Cambridge Presbyterian Church is a congregation of EPCEW (Evangelical
Presbyterian Church in England and Wales). We are an international mix of
families, singles and students from a wide variety of countries
- the UK, USA, Canada, Holland, South Africa, Nigeria, Malaysia, Zambia,
Uganda, Australia. We are a friendly congregation that seeks to make visitors
welcome.
Our worship is characterised by reverence: "Let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire". It centres on the praise of our triune God in psalms and hymns. The climax of our worship is the preaching of God's Word. We are committed to the systematic exposition of the whole of God's Word: "All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching so that the man of God may be perfectly equipped for every good work".
Being a Presbyterian Church, we belong to the Reformed Christian tradition, tracing our biblical and church distinctives back to the sixteenth century Reformation, and beyond that to the infallible authority of the Bible, the Word of God. Our distinctives are shared by all biblical, Reformed Churches in the world: We are an evangelical church, we preach the saving gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are a confessional church; our theological standards are the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms. We are a connexional church, we are linked in a Presbytery with other like-minded churches. We are a covenantal church, we believe that believers and their children belong, by God's good pleasure, within his covenant of grace. We are a church committed to gospel holiness, living in evangelical obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ, who said, "If you love me, keep my commandments".
We gather regularly as a church for prayer. In doing this, we believe we are following the pattern of the early church: "They devoted themselves to prayer", Acts 2:42) and acknowledging our corporate dependence on God, without whom we can do nothing.
mission
We are committed as a church to the "Great Commission" ("go and make
disciples of all nations", Matthew
28:19-20). This commitment is seen in a number of ways: We support
a number of Christian missionaries working in Spain, Iran, Turkey; we work
alongside other evangelical churches in Cambridge in befriending and
evangelising international students (Cambridge is full of them!), through the
work of Cambridge International Outreach; and we hold an open-air outreach
in the centre of Cambridge on Wednesday afternoons.
CPC encourages the students who worship with us to support the work of CICCU (Cambridge Inter Collegiate Christian Union). CICCU is affiliated to Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF), and seeks to exercise an evangelistic witness within the University. We also hold regular meetings for students who worship with us. We are persuaded, however, that the best we can do for our students is to integrate them into the life of the local church, and thereby prepare them for serving the Lord when they leave University.