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At the start of 2025 we would like to give an update from the Portswood Church Environmental Representatives - a group who share ideas and encouragement fo...

We'd love for you to join us for our Christmas events this year. Our theme, ‘Up Close and Personal,’ reflects the incredible truth of God coming down to...

Where do we find our true identity and how do we hold on to it? Do our daily decisions draw us into God’s plans and purposes or away from them? How often d...

As Christian’s we don’t get a, ‘get out of jail free card’. We experience the loss just like everyone else, but with a difference. Ultimately, eternally, G...

We sometimes wonder about our calling or purpose in life, what are we here for, what do we want out of life? In his letter to the church in Rome, Paul writ...

Come discover and celebrate Easter with us at Portswood Church.

Growing up in a small Brethren church, Lent wasn’t something I was really aware of. If anything, I thought lent was secular. People giving up chocolate so...

In the last few years, I’ve found myself whispering the words, ‘Come Lord Jesus, Come’, with increasing urgency. With escalating global hatred of ‘the othe...

Christmas at Portswood Church 2023

Since the birth of the Christian church Christians have been asking the same question? How do I live in the world, but not of the world? (John 17:15-16) Ho...

How can we avoid being foolish or unwise? Perhaps that's a question we've not really thought much about before. What help is there when we face big decisio...

Portswood Church Fun Day is now a tradition spanning back almost 20 years! During those years, we’ve welcomed 100s into our building and reached out to our...

Celebrate Easter with usat Portswood Church

Growing up in a small Brethren church, Lent wasn’t something I was really aware of. If anything, I thought lent was secular. People giving up chocolate so...

What does God have to say about how we care for the poor? Well, quite a lot actually! Many will be familiar with these verses: “And if you spend yours...

Having just celebrated the Queen's platinum Jubilee it seems appropriate to spend a few weeks looking at the story of another queen, one who experienced a...

Jesus is the King! But if he is truly the king when will he exercise his kingly rule? Why do we see so much death and suffering if he is the exalted one...

This easter at Portswood church

Before moving to France, I didn’t know much at all about Strasbourg, the city where we lived for over 14 years.

We strive to build up the fellowship, caring for one another in our day to day lives, offering support, prayer, guidance as well as practical help where ne...

The core of what makes Pod special remains the same, an inviting, safe and non judgmental space where parents and carers can share and support each other.

Our next teaching series takes us into the book of Hebrews. The writer reminds them of the good news of Jesus and his victory over all obstacles and diffic...

We’ll come together to bear witness to Jesus’ death and look at the truth, reality and power of the resurrection.

Portswood Church has always been passionate about worship and finding space to engage with God so we have missed our monthly gatherings at Worship Drop In

We smashed our target and managed to raise £1,350 (we had been aiming for £1,000) enabling us to make 201 gift baskets with some left over!

Why are we making the change? On 25th May 2018, new data protection laws were introduced which put greater requirements on churches to manage, protect a...

Weʼre raising £1000 to provide a gift of hand cream and send messages of support and appreciation to our hard working nurses and doctors in Southampton ICU...

News series: Unleashed! Words, works and wonders - starts this Sunday 31st January 2021

We're no longer meeting in our building but we're still together as "church" and also seeking to serve the wider community.

We’ve been challenged by the book of James in the last few weeks. James won’t let us just ‘believe’ the right things, but insists that actions

The book we’re learning from this autumn term is James. Written by James, Jesus’ half-brother, it’s a small letter found in very last pages of the Bible

We're praying that the Spirit would inspire and equip us to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with our friends and families, our communities and networks...

Quietly, all over the country, Christians are doing amazing things because Jesus has given them a heart to get alongside people in need and help them

Next weekend is Easter! On the Sundays around Easter we’re taking time to look in a bit more depth at what Jesus’ death on the cross means to us.

‘From Heaven you Came…’ Readings, reflections and prayers for Advent. People talk about ‘the Christmas rush’ and they’re not wrong.

I wonder if we make the whole business of being Christians – living with Him, and for Him – just a little bit complicated?

We planned it as the holiday of a lifetime – well, 25 years of marriage. It was good too. The warm sun, the Med visible from the room with a

I'm sitting looking out at a boat, it is a beautiful little sailing boat, white, with a raised cabin with three fine portholes.

Readings, Reflections and prayers through Advent. People talk about ‘the Christmas rush’ and they’re not wrong. But what if we were able to take time

“So what do you do with the rest of your time?” I love getting asked this because it means I get to talk about what I’m part of here, at Portswood Church

Since I was accepted as a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators, some people have asked me how I became interested in “cross-cultural mission”

Gideons are probably best known for distributing Scriptures in what the founders called the “The traffic lanes of life” ie. hotels, hospitals,...

Some scientists have theorised about the existence of universes parallel to ours and have called them ‘multiverses’.

If you think about it, prayer is amazing: The thought we can be intimate with the almighty God, creator and sustainer of everything blows my mind.

Now anyone reading the title for this may be excused for thinking it was a sarcastic title, as let’s face it, not many people were counting down

Do you ever wish that there was more time to just be with each other without rushing away to the next thing?

During the coming weeks, we will complete the second third of John’s gospel, returning later to finish off in 2018.

Well it really felt like 2016 just came and went, didn’t it? Before we knew it the kids were doing the nativity, the carols were going, the Christmas

No matter how we feel about this or any other year, as Christians we’re able to be people of hope, and that is certainly something that’s needed as we go

Advent has begun... kids (and some big kids!) will be opening their Advent calendars each morning and the Christmas Countdowns started in the shops weeks a...

If you happened to wander down the High Street at 3pm one night last week, you may have been surprised to see a light on in Portswood Church.

I was brought up in an orphanage. My mother went off when I was 2 years old. My grandmother looked after my sister and an aunty looked after my brother

You may not know it, but this is one of Portswood Church’s strategic goals for the next few years. Some have reacted against this, saying we’re playing a

Just over four years ago I was invited to join the Southampton City Mission board of trustees. I accepted the invitation and have had the great privilege

Portswood Prayer Team is a joint venture of churches in Portswood/Highfield. Two Saturday afternoons a month, a handful of people meet at Portswood Church

Recently Maureen, my wife suggested, ‘Why don’t you write an article about Meg Lapworth especially as she will be leaving us soon to go and stay with some

Our autumn teaching series takes us back into the book of Genesis. In this second section, we’ll journey with a grown up Isaac, through the life stages

Francis Chan takes a refreshing and challenging look at what it means to live as a Christian in our culture today by taking a fresh look at the Gospels

In the autumn we'll be running another 24x7 prayer room at Portswood Church. Between now and then we want to explore ways of helping one another to deepen

Some prayer book ideas for younger people

Working out our faith in a messy decade. It’s a strange feeling that ten years ago I was an 18 year old about to start university. Student life was great,

Last weekend communities all around the country came together in celebration of the Queen’s birthday, we thought that a church fun day would be a great way

To mark the occasion, of the Queen’s 90th birthday, Portswood Church will also be holding a ‘Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration Community Day’

Equipping and envisioning disciples of Jesus who then go on to to equip and envision other disciples themselves

‘Where everyone knows your name’ - if you want them to. Imagine what it would be like if Portswood Church could create a ‘safe space’

I found myself walking the streets last Christmas. I took the decision to use some time I had free to deliver flyers.

It is commonly read or heard that the Christian faith is a ‘shot in the dark’, or believing without any evidence’ or we sometimes

The 10th February marks the beginning of Lent which traditionally is a time of detoxing the body and soul in order to fully appreciate the impact of Easter

We ran two successful parenting courses last term using Nicky and Sila Lee’s material ‘The Parenting Children Course’.

It’s not long 'til Christmas and there’s loads going on at Portswood Church. We’re also running a social campaign called ‘What makes me feel Christmassy’

In some regards a church away day is like a huge family get together.

We really enjoyed being on the ‘The parenting children course’ that was recently run at Portswood Church. The course ran over five weeks

A few weeks ago, a group of young women in the church gathered around a dining room table, cake and coffee at the ready, each with the same book in hand

Imagine coming to live in a country where you are unable to speak the language – or you thought you could until you arrived!

There’s nothing to anything—it’s all smoke. What is there to show for a lifetime of work, a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone?

We’re very excited to be starting The Lounge, the new fortnightly Sunday evening event for young adults and students

Do you have that one friend your mind keeps flashing back to? Someone perhaps you weren’t that close to but still see as a friend? I do.

September seems to roll along so quickly, and with it the excitement for us as a church of our students returning to us after the long summer break.

So what is the pod? The pod is the new name for our toddler group. We meet every Tuesday morning in term time.

Earlier this summer I spent a week sleeping in a tent, surrounded by children aged 9-12. Why on earth did I do such a crazy thing?

Our vision for the re-development of the building has always had at its heart a desire to enable us to serve better the wider community

Befriending aliens - no, not little green men, but strangers and foreigners who are living among us. Imagine yourself living in a strange foreign land

The Indonesia team have been back for a while now, back to reality in its varying forms. So, what exactly did we do there?

On Saturday, Portswood Church opened its doors for our first "Celebrate" community day. The atmosphere around the church really captured the theme

You may remember that back in February, Portswood Church launched a survey about 'Belonging'.

17,000 islands, 3,200 miles east to west, 250 million people, with a Muslim majority of around 80%: that's Indonesia, where a team from church are heading

Today we got the election result and looked at the Proverbs 29:1-14, set months ago for this lunchtime's House of Prayer. It was astonishingly on target

Apparently records are being smashed in this election campaign. The charity CARE reckons that 325 local hustings meetings where candidates get the chance

10 days of 24-hour prayer, leading us from the day of ascension to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (May 24th).

Easter is at the heart of the Christian faith and at the heart of Easter is the cross. It’s for this reason that the cross has been the main symbol of Jesu...

So it happened! We had a great big party together again this year, it was great to see people of all ages dancing, chatting and having fun together!

Many Churches around the world use Lent - the 40 days before Easter to - as an opportunity to focus on the central event of Christianity

The photography club will be meeting this Friday (20th Feb) for the club meetup. This is going to be a Photowalk on and around the Itchen Toll Bridge.

We're now half-way between Christmas and Easter if my calculations are right. My memory is already fogging up but somewhere in the mix of misty recollectio...

What does it mean to belong to Portswood Church? We ran a survey to find out.

Every now and then avid readers of our Sunday notice-sheet in Church will see mention of a leader’s breakfast.

Following the success of last year’s big party, the guys from life in 3d (the church’s 20-30’s group) will be organising another big party this year on the...

We’re really excited to be planning a student weekend away this year! It’ll be great to just spend some time together, look into God’s word and have lot...

It is a place to individually dwell, but corporately seek God. It is a space set apart on a Sunday evening between 7-9pm to come and just be with your c...

A short highlight video of the 2014 Traditional Carols by Candlelight

We did it – we managed to get away for a whole day together at the beginning of half term. Getting together with a substantial proportion (over a 100 adult...

Looking forward to Alpha. Got questions?

Here is some information about the building project. We're nearly there now, we just need to do this and that.

We’ve started a student life group, a small group every other Sunday where we’re looking into the bible and workout how it applies to life at university.

We had a great away day