Holy Trinity Brompton
Holy Trinity Brompton with St Paul's, Onslow Square and St Augustine's, South Kensington (often short: HTB ) is an Anglican church in London , England. The parish has four localities: HTB Brompton Road, HTB Onslow Square (formerly: St Paul's, Onslow Square), HTB Queen's Gate (formerly: St Augustine's, South Kensington) and HTB Courtfield Gardens (formally: St Jude's Church, Kensington ) and officially in Parish (parish of St Mary of the Boltons but attached to HTB). The parish is also home to St Paul's Theological Center and the Alpha Course . The invention of the Alpha Course made her one of the most influential congregations in the Church of England .
Alpha courses are held in the parish buildings, as well as other courses, conferences and meetings during the week and ten services every Sunday. The congregation has total attendance of around 4,500 people in the church services and several hundred guests during the week in the Alpha courses. The vision statement says: Holy Trinity Brompton should "play its role in the evangelism of peoples, the revival of the Church and the transformation of society."
Nicky Gumbel , the pioneer of Alpha courses, became Vicar in July 2005, succeeding Sandy Millar . The associate vicars are Nicky Lee (since July 2007) and Martyn Layzell .
history
Holy Trinity
Before Holy Trinity Brompton was built, the current site belonged to the larger Parish Kensington , which was only cared for by the nearby St Mary Abbots Church. In the early 1820s, however, the area experienced a marked increase in population and a decision was made to purchase land to build a new church.
The church is one of the so-called Commissioners' churches because it received a grant from the Church Building Commission . The total cost of the Church was £ 10,407 (around £ 880,000 in today's standards), of which the Commission paid £ 7,407. The architect was Thomas Leverton Donaldson . Today Holy Trinity is included in the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest under Grade II.
After three years of construction, the church was consecrated by the Bishop of London on June 6, 1829.
The building is still original, even if major changes have been made. Part of the original property was sold to the Roman Catholic Church so that the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (London Oratory) could be built. For this reason, a long driveway was built from Brompton Road . HTB is now in a particularly quiet location.
One of the biggest changes came during the 1980s when the crypt was rebuilt to provide community rooms and space for the bookstore. During this time, the benches were also removed and replaced with chairs to allow greater flexibility in the layout of the space, a measure that was important for the Alpha course.
Due to the great interest in the Alpha course over the past 18 years, the course has become the focus of HTB's work.
St Paul's Onslow Square
The St Paul's Church in Onslow Square was inaugurated 1860th In the late 1970s, the Parish of Holy Trinity Brompton merged with the neighboring Parish of St Paul's Onslow Square. St Paul's has been classified as redundant . An attempt by the diocese to sell the building for private rededication was infiltrated in the early 1980s by residents and churchgoers who banded together to preserve the church. In the late 1980s, the Parochial Church Council demanded that the closure be lifted, whereupon the curate Nicky Lee and his wife Sila were given the opportunity to "plant" a community there and do some construction. In the mid-1990s the congregation had grown to several hundred members.
In 1997 the parish of St Paul's was divided into three sub-parishes. Some of the parishioners followed the Curate Stuart Lees to plant a parish in Fulham ; others returned to Holy Trinity Ward with Nicky and Sila Lee ; others formed the St Paul's Anglican Fellowship and stayed at St Paul's with John Peters . The latter group moved in 2002 to plant a church in St Mary's, Bryanston Square .
In 2007, after the HTB plans to renew the office buildings from the 1960s, the congregation decided to carry out renovation work and to resume worship in the church. In December 2009, the gallery was prepared again for use in church services after it had previously been used for administrative offices. The office workers moved into a building that was acquired in 2008.
St Augustine's Church
Services at St Augustine's, Queen's Gate have been held from Holy Trinity Brompton since 2010 at the invitation of the Bishop of Kensington ( Paul Williams ) when Nicky Gumbel was named priest-in-charge. In March 2011, St Augustine's was formally integrated into the Parish of HTB.
Church work
Church planting
HTB has been involved in Church Planting since the 1980s . Therefore, numerous churches (e.g. St Gabriels, Cricklewood ) can be traced back to a foundation by HTB or one of its foundations (daughter churches, granddaughter churches). These churches form the HTB network .
Alpha course
The Alpha course was developed by HTB clerics who worked on the concept of the Alpha course for a period of twenty years before it became known worldwide in the early 1990s. As the Alpha Movement developed, it became the main focus of HTB.
Today, advertising materials and course materials such as videos, books and recordings for the alpha course evenings, as well as training material for the leaders are produced. Alpha is now a separate company with its own fundraising and accounting department, but it remains closely associated with HTB. Most of the employees work in the HTB office buildings. HTB's clergy also perform duties for Alpha such as leading Alpha conferences and training in the UK and abroad.
The alpha course program has remained relatively unchanged since the mid-1990s, giving the community the freedom to develop additional offerings, such as courses in marriage preparation, teen education, bereavement, and divorce settlement.
HTB offers alpha courses three times a year. Since there are 300–400 guests per class for these events, every available space in the church is required.
Pastoral care
The congregation uses a special pastorate model to ensure pastoral care for the individual believers with the large number of members.
Pastorates consist of 20–50 people who develop friendship and support for one another through weekly meetings, as well as mutual encouragement to collaborate and discover individual talents.
HTB is made up of a fairly variable community, partly because it is a borough in London, a city that is inherently highly fluctuating, and partly because it attracts many students who study there while studying in London go to church, partly because the alpha courses attract a large number of people who want to get to know the course and sometimes go to the preaching service themselves immediately afterwards. For this reason, the community is unusually aggressive in approaching guests and encouraging them to cooperate.
Church services
HTB offers ten church services every Sunday in the four locations. Family Services are specifically geared towards children, Formal Services adhere to the traditional liturgy of the Church of England and are designed with a professional choir. The Informal Services focus on a longer period of contemporary worship with a longer address and end with an offer of prayer that extends beyond the time of the service.
additional offers
Every year a parish camp is offered, the Church Camp "Focus". Up to 7,000 people come together in Somerley Estate to attend seminars, workshops and leisure activities. HTB also has special offers for children, young people and students. Twice a year there are festival services with the participation of the large HTB Choir , at Easter and at Christmas , as well as numerous classical concerts with students from the nearby muski colleges and organ concerts. The organ was renewed in 2004.
Since 2005, the speeches and services can be downloaded freely from iTunes , YouTube and Soundcloud ( HTB Podcasts ).
In 2011 HTB founded the William Wilberforce Trust to put various social offers under one roof that are already connected to HTB. These include neighborhood programs, work with the homeless and offers of help for drug addicts.
Personalities
- Vicars
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Individual evidence
- ^ "... play our part in the evangelization of the nations, the revitalization of the church and the transformation of society." Vision 2015 .
- ^ MH Port: 600 New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856. Reading, Spire Books 2006: 327. ISBN 978-1-904965-08-4
- ^ Images of England: Church of the Holy Trinity, Brompton Road. English Heritage .
- ^ Brompton New Church . In: Morning Post. London 8th June 1829.
- ^ Holy Trinity Brompton History . Holy Trinity Brompton. December 24, 2009.
- ↑ 4pm service launched at St Pauls . Holy Trinity Brompton. December 24, 2009.
- ^ Builders move in to new offices on Cromwell Road . Alphafriends. February 29, 2012.
- ^ About the William Wilberforce Trust. theBigGive.org.uk.
Web links
- HTB website
- Mystery Worshipper Report at Ship of Fools
- HTB Sound Design - A Story of Excellent Sound
- William Wilberforce Trust
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 52.1 ″ N , 0 ° 10 ′ 12 ″ W.