Connect Church is a new expression with a significant heritage. Though we launched as a brand new and distinct church in 2020, our history actually goes back more than 100 years. On 13th November 1920 a church service was held in an old YMCA building on Scunthorpe High Street and a new faith community was born. After a few moves and a temporary closure during the Second World War, the community known as Scunthorpe Baptist Church found its home on Ashby Road. Almost exactly a century after that first service the members of the church made the audacious and bold decision to close and reopen as ‘Connect Church’; a new venture built from the ground up to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century world.