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Welcome to Pennington Church! We are a lively anglican evangelical
church in Leigh, Lancashire. We hope through this site and through
meeting the people who make up this church, that you will find a new or
a deeper faith and relationship with Jesus. You're welcome to just view
this site, get in contact with someone, or come along to any of our
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Simeon's Trust are the patrons of Christ Church.
We support them in their work to encourage gospel based churches throughout the country.
The trustees take their name from Charles Simeon who was born in Reading in 1759. He became a zealous  evangelical Christian whilst studying at Kings College, Cambridge University.
Cambridge was very different from today. It was a county town, poorly appointed, with no street lights and carriages could only move with some difficulty even on the major roadways.
Three days after Charles’ arrival at college, he was told that soon he must attend chapel and take communion. Charles thought that he was not fit for this and must prepare himself. This began mental turmoil for Charles until upon waking on Easter day that year he found peace flowing into his soul, and took his communion a happy man.
Charles was ordained deacon in 1782 whilst still an undergraduate and offered the Curacy-in-Charge of Holy Trinity Cambridge later that year. He suffered strong opposition and hostility for the first thirty years as a Parish Priest and even experienced the doors of the church being locked against him! But he never flinched and won over the people of Cambridge and on the day of his funeral all the Cambridge shops were shut although it was market day and two thousand people attended.
 Charles Simeon
Charles Simeon purchased the “gift of living” of some parishes and founded Simeon’s Trustees to ensure continuity of the evangelical movement in the Church of England, by appointing spiritual clergy with a spiritual message.
Our prayer is that Christ Church and many other churches supported by Simeon's Trustees will maintain the evangelical trdition which he so clearly and eloquently exemplified.
On how to deal with those who criticise him
1. My enemy, whatever evil he says of me, does not reduce me so low as he would if he knew all concerning me that God knows.
2. In drawing the balance, as between debtor and creditor, I find that if I have been robbed of pence, there are pounds and talents that have been laid to my credit (Placed to my account), to which I have no just title.
If man has his day, God will have His.
He wrote a number of books, one of the most famous being:
Let wisdom Judge.
This book is based on a series of sermons and university addresses. It shows his love of the gospel truths and his commitment to them. It has been said that the evangelical Anglican ministry of the 19th century is due largely to Charles Simeon. What a wonderful epitaph!
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