History
New Life Christian Centre (our name since 1987) began as a home based prayer meeting towards the end of the Second World War. This group became a church and moved into accommodation in Church Road and then later in 1960 in Dennett Road, West Croydon. (The photo at the top of this page, is the hall in Dennett Road at the time of purchase in 1960)
Following John Edward’s arrival at the church in 1973, many far-reaching changes began to take place as the fellowship gradually developed many of the ministry emphases which characterizes it today.
By 1981 we had outgrown our accommodation in Dennett Road and spent the next few years meeting in various places around Croydon.
After a long search and many challenges, we finally moved into our present building (until then occupied by a firm manufacturing beer pumping equipment) in March 1987.
Since then New Life has continued to grow and develop with various new ministries being added to the church including, the opening of our own primary school in 1989.
In 2007 we started two Sunday morning meetings and the weekly Sunday evening 'Life' service.
We have continued to experience steady growth so that we are currently a church of approximately 1400 men, women & children drawn from around fifty different nationalities.
We are an independent church, although we enjoy good relationships with many other churches in the Croydon area and beyond.
What has happened is a result of God’s grace. We thank him for it and look forward eagerly to what he has in store for us in the future.
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