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In 1866 Surbiton was a leafy suburb of Greater London.
In one of the houses near to the present Church site lived a lady, Jane Woodfall, a Christian who travelled regularly to Central London on the recently opened Railway, to hear Rev Charles Spurgeon preach.
Local records show that at that time two workmans cottages with adjoining buildings and land, on the site that is now the Church building in Langley Road, came up for sale.
Jane Woodfall bought them and presented them to Spurgeon so that a Baptist Chapel could be built where the ordinary folk could hear the Gospel of salvation in Jesus name.
In 1873 a Sunday School hall was opened on the ground, followed in 1874 by the opening of Surbiton Hill Baptist Church.
The church became one of over 150 around London, all of very similar appearance, affectionately called a barn with a roof on and built on lands donated to Spurgeon by well to do Christians of similar mind to our Jane Woodfall.
Eventually a group broke away and in around 1898 a new strict and particular fellowship was formed as Surbiton Baptist Church on Balaclava Road.
Our then pastor, Roger Smith, asked for the two fellowships to come back together.
Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit the two fellowships decided to explore an amalgamation under a new name.
Under Eddie Mooneys guidance and work the two fellowships came together in September 2000 under a rewritten constitution as Baptists Together in Surbiton.
We then called Adam Stacey, a young man with some different ideas on outreach, on use of premises and with an interest in using football as an outreach.
In 2010 the new church was constituted under the name Surbiton New Life Baptist Church.
In 2012 Adam left us to head up a Christian young peoples and family support work in Aldershot called the Source.
At this time, we were not sure if we could afford the services of a full-time pastor.
God again provided in that, one of our deacons, Rev Jacky Bone, was a part time chaplain at the local YMCA.
Jacky was an ordained Minister under the then London Bible College and became our part-time Minister, continuing the outreach work Adam had started with her help at the Well, a Sunday afternoon Caf-church and help to those in need.
Jacky left us in late summer of 2018 to take up a pioneering ministry in Witney in Oxfordshire.
We welcomed Rev Richard Asante and family in September 2018 as our present Minister.