The church building was erected during 1870 and 1871 as a Christian Mission and dedicated by William Booth in 1871. William Booth is better known as General Booth of the Salvation Army, which he later founded. His wife, Catherine, laid the foundation stone on Thursday, July 6th, 1871.

The church became a United Methodist Chapel in 1907 and on the occasion of the Methodist Union in 1932 three branches of the Methodist Church, the Wesleyan, the Primitive and the United joined to become one church denomination.

In 1958 the Church was extensively renovated. In 1979 a hall and kitchen were added and this was fully modernised in 2013. The hall is now a popular venue for many church and village activities.

We look forward to celebrating our Harvest Festival services in October. We start with our Messy Church on Wednesday October 2nd when our theme will be 'Fair Shares for All.' We will have loads of activities for young people, songs and food and as Messy Church is for all ages anyone can come along.

Then on Sunday October 6th we have another Harvest celebration together with the Ninfield Scouts so this is always special. Alan Hurrell, with help from young people, will lead this Family event. Any gifts of tins of food etc. will be given to the Bexhill Foodbank.

We are also excited that later in October we will welcome a new Community Outreach Worker to our Church. Tim will help our Church to reach out into the Community and be working with us for 18 hours each week linked to the Circuit initiative. We hope he will be able to develop some more Family and Children activities and link into the families in our new Housing areas.

Time Together Tuesdays is a time for mums to chat, relax, share and support each other before school pick-up and this is scheduled for October 22nd.

The Macmillan Coffee Morning in September has so far raised £870 for this charity which is excellent news. Many thanks to Veronica, all her team, and everyone for this amazing result. Please remember and pray for all that we are doing to share the love of God in our community.

Paul Burson