WELCOME to SION BAPTIST CHURCH

 

where you will receive a warm and friendly welcome, whether you are seeking God for the first time,

thinking about returning to Church after a break, looking for answers to your questions or already a committed Christian -

Sion looks forward to meeting you in Jesus' Name.

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So who are we?

 

Our Church Vision is "To be Jesus to the world, showing Him to everyone in our Living, Serving and Worshipping."

 

Our Church meets in Higher Cloughfold, just out of Rawtenstall centre on Newchurch Road, just after Marl Pits Sports Complex and opposite the Red Lion Pub. We currently have a membership of 85 and a worshipping congregation of approximately 75 people which is growing weekly.

A FREE Free Breakfast is available to everyone, every Sunday morning from 9.00am and is followed by a lively Family orientated Morning Service with an upbeat contemporary style of worship commencing at 10.00am.

We are part of Rossendale Fellowship of Baptist Churches, members of the North West Baptist Association, Baptist Union of Great Britain and a member of the Evangelical Alliance.

Celebrating 337 years - our history in brief.

The earliest record of worship in the Cloughfold area by dissenters was the registration of a barn owned by John Piccop in Dedwinclough dated 28th October 1672. Over ten years later William Mitchel, the Yorkshire preacher, and his younger cousin David Crossley came into the Rossendale area and Mitchel made his first recorded appearance as a preacher at Goodshaw Chapel.


David Crossley was a restless and erratic character and it was during his journeys that he met with some Baptists and was baptised at Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, thus becoming the first Rossendale Baptist. It was through this contact that William Mitchel became a Baptist, though his Baptist beliefs were at odds with the majority of the Rossendale dissenters and this led to him being dismissed as Teaching Elder in 1699.

 
Dates for Your Diary
 

Thursday 11th March 2010

7.30pm Prayer and Worship Service

Sunday 14th March 2010

10.00am Mothering Sunday with Peter Heywood

6.15pm Evening Worship with Stuart Brown

Thursday 18th March 2010

7.30pm Grappling with Scripture

Sunday 21st March 2010

10.00am Holy Communion with Ashley Stansfield

6.15pm Evening Worship with Ashley Stansfield

Friday 26th March 2010

7.30pm UNITED VALLEY CELEBRATION Speaker is Dennis Wrigley from Maranatha Ministries

Sunday 28th March 2010

10.00am Morning Worship with Ashley Stansfield

6.15pm Evening Worship with Ashley Stansfield

 

Our Minister

Ashley Stansfield

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assistant Pastor

Peter Heywood

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Us

 

Sion Baptist Church

Newchurch Road, Higher Cloughfold,
Rossendale
Lancashire
BB4 7TL

Church: 01706 220392

Minister: 01706 600714 / 07866 166563
email: contact@sionbaptistchurch.co.uk