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 with
the original group and Norman Blows. We began a series of evening
studies together, looking at "What does it mean to become a
Christian?", "Why do we baptise people who believe in
Jesus?", "What does it mean to be Baptised in the Holy
Spirit?", "What is the real church all about?"Little
by little, that first group worked through these basics, studying
and praying together. Also regular street evangelism was started in
the centre of Sevenoaks, aided by a group from Kemsing Evangelical
Free Church, so that once every month or so we would be outside
Tesco's in the High Street, with drama, testimony and worship in the
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As we continued
with these two means of building the church we found that God
began to add people to us. Interested people came to the
mid-week Bible study and people out on the streets expressed
an interest in joining us. At the end of the first course of
mid-week meetings the six had multiplied to ten or twelve
people, and it was suggested that we started the course all
over again and invite other friends to be with us! This became
one of the longest introductory courses that we have ever
done, but after about a year there were about 24 people who
were meeting together, praying together and going over to
Biggin Hill Baptist church each Sunday morning and working on
the streets once a month. |
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