About Us

Welcome to Pier Avenue Baptist Church!

We would love to welcome you to our fellowship at one of our services, events or activities. We are a friendly and welcoming Church and love to meet new people of any age. 

Mission Statement

Our fellowship, here in Clacton, has a Mission Statement, which summarizes what we stand for. It says that our purpose is:

– To celebrate God’s presence

– To communicate God’s Word

– To educate God’s people

– To demonstrate God’s love

We have broken this down to explain it.  Our purpose is:

– To celebrate God’s presence. We do this whenever we meet for worship (see services) but also at other times when we praise and worship God together.

– To communicate God’s Word. We strongly believe in mission – both locally and internationally, and we support all kinds of mission work, involving practical caring as well as evangelism.

– To educate God’s people. This we do through various youth and children’s’ activities, through Bible study and House groups, and through our Sunday teaching programme.

– To demonstrate God’s love. We truly want our Church to be a family, in which Christian love is shared between every member, and through which God’s love is shown to the local community and the world.

These are the principles we stand for, and we welcome all who love the Lord Jesus Christ, and who share these aims, to join us in serving God in Clacton.

Our Minister

After fifteen years leading Pier Avenue Baptist Church our Minister, Rev Sean Fountain, left us at the end of July 2022 when he answered God’s Call to a new ministry at Brentwood Baptist Church in Essex. We wish him and Paula well as they settle into their new life and ministry there.

We have now begun a process called ‘Resettlement’ which is when the Church Fellowship seeks to appoint a new Minister. Supported by the Eastern Baptist Association the Deacons and Membership will be working together in the coming months to determine who it is that God wants to carry on the next phase in the life and ministry at Pier Avenue Baptist Church. The process is thorough, but it is not a quick one! We will update this page when we have news to share.