About Us

Who are we?

Marshalswick Baptist Free Church is a Christian Church in membership with Baptists Together (the Baptist Union of Great Britain), the Central Baptist Association and Churches Together In Marshalswick.
We seek to be a thriving church where people of all ages can meet God.

We believe in:

• The Lordship of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who through his death and resurrection, sets us free from our sins and opens the way to an everlasting life in the presence of God.
• The nature of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit and who is the source of all life and knowledge.
• The authority of the Bible as the inspired word of God, through which we see and understand His nature and activity in the world.
• The church as an inclusive community of God’s people gathered to worship Him, to grow in faith, to work in obedience to His will, caring for the world and one another and serving together in the task of building God’s Kingdom of peace and justice led by the Holy Spirit.
• The obligation to reach out together in response to Jesus’ Great Commission to go into all the world ‘making disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit ’ (Matthew 28;19)  Believer’s Baptism being the ideal expression of personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ.
• The encouragement of the use of gifts of the whole congregation in the worship and service of God.
  
• The responsibility of Church Members to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit to determine the direction of the local church through the decision making of the church meeting.

Why are we Marshalswick Baptist FREE Church?

We are a ‘Free’ church in the sense that like all Baptist Churches we are not part of the established church but ‘non conformist’.  We maintain our local independence while also being committed to being interdependent with other Baptist Churches.    

We also maintain the word ‘Free’ in recognition that our roots are in a joint Methodist/ Baptist  outreach and that the site on which the church is built was gifted by Mr Nash, main builder of the Marshalswick Estate, for the building of a ‘Free’ Nonconformist church.

Where are we?

Our church building is located on Sherwood Avenue, Marshalswick, St Albans just around the corner from The Quadrant shopping area. Please see our directions page for more detailed information.

What do we do?

Worship

We worship together on Sunday Morning at 10.15 am. Communion is celebrated in Morning Worship on the third Sunday of the month.

Community

We run children and youth groups and Messy Church events for our  community. Please contact us for more details.

Mission

We support mission work both at home and abroad through the Baptist Home Mission, BMS World Mission and Christian Aid. We have links with BMS Missionaries across the world.