Our story
Gareth and Leanne Morgan are senior leaders at Everyday Champions Church. They have two daughters, Erin and Bethan, and a son, Reuben. Gareth is the son of Ken and Sylvia Morgan who led the Newark church for 25 years before handing it on to Gareth in 2000. Gareth has lived in Newark all his life and has a passion to see the everyday, ordinary person in Newark and surrounding area discover the champion that is inside of them.
ECC as a church entity has been in existence since the 1930's, then know as Emmanuel Pentecostal Church, based on Sherwood Avenue, Newark
The church began to gather momentum in the 1970's when Pastor Ken Morgan and his wife Sylvia came to Newark to lead the church. Since then the church has been through two major building projects and the influence of ECC has gone beyond the boundaries of Newark.
Since taking on the leadership of ECC, Gareth has taken the church through a series of changes to prepare the organsiation for the challenges of being an effective church in the 21st century.
Two significant changes were renaming the church to Everyday Champions Church and building the £1.7m Everyday Champions Centre. The new centre enables the organsiation to add activities that play an important role in the community life of Newark.
The new facility hosts a cafe, pre-school nursery (opening late 2009), conference rooms, pre-school soft-play, offices and meeting space. The state-of-the-art auditorium can seat up to 600 people. Finance raised through the centre enables ECC to further its charitable objectives.
At ECC we believe that success for our lives starts on a Sunday. Every Sunday we take time to understand more about God's 'Big Idea' for our lives. We run two differently styled services with the same theme running throughout. The earlier meeting is more conventional in format and the second more contemporary.