Time4Change gathering

All are invited to participate in a Birmingham Churches’ Worship and Prayer Celebration, which will take place on Sunday 16 October at the New Testament Church of God, 240-244 Lozells Road, Birmingham B19 1NP. Doors will open at 3:30pm. The service will commence at 4.00pm.

The Celebration follows on from the highly-acclaimed Racial Repentance and Restoration Service that took place at St Andrew’s Football Stadium a year ago. On that occasion, more than one thousand Christians came together. That service represented a significant step on the ‘Time4Change’ journey, which had begun in the summer of 2020 following the tragic death of George Floyd. The outcry following Floyd’s death led to a new conversation among leaders from Birmingham’s historic, Black-led and new Churches, resulting in the Birmingham Charter in the autumn of 2020. The Charter aims to eradicate racism within the city’s Christian community, so that it can be a beacon of light and a model of hope among the city’s wider communities.

The Celebration of Sunday 16 October 2022, during Black History Month, is the next step on the ongoing journey towards racial justice in the Church – and in society. Racial justice is just one aspect of the wider prize of Christian unity, for which the Lord himself prayed on the night before he died (John 17:20-26). Psalm 133:1 declares ‘How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity.’ Such unity brings blessing not only for the Church, but for the whole of society. The Time4Change team believes that, in issuing a call for God’s people to stand together from all parts of the Church, from all parts of the city, across the generations, the result will be the blessing of the whole of Birmingham/Solihull.

A short promotional video about the Worship and Prayer Celebration, that can be used in local church meetings, can be found HERE. Free tickets for the Celebration can be ordered HERE. Read the 15-point Time4Change Charter HERE.