Information About the Church and Pastor

Articles of Faith

Temple Baptist Church was organised as an Independent (free) Baptist church in March 1993. The current property was purchased in February 1993, and the church met in rented accommodation until the building was renovated and then opened for our first service in June 1993.

Rev. T Gritts is the founding pastor. He is a graduate of Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, USA. He arrived in England in May 1983 as a missionary with the Baptist Bible Fellowship International. The church began in his home. He and his wife, Gail, have been married since 1973 and have five grown children.

We believe that a Baptist church is a congregation of baptized believers associated by a covenant of faith and fellowship of the gospel. We believe the true mission of the church is found in the Great Commission. (Matt 28: 19-20) First, to make individual disciples through salvation. Second, to build up the church. Third, to teach and instruct as He has commanded. We believe there is no greater stewardship entrusted to us as a church than the responsibility of teaching God's eternal Word.