Bethel Christian Fellowship
 
.............Past, Present and Future..........


church This part of our site briefly outlines our history.
In the early years of the twentieth century there was a great religious awakening, now known as the Pentecostal Revival which followed the Welsh Revival beginning in 1904. There was an emphasis on the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the recovery of the Gifts of the Spirit. As a result of that move of God new groupings of churches were formed. Assemblies of God was one of them. It was formed with 60 churches in 1924, but now numbers around 600 throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Bethel Christian Fellowship (BCF) is one of them.

Assemblies of God in Great Britain and Ireland is a member of the Evangelical Alliance, as is BCF and some of our individual members.

The Pentecostal Church in Witham dates back to early 1928, when meetings began to be held on Sunday evenings in a YMCA hut which was on a site opposite the present Labour Hall in Collingwood Road. The meetings moved after a while to a former British Legion hut in Mill Lane. The Bethel building in Church Street was built during the Second World War. Sunday morning meetings were moved to Powers Hall Junior School in 1992 and then, with a short spell at Spring Lodge Community Centre, to John Bramston School in February, 2006.

pastor

During 2005 we were joined by Tim-Bedward Jones (right) who
took over as Senior Minister from Keith Taylor (left).

Under their leadership, assisted by the other members of the Fellowship's leadership team, the congregation has now outgrown the Bethel building which is, however, still in use for smaller group meetings and other church activities.

Consequently we are now pursuing a project to provide a new church building on a site in Witham, to cater for our ever expanding numbers.

 

BCF is a member of Churches Together in Witham and has representation within Witham International Christian Fellowship, an interdenominational group.

As a fellowship of local Christians, we rejoice in the contemporary activity of God the Holy Spirit moving in renewal, restoration, and revival. We exalt Jesus as Lord, proclaiming His Kingdom and seeking to see it manifested in our living day by day.

revised 1.07.08

 

Our aim and vision is to become

a local church that is growing, going, worshipping, praying, serving and sharing!

Tim Bedward-Jones (Senior Minister)