About Alma Church, Bristol

Alma Church, Bristol is part of the Evangelical Alliance. The congregation is about 200 people - small enough to be able to make friends and get involved easily and large enough to have plenty of exciting things going on!

The church has its roots in the Brethren movement. The original Bethesda Chapel was situated in Great George Street (1832) - and was led for a time by George Muller. The Alma Road church was erected in 1872 as a daughter congregation and became known as Clifton Bethesda to distinguish it from the parent church (which was destroyed during WWII).

You can read more about Alma Church's History >>

Our general purposes as a church are outlined as:

• Helping people understand and respond to this message.
• To be a worshipping, biblical, welcoming, caring and growing community.
• To meet together regularly to encourage discipleship, spiritual life and personal transformation.
• To equip members for life and ministry in the church, home, workplace and world.

Our distinctive values as a church are:

• Valuing Unity amid Diversity.
• Valuing Acceptance before Acceptability.
• Valuing Prayerfulness above Busy-ness.
• Valuing Participation before Performance.
• Valuing Biblical integrity without dogmatism.
• Valuing Spiritual development rather than "going-through-the-motions".

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