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Riverstone Church Plan a visit

A church in the old mill district

You are welcome
here, exactly as
you arrive.

We are an ordinary congregation of about ninety people. We read the Bible together, we sing, we pray, and we eat afterwards. If you have never been to a church before, come and sit at the back — nobody will ask you to stand up.

This Sunday Listen to a sermon
Sunday morning
10:30 Worship & teaching
Sunday evening
18:00 Prayer & supper
Wednesday
19:00 Midweek prayer
Where
14 Mill Lane, with parking behind the building

A word before you come

We would rather be known than impressive.

Riverstone has met on this street for forty-one years. We have no band, no coffee bar and no strategy document. What we do have is a room where the same people turn up week after week, know each other's names, and have learned to carry each other's difficulties.

If you are looking for a church, the honest advice is to come three times before you decide. One Sunday tells you very little about a congregation, and almost nothing about whether you belong in it.

Pastor Ministry leader's name

Teaching

Recent sermons

Every sermon since 2019, searchable by book and by series — so a passage you heard once can still be found four years later.

Last Sunday

The Sermon on the Mount

Blessed are the poor in spirit

Matthew 5:1–12 · Pastor

12:0438 min

Sample audio: a public-domain Bible reading, not a recording of this sermon

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What's on

The next few weeks

Everything here is open — you do not need to belong to anything, and nothing needs booking unless it says so.

14 Nov

Church lunch, after the morning service

12:15 · The hall

Details

19 Nov

Carols rehearsal — anyone who sings

19:30 · Church

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24 Nov

Men's breakfast

08:00 · The hall

Details

02 Dec

Advent service of readings

18:00 · Church

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During the week

What else happens here

Who leads

The people you would meet

Nobody here is full-time except the pastor, and the photographs on a real site would be of these people rather than of a stock congregation.

Riverstone Church Mill Lane River Wear

Finding us

Fourteen Mill Lane, behind the old bakery.

By car

Parking behind the building, through the arch. Free on Sundays.

On foot

Eight minutes from the market square, along the river path.

Step-free

The north door is level. A hearing loop covers the whole room.

With children

A room at the back with the service on a screen, if you need it.

Giving

Supporting the work here

Giving pays the building, the heating and one part-time salary. Our accounts are read out at the annual meeting and posted here afterwards. Nobody is ever asked to give at the door.

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