St John's Church Hartford

The Parish of Hartford and Greenbank, Cheshire

Building for the Future

During 2006 we started planning a major building project under the title, “Building for the Future”.

We mean “future” in two senses. We want to build for the current and coming generations – the immediate future. Above all, we want our buildings to encourage the preaching of the good news of Jesus Christ to all ages in Hartford – because he alone opens an eternal future with God to those who trust him.

The scope of the project is two-fold:

we aim to rebuild our church hall
we plan to conduct some significant refurbishments in St John’s

The first and major part of the project is the church hall. The oldest part of the current building dates from 1929 and is now at the end of its useful life – a rotten beam fell from the ceiling at the same time as we launched the project! Although extended over the years, we have decided that the best (and most cost effective) option is to entirely demolish and rebuild it.

The slideshow on the left shows the architects impressions of the design of the new hall. Click the arrows to go forwards and backwards.

Do keep coming back to this page to check our progress – as we move from planning to building, we intend to publish a three-monthly newsletter with project news.

For a letter from Mike Smith to the Electoral Roll, please click here.

We are having a Gift Day for the project on Palm Sunday, for a pledge form click here.

We are trusting that God will enable us to do this work if it is his will.
We keep coming back to Psalm 127.1:

“Unless the LORD builds the house,
its builders labour in vain.”