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Making Disciples who Make Disciples

Welcome!

At Hope Church Rotherham you can expect a warm welcome when you visit us.  We love God and we love people.  We are a family church in the heart of Rotherham.

Come along, meet us, and, more importantly, give God the opportunity to show you how much He loves you, cares for you and has an incredible plan for your life.  Scroll down to find out about our meetings, leadership team, values and more.  We look forward to meeting you soon!

Our New Home!

We have a new home!  Our main Sunday services are now held at Clifton Community School, Middle Lane, Clifton, S65 2SN.  The service still starts at 10:30am, with prayer beforehand and Hope Kids during the service.  There is plenty of car parking available.

Many of our mid-week events are held at the Unity Centre, St Leonard’s Rd, Eastwood, Rotherham S65 1PD.  Please check our social media, or contact us for confirmation, for the details of these before travelling. Our discipleship groups continue to be based around the town at several locations.

Please contact us for further details at admin@hopechurchrotherham.co.uk.

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Our Events

The following are our standard events, but some may vary due to holidays or other factors, so please do check before travelling.

Sunday Service 10:30

During the service we have worship and a message from the Bible. There may also be communion, prayer and special events. During the service children 3-10 will be taken to another room for some teaching, fun and games suitable for their age group.  After the service there are complimentary refreshments served, and we hope you will join us for fellowship.   Visitors are warmly welcomed. This is held at Clifton Community School, Middle Lane.

Hope Meeting
Hope Church Discipleship Group

Discipleship Groups

Our Discipleship Groups take place in various homes in Rotherham and offer every member of the church an informal setting of great fellowship and inspiring bible teaching.  Please speak to us about finding one near you.  Also, on the last Tuesday of each month, we all meet together at the Unity Centre on Leonard Road for a great time of prayer at 7:30pm.  We hope you can join us!

Youth & Children

Children, young people and the family are at heart of what we do at Hope Church Rotherham.  All of our kids workers are DBS checked, with a Safeguarding Officer in place.  We have the following meetings – please check our Facebook for changes and locations.

  • Hope Acorns (Carers & Toddlers) Term-Time Mondays 10am-12pm (Unity Centre, Leonard Road)
  • Amplify Youth (11-18) Friday evenings 6:30pm (Unity Centre, Leonard Road)
  • Hope Kids (3-10) during the Sunday service (Clifton Community School)
Youth Play
Hope Church Oaks Lunch

Community & Seniors

We love those of our community aged over 60, and have a Hope Oaks event every month on a Wednesday. Contact us for exact dates and locations.

We also run the Rotherham Foodbank and other community initiatives.  The Foodbank runs every Tuesday and Thursday from 10am – 12pm and is based at the Unity Centre on Leonard Road.  Please contact us for more information, to donate food or volunteer.

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Our Team

Paul Morris

Senior Pastor
Paul is the Senior Pastor of Hope Church and has been married to Victoria, the Community Pastor, for over 35 years. He held various leadership positions in church prior to taking on the Senior Pastor role and passionately believes in the importance and priority of the Word of God as the manual for life - governing marriage, home, children, careers, money and everything else. Paul has a heart for local and international missions and has visited a number of countries including China, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, North Macedonia and the USA where he has ministered in various capacities. His passion is to see people experience the presence of God and be equipped and released into their God-given destiny, so fulfilling Christ's great commission to disciple our world, whether home or abroad.

Victoria Morris

Community Pastor
Victoria is the Community and Partnership Pastor and oversees Rotherham Foodbank, school's ministry, children's ministry and young people's ministry in addition to sitting on several boards representing Hope Church and its partners. She is married to Paul and has three grown up children, who love Jesus and are serving him in business, evangelism and charity work. Victoria has worked for the local council in various roles and has experience of working with socially and economically isolated people and an understanding of their barriers to engagement. She passionately believes that community outreach is an essential part of a church’s mission to be “salt and light” to those around them and that the church is called to engage, serve and love their community and to develop opportunities for community-building and sharing the gospel.

Stephen Prosser

Associate Pastor
Stephen, who is married to Hannah, is the Associate Pastor and Missions Pastor at Hope Church. He has overall responsibility for Leadership Development and recognises the vital importance of identifying, training and equipping leaders to the sustained growth of a healthy church. He previously served for six years as manager of Rotherham Foodbank before transitioning to his current role during the early part of 2022. Stephen is a former missionary to South Africa who continues to be involved in church planting and leadership development in Europe through both HASMissions and the AoG 3D Mission Team, for whom he is the European Lead. He has an MA in Mission and is also a trained coach whose passion is to give every person an opportunity to hear the gospel message at least once.

Hannah Prosser

Training & Development Pastor
Hannah loves Jesus and loves people. She is married to Stephen and serves as the Training and Development Pastor with responsibilities around discipleship and teaching, and with oversight of the Women of Hope. She delights to see people released into their calling in the Kingdom of God, and resources people for this and their daily faith journey – using her skills as a coach and background in theology. Hannah is also pastoral in nature, using years of experience and training to care for people. Alongside this role, she serves as a local hospital chaplain, and on the national denominational leadership for mission – heading up missionary care and training. Hannah is also a lecturer for BA students in missional leadership at the Missio Dei college and continues to work in leadership development around the world.

Alison Key

Pastor for Pastoral Care
Alison serves as the Pastor for Pastoral Care at Hope Church and is responsible for providing pastoral care and support for everyone at the church from the youngest to the oldest. She previously served as the Worship Pastor and is the Founder of the Heart and Skill Worship Discipleship course, having originally been mentored by Darlene Zschech in Australia. She has served on the national AoG women's team and continues to minister as a consultant worship team trainer across the UK, having a deep desire to train, equip and release worship leaders and teams in our nation and the nations of the world. She is married to Matt, who works as Hope Church’s finance manager and administrator.

Andy Harris

Elder
Andy is part of the eldership team and additionally serves as both the Building Manager and a Trustee. He is married to Lynne and together they have been members of Hope Church for 25 years, witnessing how the Lord has built and shaped the church in that time. Andy has also been involved in sound, worship, stewardship and children's ministry during his years at the church. He has worked in the Royal Navy and is now an aircraft fitter on helicopters and Harrier jets. Andy passionately believes that Hope Church has a significant work to do, that what is impossible for man is possible with God and that there are exciting times ahead.

Angela Morris

Elder
Angela is one of the elders at Hope Church and leads Hope Oaks, a group for the over 60s, as well as serving on the Women of Hope team and as a Discipleship Group leader. She has also previously been a youth group leader, a home group leader, a deacon and has served on stewarding and hospitality teams. She is married to Chris who is the church Senior Deacon and is now retired, having worked for 40 years with the NHS. Her desire is to see individual lives changed as they find Christ and to see people grow as they find their God given purpose and serve in that capacity. She loves people and wants to serve in any way God leads her.

Barry Eastwood

Elder
Barry is one of the elders at Hope Church, with overall responsibility for the Men’s Ministry and the development of the library. However, he functions in a multitude of other capacities, which include volunteering in the foodbank where he has been a key member of the warehouse team for many years, leading a discipleship group, serving on the mission team and being a Trustee. He derives great joy and deems it to be a great privilege to be a part of the Hope Church family and to serve the Lord Jesus Christ through this context. He is married to Linda and is a retired primary school teacher whose hobbies include playing golf and badminton, walking and reading.

Paul Ndegwa

Elder
Paul is part of the eldership team and is a fully accredited minister with the Assemblies of God. He and his wife Margaret moved to the UK from Kenya about 20 years ago after Margaret was employed by the NHS, where Paul was a Chrisco pastor and Margaret a church leader. Paul is passionate about mission work especially amongst the unreached and is developing a project with the Turkana community in the Northwestern region of Kenya. He is one of the founding members of Afro Diaspora Missions Network (ADMiN), a ministry intentionally dedicated to training and equipping mobilising African Christians in the diaspora for missionary work wherever God has placed them. Paul also works as a security officer at the University of Sheffield.

Peter Shaw

Elder
Peter is part of the eldership team and serves in a number of different roles within the church. Peter heads up the Pastoral Care Team and he also leads a home based Discipleship Group, in addition to serving as one of the church Trustees. He is married to Christine, who aids Peter with his Pastoral Care work and thoroughly enjoys functioning as part of the worship team. Inspired by God’s loving, powerful, and life transforming purposes through the local church, Peter and Christine have together dedicated over 100 combined years of service in various capacities. Now a retired Local Authority Building Control Officer, his passion is for the care and encouragement of others, to make strong disciples who are themselves making strong disciples.

Paul Morris

Senior Pastor
Paul is the Senior Pastor of Hope Church and has been married to Victoria, the Community Pastor, for over 35 years. He held various leadership positions in church prior to taking on the Senior Pastor role and passionately believes in the importance and priority of the Word of God as the manual for life - governing marriage, home, children, careers, money and everything else. Paul has a heart for local and international missions and has visited a number of countries including China, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, North Macedonia and the USA where he has ministered in various capacities. His passion is to see people experience the presence of God and be equipped and released into their God-given destiny, so fulfilling Christ's great commission to disciple our world, whether home or abroad.

Victoria Morris

Community Pastor
Victoria is the Community and Partnership Pastor and oversees Rotherham Foodbank, school's ministry, children's ministry and young people's ministry in addition to sitting on several boards representing Hope Church and its partners. She is married to Paul and has three grown up children, who love Jesus and are serving him in business, evangelism and charity work. Victoria has worked for the local council in various roles and has experience of working with socially and economically isolated people and an understanding of their barriers to engagement. She passionately believes that community outreach is an essential part of a church’s mission to be “salt and light” to those around them and that the church is called to engage, serve and love their community and to develop opportunities for community-building and sharing the gospel.

Stephen Prosser

Associate Pastor
Stephen, who is married to Hannah, is the Associate Pastor and Missions Pastor at Hope Church. He has overall responsibility for Leadership Development and recognises the vital importance of identifying, training and equipping leaders to the sustained growth of a healthy church. He previously served for six years as manager of Rotherham Foodbank before transitioning to his current role during the early part of 2022. Stephen is a former missionary to South Africa who continues to be involved in church planting and leadership development in Europe through both HASMissions and the AoG 3D Mission Team, for whom he is the European Lead. He has an MA in Mission and is also a trained coach whose passion is to give every person an opportunity to hear the gospel message at least once.

Hannah Prosser

Training & Development Pastor
Hannah loves Jesus and loves people. She is married to Stephen and serves as the Training and Development Pastor with responsibilities around discipleship and teaching, and with oversight of the Women of Hope. She delights to see people released into their calling in the Kingdom of God, and resources people for this and their daily faith journey – using her skills as a coach and background in theology. Hannah is also pastoral in nature, using years of experience and training to care for people. Alongside this role, she serves as a local hospital chaplain, and on the national denominational leadership for mission – heading up missionary care and training. Hannah is also a lecturer for BA students in missional leadership at the Missio Dei college and continues to work in leadership development around the world.

Alison Key

Pastor for Pastoral Care
Alison serves as the Pastor for Pastoral Care at Hope Church and is responsible for providing pastoral care and support for everyone at the church from the youngest to the oldest. She previously served as the Worship Pastor and is the Founder of the Heart and Skill Worship Discipleship course, having originally been mentored by Darlene Zschech in Australia. She has served on the national AoG women's team and continues to minister as a consultant worship team trainer across the UK, having a deep desire to train, equip and release worship leaders and teams in our nation and the nations of the world. She is married to Matt, who works as Hope Church’s finance manager and administrator.

Andy Harris

Elder
Andy is part of the eldership team and additionally serves as both the Building Manager and a Trustee. He is married to Lynne and together they have been members of Hope Church for 25 years, witnessing how the Lord has built and shaped the church in that time. Andy has also been involved in sound, worship, stewardship and children's ministry during his years at the church. He has worked in the Royal Navy and is now an aircraft fitter on helicopters and Harrier jets. Andy passionately believes that Hope Church has a significant work to do, that what is impossible for man is possible with God and that there are exciting times ahead.

Angela Morris

Elder
Angela is one of the elders at Hope Church and leads Hope Oaks, a group for the over 60s, as well as serving on the Women of Hope team and as a Discipleship Group leader. She has also previously been a youth group leader, a home group leader, a deacon and has served on stewarding and hospitality teams. She is married to Chris who is the church Senior Deacon and is now retired, having worked for 40 years with the NHS. Her desire is to see individual lives changed as they find Christ and to see people grow as they find their God given purpose and serve in that capacity. She loves people and wants to serve in any way God leads her.

Barry Eastwood

Elder
Barry is one of the elders at Hope Church, with overall responsibility for the Men’s Ministry and the development of the library. However, he functions in a multitude of other capacities, which include volunteering in the foodbank where he has been a key member of the warehouse team for many years, leading a discipleship group, serving on the mission team and being a Trustee. He derives great joy and deems it to be a great privilege to be a part of the Hope Church family and to serve the Lord Jesus Christ through this context. He is married to Linda and is a retired primary school teacher whose hobbies include playing golf and badminton, walking and reading.

Paul Ndegwa

Elder
Paul is part of the eldership team and is a fully accredited minister with the Assemblies of God. He and his wife Margaret moved to the UK from Kenya about 20 years ago after Margaret was employed by the NHS, where Paul was a Chrisco pastor and Margaret a church leader. Paul is passionate about mission work especially amongst the unreached and is developing a project with the Turkana community in the Northwestern region of Kenya. He is one of the founding members of Afro Diaspora Missions Network (ADMiN), a ministry intentionally dedicated to training and equipping mobilising African Christians in the diaspora for missionary work wherever God has placed them. Paul also works as a security officer at the University of Sheffield.

Peter Shaw

Elder
Peter is part of the eldership team and serves in a number of different roles within the church. Peter heads up the Pastoral Care Team and he also leads a home based Discipleship Group, in addition to serving as one of the church Trustees. He is married to Christine, who aids Peter with his Pastoral Care work and thoroughly enjoys functioning as part of the worship team. Inspired by God’s loving, powerful, and life transforming purposes through the local church, Peter and Christine have together dedicated over 100 combined years of service in various capacities. Now a retired Local Authority Building Control Officer, his passion is for the care and encouragement of others, to make strong disciples who are themselves making strong disciples.

Our Sermons

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Our Town

Rotherham Town Centre Sign

Our Town

Rotherham is a large industrial town of just over 250,000 people in the north of England.  Founded in the early Middle Ages as a village on the banks of the River Rother, the town grew as a consequence of the commissioning of Jesus College by Thomas Rotherham, the Archbishop of York, in the 1480s.

Though the college only lasted for around 60 years, Rotherham was later discovered to be lying above rich seams of coal and iron ore.  This ensured that Rotherham became a significant part of the industrial revolution and expanded rapidly as coal mining and steel production became the principle industries in the town.  Though the mining and steel industries declined during the 1980s, the Magna Centre remains as a testimony to the history of the town.  

Hope Church Rotherham is committed to the peace, welfare and prosperity of the town.

Our History

Hope Church Rotherham is a growing, friendly, family church affiliated to the British Assemblies of God.  In 2004 a church plant and a separate house church that had been ministering in Rotherham for many years, joined together to become known as ‘The Hope of Rotherham Christian Church’.  This community of believers has been meeting in various premises throughout Rotherham.  The name was changed to ‘Hope Church’ and in October 2013 they secured their first ever church property near the centre of Rotherham on Grove Road. In May 2023 the church moved to Clifton Community School for Sunday services, and the Unity Centre for most mid-week events.

Hope Church Rotherham Building

Our Purpose:

To bring glory to God the Father

Our Vision:

To make disciples of Jesus Christ,
who are making disciples

Our Values:

We are committed to the values below,
using H.O.P.E.

Hosting God's Presence

We believe in being open to God the Holy Spirit, by listening and receiving from Him, which will result in transformation.

Worshipers at Hope Church
Hope Church Prayer

Operating in Faith

We believe in stepping out in faith and bravely following Jesus, seeing things anew from God’s perspective.

Purposefully Sharing Jesus

We believe in intentionally sharing the Good News of Jesus in words and actions with everyone.

Foodbank at Hope Church
Hope Church Group

EXPRESSING GOD'S LOVE IN OUR CHURCH FAMILY

We believe in being a church community in which each person knows they have a unique and vital part to play, as they use their gifts to encourage and help each other grow.

Our Mission Partners

CAP's vision is to see transformed lives, thriving churches and an end to UK poverty.
Sasha and Sara are AoG GB missionaries and pastors who are based in Kraljevo, Serbia and are church planting in neighbouring Čačak.
Back to Jerusalem is committed to partnering with the church of China to train and send missionaries into the most unreached nations.
HASMissions is a leadership development ministry working with church leaders and missionaries worldwide.
One by One has a heart for the poor and broken, with a specific focus on rescuing people from human trafficking and providing dignity for teenage girls.
The Living Water Project to provide physical and spiritual water for the Lolupe community in Turkana, Kenya through the sinking of a borehole.
Venco & Katya are church planters from North Macedonia who focus on uniting Christian leaders from across the Balkans.
Providing food for a school run by Chrisco Church Lodwar that seeks to provide an education for children who would otherwise not receive one.
WoW seeks to provide love, compassion and a transformed future to marginalised and abandoned women.

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