Meet the team
Senior Pastor
Steve Kempton
Minister
Dawn Garge
Finance Officer
Phil Jennings
Minister / Worship Lead
Richard Goatly
License to Minister
Steve Peacock
Elder
Carmen Peacock
Safeguarding Coordinator
Frederique Wigmore
Youth Pastor
Christy Goodwin
Children and Families / MIT
Reuben Obery
Church Administrator
Kirsty Kendall
License to Minister
Dave Peacock
Elder
Hilton Obery
Elder
Nick Griffiths
"Transformation of lives and communities through the making and multiplying of disciples."
Our Story
Holy Trinity is an Elim Church which is part of the Elim Pentecostal movement of Churches founded in 1915 through the ministry of Evangelist George Jeffreys. Elim has hundreds of Churches throughout the UK and in many nations of the world.
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Holy Trinity's own journey began following six months of Saturday evening meetings in the Weston Super Mare Town Hall conducted by Evangelist Pastor Ron Jones. Follow up meetings took place in the old St Johns Ambulance Hall until the church outgrew this hall. In 1972 Holy Trinity Church was born and lead by Pastor Jimmie Richie. In 1983 Holy Trinity Church became redundant and the building was offered to Elim as a gift, although a nominal sum was paid for 'technical reasons'. Holy Trinity has been our home to this current day.
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The church would not have survived if the early pioneers had not had their vision. Claude Ellerington was next to lead the church. He had led Youth For Christ in Bristol before taking leadership of the church from 1995 to 2014. Steve Kempton took over as the church's senior pastor. Steve worked for seven years in Nepal, helping to establish churches across the country.
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Holy Trinity celebrated its 50th anniversary in September 2022 and is enjoying a thriving community and presence in Weston-super-Mare.
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Our beliefs
Elim's Foundational Truths explain our theology and are a statement of faith - they are powerful, non-negotiable and guide all we say and do. These twelve truths are explained below.
THE BIBLE: We believe the Bible, as originally given, to be without error, the fully inspired and infallible Word of God and the supreme and final authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
THE TRINITY: We believe that the Godhead exists co-equally and co-eternally in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - and that these three are one God, sovereign in creation, providence and redemption.
THE SAVIOUR: We believe in the true and proper deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His real and complete humanity, in His sinless life, in His authoritative teaching, in His substitutionary and atoning sacrifice through His blood shed, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His heavenly intercession and His second advent to receive His Church.
THE HOLY SPIRIT: We believe in the deity of the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son and the necessity of His work in conviction of sin, repentance, regeneration and sanctification, and that the believer is also promised an enduement of power as the gift of Christ through the baptism in the Holy Spirit with signs following. Through this enduement, the believer is empowered for fuller participation in the ministry of the Church, its worship, evangelism and service.
HUMANITY: We believe in the inherent dignity and value of every person, as created in God’s image and likeness, male and female, to be in fellowship with God and serve God’s purposes in creation. Yet on account of the universal sinfulness of all people due to the Fall, humanity is subject to God’s righteous wrath and condemnation.
SALVATION: We believe in the necessity for salvation of repentance towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ by which the sinner is pardoned and accepted as righteous in God’s sight. This justification is imputed by the grace of God because of the atoning work of Christ, is received by faith alone and is evidenced by the Fruit of the Spirit and a holy life.
THE CHURCH: We believe in the spiritual unity and the priesthood of all believers in Christ and that these comprise the universal Church, the Body of Christ.
THE MINISTRY: We believe in the ministries that Christ has set in His Church, namely, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers and in the present operation of the manifold Gifts of the Holy Spirit according to the New Testament.
THE ORDINANCES: We believe in the baptism of believers by immersion in water in obedience to the command of Christ and in the commemoration of Christ’s death by the observance of the Lord’s Supper until His return.
THE COMMISSION: We believe that the Gospel embraces the needs of the whole man and that the Church is therefore commissioned to preach the Gospel to the world and to fulfil a ministry of healing and deliverance to the spiritual and physical needs of mankind.
THE COMING KING: We believe in the personal, physical and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ to reign in power and glory.
THE FUTURE STATE: We believe in the resurrection of the dead and in the final judgement of the world, the eternal conscious bliss of the righteous and the eternal conscious punishment of the wicked.