Our church leaders

The church is a community of Christians and, like any group of people, needs sensitive and able leadership.

Our Leadership Team

Pastor
Matt Carter is the Pastor at Halton Baptist Church . He trained at Spurgeon’s College and was in ministry in Luton for 6 years before moving to Hastings at the start of 2002. He is married to Christina and has two children, Richard and Megan.

Deacons
Our deacons are responsible for much of the practicalities of church life. We have 5 deacons who serve in a variety of roles, they are: Dave Ball, Nigal Carter, Mick Climpson, and Sarah O’Shaughessy.

Elders
Currently we have 4 elders at Halton. They are Mike Sawyer, Keith Jones and Alison Hayden. Along with Matt they are responsible for the pastoral leadership of the church.

Services

The whole church gathers for Sunday worship at 10.30am and 6:30pm. Our morning services are intended to be:

Attractive to non-Christians Balanced, with something for all tastes
Challenging for everyone
Down-to-earth and relevant for daily life
Encouraging to the weary believer
Friendly to families with children and teenagers
Guaranteed as a good place to bring guests
Helpful for the spiritually hungry
Interesting, varied and jargon-free

We have many children and young people, families, and older people worshipping together. You will receive a very warm welcome when you arrive for our informal and friendly services, which combine the best of both traditional and modern music with interesting, life-related, clear teaching from the Bible. The first part of the service is designed for people of all ages, after which children and teenagers leave the adults for their own special activities.

A crèche is available for a number of babies who come with their parents!

The Family service aimed at all the family is on every second Sunday.

On the third Sunday of each month we finish the service by sharing Communion together.

Prayer

We take every opportunity to pray for our world, our community and each other at our Sundays services and in our various other activities, such as smallgroups, Friday Fellowship, Men’s Prayer Breakfast and prayer triplets.

Baptism and Membership

We believe that God is powerfully at work in the church today. We believe that, when believers meet together and pray together, we can discern the will of God. Through prayer and a right understanding of the Bible we can know how God wants us to live.

From our understanding of what the Bible teaches, only when a person accepts the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour can they meaningfully be baptised. As believers we are part of the “universal church”. We share common beliefs with every Christian. Baptism is the public and physical demonstration proclaiming what we believe.

Becoming a Member of the local church is the next logical step for all believers. We called to live and support each other in fellowship. Being a Member of the church means taking responsibility for the way the local church conducts itself and actively participating in the life of a church.

The Church Meeting
Once every two months the church members meet together to discern and discuss various issues that effect the congregation.

Mission and evangelism both locally and abroad.
Reports and evaluations of church projects, organisations and activities.
Decisions about how we use our resources and finances.
Discussions about matters which are relevant to the church and church member in society. In particular, from time to time there are issues about which our local government or our MP needs to learn the church's opinion.
Discerning who is called to leadership roles in the church.

The church’s aim is to bring people into a closer relationship with Jesus. Membership of the church is the demonstration of a believer’s commitment to this ongoing challenge.

Like most Baptist churches we have a Statement of Faith.


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