Emmanuel Evangelical church can be used to describe the local physical building in which we meet, however in the bible it also describes the church as being Gods chosen people.
Each of these people come from different backgrounds, nationalities and have been through different experiences in life but come together at Emmanuel as part of His church.
Please take some time to get to know some of these people and see how God has been at work in their lives.
You are warmly invited to come and meet us in person at our Events.
Allan Parry
A Modern artist attended an exhibition of his own abstract paintings. He was disappointed to discover that one of the most admired paintings in the gallery was in fact hanging upside down. My life in the 60’s was like a piece of abstract art; it had a lot of movement, energy and colour, but no real meaning, no purpose and it brought…
Joanna Bulman
I first started attending Emmanuel in April 1999. At that time I lived in Cardiff having studied there for a degree in Maths and then a Teacher – Training Course. My seemingly ‘random’ choice of heading to Cardiff (having been brought up in Telford, Shropshire) led me to make friends with a number of committed Christians in the student hall where I…
Cyril Anthony
I am a Newport ‘boy’ through and through and have spent 70 years in various parts of the city, including Treberth, Alway, Conway and now Rogerstone where we moved in 1978. Cath and I were married in 1969 and have two adult children and 3 wonderful grandchildren. I started work as a farm boy but later trained as a carpenter with J…
Richard & Val Jones
Richard would be the first to admit that what attracted him to Alma St Baptist Church was a girl, Valerie Sweet. Attending Church was a new venture and also attendance at a boys Bible class and a Prayer meeting was most scary of all as all the elderly church leaders monopolised the prayer time with each trying to out do the previous…