If it’s a perfect church you want, you’ve come to the wrong place. If you're looking for a sense of community, where people are enthusiastic, encouraging, constantly making mistakes but getting up to have another go, outward facing rather than inward looking… you might have found a church that suits you.

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We are evangelical in what we believe and contemporary in character - we aren't standing still. Somehow we manage to sustain a fellowship that includes traditional, charismatic and ‘sort of’ Roman Catholic types all at the same time. It works because God’s Spirit makes it work and makes relationships important.

 

Fellowship is a big thing for us. So is the Bible... and so is prayer.

Ages range from children to 80+ years with a reasonable balance of male and female. We try to cater for all ages.

 

The focus of our Sunday morning services is family – so bring your children and relatives along with you at 10.30am. We don't mind a bit of noise from little ones. On Sunday evenings at 6.00pm, it's usually a bit more traditional if that suits you.

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The Methodist Church is at the heart of the former mining village of Great Lumley in County Durham and we are part of the Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit. More important than all that, we want Jesus to be at the centre of all we are and all we do.