Below is a short summary of the history of Emmanuel Bristol.
Summer 2006
Team at Christ Church Clifton, headed up by Mike Cain, begin planning church plant.
Autumn 2006
People sign up to come to the church plant.
January 2007
Core congregation of around 50 people start meeting together to get to know one another and pray.
March 2007
Emmanuel meets for the first time at Badminton School.
July 2009
Emmanuel appoints Ed Shaw as associate pastor.
September 2009
Emmanuel moves to larger site of Red Maids’ Senior School.
January 2011
Emmanuel has its first church weekend away.
January 2011
Emmanuel is granted a Bishop’s Mission Order by the Church of England and becomes an independent charity and church.
Summer 2011
Emmanuel begins preparing for a 2nd congregation.
September 2011
Emmanuel appoints Jim Walford as trainee pastor.
January 2012
Emmanuel Ashley Down planted, led by Jim Walford.
May 2014
Emmanuel Ashley Down moves to the Church of the Good Shepherd and becomes Emmanuel Bishopston.
June 2014
Ordination of Jim Walford as curate of Emmanuel Bishopston.
September 2014
Emmanuel City Centre planted, led by Ed Shaw.
September 2014
Sim Jemmett heads up a group of people to partner with Emmanuel Chapel Henbury.
May 2016
Emmanuel Westbury takes up temporary residence in URC Henleaze while the Denmark Hall, Red Maids’ school is demolished and rebuilt.
January 2017
Emmanuel Bristol purchases the Meeting House on Narrow Lewins Mead in the city centre. The Emmanuel Meeting House, as it is now called, provides a home for Emmanuel City Centre as well as providing a base of operations for the whole Emmanuel family of churches during the week.
July 2017
Our partnership with Emmanuel Chapel Henbury comes to an end on good terms, with Sim Jemmett returning to Emmanuel Westbury.
For more information on The Memorandum and Articles of Association of Emmanuel Bristol or for further details on the Bishop’s Mission Order, ask a member of the Steering Team.
