About us
Father’s House Leadership Team
We are a dedicated group of people from the Shaftesbury area who are passionate about nurturing personal relationships with God. Our team each serves the community in different ways: from supporting some of the most vulnerable members of our community, to giving their time and skills to the day-to-day running of the Church. Each person has their own unique God-given skills to share, as well as a deep love for the community. Most of all, every Church leader has a strong and abiding love for Jesus, as well as believing in His healing and miracles to change lives and heal today.
Meet the Team
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Nina and Dean Feasey
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Andrew and Helen Baddeley
Helen and Andrew are our Senior leaders. They are supported by a wider team.
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Dan and Millie Bajorat
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Clare and Phil Williams
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Bron and John Fergusson
We are a city on a hill, a beacon of light. We hope to be a host for revival in our Nation
Our History
The origins of Father’s House, Shaftesbury, began in the mid 1970s when people from many different backgrounds, who were looking for a richer and deeper experience of God, found each other and began to seek Him together. They were not disappointed. As a result, more and more people came to know God as a caring and loving Father while also recognising Jesus as the way to him. We also experienced baptism in the Holy Spirit.
As a result of reading the words of Jesus, we became convinced that those who believed in Him should be baptised by immersion. We also believe that you didn’t have to be an ordained minister to break the bread of communion, that any believer could do that, even in their own home. These, along with other insights, were important. So, to live them out without causing unnecessary conflict, we decided to form [‘New Covenant Church’] [‘Maranatha’, a Syriac word meaning ‘Our Lord Jesus will come’] in 1978.
Between 1978 and 1986, we were a group without a home while meeting in schools and halls. As we grew in size, it became evident that we would need our premises in order to cater for the various needs of the Church. It was in 1987 that we purchased our current building, a former egg packing factory, and converted it into the meeting place we still have today. We called the building ‘Shaftesbury Christian Centre’ in order to avoid people thinking of the building as a Church.
Jesus said “My Father’s House shall be called a House of Prayer”. To reflect our commitment to this, Shaftesbury Christian Centre officially changed its name to Father’s House on 2nd April 2012. Our aim since then has to build Father’s House up to be a place of prayer, worship and divine encounter.
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