As of Sunday 2nd September, we’ll be adding a NEW evening service to our church! We will have TWO English congregation services at the BCEC Central.
Sunday Morning Service:
Time: 9:45am – 11:30am (ish)
Location: BCEC Central, 14 Upper Gough St. Birmingham. B1 1JG
Extra info: Sunday school and creche available.
Just to let you know, we will be having a Christmas Day Service at the BCEC
on December 25th, 10:00am – 11:00am.
Our very own awesome Pastor Bert will be speaking! Yay!
Hope you can join us!
How’s your quiet time/daily devotional/time spent with God and in His word?
Whichever way you want to ask that question, yes, we should invest in time with God on a regular basis. And truth is, many of us struggle. Many of us don’t know which of the many resources to choose (why is there just so many out there?!) I don’t know about some of you, but I really like to see what resources are out there, I like to peruse and check out new devotional stuff, check out old devotional stuff, explore and see which methods work (or which methods I’m not keen on).
Read more on 16 ways of developing good bible reading habits…
With Europe facing its worst refugee crisis since World War 2, many charities and groups are asking for help with the recent influx of refugees requiring aid, be it financial donations or through goods being donated. Project Tom is a charity we have been in communication with in previous years, and this year for Christmas, they have asked us to get on board with their Refugee Crisis Christmas appeal for donated goods.
Read more on Refugee Crisis Goods Donation Christmas Appeal…
New uni student at Birmingham? Back for another year of uni?
Come join our Fresher Events after the English Service (starts 9:45am); make some new friends and have some fun!
Sun 27th Sept: THE BIG HOOT LUNCH
After BCEC Sunday, join us as we grab lunch together then explore the city together. We’ll show you the good stuff, the new stuff, and the tasty stuff in Birmingham. Then we’ll go hang out at fellow Uni Students flat. There’s no better way to spend a Birmingham afternoon.
So with the summer long gone and with school having been going on for a few weeks now… We find ourselves in the heart of autumn.
Autumn brings about a lot of changes for some of us. The changing colours of falling leaves; central heating is turned on; it’s getting darker earlier; or some people finding themselves in new jobs; some that have started primary school/high school/college/university or bible school [yep, the latter is me!]; new transitions of saying goodbyes and saying hellos… Sometimes we don’t always know how to deal with transitions, but I shan’t go there, as I’ve blogged about that before.
But what I do want to blog about this time, is what’s going on in the land of iD, our youth group in the English side of the BCEC.
Calling all university students of Birmingham! If you’re returning or a new kid on the block, we have something lined up especially for you!
CORE, which is our University student fellowship here at the BCEC, have put together some awesome FRESH EVENTS for the new uni academic year of 2014-15.
It’s finally here. BCEC’s messages are now available as a podcast.
What’s a podcast? It’s probably the best way to get our Sunday messages onto your mobile device. Subscribe to the podcast (it’s free!), and you can listen to the messages or the worship sets on your daily commute.
University students? We want you! Returning or fresh on the block, we have something big lined up. Actually, four biggies.
CORE, our University student fellowship assembled together to bring you some FRESH EVENTS of 2013.
Since the youth group is called ID, we decided to take a cue from our name and look who we are and how we find our identity. And what better reason than to actually LOOK at our identity in Christ?
March has arrived, and I hope you’re enjoying the longer days. It’s always more refreshing to be able to wake up to daylight and come home in daylight. At the BCEC we’ve been making our way through the gospels and seeing how Jesus lived his life. Hopefully it’s been encouraging you to walk on as well.
One of the things I love most about BCEC is being a part of Christ’s family here on earth. Being a part of this crazy and nutty but always loving and caring family-in-Christ that I believe God has most uniquely placed us in Birmingham for. As our church continues to grow (praise God for that!), and as I’ve seen personally from the days when the entire English congregation can actually all go to someone’s house for a bbq to now when we pretty much take over the entire Wing Wah Restaurant for lunch on Sundays, I strongly believe there is an increasing need for events like our annual BCEC English Congregation Church Retreat. Something like this will allow us as a whole congregation to meet with God and to meet with one another for a dedicated weekend of encouragement and support and also some fun as well. Read more on BCEC Retreat 2009…
