Job Opportunity: Community Café Cook Saturday 08:00 - 13:00 (5hrs) £3362 per annum / £13.45 per hour Café 153 is a popular 28 seated community Café, run by King’s Church, Southampton. It was first opened in 2018, with a vision to be a centre of comfort and company for the Lordswood community. It has become a much-valued community asset, where relationships are put as the primary importance. The secondary aim of Café 153, is to provide great quality food and drink, without gre

As Jesus disciples, we love to dig into the Bible to hear God's word for us today. We meet each week to learn from others and encourage each another. We also want to be learning to excavate for ourselves, and this series of Bible studies aims to help inspire, equip and enthuse us to go deeper into God's word. Our next session will be on Sunday 20th September, 7pm - 9pm. For more information, contact Nathan or Simon O. Future dates for your diaries are: October 18th and No

In this article, we explore the invitation to be alone with God, based on the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 19. We ask 'Are we ever really alone with God?', and 'What can we learn from being alone?'. The author Pete Scazzero puts it this way: “It’s impossible to be spiritually mature, while remaining emotionally immature”

Southampton Street Pastors is now recruiting for a dedicated Office Manager to help support and further their growing ministry. For more details, click the link below which will take you to the 'Vacancies' page which is on the drop down menu 'About Us' where you will find the Job Description and the Application Form: https://streetpastors.org/locations/southampton/about-us/vacancies/ We look forward to hearing from individuals who are excited to serve with us in this impactfu

If you missed the Southampton City Mission Day Conference in March and want to catch up with Sam Ward's or Theo Amer's talks plus more, this amazing resource is now all up on the SCM website: https://southamptoncitymission.co.uk/get-involved/scm-conference-26

We're delighted that so many young people are part of our church family, and we've started a new life group specifically for the college and young 20s age group. This is led by Joe B and Jo H and meets at Nathan and Miriam's house on Life Group Sundays. The group is also running a parallel Practicing the Way discipleship course on Thursday evenings at the church centre. This is a course that aims to help us to develop a lifestyle of spending time with Jesus, being like Jes

In Matthew 13, Jesus returns to his hometown where people's familiarity with his human side prevents them from recognising his divine nature. Their offence and lack of honour literally limits the miracles he can bring. Assumptions and offences in our hearts can inhibit what God does, so we want to learn to honour one another and stay open to how God chooses to work through unexpected people, recognising that his power flows best when we approach him and others without predete

We are able to operate as a church because of the fabulous generosity of our church community. Thank you for your support. Your giving helps us to host regular services and prayer meetings, to operate and invest in our Church Centre, it helps us to run Life Groups, to operate a Community Café, run regular kids and youth work, to plan and run our outreach events, to grow links and provide support to our local community, as well as investing 25% of our income into other strea

We had a church family meeting on Sunday 19th April, and we thought it would be helpful to report back on the things we talked about together. Our church family meetings are sessions that we have fairly regularly (roughly every 4 months or so) to give everyone an opportunity to talk and ask any questions about our church - where are we going?! What are we doing about our building? How is the kids work planned and do we have enough volunteers. At our most recent session we

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Kings Church has been awarded the the Eco-Church Bronze Award for its work towards being more sustainable. A variety of projects over the past couple of years have contributed to this, including renewing the windows to improve thermal insulation, re-insulating the church centre ceilings and renewing our heating system. Our Eco Group has led us in reviewing where we buy produce and products for our café, they have made and installed bird boxes, raising recycling awareness and

There was a mixture of nervous apprehension and excitement on the morning of 19th November, as people from across our city came together to St James' by the Park in Shirley for an event to launch OneBody Southampton , a unity group of churches and projects in the city. Southampton - this is your church What is OneBody Southampton? The group is made up of churches and projects that are united by our faith in Jesus. It has grown over the past 24 months, starting off as a sma

Our community café, Café153 welcomes you for freshly made coffee, cakes, breakfasts and lunches on Fridays and Saturdays from 8am until...

We're focusing on praying for God's Kingdom to be strengthened in our city. As well as learning about what Jesus teaches and shows us of the Kingdom of God, we are participating in a prayer walking project run by OneBody Southampton , a unity group of churches across the city (which we are a part of). To get involved, head to https://southampton.prayerwalk.app and sign up for a free account. You will then be able to record the streets you are praying for on the map, as we

Life! Life to the full! (John 10:10) This is what Jesus promises to us, and our Life Groups aim to provide a supportive framework for life within the church to grow, a place to be intentionally encouraged, opportunities to develop partnerships, to relate more deeply as we live our lives together. At King's we keep the final Sunday of each month as 'Life Group Sundays', where we do not meet as a whole church together, but we meet separately in each of our life group setting

Our blister pack collection box is now full! A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this scheme - the box and contents will now...

Hello friends! My second term has finished and there's so much to thank God for and to share with you about what I've been doing in my role as youth worker. This term has been very busy with King’s Youth, Young Life, and the Young Life DayCamp. King’s Church Youth This term we have been continuing our studies in James alongside the main teaching sessions and we have worked our way through most of the lessons found in that wonderful book, learning about what it looks like to l

Joe Autumn Term Summary Hello friends! I thought it would be good to tell you all a little bit about what I’ve been up to so far this year. Thanks for praying for me on this adventure and for your partnership in doing God's work together. Being prayed for at King's at the start of the term There are three main sections to what I’ve been doing: King’s Church Youth, Young Life and Evangelism. King’s Church Youth Boom: King's Youth hit the sports centre (plus some guests!) We

King's Church is a welcoming home to students who want to connect with a local church. We're a church with a real cross section, although many of us are former students at the university. We don't run groups specifically for students, and we welcome students to join in with church life. Perhaps that might mean getting involved in one of our life groups, or serving in our community cafe. There are lots of opportunities to get involved if you would like to. We're quite eas