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Beacon Newsletter
June 2015
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A warm welcome to everyone, members and guests, to our church.
June
Day
10am
12.30pm
Friday
5th
Sunday
7th
10.00 Family Service:
Speaker: Tim
Service on the Lyndhurst Estate
Preparation & outreach at 12pm
Service at 2pm
Sunday
14th
10.00 Sunday Worship
Speaker: Eric
12.30 Sunday Worship
Speaker: Tim
Sunday
21th
10.00 Sunday Worship
Speaker : SOS - Father’s
Day
12.30 Sunday Worship
Speaker : Tim
Sunday
28th
10.00 Sunday Worship
Speaker : Shawn
12.30 Sunday Worship
Speaker : Shawn
10.30 Prayer meeting 7.30 Prayer meeting
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July
Friday
3rd
10.30 Prayer meeting 7.30 Prayer meeting
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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.
VISIT OUR WEBSITE www.beacon-church.co.uk
or FACEBOOK PAGE hps://www.facebook.com/BeaconChurchHandsworth
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
June 5th
At 10.30 am
And at 7.30pm
Our next Day of Prayer and Fasting will
be
July 3rd
At 10.30am and 7.30pm
It will be good to see you there.
If you need prayer for yourself, a loved
one or friend, contact one of our
Leadership Team or Ingrid Daniel on
0121 554 5924 who is our Pastoral Care
Co-ordinator. Your request will be
treated with confidentiality.
This role will involve:
• researching the demographics of the area to help
the church pray about the needs within the
community that a new building might meet
• collating all the information required to promote
the vision for a new building in literature and
online
• creating the literature and online publicity
• running a campaign to attract donations
• applying for funding from trusts and grant making
charities
• promoting the project within the church
• encouraging giving and fundraising where appropriate by church members
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
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Learning and Development
safeTALK - Suicide Awareness Training
When: 10 Jun 2015 - 09:30 to 12:30
Where: Lozells Community Centre, 163 Gerrard Street, Lozells,
Birmingham, B19 2AH
safeTALK is an internationally taught programme that introduces individuals to the topic
of suicide and offers key skills to recognise and support someone at risk of suicide. It is an
accessible training and useful for anyone who wants to develop their skills and confidence
in dealing with someone at risk of suicide.
Contact: If you would like to take advantage of this one off training opportunity and book
a place on the safeTALK training please complete and return the booking form
to stephen@urbrum.org
Cost: Common Unity Social Enterprise is proud to be able to deliver this training, the last
of its kind in Birmingham this year, and be able to offer this at a heavily subsided rate of
just £18 per delegate. This cost includes course materials and light refreshments.
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, Josh or Marcia
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New Beginnings
Psalms: 25v 4-1,
Although the year is moving on, we can still make a
new beginning. “How did you learn to skate”?
Someone asked the winner of a competition, the
answer was, by getting up every time I fell down.
Our life is a series of new beginnings, of falling
down and getting up again. When we stumble we
often think, I’ve failed again, I might as well give
up. But God is the God of new beginnings. He not only forgives our sins,
but He also uses our failures to make us wiser, although sometimes our
pride can cause us to resist starting again. In Ps: 25 David shows a heart of
humility by praying for forgiveness, in verse 7, he asked the Lord to forgive the sin of his youth and he rejoiced that God teaches sinners. In verse
9, God guides and He instructs the humble.
John Newton, the composer of ‘Amazing Grace’, expressed a similar perspective. He said though I’m not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be
nor yet what I hope to be, but I can truly say I’m not what I once was, but
by the grace of God I am what I am.
If we feel like a failure, we can go to the Lord in humility and He will show us that He is the
God of new beginnings. Failure is never final. Lam: 3v22-23. Through the Lords mercies we
are not consumed, because His compassion fails not, they are new every morning and
great is His faithfulness.
By: Brother Simon Emmanuel.
Hospitality Sunday
A Time Of Sharing
Sunday 28th June 2015
Do you find that there just isn’t enough time to speak with people after church, or that you
sometimes don’t get a chance to speak with folks as they are a part of second service or the
Lyndhurst Estate? Well then Hospitality Sunday is something that we would like to host on
the 28th June.
Hospitality Sunday is a day where we would like Beacon family, new and seasoned, to share a
meal and time together. The day will be a time for everyone (guests and host) to bring and
share food the home of the host. Time will be spent getting to know your Beacon family.
A list will be up over the next 2 weeks; please complete the relevant section, identifying
whether you would prefer to be a host or a guest!
For further information contact : Laverne
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Dates For Your Diary
Beacon 2015 Events
Saturday 6th June
Saturday 20th June
Saturday 27th June
Sunday 28th June
Sunday 12th July
Saturday 1st August
Fri 4th Sun 6th Sept
Sunday 27th Sept
Sunday 8th Nov
Sunday 20th Dec
Thursday 31st Dec
Beacon Warriors Annual Thanksgiving concert
Beacon Community Fun Day
Tamar Ministries Conference in
Beacon - Healing Hurting Women
Hospitality Sunday
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
Saturday 6th June 2015
Time: 6pm at Beacon Church, 47 Sandwell Road
Come and join in with our Celebration, Songs, Drama, Testimonies
Ticket Prices:
Adult: £6:00, Children under12: £3:00
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VISIT OUR WEBSITE
www.beacon-church.co.uk
We want more ideas, articles, poems, blog entries, event information, pictures etc - just
send them to our email address - admin@beacon-church.co.uk
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: admin@beacon-church.co.uk
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