Placement at The Bay Church – Part 3

I’ve been with The Bay Church for a month now and I would say that one of the most beneficial things of this placement has been chatting to Ian Parry. Every week Ian has set aside an hour for us to chat through whatever is on our minds before we went out and posted some flyers about the women’s meeting. On Tuesday after we’d chatted for half an hour it started to drizzle and though it only lasted 5 minutes, it was enough to justify not going out, so we chatted for something like 3 hours! So here’s some gleanings about planting a church from what Ian has shared with me.

Placement at The Bay Church – Part 2

Type “Cardiff Bay Housing” into Google images and on the first three pages you’ll see images like these:

Placement at The Bay Church – Part 1

This morning I started a placement with The Bay Church, which is based in Cardiff Bay. They currently meet in St. Cuthberts Roman Catholic primary school. They were planted just under five years ago with the vision of Ian Parry, their minister. Their first meeting started at 10:30am so I rocked up at 10:20 since I hate being late! We had a good meeting. Fairly typical of most evangelical churches I’ve been to. We had singing, a childrens’ talk, reading, sermon, all in the usual sort of structure, though they did have a time of open prayer.