Our Values
As a church and a family of believers we seek to be the following 5 key areas in our lives as individuals and as a part of Christ's wider church as we go about making disciples and impacting nations.
Gathering
We are family friendly, where people of all ages, backgrounds, live out life together. We do this as dispersed community in Relational Cells, and gathered celebrations on Sundays.
Growing
We are committed to lifelong learning where everyone is effectively discipled. We create environments where information, imitation and immersion happen.
Giving
We seek to live a contagiously generous lifestyle within the body and the local community. We do this by being generous with our time, talents and treasure.
Going
We believe in being passionately mission minded wherever we are. We seek to reach the least, the last and the lost in our neighbourhoods, town and the nations.
Glorifying
We believe all the above are built upon the foundation of an intimate and intercessory walk with the Holy Spirit.
We're not all about Sundays
We believe that we are church wherever we are and whatever we are doing. We [normally] meet in our gathered celebrations on a Sunday morning at 9am and 11am. N2Y and Limitless Ipswich which are our children and youth ministry function only within the 11am service. These are family times where we have vibrant expression of our corporate worship. Throughout the week we [normally] meet scattered in various locations in what we call Relational Cells. These spaces are opportunities to do real life together and are environments for discussion, accountability and discipleship.
Sunday Mornings
We host two services, a smaller more intimate service at 9am, and a family celebration service at 11am where we function children and youth ministries. We’ll save you a seat.
During this season we’re only meeting online at 11am. Be sure to tune in wherever you are staying in, you can watch us on social media or join in the conversation at iic.io/live
Relational Cells
During the week we have opportunity to meet in homes to do real life together in relaxed environments for discussion, accountability and discipleship.
With the lockdown country wide due to COVID-19 we won’t be physically meeting in homes, but many are utilising social media as a way to connect with one another, email the church if you wish to find out more.
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Currently every morning we are meeting at 6am for early morning prayers.
This has been both in the physical building and via online streaming.
In this current situation of lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak we will be solely meeting online.
Find out how you can connect in.
Regular Opportunities to Learn
IIC believe it’s important to meet within Relational Cells, however we appreciate that coming together as a group of individuals to a structured gathering is important too. We host a few regular items throughout the year in our calendar. Here are few you can get involved with today, alternatively find out more below.
Life Class
Where we seek to learn, understand and put to practise the Word. Hear the stories of some who have experienced LifeClass for themselves and consider joining us on Friday nights at 7.30pm, all are welcome.
11am Sunday
Our family service with children and youth groups. We worship, we pray and listen to practical teaching of God’s Word. The service which has been variously described as lively, dynamic and expressive holds in the newly renovated auditorium and often streamed live.
Daniel Fast
At that time, I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.
Daniel 10:2-3 (NIV)
The Daniel Fast as the passage above indicates; is a partial fast. As a family of believers we partake in this fast every year at the end of January.
Journeying Through Acts
Throughout the first part of 2020 we will be exploring the book of Acts together as a church. Click here (or see below) to download booklets we will be producing as to help you Journey through Acts together.
Missions
To us at IIC, mission is a mentality not a location
Sending to the nations
Internationally we have sent Sharon who’s out in foreign nations helping to translate the bible into a local language so the people can read the scriptures for themselves.
Romanian Fellowship
We have connections with other fellowships of other language speakers, therefore we look to establish places where people of all different nations and languages feel welcome.
Chaplaincy
As part of our belief in mission, ministers are encouraged to be involved in a missional activity, Pastor David is serving on the chaplaincy in the University and at Suffolk New College, Pastor Harold has previously served as a chaplain to the hospital.
Local missions
We believe mission is a mentality not a location, we express this in various ways, including for example the soup where we go out and feed the homeless as a way of showing and sharing God’s love.
Harold Afflu
Senior Minister
Pastor Harold Afflu was born in Walsall in the Midlands, UK. He is the fifth among six siblings. When Harold was a year old his parents went back to Ghana, where he was raised and educated .
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Minister
I have been married to Stacey for six years and we have two young children – Joseph and Joshua who keep us very busy .
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Minister
After a professional background in engineering, accountancy and waste management, Rev Adefuye studied theology and is an ordained minister. Previously, he had served variously as a missionary, church planter, pastor and teacher in Lagos and London .
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Youth Leader
I began to believe in God for myself at the age of 10, before that I had grown up going to church but never really believed God or Jesus. I felt that they were just stories we heard about and church was something we just did as a family .
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Relational Cells Co-ordinator
I first heard about how Christ can save me from going to hell at the age of 10. I had just completed weeks of baptismal classes as a prerequisite to getting baptized in the church my family attended. A day before the baptism, my Sunday School teacher told me about receiving Christ before my baptism .
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Gavin was born in Buckinghamshire in 1965, and grew up there and in rural Kent. His parents were teachers and he had a quiet family life. His family were ‘church goers’ rather than committed Christians. He sang in the choir, and learnt much more of the Bible than he realised at the time .
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Denest is an accountant with over 25 years’ experience spanning various industries namely financial services, insurance, accounting practice and manufacturing .
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