Barnabas Community Church, Shrewsbury
Coordinates: 52°42′16″N 2°44′52″W / 52.7044°N 2.7478°W
Barnabas Community Church is an independent, charismatic evangelical, Church in Shrewsbury, England, and is in many ways a product of the UK British New Church Movement. It is part of the Newfrontiers family of churches and a member of the Evangelical Alliance.
Barnabas Christian Fellowship was founded in 1983, after the Crowmoor Baptist Church outgrew its building at the time. The initial group was about 80 strong. Restricted by only having limited capacity in meeting rooms above a pub, as the church grew, it separated into two congregations for a three-year period. In 1993, the two congregations reunited and began meeting together at the Wakeman School with a clear sense that a new "home" was needed.
In 1996 Barnabas formally became part of Newfrontiers, an international family of similar churches.
In 1999 Barnabas formally adopted a cell group model for church life, having been inspired by teaching from Ralph Neighbour and organisations such as Cell UK.
About the same time the Alpha Course was adopted and has been run twice a year since then.
In 2001 the name of the church was changed officially to Barnabas Community Church.
Between 1983 and 1985 the church met in various public halls including the Music Hall and the Gateway arts centre. Between 1985 and 1996 the church rented a suite of rooms above the Lloyds pub in Shrewsbury town centre.
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