Friday 31st October 2025 Welcome to this week's Friday Mail, with information about our services, events and ministries. Encouragement "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1.5 Dear God, thank You for the promise that Your light shines in the darkness. May Your light shine brightly in every dark situation we face, bringing hope, peace, and joy. Help us to trust that You are always with us and that Your light will never be extinguished. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen. This Sunday, 2nd November, we have a special all-age service. Invite your friends and neighbours! There'll be lots of fun to be had!

If you've missed a Sunday message, you can click the image below to find all of our recent sermons. News and events coming up
Prayer meetings You are welcome to join us for our prayer meetings. Let's stand with other believers as we commit our needs to the Lord. Light the Night Our Light the Night party is tonight for children of Primary School age. With fun, games and sweets, it's a chance to share God's light into the darkness of the night. Click on the image below to book. Tree of Hope From this Sunday, we will have our Tree of Hope, covered in gift tags. The tags each represent someone who is homeless in Felixstowe. If you feel you can purchase them a gift, please take the tag and stick it onto the wrapped gift and return to the Church. Thank you! Giving Week Update What a generous bunch of people we have at River of Life Church! We are so grateful for the amazing monetary gifts we received over our Autumn Giving Week as well as the continued weekly and monthly giving of so many in the Church. We have already managed to upgrade and repair the emergency lighting, finished the auditorium upgrade to LED lighting and completed our car park lighting upgrade to LED. We are now investigating the repair of the heating for the kids' ministry rooms. Thank you! Pop Up Shop Needs Thank you so much to everyone who supports this important ministry by buying extras to bless those who need to use our Pop-Up shop. This week's needs include cleaning products, small jars of coffee, squash, toiletries, dried pasta shapes and tinned meat. Thank you!
Ministry News
This week's Ministry News is from J John. Click the image below to read about why we don't celebrate Halloween.

We have a River of Life app- you can download it by clicking on the image below. “With Christ, darkness cannot succeed. Darkness will not gain victory over the light of Christ." Dieter F. Uchtdorf
River of Life Church 2 Carr Road Felixstowe IP11 2FS mail@riveroflifechurch.net

Hello and welcome to our church. If you are a new visitor, we have a page for you to get to know us and learn more about planning a visit.
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Planning your Visit

First Visit?

web 800x400 (8) Welcome! Whether you've just moved to the area, or have lived here all your life, we hope our website helps you to find out everything you want to know about our Church.

Some key information about the church...

When & where does the church meet?
What should I expect when I visit the church?
What happens to the children/teens at church?
Is there a dress code?
Will I have to join in?
I have more questions, how can I get in touch and ask them?

Where & when does the church meet?

Our Church meets every Sunday at 10.30am for Sunday Service. Aim to arrive 10 minutes early to get parked and find a seat in time for the service to start.

We meet at:

River of Life Christian Life Centre
2 Carr Road, Felixstowe, IP11 2FS

You can see a map on our Contact us page.

There is plenty of parking available on the site.

What should I expect when I visit the church?

You will receive a very warm welcome particularly from our Welcome Team who will be able to answer your questions and direct you to where you need to go. There will be approximately 45 mins of singing with opportunity for church members to pray or read a passage from the bible. After the notices there will be a spiritual message from one of the leaders at the Church with a chance to respond at the end of the service.

Tea, coffee and biscuits are normally served after the service where there is plenty of time to meet new people and ask more questions.

What happens to the children at church?

We have a fantastic programme for children at the Church for ages 0 thru 17. Children stay with their parents at the start of the service as we worship (sing songs!) together for the first part of the morning. An announcement is made when it's time for children to join their programmes. Children need to be registered.

For more information about programmes and age groups, please refer to the relevant pages under the main menu heading "Ministries".

Is there a dress code?

No! Please just be yourself and come dressed in your 'normal' clothes.

Will I have to join in?

Not at all!
You are free to simply observe or participate as much as feels comfortable for you.

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I have more questions, how can I get in touch and ask them.

Please feel free to Contact us. If you want to know who works in the church office, check out our Staff and Leadership page.