Find out your ACEs score

The first step to getting help for yourself if needed – and to protecting your children from ACEs

Your ACEs score will be based on specific ACEs you may have experienced in your childhood. Understanding ourselves as adults often means revisiting our childhoods.

Researchers have identified the following ACEs:

Physical, sexual or verbal abuse
Physical or emotional neglect
Separation or divorce
A family member with mental illness
A family member addicted to drugs or alcohol
A family member who is in prison
Witnessing a parent being abused

The higher your ACEs score, the higher your RISK of developing serious health and social issues, such as depression, stroke, PTSD, cancer, and substance abuse.

Our free ACEs survey will ask you 21 simple questions.

The first 10 questions are based on the original ACEs screening, which covers the above bulleted list of specific ACEs.

The remaining questions include other forms of childhood adversity which are increasingly recognised as potential ACEs as well as simple demographics, for example, your age group.

The survey and your ACEs score are completely anonymous & confidential.

At the end of your ACEs survey, we will provide you with your ACEs score and information on what it may mean for you.

PLEASE NOTE - The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) score is a relatively crude measure of cumulative childhood stress exposure that can vary widely from person to person. Unlike recognized public health screening measures, such as blood pressure that use measurement reference standards and thresholds for clinical decision making, the ACE score is not a standardized measure of childhood exposure to stress.

Why is this? The questions from the ACE study cannot fully assess the frequency, intensity, or chronicity of exposure to an ACE or differences in the timing of exposure. For example, 2 people, each having an ACE score of 4, may have different lifetime exposures, timing of exposures, or positive experiences or protective factors that affect stress. A person with an ACE score of 1 may have experienced intense, chronic, and unrelenting exposure to a single type of abuse, whereas another person who has experienced low-level exposure to multiple adversities will have a higher ACE score.

As a result, projecting the risk of health or social outcomes based on any individual’s ACE score can lead to significant underestimation or overestimation of actual risk. However you will know how ACEs affected you and you can seek help.

To discover your Adverse Childhood Experiences score, please confirm that you are over 18 and have read the Terms and Conditions.

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Hello and welcome to our church. If you are a new visitor, we have a page for you to get to know us and learn more about planning a visit.
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Planning your Visit

A Warm Hello

The following information is specifically for those planning a visit, so that you know, beforehand, what to expect on a Sunday morning.

Where and When

We meet at the Church Building (details here) for our Sunday Service starting at 10am. For your first visit, we recommend arriving 10-15 minutes early to ensure you get a parking space and find somewhere to sit before the service begins. When you arrive, you should be greeted by someone on our Welcome Team who will be wearing a Welcome lanyard.

We serve tea, coffee and biscuits from 10am, before the service begins. It is a great way to meet people, or simply take time to find your bearings. All refreshments are free.

Accessibility: There is wheelchair access, and a sound loop for anyone who needs it. Please let one of the Welcome Team know on your arrival and they will help you to get set up. There are disabled toilets in the main foyer.

Our Service

The main service begins at 10am with a warm welcome from one of our team members. Then follows a time of sung worship, led by our band. We typically have 2 or 3 songs lasting approximately 20 minutes. Sometimes a person might pray out loud or read a small passage from the bible. Sometimes people share things that they believe God is saying to the whole church family. This might seem strange the first time you hear it but it’s all part of our connecting with God. We then share news and notices, usually about what’s going on in the life of the church. One of our leaders will then give a sermon that is bible based and that we can apply to our everyday life. We then finish with a final worship song. Sometimes there is an opportunity to receive prayer at the end of the service.

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What about my kids?

We have a great programme lined up for kids of all ages:

Creche (0 months to 3 years). Children under 6 months are welcome but must be accompanied by their parent/grown-up at all times.
Livewires (3-7 years)
Encounter (7-11 years)
Katalyst (11-15 years)
Young people (15+ years) Stay in service.

Children stay with their parent or grown-up at the start of the service for the welcome, songs and notices. We really value worshipping God all together as a family. At the end of the notices someone will announce that it’s time for the younger members to go to their various groups. You will need to go with your children to their groups and register them as part of our child safety policy. Whilst you are dropping your kids off at their groups, we pause to take time to chat to someone sitting near or next to us, giving folk a chance to come back before the sermon begins.

The kids group activities vary depending on the age but usually there is a friendly welcome, bible stories, testimonies, praying, music, craft, drama, fun games and free play. Please pick your children up as soon as the service finishes.

Getting Connected

Small Groups

While Sundays are a great way to meet new people, it is often in smaller gatherings that you can really get to know someone. Being part of one of our small groups allows you to make new friends, share together and support each other. We have a variety of groups that meet throughout the week, some afternoons and some evenings. Check out Small Groups and see if there’s one that you could join, or we can put you in touch with a small group leader who will be more than happy to invite you along to their group.

Serving and Volunteering

If you want to get involved in the life of the church and help us make Sundays run smoothly, you can sign up to serve on a team.

Other Ministries

We also run the following ministries:

Men's Ministries
Women's Ministries
Night Shelter
Foodbank

Get in touch with us to plan your visit

If you would like to come and visit the church beforehand you are more than welcome! Get in touch and we can arrange a time that suits you.

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Comments / Questions or anything you would like to say?

Next, we will contact you by email to say hello and help arrange anything necessary for your visit.

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We hope that whoever you are, you will feel at home at our church.

Best Wishes

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