Carrs Lane Fair Trade Annual General Meeting will be taking place on Monday 25th March at 10.30am at The Church at Carrs Lane, Carrs Lane, Birmingham, B4 7SX.  Light refreshments will be served from 10.00am.

Following the business meeting there will be an illustrated talk by Joan Davies after her recent "Meet the People Tour" to Costa Rica.  All are welcome. 

For further information please tel 0121 643 6151 or fair-trade@carrslane.co.uk.

Godly Play builds an understanding of Christian language to help Children and Adults encounter God and explore a living faith. For those with little or no experience of Godly Play who want to discover more.

This will be held on Saturday 30th March 2019 10.00am - 4.00pm at 1 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 2BJ.

This will be led by Godly Play Advocates Helen Woodall and Claire Wesley, who have been Godly Play practitioners for over 10 years.

The day will include:
• Participating in a Godly Play session.
• Experiencing three styles of Godly Play stories – sacred, parable and liturgical
• Practicing telling a Godly Play story and take it away with you.
• Exploring how Godly Play can help nurture a Child’s spirituality

Booking is online at www.cofe.io/GPMar2019

Small Heath Methodist Centre invites you to their Midweek Fellowship at Yardley Green Road, Small Heath, B9 5QT.

Please feel free to join them on any of the following dates:

Tuesday 2nd January 5.00pm to 7.00pm
Wednesday 6th February 5.00pm to 7.00pm
Wednesday 6th March 5.00pm to 7.00pm
Wednesday 3rd April 5.00pm to 7.00pm

Join them for a simple meal, fellowship and prayers.  This is a safe all inclusive space, where you can be yourself, enjoy good fellowship, growing as believers, sharing, praying together.  Please click on flyer for further information.

Birmingham Methodist Circuit in conjunction with The church of England and the Jewish Synagogue have planned a Confidence in being Me workshop for our young people from school years 9 - 13, it will be an interactive day of developing skills to manage anxiety and building confidence in being themselves.

This is something that our young people have shown an interest in and have asked for, as we are all passionate in enabling our young people to embrace themselves for who they are.

There are 50 free places available, the booking is now open.

Please click on link on the form to register.  Leaders are also welcome to attend.

Join Steve Chalke and other speakers as they make the case for the full acceptance of same-sex relationships and trans people within Christianity and the church.

WANTED!! A rep from each church!!

Birmingham Circuit would like a representative from each church to join us for a conversation about environmentally friendly churches. More details below.

In Partnership with Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science.

The topic will be AI and Robotics: the Science, Opportunities, and Challenges and will take place on April 11th-13th 2019 at St John’s College, Durham, UK.

Speakers: To include

Gowland Public Lecture - Professor John Wyatt - (University College London, UK)

Dr Ron Petrick (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) - 'Robot Apocalypse’

Dr Michael Burdett (University of Nottingham, UK) - 'Technology, Theology and Eschatology'

Further speakers to be confirmed.

All throughout Holy Week a group will be walking from Kingstanding in Birmingham to Westminster in London in protest that more be done to combat knife crime in our country. Read more below with details of how to get involved.

All are welcome to our circuit farm trip for cream tea's, tractor rides, donkeys and lambs. The event is free so please come along and bring a picnic! This will be at Southfields Farm.

Booking not necessary unless you want to come on a coach. Click here for a flyer with more information.

There are coaches going from Sparkhill, South Yardley, Longbridge, Selly Oak & BISH (Birmingham International Student Homes), Lozell’s and Perry Hall – to book a space on the coach please email Sian on finance@solihull-methodist.org.uk as soon as possible to save disappointment.

If you would prefer to make your own way to the Farm the address is Southfields Farm, Packington Lane, Coleshill, B46 5EJ.