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This web site will be redeveloped over several months (late 2024 to early 2025) so please bear with us if we have a few hiccups during the refurbishment – however – why not come along to the church and meet us “in person”? The Sunday service starts at 11:00 and we would love to see…

Beacon Bulletin Our Mission To combat loneliness and isolation through Physical, Emotional and Spiritual wellbeing   This week at the Beacon 21st November, Morning Worship led by Terry. 2pm Messy Church, Louise Quinn Tuesday 23rd November Coffee Morning 10am to 12 am in the concourse Friday 26th November 6.00pm Youth group Future worship at the…

Sunday 14thNovember 2021 Our Mission To combat loneliness and isolation through Physical, Emotional and Spiritual wellbeing   This week at the Beacon 14th November. Remembrance Sunday. No service in the morning, Civic Remembrance Service at 6.30 p.m. led by James Tuesday 16th November Coffee Morning 10am to 12 am in the concourse Friday 19th November…

     Sunday 31st October 2021 This week at the Beacon   Sunday 31st October 11am Morning Worship, Revd. John Maile Tuesday 2nd November Coffee Morning 10am to 12 am in the concourse Tuesday 2nd November Elders Meeting at 4pm, followed by Church Life Meeting at 6.30 p.m. Thursday 4th November Bible Study 7.30p.m. in the…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends It’s Fairtrade Fortnight and I wish it wasn’t. It’s not that I don’t believe in Fairtrade rather it’s that it should be Fairtrade every day not just for fourteen days out of three hundred and sixty-five (six, this year). I have been a Fairtrade supporter for over thirty years…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends The front page of the Bromsgrove Standard recently carried an article about the reduction of First Bus service 144 from half-hourly to hourly between Bromsgrove & Birmingham. The article talked about the difficulty it would cause some people. The reality is that the service is carrying less passengers as…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends How do we view our success as a church? Do we judge it by the use of our building? If so our thriving community use with three to five hundred people through the doors each week, depending on programme is surely success. Do we judge it by numbers in…

Dear Friends Let’s hear a story, a truly wonderful story of how and why we celebrate Christmas. It happened just over 2000 years ago and is recalled for us by Mary, now an old lady. I grew up in a little town in Galilee called Nazareth. There was nothing special about my childhood, but nothing…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends Last Sunday I had the privilege of preaching on Paul’s second letter to Timothy. It contains much sound sense and includes this wonderful passage And you also well know that God rescued me! Anyone who wants to live all out for Christ is in for a lot of trouble;…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends Every Sunday we light a ‘Peace Candle’ to remind us to pray for peace and to commit ourselves to working for peace. It is not simply for peace in war torn or violent places that we pray for. It is for peace in every place, every situation, every neighbourhood,…