Our Gatherings
Sunday Morning Worship
Join us every Sunday at 11am for our worship service at South Street Baptist Church in Exeter. Our services are inclusive and welcoming, catering to individuals at all stages of their faith journey.
Our worship style is reflective, contemplative and more 'traditional' in regards to hymns. There is always plenty of opportunity to be quiet and catch your breathe from a busy week.
For those unable to attend in person, we provide weekly recordings available on our YouTube channel and offer audio CDs upon request.
OPEN is an online community that meets on Zoom every Sunday of the month (except the first Sunday of the month) to reflect critically about our faith. Our ai is to create a safe space for people to ask and explore questions, without being given prescriptive, simple answers.
We meet at 7pm and have a catch up until 7:15pm. We then engage in some worship (this is varied and diverse in style). We then take 20 minutes to read the article we're exploring or watch the video. We come back and discuss it together. We finish by praying for one anther.
Our community is fun and relaxed. You're more than welcome, whoever you are. We have a particular heart for those that have been hurt by church or are part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Contact Ross for more details: [email protected]
Dove Cafe is a community cafe offering a safe and welcoming space to all. Coffee and biscuits are free all day and a delicious, simple and reasonably priced lunch can be bought from 12 noon.
When:
Tuesday from 10:30am - 2pm
Where:
Palace Gate Centre, EX1 1JA
Contact:
01392 279485
There is opportunity to join the Chaplains in prayer at 10:15am or 11:50am. Both our Chaplains, Ross and Peter, are available during the day if you would like to talk to them.
(Dove Cafe is run by South Street Baptist Church and partnered with the Devon Partnership NHS Trust, enabling them to offer volunteer opportunities for men recovering from mental health problems.)
Brampford Speke Chapel
Located in the picturesque village of Brampford Speke, our chapel hosts informal services on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays of each month at 3:00 pm, with communion offered on the 3rd Sunday. The chapel is accessible, featuring level entry and large-print hymn books, ensuring a comfortable experience for all attendees. We also hold monthly Bible studies and offer the chapel for hire to community groups seeking a serene meeting space.
If you'd like to join us, the address is below.
Brampford Speke Chapel
Chapel Lane
Brampford Speke
Exeter
EX5 5HG
How's your mental health? Are you investing enough in your wellbeing? Do you need to talk to someone? Do you want a place to have a cuppa and just be around other people? Through conversation, creative arts, refreshments and kind people, we hope you leave feeling refreshed and renewed.
When:
Thursday 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Where:
The Lower Hall in the Palace Gate Centre, EX1 1JA
Contact:
or call 01392 211132
Small Groups
At SSBC we have various small groups where people journey together in their faith, beyond more formal gatherings of worship, like the Sunday Morning Service. Some of these groups meet in peoples homes. If you wish to know more about these groups please ask about them, when visiting us. We are keen to maintain their privacy, since they meet in peoples homes.
We do have two groups that don't and very happy to have new people attend.
Monthly Friday Bible Study Group
This afernoon group meets in the Palace Gate Centre, in the alcove of the
Lower Hall. The prime focus is to get to grips with themes from the Bible,
themes which link almost always with topics we are studying on Sunday
mornings. This is not a talk followed by questions and answers – rather,
we look at the subject, usually with a prepared stimulus paper (designed
to start up our minds!), and thrash out together what the issues are and
how the Bible helps us in examining this topic. The discussion is open,
quite lively, but the aim always is to be practical in how our study can
impact the way we live individually and, equally, how we are church
together.
Afer the study, we share prayer needs and then we have a time of refreshments together.
Contact Rev Peter Woolway, if you think this might be for you.
Theological Reflecion Group
The Theological Reflection Group (TRG) meets on the last week of the month, on a Monday from
7-9pm. The group centres around a book we’re discussing; we all aim to read the set chapters for the
month and then come together to discuss them. We desire to create a space where everyone can share what they think safely and without fear of judgment or rejection. We don’t meet together to correct one
another or to discover ‘the right answer’. We meet together to learn from one another and the author
we’re engaging with. TRG is all about journeying together.
The usual format looks like this:
1) Meet and catch up over refreshments at 7pm
2) A short act of worship
3) Discussion
4) Prayer for one another
5) Finish at 9pm
The last book we explored was Dave Tomlinson’s ‘How to be a bad Christian:
but a better human being.’ This book was enjoyed by all. We all enjoyed this book. Some agreed with everything he said. Some thought he went too far and some not far enough. Suffice to say, the conversation was great.
If you wish to join us, please get in touch.
Contact Rev Ross Maynard, if you think this group might be for you.
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ADDRESS: 25 South St, Exeter EX1 1EB
POSTAL ADDRESS: 3, Palace Gate, Exeter EX1 1JA
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PHONE: 01392 279485
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Friday 10am - 2pm
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