Friendships
Connecting through forming friendships is vital for people to stay part of a church.
We place a high emphasis on forming friendships. Often people’s first contact with a church is walking in on a Sunday morning. This can be a daunting prospect for some. Will I know what to do? Will anyone speak to me? Will I be pounced on?
We try to be sensitive to all the concerns (and more), and give you a warm, but not overbearing, welcome. But we hope for more than just saying hi on a Sunday. We hope to introduce you to others, who we think you might get on with, or perhaps become friends. There may be an invitation to lunch, or to go out with a group of people after the church gathering. Of course you are free to accept or decline as you wish, and determine the pace at which you get involved.
We also suggest joining a small group. Making friends on a Sunday is difficult, and takes a long time. Meeting regularly with a small group of people, sharing your lives, eating, and praying, speeds up friendship forming enormously.
Brian & Marion Donaldson have a real passion for hospitality and community forming; they and a group of similarly enthused people are often around on a Sunday meeting new people, and seeking to help them into friendships and the church.
