We are a new kind of church! 

Internet churches have been have become common now and David Farey, leader of the Towers intercessory ministry and Jim Smith international director of the Serving Africa mission have been developing Internet churches for a few years. Jim also has the experience of planting three physical churches in his Africa work and is about to plant three more.

Beloved family Internet churches offer an informal framework of worship, prayer and teaching, both for existing church members and for those who feel a little disenfranchised from the established churches.

David and Jim both attend local physical churches. The beloved Internet church family is structured in such a way as not to be in competition with Sunday worship in physical churches.

David, with his wife Pat runs the Beacon fellowship and Jim runs the Serving family and the Growing family. Worship, teaching, prayer and fellowship are part of the content of these churches. They seem to be meeting a need and now David and Jim have produced a basic constitution that our churches operate by. We want to be sure that churches within the family of churches are running in the same channel although each one can be very different in their working.

To help we have produced a handbook about the Beloved Internet Church Family and how to start your own. You can download it here.

Jim’s Facebook page can be accessed here.

Simple guide on how to set up your own internet church

What form of meeting do you have in mind?
Decide who you are trying to reach and what the purpose of the church is – worship, prayer or teaching for example.

Which channel?
You can then decide which channel is the best, whether it’s YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp or another.

Building the church
Invite those you know who would most benefit and slowly build a membership.

Who is going to run it with you?
It is good to have other trusted members around you who can help run the operation.

Maintaining standards
Effort is needed to make sure the channel sticks to it’s founding principles and isn’t hijacked by other demands or intentions.

Finally
Enjoy the journey!

To find out more about our various groups please send us a message – servingafricamission@gmail.com.