Antioch Community Church was born out of a dream in the hearts of Daniel and Jeannie McGinnis to plant a church in England that would impact the nations.  Sent out from their local church in Texas, they moved to Sheffield in June 2005 with a small team of people, and started the church in their living room in Hillsborough.  Most of their early outreach was among students in Sheffield, and in October of that year they started a larger public gathering in the Sheffield city centre.

Over the past years God has brought key additions to this young community, and it has broadened from being mostly students, to being a more ‘well-rounded’ congregation, with multiple families, youth, children, etc.  However, there is still a focus in the church on students and young professionals, and on the great potential that people in every season of life have to radically pursue God and advance His Kingdom.

Antioch began in St. Andrews, but is in the process of acquiring a permanent facility for offices and gatherings in the city centre.  We have Lifegroups that meet throughout the city in homes, and these form the core relational and missional communities of the larger church congregation.

The church today is more convinced than ever that we have a divine calling and mandate not just to Sheffield, not just to England, but to the nations of the earth.  We have started the School of Transformation as a vehicle to achieve this goal of impacting and transforming the nations, largely through our own personal transformation.  We are also involved in multiple other ministries in the communities we serve.

We are learning about the abundant life that Jesus has called us to, which is saturated with joy and hope and peace.  And our desire is not simply to give people a message of Christ’s love, but to provide an encounter with the radical, life-transforming love and power of God.  Ultimately, our hope is to birth a church-planting movement out of Sheffield, that impacts England, Europe, and the world.

Acts 2.42-47 is foundational for our community:

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.  Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.  All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.  Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved

This is a video celebrating the first 5 years of Antioch Community Church Sheffield.