Family Church Portsmouth

Ps Sean continues speaking in the theme of 'We Value Church Family'. His message this week is titled "Growing Up". Our children grow up before our eyes but are we growing up in the church family? This is the challenge of Ps Sean's message today. Some people have been in church most of their life but still don't always show spiritual maturity. Adults can still exhibit childish behaviours both natur...

Ps Carla speaks this week about being consumed or being a consumer, as part of the We Love Family series on FC Values. As a family, we're responsible for one another, it isn't just about ourselves. It's not just about our family as in the people that we're related to or that live in our house. We are all responsible for the well-being and the spiritual growth of our church family. This involves ma...

Ps Paul begins a set of messages looking at Family Church Value #4 -We are Family. We value our church family and the strength that comes from being planted in the House of God. We are committed to loving and serving one another as people who are 'consumed', not 'consumers'. We do 'family' God's way, helping each other grow as disciples and raising and developing leaders of all ages. Pa Paula expa...

In this first of two sessions dealing with Faith and Finance Ps Steu speaks about how to deal with a cost of living crisis using Kingdom principles. His message is a very practical one, where all the best practice is taken from scripture. All around us, news is worrying, prices keep rising, the world peddles fear, so how should we as Chistians live? When speaking on money, Jesus says, “Do not worr...

This Sunday is Global Sunday, the Sunday in the year where Family Church celebrates the rich diversity of its congregation, so many countries, cultures and languages represented. We come into the house of God and regardless of where we are from we all have something in common - Jesus saved us, this is changing our lives. Ps Paula's message focuses on the life of Moses. She brings out some clear po...

This week in Portsmouth Congregation we had a visitor, Hope Prosser from the charity Hope & Soul Tanzania, following a visit in country by some members of the congregation. She spoke briefly about the charity, its wonderful work in Tanzania with deprived children and we watched short video. All of the audio is captured here prior to Ps Steu's message. The website for the charity is https://hop...

Following on the current series of messages based around the Prodigal Son, Ps Ezra speaks about our relationship with God. He focuses on the Word of God, scripture being the all powerful, active, faith creating source of knowledge about our Lord. His message focuses around the fact that unless we are well versed in the Word, we will now Know our God, or know how to Pray. If we go to The Father wit...

Ps Steu speaks on our third Family Church Value - Relationship with God. This is the first of three Sundays on this value. The whole point of being saved is to walk in relationship with God. This is a relationship based on an agreement (covenant relationship) where the conditions of the agreement have been met by God, in Christ. Ps Steu then focused on how the Word of God will help us to build our...

This week Ps Sean focuses on The God Of The Impossible, having last week spoken about The God of The Immeasurable. The two messages follow on....when we see how immeasurable God is, we begin to also see how only He can put the "possible" into what we see as "impossible". God sees beyond the chaos, He sees a human being and says, ah, what you see is different to what I see, where you see impossibil...

Today Ps Sean gives us an amazing message about how "immeasurable" God is. Once, we walk with him and think we are close, but really what God does, he takes us closer and closer to him as he did with Moses going up the mountain. Ephesians 3:20-21 says, NIV says "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be gl...

In the third week of messages from the theme 'We value New Life', Ps Carla speaks today about Grace and Truth. her message focuses n how Jesus treated people, how He may treat us and how grace and truth may impact our lives. Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV) says "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast...

In the third week of messages from the theme 'We value New Life', Ps Carla speaks today about Grace and Truth. her message focuses n how Jesus treated people, how He may treat us and how grace and truth may impact our lives. Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV) says "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast...

Our acknowledgement of the power of the cross and the sacrifice Jesus made in taking our place and exchanging His righteousness for our sinfulness Made Us Alive to God. Therefore, it’s time to put on the robe of righteousness, and live according to our calling and new position in Christ…

Ps Steve speaks on the second of the Family Church Values - We Value New Life, introducing this topic and giving a foundational message. This is an amazing message looking at the New Life we have in Jesus when we accept Him as saviour. If we make the same mistakes over and over again in our relationships and other areas of our lives, this message is perfectly aimed at helping us understand the val...

On this Easter Day 2026, Resurrection Sunday, Ps Sean speaks about the glorious exchange which happened on the cross to save our sins. This was not just a story but a real event in history, the Bible describes in each of the gospels. Today Ps Sean reads from book of Matthew (Matthew 27), speaking abut the story of the crucifixion of Jesus, the decision made by Pilate to wash his hands of the seemi...

Ps Sean Continues in the theme of 'We Value People', this week looking at the value People inspired by God's Compassionate and Merciful heart. We are committing to healing and restoration. We want every person to feel safe and secure and included as valued members of our church family. Ps Sean looks at definitions of healing and restoration, reminding us that the context here is not purely physica...

Following the description two weeks ago of the Family Church Values, Ps Paula this week speaks specifically about "We Value People". Every person is loved by God and we want to make sure that as a church and as people who are Kingdom-minded and who love the Lord, we want to make sure that we reflect His heart. So if we want to be Christ-like, we need to know what Christ is like! John 3:16-17 (NIV)...

Ps Sean takes a moment to review the massive help gained from Vision Sunday last year and the increase in capability this had brought to youth and schools mission. Personal anecdotes show how souls have been saved and people grown as a result of the generosity during 2025. Ps Sean then looks forward to the rest of 2926 outlining some of the many exciting aspects of the vision for Family Church as...

Today is Vision Sunday 2026 for the whole of Family Church. Here in the Portsmouth congregation, Ps Steu speaks about the Mission and Vision of the church and introduces the six Family Church Values which will be expounded during the following weeks... We Value People We Value New life We Value Relationship with God We Value Church Family We Value Gathering We Value Commissioning Each of these is...

Nearly 30 years ago Pastors Andy & Gina Elmes following a calling from God to open a church. Family Church has now grown to a multi congregational Church across the South of UK, additionally in the Philippines. In 2025 Ps Andy & Gina felt God had a new calling upon their lives, Soul Winning across Europe & many other countries with a goal to reach a million souls. Ps Steve Carey introd...

This week Ps Carla caries on the theme begun by Ps Steu last week. She begins speaking about Saul (who became Paul) and how he persecuted the Christians - Acts 8:3 (NLT) “But Saul was going everywhere to destroy the church. He went from house to house, dragging out both men and women to throw them into prison.” Later, scripture tells us - Acts 9:1 (NLT) “Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with e...

This week Ps Steu thanks Pastors Andy & Gina for the amazing foundation they created in Family Church, reflecting on last week which was a celebration of Ps Andy's & Ps Gina's ministry as they move towards their international soul saving calling. Ps Steu's keystone verse is 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is...

Twenty Eight years ago Ps Andy Elmes began what was then called Abide in the Vine Family Church. This was in response to a definite calling from God which has seen a church grow from just a handful of people to a multi congregational soul saving ministry within and beyond the UK. Pastors Andy & Gina now face a new challenge, a new calling from God, equally daunting maybe but their faith in God...

In his last Sunday morning message to the Portsmouth congregation of Family Church, Ps Andy speaks about one of his original messages when he began the church nearly 30 years ago. Through the blood of Jesus we have Redemption - we are redeemed, and at the cross, the Divine Exchange took place where the sins of us all were taken by Jesus, the only sin free man ever. Andy illustrates this with a per...

Today was a momentous occasion in Family Church....Ps Andy & Gina Elmes passed the Family Church Baton of Leadership to Ps Steu & Carla Payne. The following words were written by Ps Andy & Gina... There are moments in life when you realise you are standing on holy ground - not because something is ending, but because something has been faithfully completed. After 28 years of founding,...