Let’s Explore the journey of North Plymouth Community Church
North Plymouth Community Church started in an old baptist building in 1984, after months of hard work of refurbishment. We borrowed numerous places of worship for our services while the purchased building, dated 1882, was being made ready for proper use.
On the first of December 1984, North Plymouth Community Church was officially opened.
We soon outgrew the building and for a few years we met in the local comprehensive school, as the need for a bigger venue arose. God’s grace upon us allowed us to have the favour of the authorities and the necessary finances to start the work of the new building on our land. In December, 1996, we held an opening ceremony for the new church building which served us for a couple of years until we realised that we needed to think about how to accommodate the growth of the church. So the building received a significant extension in 1999.
Six years later it became evident that God wanted us to think bigger again. We were in need of a far bigger venue and even a sports facility if we were to cater for the vision He gave us. Various prophetic words have confirmed what the Lord has already put in the heart of our senior leader, Rev. Rob Clift. Since then we have known many times of testing come our way because of that word, but God has continually been good and faithful to us. He has miraculously provided the money needed to buy the piece of land behind our building.
So Where Are We Going?
Since 2009 we have been looking forward in faith to a new building on our site. Designs were made and planning permission sought for a two storey building with the potential to seat 400 people in the main auditorium upstairs comfortably, the ground floor area spacious enough for offices and children’s ministry, all we needed was the finance we knew God would provide.
In the Spring of 2024, while sat in our midweek Life meeting, Pastor Rob recieved a word from God clearly stating “You do not need a two storey building”. Pondering what this could mean for our building project that we have been faithfully believing for over the past 15 years, presenting it to the Elders and seeking clarity of where God was leading us, the building designs from 2009 were removed and new ideas thought up.
Celebrating 40years of North Plymouth Community Church and The Worship Centre on 1st December 2024, Pastor Rob and Pastor Dan shared the vision stating that we would need £100,000 to erect the new building. Holding on to a prophetic word from 2014 that stated “the finances would come from the mouths of the fish” and believing in faith that every penny would come from within the church family, we have seen incredible blessing and an abundance of generosity as within 12 months of that anniversary celebration we have raised in excess of that target and now in 2026 we are once again engaging with architects and seeking planning permission.
God has taken North Plymouth Community Church on quite a ride since its early days, and we are all excited about where He is taking us as The Worship Centre.
Over the coming months we will be sharing more details of our new building project, including designs and artistic impressions, timeframes of the work, as well as how we will continue to meet as a congregation while our current site is unusable.
Everything we have received is an answer to prayer. Things that have seemed impossible and unattainable, God has answered in dynamic ways each time we have met problems that seemed impossible and unattainable. Praise be to His name!
