Grace Church Nottingham

Grace Church began in September 2002 when Nick and Penny Sharp were commissioned to plant a Newfrontiers church in Nottingham. Initially meeting in their home before moving to public venues, the church outgrew the Rose and Crown Pub in Lenton and in turn, the John Carroll Leisure Centre in Radford. When Trent Vineyard Church moved out of Meadow Lane in 2003, its leader John Wright encouraged Sharp to move Grace Church into the venue, which quickly became the new home. Being based at the stadium enabled the church to host the Newfrontiers youth festival, Newday, in 2005, attracting some 6,000 people and enabling a whole host of community projects to take place across the city, planned in conjunction with Nottingham City Council. In November 2009, the church bought the former Ministry of Labour's Employment Exchange building on Castle Boulevard and renamed it 'The Ministry'. The story attracted local press attention and local incumbent MP Lilian Greenwood officially opened the building in September 2010. Grace Church has been based there, at 1 Castle Boulevard, ever since.

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