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For many years we met in the Guildhall, but always our aim has been to have a church building of our own - and a Church Building Fund was gradually built up for that purpose.

In January, 2001, we were told that it was planned that the Guildhall would be used for other purposes and we would have to find an alternative meeting place.  Fortunately, the St John Ambulance Association, kindly allowed us to rent their hall until we could find a permanent place.

Now we have our own Tin Tabernacle.

In 1985, Robert Surridge, the Pastor from Gorleston, and Jonathan Gallagher, Pastor from Cambridge, joined forces to bring the Adventist message to Bury St Edmunds.  They did house-to-house visitation and contacted known SDA believers in and around Bury, as well as those on the US air force bases at Lakenheath and Mildenhall.

The group of interested persons started meeting for worship and Bible study in the Guildhall, about September that year.  As Robert Surridge writes, ‘Jonathan and I found the Guildhall whilst trying to get out of a rain storm and I know that it served the church well as a home for many years.’

The group was officially organised by Pastor Sven Ohman as a ‘Church’ on 12th October 1991 with 24 charter members.