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Churches Together
in Knowle and Dorridge
in 1998 reaffirmed
our calling to joint worship,
to joint mission and to joint action
We belong within
Churches Together in Birmingham
which belongs within
Churches Together
in Britain and Ireland
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Churches Together
in Knowle
and Dorridge
Programme for 2008
please note dates in your diary
and keep for reference
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Action Together
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Worshipping Together
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Together we support
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Birmingham Soup Run
Every evening of the year a team from one of the Birmingham churches prepares soup and sandwiches and serves these to homeless people outside St Michael's Church (off Albert Street) in central Birmingham.
Teams from St George and St Teresa's and from St Philip's and St James' take part in this activity on two evenings in every month.
More information from Bob Service 778480 or Janis Muir 770149
Downing Close
Church members from Knowle and Dorridge
lead Sunday worship at 4pm on th first Sunday of the month for the residents of David Bromley House in Downing Close.
Holiday Happening for children 5-11 in Dorridge and Bentley Heath
Monday28th July-Friday 1st August 2008 is planned jointly between Dorridge Methodist Church and the Churches of St Philip's and St James - team preparation meetings 26-27 July 200
HOPE 2008
New Year's Eve and the first few days of 2008 will see Hope08 being launched across the UK. We understand that events being planned include worship, social action and evangelism - with an overriding emohasis on prayer
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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
18 to 25 January 2008
including Worshipping Together
6 30 pm on Sunday 20 January 2008
at Knowle Unreformrd Church, Station Road Knowle
Preacher: Rev Hennie Johnson
Women's World Day of Prayer
7 30 pm on Friday 7 March 2008 at Dorridge Methodist Church, Mill Lane Dorridge,
Worshipping Together
6 30 pm on Sunday 11 May 2008 at St Philip's Church Manor Road, Dorridge Preacher Revd Kevin Jones
Advent Service
6 30 pm on Sunday 30 November 2008 at St George and St Teresa's Church, Station Road, Dorridge
Ecumenical Prayer Group
Tuesdays at 2.00 pm at 98 Slater Road
(check first with Gladys on 777649)
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Solihull Churches
Action on Homelessness
SCAH supports Mildenhall House (for young people) and Stonham Housing Association.
Furniture can be collected if safety compliant and given for re-use (phone 0121 788 3333).
Birmingham Christmas Shelter
Thank you for nearly £620 given at our Worshipping Together service in Advent.
Offers of help for 2008 to PO Box 5140,
Stourbridge B?DY8 3TN (by October)
Christian Aid Week 2008
11-17 May 2008
Extra street collectors always welcome
District Co-ordinator is Jane Holt 779235
Worship at Solihull Hospital
With other Solihull Churches, we support Sunday morning worship by escorting patients to this service and sharing worship.
Solihull Welcome for Asylum Seekers
organised by Churches Together in Solihull (and supported by some of our members) to provide friendship for those have to report at Homer Road Enforcement Unit
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Christian Aid Lunches
St Philip's Church Hall, Dorridge
12 15 - 1 15 pm, 1st & 3rd Wednesdays
from 16 Jan, (and weekly in Lent)
Lent Lunches
St John's Hall, Knowle
12 00-1 30 pm, 21st Feb and 20 March 2008 (for Mothers Union work worldwide)
Focus (for men)
Supper meetings (£4-50)
7 45/ 8 00 pm, 2nd Monday of month in St John's Hall (bookings via Gilbert Didlick 772339 or Theo Peel 774840)
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Member Churches
Clergy and representatives
Dorridge Methodist Church
Revd David Hulme
Theo Peel 774840
Knowle Parish Church
www.knowleparishchurch.org.uk
Revd Canon Michael Parker
Revd Richard Trethewey
Revd Rachel Hill-Brown
Joy Crumpler 776708
Knowle United Reformed Church
Revd Kevin Jones
Sue Bateman 775523
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St George and St Teresa RC Church
Monsignor Daniel McHugh
(Chair of Churches Together)
Sarah McGill 772319
St Philip's Church, Dorridge with
St James' Church, Bentley Heath
Revd Duncan Hill-Brown
Revd Hennie Johnston (from 2 March)
Denise Salmons (St J) 778669
David Walker (St P) 779092
St Swithin's Church, Barston
Revd Canon Roger Turner
Colin McDonald 776026
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