Our Story 

Our story starts in 2011 when a small group gathered to encourage one another in our faith and to pray about starting a new church in Putney to share the good news about Jesus with our community.  Both now and then, we've always wanted as many as possible to hear about him - however, you have to start somewhere so we had an initial focus on connecting with the many 20- and 30-somethings in Putney.  When God had grown that small group to about 20 people, we started Sunday evening services in the King's College School boathouse on the Embankment (hence our name!)

By the middle of 2014, some of us had been blessed with children and so we started a second service on a Sunday morning.  This moved around various venues in Putney until it landed at our current venue, the Oasis Academy, in 2017.  When the boathouse that hosted our evening service had to close for refurbishment works, we merged our two services and enjoyed having a multi-generational feel to our Sunday gatherings so much that we've stayed together ever since!

Our horizons expanded further when we merged with Roehampton Student Church (RSC) in 2021.  Since then we've been exploring ways we can continue RSC's good work of serving the students and graduates of Roehampton University, while also growing our connections to other parts of the Roehampton community.

Today, we’re thankful to be a growing church family of all ages from all sorts of different backgrounds who hold to the same conviction we started with: that the good news about Jesus that we have as Christians is too good to keep to ourselves.  So if you want to get to know him, or be encouraged to keep going in your Christian faith, come and join us one Sunday!