St Benet's on Sunday
Central London has several well-established mega-churches and the local east London church scene has many medium-size, mainstream churches as well as some newer, truly vibrant church plants. We'll gladly provide details if that's what you're looking for.
But a few Christians also meet as a church in St Benet's on Sunday mornings every week during term-time. On the first and third Sundays (and sometimes the fifth) we really are few - the chaplain and one or two others meet for a quiet and short Service of the Word. On the second and fourth Sundays we're joined by the Urban Expression community from the Ocean Estate and our noise and numbers increase - to between ten and twenty.
So St Benet's on Sunday might be a disappointment for anyone looking for a big crowd of cool students, loud worship bands, long Bible expositions or well-organised training courses. But we - two, three, ten or twenty of us - keep on meeting before God, in the presence of his Son Jesus, in the power and creativity of his Spirit, together with the whole communion of saints. We listen to him and we respond as real people: we pray, we think, we feel. Anyone looking for God will find and enjoy him here. And he never disappoints.
We call it St Benet's on Sunday - Small and Beautiful. It's hardly original. E.F. Schumacher wrote a book about 30 years ago called Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. St Benet's is a bit like that - a small and beautiful place where people and God matter.
