About Us

Church Vision

Strapline

Love God, love one another, love the world

Send Evangelical Church is a community of God’s people who exist to love God, love one another, and to love the world. Therefore, we are a Bible-based, prayer-saturated, Gospel-centred, Spirit-filled church.

Extended Vision

We love God because He first loved us. Loving God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – is at the heart of all we do, and follows Jesus’ great command to ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ We love God by worshipping Him in all we do.

Loving one another and loving the world are expressions of our obedience to Jesus’ other great command to ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’.

We love one another by encouraging one another, speaking truth to one another, confessing sins to one another, forgiving one another, bearing one another’s burdens, serving one another and praying for one another as a community of God’s people in Send.

We love the world by stewarding God’s creation, by caring for all people because they are made in the image of God, and above all by seeking to share the Good News of God’s love and Christ’s saving death, going out from Send to the ends of the earth.

We are a Bible-based church because we recognise that the Bible is the authoritative and true Word of God. By His Spirit, God speaks to us through His Word, guides us through His Word, and shows Jesus to us through His Word. It contains everything we need for life and salvation, and so we build our church around its truth.

We are a prayer-saturated church because we recognise that it is through prayer that we speak to the God who has first spoken to us, and enjoy our relationship with Him. We also pray because we are utterly dependent on God for any fruit in our lives, our ministry or our mission.

We are a Gospel-centred church because we recognise that the Gospel message, that Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose again on the third day, is the foundation of our relationship with God. Through the Gospel of grace we receive forgiveness of sins, adoption into God’s family, the sure and certain hope of heaven, and the power to live for Jesus today. Without the Gospel we are without hope and without God in the world.

We are a Spirit-filled church because we recognise that the Holy Spirit indwells each and every Christian from the moment of conversion; and He also dwells in us collectively as the Church, the body of Christ. His work is to glorify Christ by giving us spiritual life in Christ, transforming us to be more like Christ, showing us Christ through the Bible, and building up the Church by His gifts. It is the Spirit who enables us to be Bible-based, prayer-saturated and Gospel-centred; and to love God, one another and the world.

Member’s Stories

How some of our members found that Jesus is real:

Affiliations

We are affiliated to the FIEC group, Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches and as such we hold to their statement of faith and practice. We love their heart to exist to encourage & equip our family of independent churches to thrive, impacting our nation with the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The churches of FIEC are committed to these truths of historic, biblical Christianity. Below is our Doctrinal Basis.

1. God
There is one God, who exists eternally in three distinct but equal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God is unchangeable in his holiness, justice, wisdom and love. He is the almighty Creator; Saviour and Judge who sustains and governs all things according to his sovereign will for his own glory.

2. The Bible
God has revealed himself in the Bible, which consists of the Old and New Testaments alone. Every word was inspired by God through human authors, so that the Bible as originally given is in its entirety the Word of God, without error and fully reliable in fact and doctrine. The Bible alone speaks with final authority and is always sufficient for all matters of belief and practice.

3. The Human Race
All men and women, being created in the image of God, have inherent and equal dignity and worth. Their greatest purpose is to obey, worship and love God. As a result of the fall of our first parents, every aspect of human nature has been corrupted and all men and women are without spiritual life, guilty sinners and hostile to God. Every person is therefore under the just condemnation of God and needs to be born again, forgiven and reconciled to God in order to know and please him.

4. The Lord Jesus Christ
The Lord Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, and lived a sinless life in obedience to the Father. He taught with authority and all his words are true. On the cross he died in the place of sinners, bearing God’s punishment for their sin, redeeming them by his blood. He rose from the dead and in his resurrection body ascended into heaven where he is exalted as Lord of all. He intercedes for his people in the presence of the Father.

5. Salvation
Salvation is entirely a work of God’s grace and cannot be earned or deserved. It has been accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ and is offered to all in the gospel. God in his love forgives sinners whom he calls, granting them repentance and faith. All who believe in Christ are justified by faith alone, adopted into the family of God and receive eternal life.

6. The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit has been sent from heaven to glorify Christ and to apply his work of salvation. He convicts sinners, imparts spiritual life and gives a true understanding of the Scriptures. He indwells all believers, brings assurance of salvation and produces increasing likeness to Christ. He builds up the Church and empowers its members for worship, service and mission.

7. The Church
The universal Church is the body of which Christ is the head and to which all who are saved belong. It is made visible in local churches, which are congregations of believers who are committed to each other for the worship of God, the preaching of the Word, the administering of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper; for pastoral care and discipline, and for evangelism. The unity of the body of Christ is expressed within and between churches by mutual love, care and encouragement. True fellowship between churches exists only where they are faithful to the gospel.

8. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper
Baptism and the Lord’s Supper have been given to the churches by Christ as visible signs of the gospel. Baptism is a symbol of union with Christ and entry into his Church but does not impart spiritual life. The Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of Christ’s sacrifice offered once for all and involves no change in the bread and wine. All its blessings are received by faith.

9. The Future
The Lord Jesus Christ will return in glory. He will raise the dead and judge the world in righteousness. The wicked will be sent to eternal punishment and the righteous will be welcomed into a life of eternal joy in fellowship with God. God will make all things new and will be glorified forever.

More details can be found here – https://fiec.org.uk/about-us/beliefs

Send Evangelical Church Privacy Notice

How Send Evangelical Church (“we”) use your information

Your privacy is important to us. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your information.

The categories of information that we may collect, hold and share include:

• Personal information (such as name, telephone number, address and email address)
• Characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity, language, nationality, country of birth)

Storing your data

We hold your data for varying lengths of time depending on the type of information in question but in doing so we always comply with Data Protection legislation. We will contact you annually to check that the information we are holding is accurate and that you agree to us holding it.

Who do we share your information with?

We will not share your information with third parties without your consent unless the law requires us to do so.

Requesting access to your personal data

Under Data Protection legislation, you have the right to request access to information that we hold about you. To make a request for your personal information contact the Church Secretary.

You also have the right to:

• object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress
• prevent processing for the purpose of direct marketing
• in certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased ordestroyed; and
• claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the Data Protection regulations.

For further information on how your information is used, how we maintain the security of your information and your rights to access information we hold on you please contact the Church Secretary at churchsecretary@sendec.org

If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, you should raise your concern with us in the first instance or directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Contact:

If you would like to discuss anything in this privacy notice, please contact the Church Secretary