’d like to find out how Jesus’ teaching may be helpful to you in daily life, do join us.

14/05/2026

From today until Sunday 24th May, we are invited to join with Christians around the world in a short season of prayer called “Thy Kingdom Come” which happens every year between Ascension Day and Pentecost Sunday.

The accompanying booklets take the theme of God With Us and give us a set of daily Bible readings, reflections and invitations to prayer to help us to focus on the work of God the Holy Spirit in the world. We are also invited to pray, during this time, for five people - friends, family members, neighbours or colleagues - who do not yet follow Christ, that they may come to know Jesus as we do.

The worldwide church now has many ways of worshipping, praying and working, yet Christians around the world are united in the midst of this diversity by our shared faith in Jesus Christ and our expectation that God the Holy Spirit will continue to encourage, empower and equip us.

Come, Holy Spirit.

08/05/2026

This Sunday, we will begin a new series for our adult congregation in which we will look at some of the things that John’s gospel tells us about Jesus. Between now and the end of August, we will learn about times when Jesus showed compassion for people that he met, about some of Jesus' teaching and about what the seven “I am” sayings tell us about the importance of having faith in Jesus.

This Sunday’s service will be an all-age service, so the worship will be shaped for people of all ages and abilities. On most Sundays, though, the children and young people spend most of their time engaging in separate age-appropriate activities in our recently refurbished children’s and young people’s areas.

All of our Sunday services begin at 10.30am and we serve refreshments afterwards. Why not join us?

28/04/2026

If you’re in town on Monday, why not call into church for a cuppa and cake?

Support my Macmillan Coffee Morning for people living with cancer

05/04/2026

In a world of great darkness and despair, it can sometimes be very hard to see our way through. Where is the light? Where is the hope? Where is the love?

Almost 2,000 years ago, Jesus changed people’s lives for the better through his presence, his wisdom, the ways he helped people to get to know God and the amazing things that he did. Even so, some people wanted to get rid of Jesus and the suffering and death of Jesus on a cross may have given the impression to those who hated him - and to those who loved him - that the light, hope and love of Jesus had been overcome. And yet, a few days later, an empty tomb brought new light, new hope and the realisation that God’s love had overcome even death. Jesus was alive!

At a time when so much of what happens in the world revolves around selfishness, hatred, cruelty and not caring for the world in which we live, it would be easy to feel overwhelmed by darkness and despair. Even so, the opening part of the Gospel of John reminds us that “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” We are God’s people, this is God’s world and as today, all over the world, Christians affirm that Christ is risen, we know that light, hope and love of God will never be defeated by even the darkest of things that human beings can do.

God hasn’t given up on us and God’s light shines on in the world. To find out more about the difference that Jesus can make to your life, come along to Belper Baptist Church on any Sunday morning for our 10.30am service and meet some of the people whose lives have been changed for the better because of the light, hope and love of Jesus.