Posts from April 2025
Easter Cracked 2025
Last week we partnered with two other churches in Grangetown (The Bay Church and Grace Church) to bring the Easter story to the Year 5 children in our local primary schools. Three schools came to our building and we took the event to a fourth school. When it runs in our building, Easter Cracked starts with an introductory session about being eyewitnesses and a crazy video that tests the children’s observation skills. This then leads on to a session explaining…
ManKIND – Mental Health and Wellbeing
Mental health and well-being is a huge issue. A recent article in The Week magazine stated that ‘In the past five years, the number of Briton’s contacting mental health services has increased by more than one million [and that] mental ill-health is now the leading cause of people under 44 being off work.’ (The Week magazine, 12 April 2025, page 20). Every month we open up the church and hold a relaxed evening for men to hang out together. It…
Our story
It all began in 1865, when Grangetown was only a few streets, and people from Tredegarville Baptist Church started a Sunday school above ‘Morley’s stable’ on the corner of Earl Street. Tredegarville Baptist was itself just two years old. Ten years later, in 1875, the church got its own building, as the ‘Iron Church’ was built. By 1879 the church had a membership of sixty-three people, but it wasn’t until 1881 that the church became independent of Tredegarville Baptist. From…