As well as our Sunday morning service, we meet to pray Sunday evenings in the church at 6.30pm. You don't need to be in a church or with a group of people to pray; praying is just talking to God and you can do it walking along the street, doing the housework, while fetching a coffee from the vending machine in the office... but sometimes it's really good to get together and have other people back-up your prayers.
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Then someone from the leadership team, or sometimes a guest speaker from another church, will spend 30 to 40 minutes teaching us about what the Bible says and how that applies to our lives today. We have two BSL (British Sign Language for the deaf) signers in our church who interpret for our deaf members. Once a month the service will include taking Communion (also known as Holy Communion or the Eucharist). This is when Christians eat a piece of bread and drink a little bit of wine or red grape/currant juice as a symbolic reminder of Jesus' body being broken for us (the bread) and his blood spilt (the wine) when he died on the cross and how grateful and amazed we should be that he went through all that suffering to pay the price for our sins and reunite us with God the Father.
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Richmond Park Church is what is sometimes known as a "happy clappy" church!! We do indeed sing our praise songs (modern hymns) along to the music of a guitar, keyboard, trombone, and drums, sometimes clapping along, and a couple of people even shake a tambourine! No organs or pews or stained glass windows for us! With have chairs set in rows, or sometimes in a big circle; an overhead projector beams the words of our songs onto a screen, we don't have hymn books; we don't have prayer books either - people pray out loud when they feel able to, from where they are standing or sitting. Sometimes some of the ladies dance to the songs, using expressive hand movements, or waving flags. Sometimes before the sermon a bunch of amateur dramatists will invade the stage to act out their five minute interpretation of a Bible story or theme! Sometimes they use puppets!
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On Sunday mornings we meet at 10.30am. There is a creche for the tiny tots, and Sunday School for the slightly older kids - except about once a month when we put on a shorter service with activties especially for the children and they sit in the main part of church all the time, instead of disappearing into the back room or upstairs. We stay behind in church for tea and coffee after our "family service". All the church folk that work with the kids are CRB (Criminal Record Bureau) checked and cleared.
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At Richmond Park Church we are not ashamed to be uncompromising Christians. We believe that God created the world; we believe that the words and stories in the Bible are true and God-given; we believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that his mother Mary was a virgin, and that when he died on the cross he paid the price for all our sins, all our failures, all our mistakes; we believe Jesus rose from the grave -literally was resurrected in flesh- to show that he was the Son of God and could and did conquer death and sin. This means that when we invite Jesus into our lives he forgives us for all the things we've done wrong and re-connects us with God, Our Father. Not only that, but to make sure we don't strive and struggle to do the right thing by obeying laws and regulations, when we invite Jesus into our lives, when we become Christians, he gives us the Holy Spirit, an internal guide and inspiration to help us do the right thing, not motivated by guilt or fear, but motivated by our love for God and the knowledge that he loves us. And we believe that one day Jesus is going to return to this earth.
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The church is a great place to grow in your faith as it means at least once a week you are taking time out to:
(1) focus on worshipping (showing our respect and love for) God and getting to know him more intimately by singing praise songs to him, during which we can often sense God's presence with us, which is amazing;
(2) hear God's words taught from the Bible, learn the significance of those words and how they apply to our everyday lives;
(3) pray for other people and situations and receive prayer for yourself;
(4) develope the gifts and talents God has given you in a nurturing environment and support and encourage one another.
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Giving your life to Jesus is just the start of your Christian journey; we all need to grow in our faith and understanding of God's ways and over the years we change for the better as our motivation and plans fall more and more into line with God's motivation and plans.
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You can be a Christian without going to church, but it makes life harder for you. God designed us to be inter-dependent, meaning we are at our best when we work together, rather than when we try to go it alone; we all have different strengths and weaknesses and can compliment and support one another. There are lots of things in life - stresses, problems, temptations - that try to lure Christians away from being true to their faith and God. If you belong to a church you've got your "church family" to encourage, look out for, and care for you; and they've got you on their team too.
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, not even if you've gone to church every Sunday since the day you were born! You can only become a Christian by personally choosing to invite Jesus into your life as your Lord and Saviour. As a Christian, spending time with God on your own (in Bible study and prayer and quiet thought) is important as you get to know someone better if you spend some quality one-to-one time with them. But church is important too.
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We hope you find the following local information and links helpful. For transport in and out of Boscombe see How do I find you? If you any questions about anything Boscombe related, feel free to email us and we will do our best to answer or point you in the direction of someone else who can!

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If you're not already a Christian you may want to go to church to see what Christians get up to there, and soak in the atmosphere of the singing, praying and teaching from the Bible.
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Still got questions? Email us now - we look forward to hearing from you!
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In many ways it's sad that Christ's church has split into denominations at all; that not the way it was meant to be. There are different denominations because Christians disagree about the importance and significance of various things. For instance, at Richmond Park Church we believe in full adult baptism, that is to say, you get baptised when you are old enough to make up your own mind that it's all true and that you want to give your life to Jesus and become a Christian - and then we dunk your entire body in a pool of water that is set into the stage in our church building! You may have automatically undergone a C of E baptism, getting a cross of water marked out on your forehead at some point. It's sad that we have spilt off into so many different denominations or factions, squabbling and disagreeing about secondary issues, there's no excuse for it. But it's extremely encouraging when the different churches in Bournemouth work together, when we remember our priorities: Jesus Christ came to save us all from a life cut-off from God, and get us back on-line with Him, and churches exist to worship God and introduce people to Jesus richmondparkchurch.org.uk

Does this all sound a bit muddled and confused?? Sometimes it's difficult to explain things about faith in a clear and concise way! You can read plenty more about what it means to be a Christian at New Christian UK or New Christian Life Ministries. richmondparkchurch.org.uk

We are sometimes called "born again" Christians. This is from a chapter in the Bible (chapter 3 of John's gospel)where Jesus explains that you can't just drift in to becoming a Christian; you're not a Christian just because your parents are or because you were christened or because you went to Sunday school. There's only one way to truly become a Christian and that's by you choosing for yourself to invite Jesus into your life. When you do this you get the spirit of God living in you and you are no longer just a physical body, you've got a spiritual life with God too. You've been "born again" of the spirit.richmondparkchurch.org.uk

Richmond Park Church is described as an "evangelical pentecostal" church, which basically means we put emphasis on telling people about the good news of how we can be put right with God through Jesus, and the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of Christians to help us do this and in other ways demonstrate God's concern and interest in the everyday lives of people.

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Richmond Park Church does not belong to any denomination; we are not C of E, Methodist or Baptist. This doesn't mean we are freakish and weird! We are not part of any denomination because we are trying to steer clear of ideas and beliefs that have crept in to Christianity over the hundreds of years since Jesus was resurrected, ideas and beliefs that take us away from the simplicity and guidelines of the Bible.

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We hope to see you at Richmond Park Church soon!
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If you have any further questions you'd like answered please email us.

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Hello! My name is David Holland and I'm the pastor of Richmond Park Church, which is on the corner of Palmerston Road and St Clements Road in Boscombe. We're a group of ordinary people who believe in an extraordinary God. We've put this website together to give you a taste of what we believe, what we do, and what we are like - enjoy looking around!richmondparkchurch.org.uk

“Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” Colossians 3:13richmondparkchurch.org.uk

“[The Narrow and Wide Gates] "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Matthew 7:13-14richmondparkchurch.org.uk

“The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.” Habakkuk 3:19richmondparkchurch.org.uk

“Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.” Psalm 90: 2,4richmondparkchurch.org.uk

“so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17-19richmondparkchurch.org.uk

“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." 1 Thessalonians 5:11richmondparkchurch.org.uk

“Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.” 1 Chronicles 29:11richmondparkchurch.org.uk

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Proverbs 15:1richmondparkchurch.org.uk

so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. Hebrews 9:28richmondparkchurch.org.uk

'Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me"' Mathew 16:24richmondparkchurch.org.uk

Let us give glory to God! He is able to make you stand firm in your faith, according to the good news I preach about Jesus Christ. ~ 1Corinthians 16:25richmondparkchurch.org.uk