Emmanuel Church Salisbury

The church was formally constituted in October 1953. Through God's gracious provision, the Trueman Trust made the present church building in Wilton Road available to Emmanuel Church in September 1963 and the former Manse in Devonshire Road in 1966.

Frank A. Lawes was Minister of the Church from March 1966 to May 1970. In February 1971 Malcolm H. Watts was called to be the Minister and he continues to serve the church in this capacity.

He was born in 1946 in Barnstaple, North Devon, England. Brought up in a Christian home, he was called by grace in his teenage years, and subsequently, called into the ministry. He trained at London Bible College between 1967-70, and since 1971 has been the minister of Emmanuel Church, Salisbury. He married Gillian in 1976, and they have two daughters and eight grandchildren.

Malcolm Watts is Chairman of the Trinitarian Bible Society and Chairman of the Bible League Trust, which publishes the Bible League Quarterly. He is a visiting Lecturer at the London Reformed Baptist Seminary and at the Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, and he has spoken at a number of conferences in England and other parts of the world. He is the author of The Lord Gave the Word: A study in the History of the Biblical Text (1998), and he has co-authored The Worship of God (1998) and The Government of the Church (2000).