Warriors on their knees
We are a church that believes prayer changes cities. Not a venue, not a brand, but a family of people learning to live surrendered to God in the middle of London.
YHWH Sabaoth
God of Armies
Our name comes from Yahweh Sabaoth, one of the names of God.
The logo is a warrior on his knees, holding a sword, because that is who we are: warriors who fight their battles on their knees, without ever giving up. The sword is the Word of God. The knees are the posture. Both matter.
Three things we refuse to lose
If you have never been part of a church, this is the honest version of what you would be joining. Not a programme to attend: three things we are unwilling to trade away, whatever it costs us.
Nobody grows
alone
Every person here has someone walking with them, one to one. Not a course you sign up for and finish, but somebody who knows your name, your week and what you are actually struggling with. It happens in Lifegroups around a table and in the Bible Academy, and it is the reason nobody drifts through this church unnoticed.
Courageous
faith
We would rather be honest than comfortable. That means following Jesus without the quiet compromises everyone expects you to make, and letting that show up at work, in your relationships, with your money and in the parts of the week nobody sees. Courage, not caution, and no small print.
We expect
miracles
We believe God still heals, still speaks and still turns lives round, because we keep watching Him do it. That is why fasting and prayer are ordinary here rather than exceptional: a supernatural lifestyle is not an event you attend, it is how the week is built. Come with something to ask Him for.
From Milan to London
Thirty-two years, three young people praying in a city that wasn't interested, and a word about boundaries that kept getting wider.
Sabaoth Church is founded in Milan by Ps. Roselen B. Faccio. She had come from Brazil at nineteen, already dreaming of revival in Italy. The church started from nothing: three young people who prayed and fasted, asking God for the city of Milan. But God had much more in store, and Milan was only the beginning.
God gives a word about expanding our boundaries. That year the first two churches outside Milan are started, organically. From then on church planting becomes a core part of the mission, because we believe the local church is an incredible evangelistic tool.
Valerio & Fiorella Angioli move to London with their three sons to start the church. No building, no congregation. A team on the ground, and a year of meeting people, praying and building from nothing.
Grand Opening of Sabaoth Church London, 11am, at London South Bank University. The newest chapter of a story that began in Milan thirty-two years ago.
Sabaoth Church is one of the largest evangelical churches in Italy. Under its leadership, more than 70 churches and missions have been established across Italy: Rome, Venice, Florence, Turin, Palermo, and it continues to expand into Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Albania, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and beyond.
Over 70 churches opened
Every city on this list started the same way: a handful of people who would not stop praying. London is the newest of them.
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Valerio &
Fiorella Angioli
Twelve years of ministry, four churches planted across central Italy, three sons, and a call to London they could not shake off.
Valerio stepped into full-time ministry in Italy in 2014. A year later he and Fiorella married, and they have served as a couple from the first day: never one pastor with a spouse alongside, but two people carrying the same house.
Between 2016 and 2024 they planted four churches across central Italy, each begun with a handful of people in a living room and handed on to a local team once it could stand, alongside evangelistic tours, a creative team using art and theatre, and assemblies in state schools. In September 2025 the family landed in London with their three sons: no building, no congregation, no shortcuts.
Ps. Roselen
B. Faccio
Roselen Boerner Faccio is Senior Pastor of Sabaoth Church, the largest evangelical movement in Italy, one that keeps growing, with over seventy churches across Italy, Europe and South America.
After giving her life to Jesus at a young age, she founded the first church in Milan in 1994. For more than thirty years she has led a movement that trains disciples, leaders and missionaries all over the world.
She founded the Hangar28 missionary school and has attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington several times. Author of Bible study manuals and of the novel “Thé con Dio”, her desire is to see a living, authentic, transforming faith reach every person and every city.
Our ministries
Faith, in every
part of society
Sabaoth Italia
Across the network the church works in more than 36 areas, grouped into six. Every one of them has an evangelistic purpose, and the same aim: to be present in every part of society, and to make faith visible there. Open a group to see what is inside it.
In London we are starting with Sundays, Kids Ministry, Lifegroups, Monday prayer, the Bible Academy and free English Conversation, and building towards the rest of it.
Six bands, from nursery age to the church’s over-thirties, each with its own leaders and its own way of doing things.
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age 0–10S’Kids and Families
The area that looks after the spiritual growth of children from 0 to 10, and that backs up the strength of their families while it does it.
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age 11–13Pre Teens
The ministry for pre-adolescents: interactive Bible studies, honest conversations about right and wrong and everyday life, and a lot of group games.
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age 14–18Teens
Teenagers who decided to demolish the “rebellious” side of the word adolescent and spend that same energy reaching as many people as they can, with Jesus first.
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age 18–29YouS
The young adults of the church: the ones who decided not to hold back and not to stand still, because you cannot start a revolution sitting down.
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age 29–40Aware
Three things in one: Equipment, a training programme for discovering your own potential; Aware Editorial, articles and columns on current and spiritual subjects written to be read; and Aware’s Encounter, quarterly national gatherings, live and online.
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age 30 and over30+
The band for the church’s over-thirties.
Where the church looks after the person: the soul, the family, the paperwork and everything in between.
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soul careHearts Counseling
A soul-care movement built on the Bible, on spirituality and on Christian counselling, for the complete inner healing of a person from whatever afflicts the soul, the spirit and the mind.
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come to be healedHearts Emotional Healing School
“Come to be healed, not to study.” Born out of a dream of the Hearts ministry, to help people heal deeply: in theory, and above all in experience.
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the whole personSabaoth Sociale
The area that cares for a person’s needs at 360 degrees: welfare and humanitarian help, advice and mediation for finding work and settling into a new society and culture, rehabilitation for addiction, orientation for foreign families, and help with putting documents in order.
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free, for parentsParental Assistance
A free personalised counselling service for parents with children aged 0 to 18, through one-to-one conversations and longer paths, guided by the principles of the Word of God.
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growth, and honestyBen-Essere · Women Without Makeup
Ben-Essere is personal growth: courses on conscious eating, healthy living, self-esteem, potential and emotional intelligence, working towards a settled character and a healthy balance of body and mind. Women Without Makeup brings women to tell their own life stories so that those stories help someone else, morally, spiritually and materially, through weekly meetings, events and annual retreats.
Everything built to teach: three years of Bible, a missionary school, a bilingual school and a publishing house.
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three yearsSabaoth Academy
The area given to biblical culture, to the study of the Word and to Christian subjects. A three-year journey to learn to hear the voice of God and to grow with Him.
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missionary schoolHangar28
A high-level ministerial and missionary training school, theory and practice, with the aim of forming ministers at 360 degrees who can found missions and churches in nations the Gospel has not yet reached.
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nursery to secondaryChristian Bilingual School
A private school that follows a child’s development from nursery through primary and into secondary.
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publishingSabaoth Books
The publishing house that gives Italian and foreign authors their place, sponsors new talent, and makes both paper books and ebooks.
The part of the church that goes outside: squares, beaches, schools, disaster zones.
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evangelism and missionsSCEGLIGESÙ
The area for evangelism with impact and for missions in Italy and abroad. Yellow Tour: summer itineraries of evangelism in squares and on beaches. Homeless Project: help for social hardship and destitution. Cinderella Project: support for the victims of human trafficking.
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internationallyHumanitarian Projects
The humanitarian arm of SCEGLIGESÙ, working to protect and improve the living conditions of ethnic groups and minorities internationally, and to assist and rescue the victims of pandemics, conflict and natural disaster.
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schools and universitiesIAMREV Project
A revolutionary student movement that calls students to greatness through school assemblies, missions and content online. The aim: that they know the truth, get past their fear, and believe in themselves.
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purityPurex Culture
A movement for spreading a culture of purity in relationships and in sexuality, and for bringing every young person to see how precious their own body is: not to sell it cheap, and to live sex the way God made it.
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pro-lifeStronger
A pro-life movement inside Purex Culture that sets out to inform and to give concrete support on the subject of abortion.
Music, dance, theatre, cinema and visual art, all of it pointed at the same thing.
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worshipSabaoth Sounds
The area that carries the worship. SoundS is not a music school but a ministry, where members who study outside the church serve through what they can already do. You come in through a professional audition.
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dance as prayerSDance
A movement that trains dancer-worshippers, dancers and performer-ministers through specific paths built on the “Dance as Prayer” method, to serve the church through dance of every style and to make performances that hit and inspire the world.
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theatreS139
An artistic and cultural movement that uses theatre and performance art to carry the revolutionary content of the Gospel into the most influential cultural spaces of society. Word Therapy: courses in healing and inner formation, through the Word and through creativity.
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cinemaSabaoth Film
The area given to cinema, and to how a crew working on a specific project can put the strength of Christ into frames, reaching every different palate: popular cinema and video art, documentary and art film, thriller and comedy.
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film festivalSIFF
The Sabaoth International Film Festival is a biennial event that gathers the best Christian film-making in the world, and encourages Italian work that carries the message of Christ in a way that is contemporary and new.
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a new renaissanceVisual Arts
A visual art movement: photography, painting, sculpture, video art, digital art and NFTs, installation, street art and illustration, for a new renaissance that starts in Italy and goes to the nations.
The volunteer teams. Most of them you only notice when they are missing.
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the front doorWelcome
The team that receives and welcomes people, and the information point during every event. They are the ones who point you towards a Lifegroup, the weekly small-group meetings in homes.
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intercessionPrayers
The area that covers the church and everything it does through an intense and organised movement of prayer, made up of people who know the power of intercession from experience.
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behind the cameraMedia
We are the ones you see everywhere, dressed in black, sometimes invisible. The ones behind a camera, a monitor, a keyboard, a social profile, a graphic. This is our love language: we like using what we can do to serve the church and God with excellence. And when we cannot, we improvise and hope it goes well.
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audio and lightProduction
The area that runs the technical side, giving the church a sound and lighting service for every live event. You come in through an aptitude test, followed by specific training.
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safetySecurity
The service that looks after surveillance, safety, protection and the coordination of people and of the church itself, during every event and initiative.
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first aidRescue Life
A specialised team that gives primary first aid in case of illness, trauma or injury, runs first aid and CPR courses, and is present at every event.
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care of the houseHoly Cleaning
The service that keeps the church clean, and that sets out to teach everyone who comes through it to care for the building and respect it.
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funding the workFundraising
The Fundraising area designs the strategies for finding funds for the social, humanitarian and missionary causes of the Sabaoth cooperative.
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translationSabaoth International
Born in 2015, out of a desire to translate Sabaoth material into every language so the church could expand across the world. It already translates into Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, German and Albanian. If you can translate, join in.
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coordinationPastor’s Executive Team
The newest area, developing and coordinating the work of the office: organising events, ministerial and missionary travel, partnerships with other churches, the network of guest speakers and a great deal more.
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books and gadgetsShop
The historic bookshop of Sabaoth Church. Distributor and producer of the gadgets, the books and the t-shirts.
Grab a coffee with one of our pastoral team
An hour, any question, our round. Pick a time that suits you, and you do not need to be a Christian, and you will not end up on a list.
What we believe
The same creed as the whole Sabaoth Church family.
We believe in the whole Bible
(II Timothy 3:16 / II Peter 1:21)
We believe in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
(Ephesians 4:6, John 1:14, Acts 5:3,4)
We believe that Jesus Christ is God and that, emptying Himself of His divinity, He became man (Revelation 22:13 / I Timothy 2:5), born of the virgin Mary (Matthew 1:23), lived without sin (Hebrews 4:15); we believe in His miracles (Matthew 11:5), in His death on the cross (I Peter 2:24), in His resurrection (I Corinthians 15:3,4), in His ascension to the right hand of the Father (Acts 1:9,11) and in His return
(Matthew 24:30,31)
We believe that all people are born in sin and separated from God (Romans 3:23), and that they must be born again (John 3:3) to receive eternal life, confessing Jesus as Lord
We believe that every believer should be baptised in water by immersion, as an outward sign of their choice to follow Jesus.
(Matthew 28:18,20)
We believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit and in His gifts (I Corinthians 14:12), and we believe that the initial evidence of this baptism is speaking in other tongues
(Acts 2:1,4)
We believe in discipleship
(Matthew 28:19)
We believe in the institution of the universal Church (Matthew 16:18), which is the Body and Bride of Jesus (I Corinthians 12:12,27 / Ephesians 1:22,23 / Revelation 19:7,9) and of which all believers are part.
We believe in the Lord’s Supper as a symbol that remembers His sacrifice and His death
(I Corinthians 11:23,26)
We believe in the resurrection of believers and unbelievers, the first to eternal life
(Revelation 20:4,6 / 11:15)