Our History

In September 1983 six people from Sevenoaks started wondering how to reach their neighbours and friends with the Gospel. As a result they started coming to Biggin Hill Baptist Church. A friendship developed between the original group and the Biggin Hill Church.  After a period of time, a small group in Sevenoaks was established meeting mid-week with these and other local people. Following a period of prayer, clear prophetic words were given; resulting in the planting of The Town Church into Sevenoaks as part of the newfrontiers family of churches.

Even before the church was started there had been prophetic words, which were remarkable considering the small number of people originally involved. These included:

"You will grow to be like an Antioch Church"
"The name of the Church will be known abroad"
"You should be a Church that gives away and resources other Churches"

In June 1985 the original group had grown to 24 and began meeting publicly in a hall at the back of Bligh's hotel (now The Oak Tree). The focus on Holy Spirit inspired teaching and worship, and regular street evangelism in the centre of Sevenoaks, aided at this time by a group from Kemsing Evangelical Free Church, saw the church start to grow. In January 1986 the two churches, the group in Kemsing and the one in the centre of town, joined together as one new church with the name The Town Church Sevenoaks. We came together as a demonstration that our lives were really thoroughly changed by the power of Jesus. The name The Town Church Sevenoaks came from a verse in Isaiah where the Lord says

"Say to the towns of Judah, 'Here is your God"

We felt right from the beginning that our desire was to be able to say to the town and the villages around "Here is your God". 

 In 1992 we started meeting at Wildernesse School, where we met for the next 10 years, worshipping and hearing from God together. In April 1997 we purchased the building behind the Shell Garage on Seal Road and after much prayer, hard work and money, we moved into the building five years later in April 2002, now called The Mill Lane Centre.

Some of those early prophetic words have been fullfilled, with many, including the orignal church elders given away to other churches both here in the UK and abroad. 

We are currently in a new phase as a church where God has freshly poured out his Holy Spirit, and are renvisioned to see the Town of Sevenoaks and its surrounding district reached with the love and power of God through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.