Breakfast in Bethlehem - our special Christmas service
By Lauren McCabe, 25 Nov 2025This is our special Christmas service especially geared to guests or people who wouldn't go along to church regularly. We have a Christmas nativity where every child gets to be involved...
Map of the gospel
By Gerry Straker, 24 Nov 2025At Church by the Bay we love the Word of God - that's our first love. But we also enjoy seeing the work of God through history, as the gospel,...
Christmas Pub Quiz
By Lauren McCabe, 16 Nov 2025Don't miss our Christmas Pub Quiz! This is a really fun evening with a general knowledge quiz (with the rounds very loosely themed around Christmas but no 'religious' quiz questions as we...
Alcuin's prayers
By Gerry Straker, 10 Nov 2025At our eighth annual Reformation addresses we met the most important Englishman, indeed European that you’ve probably never heard of: Alcuin (730-804 AD). You can listen here. Below are a handful...
Books and resources
By Lauren McCabe, 09 Nov 2025We have lots of books, leaflets and resources available at church or from our church building, 91 Balmoral Road. These include gospel accounts of Jesus' life, books about Christian living, leaflets...
Christmas at Church by the Bay
By Lauren McCabe, 03 Nov 2025We love Christmas as we celebrate the incarnation of Jesus, fully God and fully man who was born as a baby to 'save his people from their sins'. (Matthew 1:21) We...
Half term
By Lauren McCabe, 28 Oct 2025This week sees our usual mid-week groups taking a break for half term. Why not use the extra time to read a Christian book or some of the bible, or...
A Prayer using the Lord’s Prayer
By Gerry Straker, 28 Oct 2025A Prayer using the Lord’s Prayer Adapted from the Heidelberg Catechism Questions 120-129 Our Father As we call to you in prayer, we express our childlike reverence and trustthat through Christ you O...
Reformation Day
By Lauren McCabe, 19 Oct 2025Every year on 31st October we join a number of churches across the world and celebrate Reformation Day - thanking God for the light of God's Word given to His Church. Why 31st October?...
Congratulation to the Pub Quiz Winners
By Lauren McCabe, 15 Oct 2025A big congratulations to our Pub Quiz winners on Friday - 'Family Fortunes' who won on a tie breaker against the 'Babygrow Orginals'. We were all having such a great...
