Jonathan and Linda

We both come from families where our parents believed the Bible and taught us what it said. However we had to come to a point where we believed the message of the Bible for ourselves and put our trust in Christ.
Like every Christian our aim now is to please God in all that we do. The Bible is our standard it tells us what honours God. It has plenty to say about the big things that concern us from day to day - marriage, the family, work.
One of our greatest wishes is that our children should learn to love God as we do.

My name is Ruth and I work as a Home care assistant. I have been attending Pains Hill Chapel for the past 5yrs and feel very much at home. I was sent to Sunday School by my parents at a very young age, and heard how God sent His Son into the world to die for my sins, and so I grew up always knowing that I had someone to talk to when in trouble or in need of help and guidance. I know and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you? Come and find out more.

Linda and Jonathan

We both come from families where our parents believed the Bible and taught us what it said. However we had to come to a point where we believed the message of the Bible for ourselves and put our trust in Christ.
Like every Christian our aim now is to please God in all that we do. The Bible is our standard it tells us what honours God. It has plenty to say about the big things that concern us from day to day - marriage, the family, work.
One of our greatest wishes is that our children should learn to love God as we do.

Janet
No one was expecting me to become a Christian, but my mum found Sunday mornings a bit stressful and sent my brother and I to the local Sunday school. In many Anglican Churches, it would have been unlikely that the Bible would be preached as Gods truth but in this one I heard the gospel. Even as a child I knew that I wasn’t good, when I heard that I was a sinner and couldn’t please God on my own, I knew it was true.

Gradually I came to understand that Jesus had died so that sinners could be reconciled to God and I prayed that He would accept me as one of His family.

I have been a Christian now for about forty years, and have found great contentment in knowing that I am a child of the God who rules the universe: life’s shifts and changes can be unsettling but knowing God means that your feet are placed on a rock.

Hello, my name is Vera and I have been retired for a number of years. It was in my late teens that I came to a knowledge of Jesus Christ as my Saviour. At that time I was given the promise in Proverbs chapter 3 and verses 6 that "The Lord would direct my paths ". There have been so many examples of this both throughout my career and now in retirement. I am so grateful to the Lord for His faithfulness in His promise and look forward to the continuing sense of His presence with me and the sure hope of eternal life.

I am Horace, retired from British Telecom. A Christian for the greater part of my life and the secretary of Pains Hill Chapel for over 50 years. Having a personal faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour gives a purpose for living and a certain hope of eternal life, now and when life on earth ends.

Hello my name is John Scarland, I’m a Painter as in ‘fine art’ and work with semi-abstract concepts. I’ve been a Christian for 35yrs since I was 20 and at Pains Hill for 6yrs, I find that the security of knowing Christ and His interest in me personally a tremendous comfort. In my work I am often in contact with existential values that are so empty and ultimately depressing that to know Jesus Christ as a personal Saviour brings peace and purpose to life. Do come and talk.

John Pascoe
Let me tell you a bit about myself. I was brought up in a Christian
background in Plymouth. I was not a Christian but realised the emptiness of my life and the happiness of Christian relatives, this brought home to me the fact that one day I would have to face God and that I had lived a very sinful life so far. I started reading my Bible and praying to God to forgive me through the death of Jesus for sins. I became a Christian and was later baptised.

After university I moved to London to work as a government statistician and since 1974 I have lived in Caterham and Whyteleafe with my wife Janet and we have had three daughters. The girls all went to Oxted school.

Janet and I have been attending Pains Hill chapel since 1999 and have found the congregation very welcoming and supportive, and God gives us understanding about himself and how we should live as we read the Bible together and listen to the preaching.

Why don’t you join us at a service?