We are a small but thriving fellowship that is actively seeking to reach out to all in the community and make the Good News of Jesus known in practical, caring ways.
We are working alongside the Salvation Army who also meet in our building.
We have 3 thriving midweek meetings where we learn and grow together.
The church has followed Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life course and this is bearing fruit.

On Tuesdays & Wednesdays we meet for discussion, fellowship & prayer.
We run a Community Internet Café 
known as the Lower Deck Cafe every Friday. 
A craft group meets on the 1st & 3rd Thursday afternoons.
A Parent & Toddler Group (Playbox) meets every Thursday morning.

We are hoping to attract people who want to be involved in this work.
The membership of the church is growing. 

We have just refurbished the 1838 building in order to make it fit for the work of the kingdom, the 21^st century only to find that we now need to replace the main roof (expected cost £160,000). We are undaunted by this as we believe God has work for us to do in Tavistock. Our building is totally accessible for the disabled. In the last 2 years we have replaced pews with comfortable chairs, redecorated, carpeted and improved the lighting in the worship area, improved, equipped and enlarged the kitchen, installed toilets for the disabled, put a new floor in the hall, as well as re-rendering the exterior and replacing some roofs. Much of the work has been done by members of the congregation which has practically halved our costs. A ramp now provides easy access for all.

We welcome everyone to join us in worship. This is relaxed and includes traditional and contemporary hymns and songs projected onto a screen.  Sadly we do not have many young people but those who come join us for the beginning of worship and then have classes and worship of their own - they rejoin us for Holy Communion.

We enjoy meeting together and hope and pray that each person will experience the love of God in our midst. We are seeing many signs of growth and are very excited about it.

If you are seeking a church family to call home, we would love to have you join our membership.

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All our activities comply with the following Community Service Charter

Motivated by our Christian faith we commit ourselves to serve others by assuring the following standards in all our community work.

Service to the Community
1. To serve and to respect all people regardless of their gender, marital status, race, ethic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or physical and mental capacity.
2. To acknowledge the freedom of people of all faiths or none both to hold and to express their beliefs and convictions respectfully and freely, within the limits of the UK law.
3. Never to impose our Christian faith or belief on others.
4. To develop partnerships with other churches, voluntary groups, statutory agencies and local government wherever appropriate in order to create an effective, integrated service for our clients avoiding unnecessary duplication of resources.
5. To provide and publicise regular consultation and reporting forums to client groups and the wider community regarding the effective development and delivery of our work and our responsiveness to their actual needs.

Clients, Staff and Volunteers
1. To create an environment where clients, volunteers and employees are encouraged and enabled to realise their potential.
2. To assist our clients, volunteers and employees to take responsibility for their own learning and development, both through formal and informal training opportunities and ongoing assessment.
3. To develop an organisational culture in which individuals learn from any mistakes made and where excellence and innovation are encouraged and rewarded.
4. To promote the value of a balanced, holistic lifestyle as part of each individual’s overall personal development.
5. To abide by the requirements of employment law in the UK and to implement best employment practices and procedures designed to maintain our distinctive ethos and values.

Management and Outcomes
1. To implement a management structure which fosters and encourages participation by staff at all levels in order to facilitate the fulfilment of the project’s goals and visions.
2. To set and to review measurable and timed outcomes annually, and regularly to evaluate and monitor our management structure and output, recognising the need for ongoing organisational flexibility, development and good stewardship of resources.
3. To do all we can to ensure that we are not over-dependent on any one source of funding.
4. To implement best practice procedures in terms of Health and Safety and Child Protection in order to protect our staff, volunteers and clients.
5. To handle our funding in a transparent and accountable way and to give the relevant people from outside our organisation / project reasonable access to our accounts.

The above charter was adopted by church meeting held on 21st November 2004

Signed on behalf of the church meeting:
  Revd R E Cornish (Minister)  Revd Mrs P L Ball (Secretary)
Date: 21st November 2004

the faith works charter
PRINCIPLES FOR CHURCHES AND LOCAL CHRISTIAN AGENCIES COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY WORK AND SERVICE PROVISION IN THE UK.