About Us
The History Of TCF
Telford Christian Fellowship started life in 1994 as a plant from an evangelical church in Bridgnorth and in June 1999 David Simpkins, sent and sponsored by Barnabas Community Church (Newfrontiers) and supported by his wife Maureen, took over as lead elder. TCF was officially adopted as a Newfrontiers church in October 2001. When David retired in July 2006, Giles Higgins took over as lead elder assisted and supported by his wife Sarah.
In March 2008, TCF became a member of the Evangelical Alliance, the oldest and largest evangelical unity movement in the UK. We subscribe to the EAUK Basis of Faith.
On 21st April 2013, after 16 years of meeting at the Phoenix School, we moved our Sunday morning meeting venue to Dawley House. Since the summer of 2013 we have received apostolic oversight from the Newfrontiers ChristCentral Shropshire team who provide encouragement, support and accountability for our leadership.
The ‘lockdown’ in March 2020 meant that we had to suspend meeting together on Sunday mornings until September when we reconvened our meetings using Zoom – our worship times together on Zoom became very precious to us all during that difficult time. Teachings were recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel.
We restarted meeting in person at Dawley House on the 8th August 2021 and we now meet at 10.30 every Sunday morning for a time of worship, teaching, prayer ministry and fellowship, and again at 6pm for worship and prayer.