What is BCF?
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Bristol Christian Fellowship (BCF) is a network of churches, situated throughout the Bristol region. Currently the churches are: Resound, Aardvark and Living Room (formerly BCF Thornbury).
BCF began life over forty years ago, with a group of Christians looking to express church in a different way to the church models they had experienced. BCF grew out of the ‘charismatic movement’ and ‘house church movement’, in the late 1960s. It emerged in an organic way, through various people encountering God in new ways and seeking an honest and authentic form of Christian community. Two groups, which initially met in houses in Olveston and Patchway, merged to form what became BCF.
During the last forty years the shape and meeting patterns of BCF have changed many times. The church has maintained its presence in the north of Bristol and in Thornbury, with other churches joining us along the way. In recent years BCF had been meeting as one group in east Bristol, but in 2009 significant changes were made to the structure of the church. It was at this point that BCF started meeting as the three different expressions of Resound, Thornbury (now Living Room) and Aardvark. These three groups have formed separate churches which come under the ‘umbrella’ of Bristol Christian Fellowship. BCF is now a network of churches rather than a church in its own right.
The church is a registered charity, no. 294924, part of the Pioneer network of churches and a member of the Evangelical Alliance.
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