REVISED – Please note the opening and closing times of the church during the Christmas and New Year period: Mon 23rd Dec: Open as usual. Tues 24th Dec: Church Offices open till 1pm. CHH closed. Tea Lounge closed. Church open to include Midnight service. Wed 25th Dec: Closed except for Church service at 11am. Thurs 26th Dec: Closed Fri 27th Dec: Closed Sat 28th Dec: Closed Sun 29th Dec: Church opened for the 9.30am and 11am services but closed after. Mon 30th Dec: Closed. Tues 31st Dec: Closed. Wed 1st Jan: Closed. Thurs 2nd Jan: Open as usual. If you have any questions please contact the parish office.   Image Flickr – v1ctory_1s_m1ne

‘The Kingdom of God is among you’ – that was the answer Jesus gave to Pharisees when they wanted to know when the kingdom of God would come. (Luke 17:21) Now read the following testimony and see for yourself if what Jesus said is true even today. During our HOTS session on October 5th a young man asked us to pray for him as his course fees were due at the end of that week and he did not have any money coming into his bank account. We prayed for him and we gave him the ‘Why Jesus’ booklet. On October 26th after the 2pm Saturday service at St Martins, while I was talking to some of our regular members of that service, a young man approached me and said he would like to talk to me. I recognised him and thought we had prayed for him in church but he said we had prayed for him outside on Edgbaston St. He wanted to tell us that he had received an answer to prayer. These were his words (I have his permission to write): ‘I was in a bad situation as my course fees were due at 11 o’clock a

Exhibition until 25th Nov 2013; 10:00am – 4:30pm Following on from a dark period in her life where illness and a failing Relationship were weighing Ruth down, she began using her drawing skills on a very personal basis to express feelings and her hopes and doubts about the future. The original pencil drawings were very  personal and were largely hidden from view for five years before Ruth was persuaded to turn them into paintings and began to share her thoughts, first through working with small groups and mediating and later through wider exhibitions. Ruth has now given her paintings to Westhill Charity so that they may have a wider viewing nationally. The exhibition is a series of 19 paintings, with a booklet to guide you around. On Tuesday 19th November Ruth Goodheir will be joining us all the ay from the Isle of Skye to led us in a workshop: Art Retreat Workshop; 2:30 – 4:00pm;  A 30 minute reflection on four of Ruth’s paintings followed by 60 minutes working with pastel