Life Stream Church 101

Part 1

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Introduction

Welcome to our Life Stream 101 course; an introduction to our church, it’s vision and its values. We are so pleased that you are taking the time to learn more about us.

This course is broken down into five videos episodes with accompanying notes:

1. Our History

2. Our Vision

3. Our Values: Constantly Seeking

4. Our Values: Mutually Honouring

5. Our Values: Extravagantly Blessing

For each episode, please first watch the relevant video and read through the accompanying notes filling it in where prompted to. The notes are for your own personal use to help you to process what you have heard, to help you identify any areas of growth and to help suggest next steps. While it may be tempting to skip the notes, you will get so much more from the course if you take the time to fill them in.

Episode 1: Our History

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    1700s Methodism established in Stoke on Trent (John Wesley)
  • 2
    1800s Primitive Methodism (Hugh Bourne and William Clowes) – Methodist Revival starting at Mow cop
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    1900s Azuza Street & Welsh Revival, Edward Jeffereys was filled with the Holy Sprit
  • 4
    1930 Edward Jeffereys came to Stoke on Trent triggering the birth of numerous Pentecostal churches
  • 5
    1932 A new believers group was started in Biddulph
  • 6
    1933 Emmanuel Hall (Original church building) was opened in Biddulph, as an AoG church
  • 7
    1977 Main worship hall at Biddulph opened, later the name was changed to Biddulph Pentecostal Church
  • 8
    2015 Coffee House at Biddulph built
  • 9
    2016 Mark and Liz Holdcroft became the Pastors
  • 10
    2017 Name changed to Life Stream Church
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    2024 Second campus was launched; Life Stream Chell, led by Isaac and Esther Asplin

Episode 1: Our History

Life Stream Church’s history is one where we were born in revival, were spirit-filled and on a mission. We’ve been missional into our community. We’ve built up missional people and sent them off to plant churches and to pastor churches. We’ve also been missional abroad. We do things differently than we did 90 years ago or even 40 years ago but our heart is still the same;

Life Stream Church is a church on a mission.