Mr Frederick E Pinkess who had been running a successful ‘mobile’ Sunday school in the community decided to apply for permission to get a church built.

It was a non-denominational place of worship called Grove Park Mission and served as a mercy ministry to the poor.

[1] In the 1930s and 1940s, the church had a very popular and effective outreach programme in the community especially amongst the children, which led to a thriving Sunday school.

Outreaches included opening-air singing and playing hymns along the local residential streets while carrying around the heavy church organ for music.

Pastor Thomson expressed the fact that they were thankful to see the church building in the hands of a new thriving congregation.