Joel Clarke – Relay Update

Hello everyone! I’m aware it’s been a while since my last one, but I’ve been really busy! On the other hand, it means its clearer whether my previous prayer requests have been answered or not. And boy have they been answered! Our Freshers events were very well attended, with even events like our coastal walk …

Read more

A Call to Pray For The Nation

The State of the Nation – A Call to Prayerfully discern the mind of Christ As part of a UK National Prayer Leaders forum called ‘Watchmen’, I was asked to join a number of other leaders from across the nation to prayerfully discern together what ‘The State of The Nation’ is in terms of its standing …

Read more

Saturday Special – July report

It was lovely so see so many people back at our normal Saturday Special after what seemed like a really long time. Last month we went to the show 42nd Street at Brierley Hill, which was fantastic. Our theme this year is Super Heroes. We are always happy to welcome Stepp Up Puppets and they …

Read more

Church Family Days Out

Many of you will know that over the past 4 or 5 years we have run a church family day out during the summer. It has been our hope and passion that through these days out we would create opportunities for us as a church family to develop stronger relationships with those we know, and …

Read more

igrow Leaders Breakfast & Celebration

You are invited to join with Life Central Church Halesowen on Saturday 23rd March where Jeff Lucas will be hosting a Leaders  breakfast. He will also be leading a celebration event on the Saturday evening which is free to attend but tickets must be booked, again through the Life Central Church website. www.lifecentralchurch.org.uk

Ransomed Corner : The Essence of Repentance By John Eldredge

Resting in Jesus is not applying a spiritual formula to ourselves as a kind of fix-it. It is the essence of repentance. It is letting our heart tell us where we are in our own story so that Jesus can minister to us out of the Story of his love for us. When, in a …

Read more

Paul Willmott’s Kenya News

From a head teacher using a stick to remind children how to behave, to a village meal that was edible … … just; Kenya gave me lots to remember and think about. Rather than one big life changing trip it was much more lots of smaller experiences that I will be retelling for a long …

Read more

The Christmas Journey 2013

The Christmas Journey This year at ACC we will be presenting The Christmas Journey for three days on 16th, 17th and 18th December. Productions will be at 9.15, 10.45 and 1.15 each day. Over that time we will see about 240 six and seven year old children from our local schools coming to learn about …

Read more

Caroline Brown – Birmingham City Mission

As part of this Sunday morning’s service we will be interviewing Caroline Brown, who has become part of our church family and works for Birmingham City Mission. We caught up with Caroline and asked her a few questions in preparation for the interview on Sunday: Who are you and how did you come to join …

Read more

ACC Interns (Part 2)

An interview with Steph Deakin Last week we shared with you about our brand new exciting trial Internship program. This year we will be taking on two young interns, Steph and Tom, in partnership with Walsall Studio School. The program called Urban Devotion is working with a number of different churches across the area and aims …

Read more

Lorry Lunch

This week after the morning service TLC will be serving bacon sandwiches as part of their lorry lunch. Below Sue Gibbs explains what a lorry lunch is and why TLC decided to put this event on: What exactly is a lorry lunch? A lorry lunch is something we imagine a lorry driver would stop and eat (i.e …

Read more