Grace Church Whitehaven is a modern, lively and welcoming church. We love Jesus and the community around us. We welcome anyone to join us to find out God's amazing grace for all people. HELLO/E káàbò/Akwaaba/HOLA/你好/ Merhaba/Bonjour/bună ziua WELCOME TO GRACE CHURCH WHITEHAVEN We are a diverse 'Word & Spirit' Church which means: Word: we are committed to the absolute authority of the Bible and to living it out. Spirit: we are committed to experiencing (and not merely believing in) the presence and power of the Holy Spirit today, which includes desiring spiritual gifts and relying on the Holy Spirit. Diverse: Joined together we love being a multicultural family in Christ, who are committed to bringing the gospel to our community. CHURCH FAMILY We believe that the church is a family, not a brick building or an institution. We are a people who have discovered a relationship with God through trusting in Jesus. We believe God has called us to 'BEING THE FRAGRANCE OF CHRIST TO NEIGHBOURS & NATIONS' and we are committed to providing a church community for all people, from all nationalities, to belong, believe and change. SUNDAY MEETINGS We meet together on Sundays from 10:30am at ROSEHILL THEATRE, MORESBY, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 6SE You are welcome to join us from 10:30am. You will receive a warm welcome and drinks are available when you arrive. SMALL GROUPS Being a community is really important to us because the Bible clearly shows us that this is how God wants us to build his Church. So throughout the week, we have small groups that meet and commit to genuine friendship, reaching out and loving Jesus together. For more info VIDEOS About All Videos All Categories Play Video Play Video 00:29 Big question sundays Play Video Play Video 00:17 Preaching series autumn 25 Play Video Play Video 09:43 How newfrontiers churches began Play Video Play Video 01:58 Grace Church Whitehaven GIVE TO GRACE CHURCH

Join us for friendship, worship and Bible teaching. Kids & youth work provided SUNDAYS 10:30am SUNDAYS @ ROSEHILL THEATRE MORESBY Whitehaven, ca28 6SE WHEN & WHERE? At 10:30am we welcome and lead into worship together by singing a variety of worship songs, led by a band. Words will be projected onto a large screen at the front. Members of the congregation will often pray out loud, read the Bible and share what God is telling them during our worship time. We believe that God speaks to people today and we want to give ourselves opportunities to hear him. We then have a coffee time with cakes and encourage friendship and welcome together. This is then followed by a talk from the Bible. WHAT DO I DO? Put simply, nothing. You are under no obligation to stand up, sit, kneel, sing, pray, even if other people are doing so. If you wish to just sit quietly that is perfectly Ok. You don't have to dress in your Sunday best, and if you don't have a Bible, that's OK too. Just come as you are. KIDS WORK After the coffee time in the middle, the children head to their groups. This is normally around 11:45am. We have a dedicated kids team for ages 4-11yrs, who will provide a fun and safe environment for your children. All our leaders are DBS checked and follow a strict safe guarding policy which is overseen by the church trustees. Click this link to register your child for kids work. YOUTH Our youth group meet once a fortnight on a Sunday morning for school years 7-11. The youth is overseen by a youth team who are DBS checked. 1/1

newforntiers, christ central churches in Cumbria CHRIST CENTRAL CHURCHES Historically, we have described Newfrontiers as an international family of churches working together, under the apostolic leadership of Terry Virgo. More recently, following a period of transition Newfrontiers can now be described as: a group of apostolic leaders partnering together on global mission, joined by common values and beliefs, shared mission and genuine relationships. There are currently approximately 1,500 churches around the world that work with a number of different Newfrontiers teams. You can find out more about Newfrontiers by visiting: newfrontierstogether.org As a church we relate to a regional team who serve Christ Central churches in Cumbria & Lancashire. We also get together as churches in our region for friendship, equipping and worship together. Once a year all the churches in the UK and nations gather for Devoted @ Staffordshire showground. Click for more info

Parent and toddler group run by Grace Church Whitehaven LITTLE MONKEYS Little monkeys is our weekly parent and toddler group. It is one of our main outreaches into our community. Our team are all committed members of Grace church and work within our safe guarding policy. All team members are DBS checked and most are first aid trained. We meet on Thursday mornings at 10:00am at Lamplugh Village Hall, CA14 4SF . You'll find a warm welcome, lots of fun for the kids, great snacks and drinks whenever you want one. Paula and the team will make sure you and your child are looked after. Price is £2 per child TEAM LEADER Paula

Friendship and community matter a great deal to us. SMALL GROUPS Small groups are central to how we build the church. We have a number of small groups running weekly in Whitehaven and the surrounding area. Growing in community is a key part of our vision, so at our small groups you can expect plenty of time for food and friendship. Groups also reach out together and are always welcome to people who are not part of the church. Groups meet for quiz nights, in Wetherspoon's, coffee after work, walks etc. Groups will also do some bible study, prayer and worship. SMALL GROUP LEADERS ANDY & LYNN LEAD OUR SMALL GROUP DEPARTMENT

Modern, lively church in Whitehaven, west cumbria, cumbria CHURCH COMMUNITY We love Jesus and we love being His church. The church described in the Bible is not a stone building but a family of believers. At Grace church, we want to be a people who are committed to Jesus, to one another and also sharing Christ's love in our wider community. This page will lead you to some of the things we do to make this happen. WELCOME TO WHITEHAVEN We have seen an increase of people moving to the area and we love this and want to help in anyway we can to help you settle into new life here. Moving to a new place can be difficult and so we offer to support you and help you understand the culture of the area. Please use the contact form on the contacts page to get in touch. SMALL GROUPS Small groups are the way we build our community. We do this by building genuine friendships, reach out and love Jesus. MORE LITTLE MONKEYS Little monkeys is our weekly parent and toddler group which meet every Thursday, 10:00am at Lamplugh village hall. MORE SAFE FAMILIES We have been involved with safe families in West Cumbria from the beginning. As a church, we have helped over 120 children and families. MORE

Grace church preaches online PREACHING We love preaching at Grace Church and we believe it shapes lives and churches to make a difference with the gospel. In other words, we desire to see word in action! Our preaches are online for those who might have missed it on a Sunday, or who might want to find out what we are like, as they seek to find a church. Our preaches are not online to lead people away from being part of a local church. We would encourage you to find a church and work out the Bible from within the community and leadership of that church. We are currently working on updating preaches from Sunday meetings. However, you can watch/listen to past preaches below.

DATA PROTECTION POLICY “Data Protection Legislation” or “Legislation” means the Data Protection Act 1998, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (SI 2426/2003 as amended), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), any laws in the UK enacting the GDPR or preserving its effect in whole or part following the departure of the UK from the European Union and all applicable laws and regulations, including any replacement UK or EU data protection legislation relating to the Processing of Personal Data, together with, where applicable, the guidance and codes of practice issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office. Data Protection Legislation is concerned with the protection of human rights in relation to personal data. The aim of the Legislation is to ensure that personal data is used fairly and lawfully and that where necessary the privacy of individuals is respected. During the course of the activities of Grace Church Whitehaven, Grace Church Whitehaven will collect, store and internally process personal data about our members and we recognise that the correct and lawful treatment of this data will help maintain confidence in Grace Church Whitehaven. This policy sets out the basis on which we will process any personal data we collect from data subjects, or that is provided to us by data subjects or other sources. The Data Protection Officer is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Legislation and with this policy. The post is held by Roz Lake, contactable by email: roz@gracecw.org Any questions about the operation of this policy or any concerns that the policy has not been followed should be referred in the first instance to the Data Protection Officer. [RL1] [GU2] Processing personal data All personal data should be processed in accordance with the Legislation and this policy. Any breach of this policy may result in disciplinary action. 2. And or legal proceedings. Processing includes obtaining, holding, maintaining, storing, erasing, blocking and destroying data. Personal data is data relating to a living individual. It includes employee data. It will not include data relating to a company or organisation, although any data relating to individuals within companies or organisations may be covered. Personal data can be factual (for example a name, address or date of birth) or it can be an opinion about that person, their actions and behaviour. Examples of personal data are employee details, including employment records, names and addresses and other information relating to individuals, including supplier details, any third-party data and any recorded information including any recorded telephone conversations or emails. Employees and others (including contracted staff, volunteers and trustees) who process data on behalf of Grace Church Whitehaven (referred to in this policy as ‘Employees’) should assume that whatever they do with personal data will be considered to constitute processing. Your name and contact details will be entered into our church finance database which is ‘Quick Books’ for accounting & gift aid purposes, which is stored in a ‘Grace Church profile’ on secure, password protected computer and is accessed only by Roz Lake. Your contact details will be removed from the database once the legal retention period is over [see Appendix 2] We will contact you annually to check that the information we are holding is accurate. Employees should only process data: If they have consent to do so; or If it is necessary to fulfil a contractual obligation or as part of the employer/employee relationship; for example, processing the payroll; or the processing is necessary for legitimate interests pursued by Grace Church Whitehaven, unless these are overridden by the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject. If none of these conditions are satisfied, individuals should contact the Data Protection Officer before processing personal data. Compliance with the Legislation Employees who process data on our behalf have a responsibility for processing personal data in accordance with the Legislation. This includes the data protection principles in the Legislation. These state that personal data must: be obtained and used fairly, lawfully and transparently be obtained for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and used only for those purposes be adequate, relevant and limited to the minimum necessary for those purposes be accurate and kept up to date (every reasonable endeavour should be used to ensure personal data that is not accurate is corrected or erased without delay) be processed in a manner that ensures its security (see Information Security policy at Appendix 1). not be kept for any longer than required for those purposes (see Retention policy at Appendix 2). We will only share personal data with other organisations or people when we have a legal basis to do so and if we have informed the data subject about the possibility of the data being shared (in a privacy notice) unless there is a legal exemption from doing so. We will keep records of any information shared with a third party including a record of any exemption which has been applied. Employees should follow the Data Breach Procedure (at Appendix 3) if they think they have accidentally breached any provision of this Data Protection Policy. Sensitive data To enable us to provide adequate pastoral support to you and your family, the 3. [trustees/elders/department leaders/safeguarding team] may record information which may be regarded as sensitive. This information will be stored (in password protected documents) on computers and the password will only be known by the [trustees/elders/department leader]. This information will NOT be disclosed to anyone else without your consent. Monitoring the use of personal data We are committed to ensuring that this data protection policy is put into practice and that appropriate working practices are being followed. To this end the following steps will be taken: any Employees who deal with personal data are expected to be aware of data protection issues and to work towards continuous improvement of the proper processing of personal data Employees who handle personal data on a regular basis or who process sensitive or other confidential personal data will be more closely monitored All Employees must consider whether the personal data they hold is being processed in accordance with this policy. Particular regard should be had to ensure inaccurate, excessive or out of date data is disposed of in accordance with this policy Employees must follow the Breaches Procedure (at Appendix 3) should they become aware of any breach of this policy Employees will keep clear records of our processing activities and of the decisions we make concerning personal data (including reasons for the decisions) to show how we comply with the Legislation Spot checks may be carried out An annual report on the level of compliance with or variance from good data protection practices will be produced by Roz Lake Data breaches will be recorded and investigated to see what improvements can be made to prevent recurrences Handling personal data and data security This will be managed in accordance with our Information Security Policy (see Appendix 1). The rights of individuals The Legislation gives individuals certain rights to know what data is held about them and what it is used for. 4. If personal data is collected directly from an individual, we will inform them in writing of their rights by providing them with a ‘Privacy Notice’ at the time the personal data is collected or as soon as possible afterwards. 5. In principle everyone has the right to see copies of all personal data held about them. There is also a right to have any inaccuracies in data corrected or erased. Data subjects may also have a right of portability in respect of their personal data, and a right to be forgotten. Data subjects also have the right to prevent the processing of their data for direct marketing purposes. [Note for point 4; At the time of adopting this policy Grace Church Whitehaven does not carry our any direct fundraising, however if this changes in the future, all members would be asked for their consent as described above before any fundraising began] Any request for access to data under the Legislation should be made to Roz Lake in writing. In accordance with the Legislation we will ensure that written requests for access to personal data are complied with within 30 days of receipt of a valid request (where permitted under the Legislation, we may take a further 30 days to respond but we will inform the individual of why this is necessary). When a written data subject access request is received the data subject will be given a description of a) the personal data, b) the purposes for which it is being processed, c) those people and organisations to whom the data may be disclosed, d) be provided with a copy of the information in an intelligible form. Changes to this policy We reserve the right to change this policy at any time, including as needed to comply with changes in law. Where appropriate we will notify data subjects of those changes by mail or email. Policy adopted on 01/04/21 To be reviewed in 12 months’ time APPENDIX 1 – Information Security Policy APPENDIX 2 – Records Retention Policy APPENDIX 3 – Data Breach Policy APPENDIX 4 – Complaints process

Everyone is welcome to join us on Sundays from 10:30am @ Rosehill Theatre, Moresby, Whitehaven, CA28 6SE CONTACT US Sunday MEETING ADDRESS THE ROSEHILL THEATRE, MORESBY, WHITEHAVEN, CA28 6SE EVERY SUNDAY 10:30am EVERYONE WELCOME Contact us Tel: 07508796080 Email: allen@gracecw.org Postal address: 14, West Row, Whitehaven, CA28 9AU We hire the Rosehill for our Sunday meetings but you can contact us by email, facebook, or phone. (see above). Please don't contact Rosehill for church information. Thanks. Link to directions You can read Grace Church Privacy Policy here. Contact us First name* Last name Email* Write a message Submit

We are a self governing charity No 1164923 GIVING STANDING ORDER Click for standing order form The most effective way to give to us is through standing order. A standing order form is available from finance@gracecw.org or click on the box opposite. Please fill out the form below and return to Jenny Moss Whichever way you choose to give through, we want to thank you for honouring God with your finances and for your continued friendship and support with us at Grace Church Whitehaven BANK TRANSFER GIFT AID FORM NatWest Whitehaven Branch Name: Grace Church Whitehaven Sort code: 01-09-54 Account number: 60763825 Quote ref: Your initials & surname BY EMAIL: finance@gracecw.org GIVING Thank you for being willing to support God's work financially through Grace Church Whitehaven. There are a few ways for you to give. If you are a U.K. taxpayer please use gift aid with whatever method you choose as this gives us 25p extra for every pound you give. Please fill in the form below and send to Jenny finance@gracecw.org

Find out more about Grace Church Whitehaven ABOUT US We are a culturally diverse and welcoming church who are passionate about Jesus and the good news of salvation found through him. Our aim is to be a church where God can change lives through His son Jesus, whatever your background, whatever you believe, whatever your age and whatever questions you have. We realise that coming to church can be a strange thing but we are a relaxed bunch of people who will make you feel welcome. If you visit, we will have one thing in common...we were all new to the church at some point! We gather people from all over West Cumbria; serving Maryport , Cockermouth area, Workington , Whitehaven , Egremont and Cleator Moor . However, everyone is welcome wherever you are from! CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON WHAT WE BELIEVE We also belong to a family of churches called Christ Central, part of newfrontiers. Click here for more info LEADERSHIP TEAM Allen Rossi (Elder/Trustee) Andy Graham Chris Moss (Trustee) Oly Chalker We believe in team leadership that loves, serves and protects the church. Currently, we have Allen (elder) who leads the church alongside a leadership team, and a wider team of leaders. The leadership team meet for eldership training, prayer & decision making to lead the church. The wider team lead key areas of the church and support the leadership team by helping to work towards our vision and making that work into church life. WIDER TEAM & TRUSTEES Caroline Lowman (Trustee) Sarah Rossi (Wider Team) Kim McKenzie (Trustee) Lynn Graham (Wider Team) Paula Chalker (WiderTeam)

We love God and love people VISION 'BEING THE FRAGRANCE OF CHRIST TO NEIGHBOURS & NATIONS' A FRAGRANCE TO GOD As a church, we will be a people who have a loving, personal and intimate relationship with God, through faith in Jesus. We want to be passionate Christ followers who worship God in Spirit and in truth. Therefore, we will be a worshipping community who are passionate for His presence amongst us. A FRAGRANCE TO ONE ANOTHER Jesus was passionate about gathering & empowering His disciples. He called them, trained them and instructed them to love one another. The outcome in Acts, is the gospel being preached and churches started, where love, unity and maturity were priority. We are committed to building a church where the fragrance of Christ's love is worked out together in a loving church community. A FRAGRANCE TO THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW JESUS We are fully committed as a church to love and reach those who don't know Christ. Jesus came to to be a 'friend of sinners' and we want to follow in His footsteps. We believe that the 'gospel' (good news) is not just a bunch of religious information or even a religious lifestyle. It is about discovering a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, through faith and by grace. We are also passionate about seeing God's kingdom come. We believe the Church exists to continue the work of Jesus who still saves people from sin, heals the sick, mends broken hearts, cares for the marginalized. Jesus is all about transforming lives!