Bristol Community Church

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Bristol Community Church
Formation1984
Location
  • Kingswood, Bristol
Official language
English
Website BCC official website

Bristol Community Church (formerly the Bristol New Covenant Church) is a charismatic church located in Kingswood, Bristol, England.

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History

The Bristol New Covenant Church was set up in 1984 by Dave Jones, a pastor from Bath; before its foundation some people from the area would travel to Bath City Church. The name was changed to Bristol Community Church in the 1990s because the word "covenant" in its name appeared to be leading people to believe that the church was a cult.

The church met at a number of different venues around the city before moving to its current home, Bourne Chapel in Two Mile Hill Road, Kingswood, a former Primitive Methodist building erected in 1873, [1] [2] which had previously been part of an underwear factory.

Bristol Community Church split in 2012 following the conviction of one its youth leaders for child sexual offenses. Senior leaders of the church, John Maskell and Richard Brown initially attempted to cover up this abuse. When the church trustees decided to investigate the cover up, Maskell and Brown announced that they would be leaving the church, and would be setting up a new Church - 'New Life Church' in Frenchay, Bristol. The existing church changed its' name to Bourne Christian Centre. [ citation needed ]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Nonconformist Trail" (PDF). South Gloucestershire Council. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Primitive Methodist Church". Church Crawler. Archived from the original on 29 May 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2015.

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