Welcome!! We’re saving you a seat….
Thornhill Baptist Church is a community of ordinary people based in the heart of the Thornhill and Harefield areas of Southampton. Everyone is welcome: the old and the young; the got-it-together and the battered and bruised by life; the convinced Christian and the unsure explorer. You can read about our church vision here.
We’d love you to join us, we’re saving you a seat… That seat can be in the church building at 10.30am every Sunday morning or it can be in your own home if you join us online. Either way, you will be extremely welcome – we’re family and you’re invited!
To join us online see the “Our Latest Service” link on this page or you’ll find our older services here.
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We believe God changes lives…

Cheryl’s story
But I was a scientist, how could the Bible as a literal truth be right with all the science saying other things?
I was brought up in the Anglican Church, attended the Sunday School, Church youth group and Bible studies when I was a young teenager but never felt I wanted to take that step as a teenager to get confirmed; and then I stopped going to church. I still believed in the values of my Christian upbringing and I went to a very church focussed school until I completed my A-Levels. But I was a scientist, how could the Bible as a literal truth be right with all the science saying other things? The world was not made in 6 days. The entire world was not flooded for 40 days. So how could God be real? I went away to university and thought nothing further of God.
After moving to Bitterne I visited some churches, with the intention to join a church so I could be married in it because I love the old buildings. But none of the churches felt right to join. I was looking for the feeling I had as a child in church, that it was a family, so it never happened.
