Rushden Mission Church

The Early Years

The Tin Tabernacle	Today's Church Building

Rushden Mission Church was conceived on the 28^th December 1888 at a Sunday School Teachers’ Meeting at the Wesleyan Church in Rushden.  The vision was for a Sunday School to be held at the Moor Road Day School (now the Youth Centre).  The birth of the Church occurred five years later on the 10^th December 1893 when the new Sunday School met for the first time.  The Wesleyan Sunday School of the time had 470 scholars and 66 teachers.  6 teachers and 26 scholars moved to the new project in Moor Road .  The numbers in the Sunday School increased and in 1895, in response to requests made, an evening adult worship service began.

In 1896 the young church moved to new premises in Station Road adjoining the “Jaques and Clark’s” shoe factory.  The new iron building was officially known as “The Mission Hall” but affectionately known as “The Tin Tabernacle”.

On the 7^th May 1900 the decision was taken to purchase land in Wellingborough Road and erect a new church building.  The land cost £375 and the building works £2,275.  The new church building was opened on the 4^th July 1901.

The records show that the building was designed to accommodate 450 people, and by 1902 five hundred scholars attended the Sunday School.

The building in which we meet today was intended to be used as the school room, the church was to have been built later, on the land that we now use as a car park.  In 1919 the last building-related debts were cleared.  After prayerful consideration it was decided to appoint a full-time Pastor and leave the building of the church until a later date.  In 1925 the Rev E E Brommage was appointed Pastor of the church, and continued until 1944.

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