Liberation launch for Freedom Church

Friday 1st May 2009, 2:59PM BST.

The senior leadership team of the Freedom Church: Andrew de Gruchy, pastor of the Abundant Life Church, Dr John Stewart-Jones, senior pastor of the Jersey Community Church, and Tim Bond, assistant pastor of the Jersey Community Church

The senior leadership team of the Freedom Church: Andrew de Gruchy, Dr John Stewart-Jones and Tim Bond

TWO Island churches will merge next weekend to become Freedom Church.

The Abundant Life Church and the Jersey Community Church, who collectively have over 400 members, have been working closely for a number of years and have always been based on similar principles.

But on Sunday 10 May – fittingly the Liberation Day weekend – the two will officially join together and pool their rich resource bases.

The Freedom Church, named because of Jesus’s teachings about truth and freedom, will be based at Hautlieu School and will be led by a team of senior pastors including former Abundant Life senior pastor Andrew de Gruchy, former Jersey Community Church senior pastor John Stewart-Jones and his former assistant, Tim Bond.