Storrington Chapel Evangelical Church

05/04/2026

These words changed everything! Join us at 10.30 am to find out more

29/03/2026

15/03/2026

Mother’s Day: a day of mixed emotions, depending on your situation. For many it’s a day of celebration and it’s right to celebrate our mums and all they mean to us. For many it’s a time of grief and mourning for either a mum or a child. For some it’s about the anguish of a difficult or non existent relationship with a mum or a child. For others it’s a sense of sadness at never being a mum or never knowing their mum. The good news is that God understands all of these emotions and offers his comfort and love to everyone. The Bible tells us that God has “lavished” his love on us. The Bible also tells us to “taste and see that the Lord is good” so why not reach out to him and ask him to show you that love?

14/02/2026

A VALENTINE PRAYER

Tricky day Valentines. Obviously, if you're all loved-up - enjoy. Have fun!
But if you've been secretly dreading today, well, here's a little prayer, poem thing...

I pray today for those in love, those out of love, and those in between. I remember especially those who find themselves a little bit lonelier than normal.

Lord, I do not pray today for loved-up couples, exchanging overpriced flowers and foil-wrapped hearts, leaking pheromones like diesel fumes at candlelit dinners. I’m pretty sure they will be OK (for now).

Instead, I hereby dedicate this happy-crappy day to anyone caring for a loved-one with a chronic illness of body, mind or soul. Lord let them be a little bit more okay because I prayed.

Flame of Love, melt our tiny, tinny chocolate hearts. Wherever marriages have grown cold, calloused with conflict or mired in the mundane, would you please rekindle the fires of true romance?

Attend to the elderly gentleman gazing at a fading sepia photograph in a silver frame of a wedding in another time. Look at him and look with him and be with him in the remembering and the unremembering too.

And, on this day named after one of your unmarried saints, would you please bring a little unexpected joy to anyone wistfully buying flowers for themselves? Let their daffodils last longer and shine brighter than the overpriced red roses that also caught their eye.

God of all comfort, strengthen single parents on this difficult day. Let their kids be kind, let their teens tidy their bedrooms, and if that's a miracle too far (I realise you've got a lot on in the world right now), could they at least be less grumpy and initiate a hug at bedtime?

And so, may the arms of love, flung wide on the cross, embrace the unlovely and unloving parts of my world, my workplace, and my life today. Forgive me, I pray, for this cheap, hysterical, isolating thing I have sometimes made of love, of life, and of You.

Amen.

Words by Pete Greig.

24/01/2026

This is indeed what we believe.
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31/12/2025

As we go into a new year this from Nicky Gumbel feels appropriate

24/12/2025

If you want to escape all the preparations and chaos for a while, come and join us on Christmas Day at 10.30 am for a short service. You will be very welcome!

08/12/2025

We would love you to join us for Carols by Candlelight to celebrate the real meaning of Christmas. It’s on Sunday 21 December at 4.30 pm. Everyone is very welcome!

09/10/2025

On Sunday 12 October we are celebrating harvest. It’s a good reminder of all that we have which, ultimately, comes from God. Come and join us at 10.30 am There’s always a warm welcome!

11/06/2025

This feels quite true! However, not everyone will feel this about their own father: some of us won’t even know who our father is. God wants us to know that he is our Heavenly Father and loves us unconditionally. Even if we have a good earthly father he will still let us down: God never will! So if you’re struggling this Father’s Day because you don’t have a good one, have never known one or are grieving as a child or a dad, lean on God: he loves you!

19/04/2025

Celebrate this most amazing fact with us tomorrow at 10.30 am