Monday nights · 6:30 p.m.
120
Prayer · Bible study · Leadership
Named for the number gathered in the upper room — “about a hundred and twenty” — who gave themselves to prayer before anything else happened.
FeatureNo. 03Monday – SaturdayOpen to anyone
Gatherings
Prayer, Scripture, leadership and work — four gatherings through the week, plus the project that is putting this property back in order.
At the church · Acts 2:42
Wednesday
Nights.
Beginning 28 October at 910 Blackburn Road. The midweek gathering, in the sanctuary.
Acts 2:42 describes the first church devoting itself to four things: the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer. That is the shape of Wednesday nights, and it is the shape this congregation was built on — the same one written into the 1829 class book kept by the believers who met here in farmhouses.
It is open to anyone. You do not need to attend on Sunday to come on a Wednesday, and several people only ever do the one.
The week
Four gatherings, four days
Two meet at the church on Blackburn Road; two meet at the Sewickley Community Center. All of them are open.
Wednesdays · from 28 October
Wednesday Nights
Teaching · Fellowship · Prayer
The midweek gathering at the church: the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread and prayer — the four things the first church devoted itself to.
Fridays · 6:30 a.m.
Bible Study + Boxing
Discipline builds a stronger you
An early start, the Book and the bag. Paul reached for the same picture: “I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.”
First Saturday · 11:30 a.m.
Women’s Bible Study
Beginning 3 October
Once a month, around a table at the church. Titus puts it plainly: older women teaching what is good, and passing it to the ones coming behind them.
Our first project · Nehemiah 2:18
Rise Up
& Build.
A complete property makeover at 910 Blackburn Road — paint, pressure-washing, windows, beds and hedges.
When Nehemiah put the case to the people, their answer was four words: let us rise up and build. This is the first project of a new chapter here, and it is hands-on. Painting, washing down the siding, cleaning glass, cutting back and replanting. No skill required and no rota to join — call the church and ask when the next work day is.
2 Timothy 2:2
We are raising
up leaders.
What was entrusted to this congregation gets entrusted onward — to reliable people who will be able to teach others too.
“Do you know Him?”Banner, left of the chancel
“Feed my sheep.”Banner, right of the chancel
The part nobody schedules
The half hour
after.
The most reliable ministry at Blackburn is thirty people not leaving.
A congregation this size cannot hide anyone. If you are new, someone finds out your name. If you stop coming, someone notices. If something has gone wrong in your week, it tends to get said out loud during prayer, and then followed up on Tuesday. That is not a programme and it is not on any list — it is simply what happens on ground where the same families have been turning up since before the Civil War.
Diary
The regular week
- Sunday, 10:00 a.m.
- WorshipOne service in the sanctuary at 910 Blackburn Road. Children welcome in the room.
- Monday, 6:30 p.m.
- 120 — prayer, Bible study & leadershipSewickley Community Center, 15 Chadwick Street. Acts 1:14–15.
- Wednesday evenings
- Wednesday NightsAt the church, beginning 28 October. Acts 2:42. Call for the start time.
- Friday, 6:30 a.m.
- Bible Study + BoxingSewickley Community Center, 15 Chadwick Street. 1 Corinthians 9:26–27.
- First Saturday, 11:30 a.m.
- Women’s Bible StudyAt the church, beginning 3 October. Titus 2:3–5.
- Work days
- Rise Up & BuildThe property makeover at 910 Blackburn Road. Call to ask when the next one is.