As a congregation we draw on four vital Christian traditions:

• As part of the United Reformed Church we are a church of the Reformation. We trace our origins to the great 16th Century renewal of the Church with its commitment to "Semper Reformanda — the Church Reformed and Always Reforming"
  
  
• As part of the Methodist Church we belong to the tradition of evangelical faith. We are heirs to that day in Aldersgate Street when John Wesley's heart was "strangely warmed"
  
  
• Our desire to be "an open minded church" comes of a liberal tradition of faith — one which is open, tolerant and intellectually critical
  
  
• Our membership of Churches Uniting in Central Sutton and our existence as a united congregation is a sign our commitment to the ecumenical movement. Each of these traditions comes out of a particular turning point in church history

TRINITY BOOK CLUB

This summer the Trinity Book Club looked at Leslie Griffiths enthralling autobiography A View from the Edge.

In one sense he is a very much an establishment figure. Minister of Wesley's Chapel, Member of the the House of Lords. But he grew up an English speaker in a largely Welsh community, in considerable poverty and spend some of the the most formative years of his ministry in Haiti, living with some of  the poorest people on earth. So he says "The edge is where I've come from and its from the edge I have always managed to see things". This is both a fascinating insight into a life and a fascinating insight into a radical, disconcerting gospel.