Welcome
Riverside Church is a busy church with something going on most days. We meet for worship on Sundays at 10:45am in our church building and we run a community café at the front of our building. You are welcome to join us for worship, in the café and at other activities during the week.
As a Christian fellowship our aim is to show God’s love in action by the activities carried out in our building, and through our interaction with our neighbours, both as a church and as individuals.
Mission, vision & values
We are a broadly evangelical Christian church - which means we place the Word of God as a high authority for what we do and what we believe.
We are also a church committed to sharing the love of God in Christ Jesus to all whom we can. We do this through what we say and what we do. To put it another way, it is not enough just to tell others about Jesus - we want to show it too.
Ministries
Riverside Church exercises a number of ministries, both spiritual and social, on a regular basis, as well as some occasional or one-off activities.
Some of our ministries are aimed at building up members of the fellowship for further service.
Other activities are aimed at reaching members of the wider community - either in simple service borne of love or evangelistically, sharing with them the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Youth & Children
We support and host both a Girls Brigade and a Boys Brigade Company. These organisations meet during term time and offer a Christian based, age appropriate, evening of fun and adventure.
We also have a Junior church that starts with the main congregation, on a Sunday, before leaving to run their own activities with a dedicated team of leaders. On the first Sunday of the month, we run an all-age cafe style service, where everyone worships together and there are also activities which young people can do on each table.
We also also run family-holiday clubs a few times a year and we have a Baby & Toddler's Space on a Friday morning.
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Church Leadership
Although each church member has a special role to play within the local church, we also have a small leadership team. This team facilitates and supports the life of the local church.
Safeguarding Policy
Our policy statement on safeguarding can be found here.
Our lead person for safeguarding at Riverside Church is Anne Annison. If you have any Safeguarding concerns please contact her by email at 
, or click here to use our contact form. If urgent please also contact the minister. Full safeguarding guidelines can be found in our 'Safeguarding Full Guidelines' (click here to download a copy)
Frequently asked questions...
Q: Who are you?
A: Most recently formed in March 2008 when Sleaford Community Church and Sleaford United Reformed Church came together. The church has met here, on Southgate, since the 19th century, origionaly as a congregational fellowship, then United Reformed and as we are today.
Finding us
Sleaford is a market town in central Lincolnshire, near the east coast of England and Riverside Church is on the main shopping street in the centre of the town, called Southgate. We are next to the river on the west side of Southgate. Our postcode is NG34 7RY. We have railway and bus links to nearby towns.