Sunday Services
What are your Sunday services like?
'Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and the flute, praise him with the clash of cymbals...Let everything that has breath praise the Lord' ~ Psalm 150: 3-6
Morning Worship
Richmond Park Church is what is sometimes known as a "happy clappy" church!! We do indeed sing our praise songs (modern hymns) along to the music of a guitar, keyboard, trombone, and drums, sometimes clapping along, and a couple of people even shake a tambourine! No organs or pews or stained glass windows for us! We have chairs set in rows; a Powerpoint projector beams the words of our songs onto a screen, we don't have hymn books; we don't have prayer books either - people pray out loud when they feel able to, from where they are standing or sitting. Some of the ladies dance to the songs, using expressive hand movements, or waving flags. Sometimes before the sermon our amateur drama group will act, or use puppets, to visually present their five minute interpretation of a Bible story or theme.
Then someone from the leadership team, or sometimes a guest speaker from another church, will spend 30 to 40 minutes teaching us about what the Bible says and how that applies to our lives today. We mainly use the New International (NIV) Version of the Bible. We have two BSL (British Sign Language for the deaf) signers in our church who interpret for our deaf members. On the third Sunday of every month the service includes taking Communion (also known as Holy Communion or the Eucharist). This is when Christians eat a piece of bread and drink a little bit of wine or red grape/currant juice as a reminder of Jesus' 
body being broken for us (the bread) and his blood spilt (the wine) when he died on the cross and how grateful and amazed we should be that he went through all that suffering to pay the price for our sins and reunite us with God the Father.
Prayer Meeting
As well as our Sunday morning service, we meet to pray Sunday evenings in the church at 6.30pm. You don't need to be in a church or with a group of people to pray; praying is just talking to God and you can do it walking along the street, doing the housework, while fetching a coffee from the vending machine in the office... but sometimes it's really good to get together and have other people back-up your prayers.
If you come along to the Prayer Meeting, entrance is through the door at the side - just ring the bell. (Please see note on wheelchair access).
For details on some practical bits and bobs, including disability access, see Housekeeping and Practical Information.
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