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Website updated: Wednesday, 22nd September, 2021 at 17:15

Welcome

I’m Mike Claridge and I’m an Ecumenical Minister in south-west Birmingham UK.
As well as being my personal webspace this is also a resource site for local churches at this time of pandemic.
This site is updated regularly. Have a browse.

Feedback is always welcome.

To contact me: Email here

This is my own site and the views on here are mine alone and do not necessarily represent those of our churches.

Christians at Pride
Birmingham 2021

Click photo (left)

for details (Facebook)

Reflections for The Cotteridge Church

Video Reflections
mjclaridge on YouTube

Written Reflections
in the Blog section

The reflection for

Sunday 19th September 2021

is available left and here

A reflection for

Sunday 12th September

is available left and here

Live: Wednesday Worship on Zoom

by The Cotteridge Church

Join us live every Wednesday at 7.30pm via the Zoom platform.
For log-in details please Email via button on right.

Wednesday 22nd September. Led by myself

Sunday Worship
and Gospel readings

by The Revd Phil Summers

are available at:

Perfect Little Gentleman

The Gospel reading for
Sunday 26th September
is available left.

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Latest News

Worship at The Cotteridge Church:

Sunday at 10.30am
Face-to-face worship in the church building

Wednesday at 7.30pm
Worship live on Zoom

Not 25 Aug or 5 Sep

Reflections on YouTube
Each week from 10.00am on Sunday
Not 29 Aug of 5 Sep

Letter to The Cotteridge Church 19th September (PDF)

The Cotteridge Church Notices 19th September (PDF)

Roundabout Magazine (Sep/Oct) (PDF Download)

Roundabout Magazine (Sep/Oct) (Church Website)

B30 Foodbank Newsletter Autumn 2021 (PDF)

Birmingham Methodist
Weekly Circuit Bulletin

22nd September 2021

United Reformed Church
National Bulletin
September 2021

C of E - Birmingham
Monthly Bulletin
September 2021

News from our three
denominations and partners

United Reformed Church
West Midlands Newsletter
September 2021

Inclusive Church
Newsletter

August 2021

Joint Public Issues Team
Newsletter
September 2021

Points Newsletter
Churches together in B30

August 2021

Birmingham
Council of Faiths

September 2021

Daily Devotions
from The Methodist Church and The United Reformed Church

(Click images for websites)

For a prayer by Revd Barbara Glasson for use during the Covid19 Pandemic: Click here (YouTube)

Phone lines to pass on to those who are not online.

FREE to use phone lines from the Church of England (left) and The Methodist Church (right).

For TV and Radio schedules to pass on to those who are not online please scroll down.

Links for worship etc (updated weekly)

Weekly acts of worship and dramatised Gospel readings
By Phil Summers, a Methodist Minister in Gloucestershire.

Worship and Gospel retellings on YouTube at
Perfect Little Gentleman

Readings for Sunday 26th September

Readings for Sunday 3rd October

Numbers 11. 4-29*
NRSV

Numbers 11. 4-29
The Message

Genesis 2 .18-24
NRSV

Genesis 2 .18-24
The Message

Psalm 19 .7-14

NRSV

Psalm 19 .7-14
The Message

Psalm 8

NRSV

Psalm 8
The Message

James 5 .13-20
NRSV

James 5 .13-20
The Message

Hebrews 1.1-4, 2.5-12
NRSV

Hebrews 1.1-4, 2.5-12
The Message

Mark 9 .38-50

NRSV

Mark 9 .38-50
The Message

Mark 10 .2-16

NRSV

Mark 10 .2-16
The Message

Readings for Harvest Festival

To be confirmed

26th

Sep

Bible Study notes (from ROOTS) with prayers and meditations.

3rd

Oct

26th
Sep

Worship at Home Sheet Prayers, readings, reflection and hymns

3rd
Oct

26th

Sep

The Vine Worship Resource: Including links to hymns (YouTube)

3rd

Oct

26th

Sep

ALL AGE - Children’s Sheets: Activity sheets (from ROOTS)

3rd

Oct

ALL AGE - Online Childrens’ Church (Rev Jemima, a Minister and mom of young children)
Weekly worship for children. There’s a Facebook page and it can be watched anytime on YouTube

ALL AGE - Together at Home - All Age Worship and Activity sheets (by Jessica Ann Jenner)
Weekly worship sheets for children. Click here for the Together at Home website also on Facebook

LIVE Worship: Jazz Community Church, Birmingham at 4.00pm
Worship from Birmingham District’s Jazz Community Church. Via their Facebook Page

LIVE Worship: Wesley’s Chapel, London: Sundays and weekdays
Live and recorded services Sundays 9.45 and 11am. Also Morning Prayer daily 10am.
Also Wednesday and Thursdays 12.45pm Click here (YouTube)

Link to weekly
and daily worship

The United Reformed Church Sunday Podcast (audio only)
Register to receive a Sunday morning email including a link to a radio style podcast.
The email includes the words to the hymns so you can sing along. Click here

The Church of England National Service. Streamed each Sunday 9.00am
On the C of E website and including previous recordings. Click here

Link to
Sunday Service

Recorded Worship: Inclusive Gathering Birmingham, Premieres Sundays at 4.00pm
A radically inclusive congregation that, in normal times, meets at Carrs Lane Church.
Live worship stream, or catch up with recordings later. On YouTube or Facebook Live

For more resources and Live streams click below:
The Methodist Church The Church of England The United Reformed Church

Worship on BBC Radio and BBC TV (Please let those not online know)

Sunday 26th September 2021 (times may vary when schedules are changed)

BBC TV:

Songs of Praise at 13.15 on BBC1 ‘Where Songs of Praise began’ - Aled Jones is in Cardiff, where the first episode of Songs of Praise was recorded, to introduce some of the most memorable moments from the programme’s 60-year history.

BBC Radio:
Bells on Sunday (Radio 4) at 5.43 am Recorded bellringing at the start of the days programming.
Sunday Worship (Radio 4) at 8.10am. ‘All good gifts …. ’ Harvest Festival live from Holy Trinity Church Westbury on Trym, Bristol. Preacher: The Revd Canon Dr Martin Gainsborough.

The Daily Service (Radio 4, Digital and LW only). Every weekday at 9.45.
Choral Evensong (Radio 3) Recorded. Sundays at 3.00pm and Wednesday at 3.30pm (times vary)

BBC Local Radio:
An informal Act of Worship is embedded in a chat show usually between 8.00am and 8.30am. The theme varies every week. It is available on all BBC Local Radio Stations including BBC Radio WM.

“We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.” (Jonathan Swift)

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