About Us

Who Are We?

Portslade Baptist Church is a group of Christian believers. We believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of God and seek to faithfully preach it and live it out by putting our faith into action.

Our Vision

• We believe everyone should have the opportunity to hear of Jesus Christ, and respond to the message of God's love in Christ.
   
• We commit ourselves to live out the life of Jesus in our community, speaking about our faith and showing it by our actions.
   
• We seek wherever possible to meet the needs of those less fortunate, and to share in world mission, with the good news about Jesus, particularly through the BMS World Mission.

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We are part of the Baptist Union and also Churches Together in Portslade. 

2026 has marked the 65^th Anniversary of the present Chapel in South Street. However, the Church has existed in one form or another since 1870! 

The Church originally met in the back room of a public house, The Clarence Assembly Room, in North Street, after being rented out by Rev. Charles Spurgeon. Spurgeon sent one of his students, Mr. E.A.Tydeman to preach at the very first meeting on 18th December, 1870.

Since then, there have been 3 chapels, the first built in 1873 in Chapel Place, off North Street. 

The Church quickly grew out of it's original chapel, and a new one was opened in 1892. This chapel was the home of Portslade Baptist until 1957.

In 1957, the Church purchased the land to construct a new chapel in Upper Portslade. This present chapel was opened on 25th March 1961.

Over the 141 years since that very first meeting, the Church has changed a lot! Below are a list of Ministers of our Church

1870-1875: Mr. E.A.Tydeman & Rev. W. Townsend        
1875-1877: Rev. F. Harvey                                                 
1878-1888: Rev. S.G. Gamble                                           
1889-1893: Rev. J.O'Neill Campbell                                  
1839-1919: Rev. H.J. Dyer                                                    
1920-1929: Rev. George Burrett
1929-1934: Rev. A.E Johnson                                              
1934-1949: Rev. A.J. Phillips                                                
1950-1974: Rev. E.C.Hearsley Starling                               
1974-1979: Rev. Raymond J. Webber                                 
1980-1986: Rev. Gordon Steer                                             
1988-1994: Rev. Colin R.W Weller (Moderator)                 
1994- 2018: Rev. Phillip O. Cook     

2019 -          Rev. David M Meikle        

 

The church leadership would like to thank our members for your faithfulness in giving and support as we continue to seek Gods Will for the future life of our church family.

Reverend David M Meikle 

Pastor Marcel Trindade associate ,minister

PBC GIVING TO CHARITIES 2026

As agreed at the Church Members’ Meeting, we have decided to give 10% of our regular giving (standing orders, direct payments and envelopes) to 6 chosen Christian organisations, as follows:

BU Home Mission

BMS World Mission

Brighton and Hove City Mission

Operation Agri

APT Burkina Faso

 The following table sets out the timetable for this giving:

 

 Please note that as we already have a monthly standing order to Home Mission, this will more than cover the amount we would give in January and July, so in effect we will not be making any extra donations for those months.

 The consequence of this for our church family is that, whereas before we might have given an extra donation for one of the above charities, eg. BMS Birthday Scheme, from now on we would ask you to put that amount in the regular offering, knowing that donations to all the above organisations will be sent on our behalf. You may wish to place it in an envelope and mark it as charity giving. Of course, if you already give personally directly to any of the above, please be encouraged to continue. Here we are only dealing with donations that come through the church.

 We may still have extra appeals during times of emergency, for example for the BMS disaster relief fund.

Reverend David M Meikle and Pastor Marcel Trindade and Leadership Team.

• When there is a disaster we usually launch an appeal to give to the BMS Relief Fund, which works through local partners to bring help and relief in these situations.
  

 

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