Travel Directions
The church is at the
bottom of Chapel Hill, Stansted CM24 8AG (B1051). Follow the sign to Chogou. The car park is behind the church.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Regretably there are no services in the church at the present
time.
The Place on the Hill will be closed for the foreseeable future
Recycling
Used ink cartridges (not toners), stamps and dental products
(toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes and electric toothbrush heads) can still be left in the box outside the main
door of the church. Ink cartridges
should be originals, not own brand or remanufactured
Welcome
On 1st September 2006, the
Methodist and United Reformed Churches in Stansted (Essex) joined to form
Stansted Free Church (Methodist/URC).
The Methodists had been worshipping in the Quaker Meeting House for over
75 years, as they had no building of their own.
They are delighted to now have their own ‘home’! The joint church meets
in the former United Reformed Church in Chapel Hill, Stansted CM24 8AG. The church and hall
have been refurbished to provide a welcoming and comfortable environment with a
small fitted kitchen, full disabled facilities and free car parking. The hall
is used regularly by village groups but is also available for hire for one-off
events. Free internet access is
available for all users of the church and the hall. Please email
us for details.
is our church
newsletter, but production has been suspended at the present time. To view previous editions of Imagine, please
click here.
Imagine sinking into a comfy sofa or
armchair, sipping a free cup of Fairtrade ground coffee…. The Place on the Hill
offers this and more …. a selection of
teas, soft drinks, light refreshments, fresh fruit, good company, WiFi internet, computers, a place to ‘chill out’ and escape
the telephone, somewhere for the kids to play, books to read and borrow. Come
to the foyer of the Free Church, every Monday (not Bank Holidays), Wednesday
and Friday 9.30am – 12.30pm. We are open during school holidays. Click here for more details. See the photos of our Christmas, Easter and Harvest special events. You
can also bring along ink cartridges for recycling (see below). Regretably, The
Place on the Hill will be closed for the foreseeable future
Messy Church is
proving very popular but due to the Coronavirus, we do not have any dates planned
for the foreseeable future. Visit www.stanstedchurches.com/messychurch
for pictures and more details.
If you have used
inkjet cartridges, please consider recycling donating them to our church funds,
using pre-paid envelopes. Please follow
this link to see
details. Alternatively, you can drop them into one of our boxes at the church
on Monday, Wednesday or Friday mornings 9.30 am – 12.30 pm. All makes can be taken, but they must be originals, not own brand. We
are also collecting used postage stamps for Guide Dogs for the Blind, and
dental products (toothbrushes and toothbrush heads, toothpaste tubes) for Essex
Air Ambulance. Note: due to the Coronavirus, the church
is not open during the week at the present time. Items may be left in
the box outside the main door.
We currently have a URC minister Rev’d Roy Fowler who began his ministry with us in October
2014. Our worship is varied with some formal services and some informal
services catering for all ages. During the winter months, our services are
sometimes held in our warm and comfortable hall. Stansted Free Church is part of the Bishop’s Stortford
Methodist Circuit and the West Essex & Bishop’s Stortford URC Pastorate
(WEBS), which also includes Bishop’s Stortford URC, Clavering LEP and Saffron Walden URC. Rev’d
Caroline Vodden has pastoral responsibility for the Saffron Walden and
Clavering churches, but like Roy, serves all the churches in the pastorate.
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