Welcome
The original St.Georges Church was built in 1821 on Pitt Street, a high point near Barnsley town centre and the parish was formed in 1832. The church had always had an evangelical Anglican tradition and had had flourishing congregations and distinguished vicars in the last century. As with many churches, congregational numbers had declined after the Second World War and the marvellous old building was beginning to need considerable sums spent on it to keep it serviceable, while declining congregations meant that money was less forthcoming.
Eventually the Rev.Jim Dainty (vicar from 1978-88) led the congregation out of the old church and into the present church, which had been a church hall and was near the site of the old church school on York Street. The old church was declared redundant in 1980 and eventually pulled down in 1992. Meanwhile congregational numbers began to grow in the new building and more modern worship services were introduced.
The present vicar David Munby (then called Phil) came in 1988 and led the parish more deeply into Charismatic renewal alongside a continued Evangelical emphasis on the authority of the Bible and the need to base our individual lives and our church life more fully upon the teaching of scripture.
Over the past 14 years there has been a thriving Sunday morning Childrens work as well as a Tuesday evening KIDZ CLUB ; the youth work has developed in recent years under full-time youth workers Len Pilkington (1993-96) Mark Brown (1996- 99), Joce Burton, Jackie Peel and Jane Dickinson (up to 2005), Lorraine Corker (2005- 2007), James Pounder (2007), and our present Youth & Schools Worker Matt Ibbotson.
In recent years members of our congregation have set up a separate charity, the Exodus Project, to run clubs and weekends away for needy children.
Our worship styles have developed somewhat over recent years, so that we offer a range of different services from Holy Communion with Bible study on a Thursday morning at 10am, a formal Holy Communion Service with hymns at 9am on Sundays, our main service of Morning Worship at 10.45 led by our Worship band, an Upper Room Meditation 6.30pm 1st Sunday of the month, plus evening youth events.
Affiliations
We are linked to New Wine and the Evangelical Alliance, as well as ReSource and SOMA (both Anglican renewal organisations).
In recent years we have been at the forefront of a movement to bring churches and leaders together to pray for Barnsley, through a movement called Time for Barnsley, and this continues in the form of monthly leaders prayer lunches. We are currently involved also in Churches Together in Central Barnsley.
