Our story

The Wellspring Church Centre is a purpose-built community hub in the heart of Watford. It is situated on Wellspring Way, just off the Lower High Street. It is strategically positioned as a place of worship, a base for serving local people, home to a mainstream Pentecostal church family with a vivid history and a big vision.

The church’s history extends back to 1951 with the establishment of Emmanuel Pentecostal Church which procured a site in the town centre. The corrugated-iron building was demolished to make room for the Ring Road in 1962. The Emmanuel congregation moved to a chapel on Sotheron Road and in 1990 adopted the name Watford Community Church, with a desire to find a better town-centre location.

THE WELLSPRING CHURCH CENTRE EMERGES...

At the end of a journey exploring town-centre buildings and available land, in 2007 the church successfully bid for a portion of the brown-field former Watford Springs site. The terms of the long lease included a partnership with Watford Borough Council, the East of England Development Agency and SureStart to provide community facilities for training and charitable purposes.

With funding in place, in 2009 Roy Andrews, a church member since the 1950s, broke ground on the first phase of The Wellspring Church Centre. At the end of 2010 doors were opened to this purpose-built facility, a statement of hope in a previously derelict corner of the town. 

 For eight years the church held services at Watford Grammar School for Girls but had no base for midweek activities. In 1999, with new leadership, Watford Community Church established its first community hub – a converted curry house on Market Street . As the congregation grew the need for a purpose-built facility was recognised, with a growing conviction to serve the whole community. In 2006 the adventure began to go one big step further…