About Us

A very warm welcome to Emmanuel Church, West Hampstead.

Emmanuel has stood as a beacon of God’s light and love since 1897.

Everyone is warmly welcome at all our services and activities, irrespective of race, age, gender, physical ability, sexual orientation or way of life. 

We rejoice in the great and wonderful diversity of God’s creation and we recognize and celebrate the beauty of his image uniquely revealed in one another.

Please visit our website at www.emmanuelnw6.com for further information.

Our Mission Statement

We, the people of Emmanuel, West Hampstead seek to be faithful to “the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers (Acts 2:42) and to authenticate this in acts of love and service to one another and to the community in which we are set, showing God’s generous and inclusive love to all.

Some quotations which sum up our core values

“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God”

(The prophet Micah 6:8)

“I have come that you might have life – and have it in abundance”

(Jesus Christ – John 10:10)

 “The glory of God is a human being fully alive”

(St Irenaeus 130-200 AD)

 “Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for He is going to say, “I came as a guest, and you received Me”

(Rule of St Benedict 480-547 AD)

“Be who God created you to be and you will set the world on fire”

(St Catherine of Siena 1347-80 AD)

 “Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value”

(Archbishop Desmond Tutu 1931-2022)