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Could you help the Hazel Project?
The Hazel Project is something that a number of our community are a part of, working to support and connect with people who live on the streets in our city. You can read more about what the hazel project does on this pdf brochure. If you're interested to find out more, you can get in touch with Jif or Angie, or contact the hazel project on 07467 041039, or visit their website at www.thehazelproject.org


City Church news!
We are a part of OneBody Southampton, a group of churches and projects all united by our shared aim of sharing the love of Jesus with everyone living in our city. At their recent summit, OneBody shared a video with details of how to keep in touch with exciting news of what is happening in the city churches. OneBody has a growing circulation list and sends out a bi-monthly email with testimonies, news articles and reports back of what has been happening. You can sign up to


Going Deeper Bible Studies
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 18th October, 7pm - 9pm. For more information, contact Nathan or Simon O. Future date for your diaries is: November 15th.


Supporting Teachers - Day Event in Southampton
We're excited to share this event, which is being planned by OneBody, Southampton City Mission and Cross Connecting - all organisations that we have growing links with. Are you a Christian working in the world of Education? Whether you are a teacher, LSA, support staff, or a governor, working in the world of education often brings its own unique challenges. Cross Connecting, One Body Southampton, & Southampton City Mission are collaborating together to put on this event spec


King's Youth Programme for Autumn
Hi my name is Joe, I am the youth worker at King's and would love to share what we offer for our young people in the community! LORDSHILL YOUNG LIFE CLUB Young Life Club is on Friday night at King’s Church Centre, 18:00-19:30. It is a space for community, lots of food and lots of games. We have a short talk about life and faith with no obligation to agree, we encourage young people to invite their friends and hope that this remains a safe space for friendships to flourish and


OneBody Summit
OneBody Southampton, the unity group of churches and outreach projects in the city is hosting a day summit on 7th October at St James' by the Park, with a particular focus on collaboration. The event is for anyone with a heart to see God's Kingdom come in our city, particularly those leading or helping to lead projects here. If you're interested, you can find out more about the programme and sign up here: https://onebodysouthampton.com/summit


PrayerStream: praying for Students
Fusion (a student mission organisation) and 24/7 Prayer are coming to Southampton from 8 - 14 October to host a prayer event that they are calling 'PrayerStream'. They are bringing a converted airstream caravan for this purpose, which will be hosted at Portswood Church, and will be running various prayer and outreach events for churches to opt into, with the focus of praying for students and sharing the good news of Jesus. You can find out more here: https://fusionmovement.


Street Pastors & Prayer Partners
Street Pastors are looking for new volunteers to either be Street Pastors or Prayer Partners. See the flyers for more information. The next training will be taking place on the following dates: Dates: 9th - 11th October, 23rd - 25th October and 13th - 15th November 2026 Timings: Fridays 7:15pm-9:15pm, Saturdays and Sundays 9:30am-4:30pm


The King's School Job Advert
The King's School are currently advertising for a teaching role which may be of some interest. Start date: 1st November 2026. See details in the flyer.


Safe Families and Home for Good Vision Night
You are invited to the Safe Families and Home for Good Vision Night on Tuesday 6th October, 8pm - 8.45pm online via Zoom. They are bringing together supporters, volunteers, churches and friends of Home for Good and Safe Families for a short online gathering to see the impact of the support in action, hear more about the work bringing their vision to life, and be inspired by what they can achieve together in the years ahead. This event is completely free - register at...


Volunteer Drivers needed for Amber Chaplains
Amber Chaplains are looking for some volunteer drivers for their evening and afternoon outreaches. If you are able to help, please get in touch - details in the flyer.


Parking Update, Update!
Update on the Update: 21 September: We are putting together a response to the parking operator together with our friends at the Catholic Church to explain the problem and propose an alternative. In the meantime, the advice below stands. Please also join us to pray for a workable solution to this problem to be found. Parking Update: Aldermoor Surgery has contacted us to let us know that their car park management has been taken over by a new service. Sadly this means that


Come and have breakfast!
Our community café, Café153 welcomes you for freshly made coffee, cakes, breakfasts and lunches on Fridays and Saturdays from 8am until 1pm. Feel free to come and join us. You can find out more details here on the cafe page, including a menu and information on how to follow us on social media.


The Cave Invitation: Why Being Alone With God Is the Key to Growing Up in Faith
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”


Young People's Life Group Launches: Euphrates
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


When Familiarity Blocks Miracles: Learning to Honour What God Is Doing
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


Giving to King's Church
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


Our Sunday Meetings
Want to find out how we meet on Sundays? Here's a place to find out...


Eco Church Bronze Award
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


OneBody Southampton: This is your church
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 smal


Praying for our City - Join us in prayer walking!
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 well


Life Group Sundays
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 settings


JOE'S SPRINGTIME ESCAPADES
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's Autumn Adventures
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


Students Welcome
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


Café153 - come and visit us!
Café153 is our community cafe, which is open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays. Why not pop in to check out our menu, get to know other people in the community, or meet a friend for coffee? We are open on Fridays and Saturdays from 8am - 1pm. You can check out the menu and more information on the cafe pages here


Caraway Weekly Prayer
"Where two or three gather in my name there am I with them" Matthew 18:20 We are gathering every Tuesday morning at 8am during term time...


Life in the river
As a church we sense God's call to us to live in His river - a place that flows with the Holy Spirit, a place of freedom (John 8:36), a...


Worshipping together
We pulled together contributions from across our church for a collective worship time - you can see the video here. We expect and pray...
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