From city centre to Northfield
It was a great boost to have a good crowd of volunteers joining BCM’s City Missionaries for their two-week Summer Outreach programme in early August.
The first week of the programme combined morning seminars on topics such as mission and apologetics with afternoons putting it all into practice in the city centre. Week 2 focussed on supporting a new church on Northfield’s Masefield estate. This Easter the council gave the community hall over to Kings Norton Baptist Church, led by BCM City Missionary, Francis Williamson, to use for Christian witness and the benefit of the local residents. And so the church was born.
The Summer Outreach team began by delivering flyers announcing a week of activities to the whole estate. There was a jumble sale day when BCM’s Resource Centre brought over goods to be sold. There was a parent and toddlers group, a litter pick, coffee time, a children’s club and Exploring Christianity meeting, all with a trickle of locals coming along. House to house visits throughout the week brought the gospel message to residents, and at the church’s Sunday evening service there were four new people.
Please pray for the Masefield estate and its new church, a Christian witness in an area dealing with tough social issues such as vandalism, fly tipping and arson.
