Beacon Newsletter
May 2015
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A warm welcome to everyone, members and guests, to our church.
May
Day
10am
12.30pm
Friday
1st
Sunday
3rd
10.00 Family Service:
Speaker: Beacon Warriors
Sunday
10th
10.00 Sunday Worship
Speaker: Tim
(Daniel Sherrffe’s blessing)
Sunday
17th
10.00 Sunday Worship
Speaker : Dorothy Guy
(Tamar ministries)
12.30 Sunday Worship
Speaker : Elaine
Sunday
24th
10.00 Sunday Worship
Speaker : Almina
12.30 Sunday Worship
Speaker : Omar
Sunday
31st
10.00 Sunday Worship
Speaker : Mike Terry
1pm Church meal
2.30pm AGM
10.30 Prayer meeting 7.30 Prayer meeting
--------Day of Prayer ------Service on the Lyndhurst Estate
Preparation & outreach at 12pm
Service at 2pm
12.30 Sunday Worship
Speaker: OJ
May
Friday
1st
10.30 Prayer meeting 7.30 Prayer meeting
--------Day of Prayer --------
Join us for prayer on Sunday morning from 9.30am to 9.45am - lay the foundations for Sunday worship so that God’s powerful presence will be known by all who come.
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Beacon Prayer Request
Name__________________
Contact Number____________
Nature of Issue
Please let us know your prayer request or the type of practical support
needed. Indicate using the tick boxes below the type of contact you require
Pastor☐
leader ☐
Face to face ☐
Preferred help/helper
female ☐ Male ☐
older
person☐
Phone call ☐ Confidential Yes☐
Married
couple☐
No☐
Please hand this to a member of the Leadership Team or Ingrid Daniel on 0121 554 5924
who is our Pastoral Care Co-ordinator. Your request will be treated with confidentiality.
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Prayer at Beacon
Day of Prayer and Fasting
May 1st
At 10.30 am
And at 7.30pm
Serving the City in Partnership
BCM would like to convey warm thanks to the
Our next Day of Prayer and Fasting will fellowship at Beacon for the kind gift sent to
support the work in the community.
be
Around 60 elderly people are being reached
June 5th
through the lunch clubs. In these days of an
At 10.30am and 7.30pm
ageing population with many vulnerable people,
the Mission’s input of physical and spiritual care
It will be good to see you there.
is much appreciated .
If you need prayer for yourself, a loved The needs of the young are very different and
around 140 schools are being visited each
one or friend, contact one of our
term, as they reach out to a new generation.
Leadership Team or Ingrid Daniel on
0121 554 5924 who is our Pastoral Care Beacon prayers are requested for the whole
work at BCM, as they assure us of their prayCo-ordinator. Your request will be
ers for our ongoing witness and ministry here
treated with confidentiality.
in Handsworth.
Home from Hospital Care
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Will you be going in to hospital soon?
Are you worried how you will cope when you return home?
Do you have a friend or relative who will be coming out of hospital?
Are they worried how they will manage in the first few weeks?
This is where Home from Hospital can help you.
The volunteers from the 'Welcome Home Service' give free practical common-sense support for up
to six weeks after discharge from hospital or after treatment from any other health establishment. Alternatively they may arrange other support.
The service is available to all Birmingham residents who have been in hospital in the City or elsewhere.
We will receive referrals from medical professionals, social workers and from patients or their families.
For more information or to make a referral contact: 0121 472 4499
Coordinators are based at Good Hope ,Queen Elizabeth, City and Heartlands. All other hospitals are
covered from the Selly Oak office.
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Beacon Stay and Play
Beacon Stay & Play group for 0-3 years, and their
parents/carers meet Wednesday in term time
10am-11.30pm. The group meets for parents/carers to socialise and play with their children. You and your toddler can meet new friends
and join in with activities aimed at enhancing your
child’s development whilst having fun! Come and
join in the fun and help your child learn through
play. We provide a welcoming environment so
please come along, give us a try and tell us what
you think...help us to meets your needs .
For more information contact Ingrid on
07737956126
Coming to Birmingham in June
Give yourself the night off – join popular TV and radio presenter Diane Louise
Jordan and inspirational speaker and author Cathy Madavan at Care for the
Family’s Mum’s the Word event for a fun and insightful evening designed especially
for mums. Mothers are so often unsung heroes, and this special evening is about
recognising and affirming their role in society. But that’s not all. We also hope to
bring encouragement, support and fresh inspiration to mums with children of all
ages. Life Community Church, Birmingham - 3 June
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Food Bank: Beacon meeting the needs of
our Community
Beacon is part of a consortium of churches in this area who are working together, with the support
of the Trussell Trust, to provide a Food Bank for our local community. We need your help and food
donations to get this venture off the ground. Please help feed local people in crisis by buying items
from the list below and donating them to Beacon Foodbank Mission.
Shopping list
Milk (UHT or powdered)
Sugar (500g)
Long life Fruit juice (carton)
Pasta sauces
Sponge pudding (tinned)
Tomatoes (tinned)
Cereals
Rice pudding (tinned)
Tea Bags/instant coffee
Instant mash potato
Tinned meat/fish
Tinned fruit
Tinned vegetables
Biscuits or snack bars
The food bank provides a minimum of three days, non-perishable, emergency food to local people
in crisis. All food given out is donated by the local community. This is done in partnership with frontline care professionals who identify people in need.
Within the next month or so, Beacon will be providing a container for you to place your food donations in. Further information about the process will follow shortly .
If you are interested in being a part of the team who are working on this
project, contact Maggie or Marcia
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Reminder Notice
We can buy them some
top-up on their gas or
fund called the 25:35
electricity card, buy
fund. Matthew 25:35-36 some clothes or food to
is in the middle of Jesus’ keep them going for a
parable of the sheep and few days.
the goats and challenges
us to respond to our
In addition, we give a
neighbour in need as if
regular gift each month
to Jesus himself:
from this fund to the
“For I was hungry and
Handsworth Welcome
you gave me something
Charity, a group of
to eat, I was thirsty and
Christians who befriend
you gave me something
and support asylum
to drink, I was a
seekers and refugees in
stranger and you invited
our area.
me in, I needed clothes
and you clothed me, I
was sick and you looked Having a fund like this
after me, I was in prison means that if someone
on the street walks in
and you came to visit
unexpectedly, we know
me.”
we can go out straight
away and buy some food
Whilst the distress fund
for them. It also means
is mainly used to help
that we can have a
people within Beacon,
positive impact on the
the 25:35 Fund was set
desperate plight of
up to help people that
refugees and others
we are reaching out to
who are often left with
or that come to us from
nothing, by supporting
our community for help.
the Welcome group.
Beacon has a special
If you come across
someone in need then
remember we have the
25:35 fund to help in
small ways. The fund is
not large so could you
give a regular monthly
gift to it? You can give a
one-off gift – just mark
the cheque with “25:35
Fund” or put the gift in
an envelope marked
“25:35 Fund” and put it
in the offering.
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Dates For Your Diary
Beacon 2015 Events
Sunday 31st May
Saturday 6th June
Saturday 20th June
Saturday 27th June
Sunday 12th July
Saturday 1st August
Fri 4th Sun 6th Sept
Sunday 27th Sept
Sunday 8th Nov
Sunday 20th Dec
Thursday 31st Dec
Church Lunch and AGM after St James
Service with Mike Terry
Beacon Warriors Annual Thanksgiving concert
Beacon Community Fun Day
Tamar Ministries Conference in
Beacon - Healing Hurting Women
Sunday School Prize-giving
Beacon Warriors Caribbean Evening
Youth Weekend -tbc
Harvest Thanksgiving, one service at
11am (Beacon)
Royal Priesthood Service 11am
Christmas Family Service
Watchnight Service, 10pm
Golden Wedding
Anniversary
Colin & Shirley Hale, would
like to say how much they appreciated our loving wishes
and thank Beacon church for
the lovely card, flowers and orchid sent to them in celebration of their Golden Wedding
Anniversary in March this
year.
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www.beacon-church.co.uk
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Why is Beacon here?
Beacon Church is here to show and to tell our community the
good news of Jesus and to build and nurture the body so each
one is ready, willing and able to take on this task
We began in 1987 as a union of three smaller churches with a vision
to be a ‘Beacon’ of the good news of Jesus, shining from the top of the
hill to Handsworth.
We believe God has said to us quite clearly that we are to Go, be fruitful and multiply and we seek to work this out in each area of life.
Go on...Join in and see the benefit of being in God’s family!
We meet in small groups each week for prayer and fellowship and just to enjoy one
another’s company! In our groups we are learning how to reach out together in mission. You
will be welcome at any of our groups:
Home
Groups
Monday
Wednesday
Thursday 1
Thursday 2
Eric
Beacon Warriors
Sandra
Tim
572 6836
Simon 554 9237
572 6836
523 2646
Weekly Diary
Sunday
2pm
Prayer
Worship Service 1
Worship Service 2 (not on 1st
Sunday of the month
Beacon Lyndhurst (1st Sunday)
Monday
10:30am
Lunch Club
Wednesday
7.00pm
Beacon Warriors
Friday
5.30pm
6.30pm
Beacon Boy Ministry (BBM)
Youth for Truth
12.30pm
1pm
C.O.L.D.
Beacon God Squad (5s-11s)
Saturday
9.30
10am
12.30pm
Our Church
Council:
Elders
Tim Turner
Eric Jones
Deacons
Almina Francis,
Philip Evans
(Treasurer)
Elaine Salmon
(Secretary)
Please contact any
of us for
counselling, prayer
and support.
Get in
Touch!
Church Office Tel. 0121 551 5232
email: [email protected]
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