Saintfield is a rural community where extensive building is continually taking place.
It has become a commuter town for Belfast and is now seen as “the place to live” and there here are good community relations with the other churches.
The Parish itself consists of approximately 350 families with a lot of coming and going. House prices restrict young people from buying in the town in which they were born and raised. The Parish church was first built about 1633 and had a spasmodic existence throughout the century. In 1706 it was described as a ‘ratched shell of a thatched cabin without seats where no service had been held for some years.’
As a Parish, we:
- Worship God as a congregation that understands the need for all to belong together and to embrace the many different expectations and needs that people bring into Worship;
- Ask God to create sacred space that we can listen carefully to God and begin carefully to listen to others, caring for each other in a Christ like way;
- Seek to be biblically centred in our preaching and teaching to allow Worship grow a Healthy Church through the power of God’s Holy Spirit within;
- Welcome all who desire to know of God in a way that makes a difference to life, discovering in God the freedom to become the people God desires us to be.
