The Story
Begins
Our story starts
in the early 1930's when plans were under way to build a new church in
the rapidly growing area to the west of Worthing.
Worthing Congregational Church in Shelley
Road was the only church of that denomination in the area and so
worshippers living in the west Worthing area probably had to walk into
town - a distance of 2-3 miles.
Worthing Congregational Church, Shelley Road. c1903
( Photograph reproduced with kind permission of Rob Blann.
- taken from his book "Edwardian Worthing" )
Goring Congregational Church was planned for the late
1930's but the war intervened and the new Church wasn't constituted
until 1940, with the building being delayed until 1947. The present
church building was opened in 1961.
Read
about the church building decade by decade, starting in the early
1930's.. or by going
directly to a particular Minister who was in the pastorate at the time -
Rev Morris Bold 1940-1942
Rev F J H Humphrey 1942-1947
Rev H Springbett 1950-1953
Rev Cyril C Franks 1953-1963
Rev Wallace Hayward 1964-1974
Rev William Connelly
1974-1991
Rev R Christopher (Associate
Minister)
Rev Peter Heckells 1993-2000
Team Ministry 1999-2005
Rev Andrew Sellwood 2000 -
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