I thought I’d show you what I have observed over the last few years in my home city of Portsmouth.

This is Langstone Church, I went here in my youth. I remember seeing many people commit their lives to Christ, baptised and married here. In recent years, it got smaller and its future was uncertain. Now its been taken over by Christ Central (in 2022) which is part of New Frontiers church, so its being used to reach the community again.

This is Kings Church. This was my main church from 1998 to 2009. This is a great community which I really loved, which is part of Assemblies of God. That year I left the UK to go and do ministry work in Israel.

They were in a small community centre, then bought an abandoned snooker hall, which then was too small. They got to acquire another church which was facing extinction.

This is Living Waters in Titchfield, a delightful oldy-worldy pleasant village 15 miles from Portsmouth.

This was also previous a different church that became defunct.

This is St Margaret’s Church in Southsea. This is my current church. This was abandoned, empty and in poor shape but revitalised.

So the common pattern I see, is new churches spring up, starting using a rented or less formal type meeting place, and take over large traditional church buildings.

I’ve been part of many churches, which are independent, Assemblies of God, Church of England, Messianic Jewish and Calvary Chapel, there’s multiple subgenres of these groups, as I’ve lived 4 years in Jerusalem Israel, 6 in London and before and now 3 years back in my home town of Portsmouth.

I like bringing people along to church that don’t yet know Jesus, or chatting to Christians not going to any church currently.

If you are in Portsmouth and want to know about my church or my faith, feel free to get in touch with me.