Annual Report for One Sixteen Bible Church Birmingham.
References and administrative details-
Charity name
One Sixteen Bible Church
Charity registration number
1186822
Registered addresses
61 Bridge Street, Kington, HR5 3DJ
Current trustees
Philip James Close (Appointed 10th Jan 2019) Peter Michael Sherwood ( Appointed10th Jan 2019) Alasdair Iain Nicholson (Appointed 18[th] March 2020)
Trustees appointed during 2021
None
Trustees retired during 2021
None
Charity Bank account
Barclays bank, Stourbridge, West midlands, 81 High street, Stourbridge, DY8 1EB.
Annual report for 2021
The Trustees of One Sixteen Bible Church Birmingham present their annual report and financial statement for period of (1[st] Jan 2021 - 31[st] December 2021)
1) Structure governance and management
The One Sixteen Bible Church Charity is governed by an Approved Governing Document. As per the One Sixteen constitutional document, the members of this CIO shall be it’s Charity trustees for the time being. The only persons eligible to be members of the CIO are it’s charity trustees. Membership of the CIO cannot be transferred to anyone else (Section16:1).
All trustees of the CIO are fully responsible for any decisions made and taken throughout the course of this and any other financial year.
The Trustees of One Sixteen Bible Church Birmingham are continuing to aim for conducting regular (approximately every six months) meetings, within which any objectives and activities of the Church are discussed and agreed upon collectively by the Trustees. As per the charities constitution, each registered trustee continues to recognise their duty bound requirement and responsibility in the day to day/week by week running of the Churches ongoing work. The trustees
also continue to conduct and maintain oversight (yearly financial review of charities accounts) of all financial and legal matters concerning the Charity. Although not all trustees are actively involved in the membership of the Church charity, each trustee is encouraged to take an appropriate part within both the practical and Spiritual tasks involved within the furtherance of the objectives, purposes and activities of the Charity as a whole.
As a charity we continue to operate on the assumption that any matters for consideration can be raised by any trustee or Church member at any time. Any matters which are raised can then be addressed as and when necessary and/or when appropriate by the trustees of the CIO. Any implemented change is to be conducted in accordance with Church policy and governing documents. Although the constitution permits decisions to be made primarily by the trustees, Church members are also actively encouraged to give feedback on aspects of Church matters (governance and management) and these are then discussed as appropriate within the trustee meetings.
2) Objectives and activities
As an Independent, evangelical Reformed Baptist Church “The principle purpose of the “One Sixteen Bible Church” charity is to advance the Christian faith according to the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith in the Birmingham/Midlands area for the benefit of the public.
In order to achieve this charitable objective set out above, the Church is currently involved in providing a variety of activities, both to it’s members and within the community in general. The aim of these activities is founded upon the Bibles teachings and centuries of historic Christian practice. In order to show and tell of the Love of God in the Gospel of Jesus Christ to both the community and Church members, making disciples of all nations (Mathew 28:19).
One Sixteen Bible Church is undertaking these objectives through the holding of Church worship services, prayer meetings, Bible studies, theological training/discipleship, pastoral counselling and open-air evangelism to enlighten others concerning the Christian faith.” Our Church charity’s various weekly activities consist of the following:
-Church services will be conducted from 10.30am until 12.30pm every Sunday.
-Prayer meeting will be implemented once a week (mid week meeting)
- Theological discussion sessions (once a month)
-Pastoral counselling with church members and other members of the public showing an interest in the Christian faith on an ongoing basis.
-Open air evangelism conducted a couple of times a week at non specified times.
-Church services consist of singing hymns, times of prayer, communion, reading and preaching from the Bible.
These objectives and activities are conducted in accordance with the primary objective within the Charities governing document and are considered to be of public benefit to many individuals who desire to practice their Christian faith or for those who are inquiring into Christianity.
3) Achievements and performance
Although the success of the Christian faith is not easily measured by visible performance indicators (For example, financial growth/numerical growth etc), it instead measures it’s effective success upon faithfulness towards the Lords commands from within the scriptures. To both see and be part of a body (group) of Christian believers who are progressively growing in nearness to God over time, through Faith and practice together.
This being stated, we as trustees of the One Sixteen Bible Church charity consider the achievements and performance of the Church to be one of much fruitfulness during the year of 2021.
Throughout the year we have enjoyed seeing new individuals/visitors joining us on a weekly basis for our Sunday morning worship services. Although we have also had a few individuals sadly leave the fellowship during 2021(due to moving Churches).Those who do continue to come and meet together for worship each week, has gradually been increasing numerically throughout 2021.
This numerical growth of the Church has given occasion for more pastoral duties to be undertaken throughout the year. Duties such as in counselling, discipleship, Bible study sessions with Church attendees have increased, giving increased opportunity for the leadership of the Church to meet together with the congregants throughout the weeks during 2021. Therefore, allowing for personal pastoral ministry/discipleship to be undertaken alongside individuals as per the working performance objectives of the charity.
The Church continues to meet together weekly on a Sunday morning for the Lords day worship (singing of hymns, prayer, taking of communion, preaching the Bible). The Church also has a midweek prayer meeting where the opportunity to pray for one another’s needs and various aspects of our Christian walk is carried out. Both of these meetings are seemingly well received (often with encouraging feedback by those in attendance) and fully participated in by all present.
The One Sixteen Bible Church continues to also have the opportunity to get out into the local community of Worcestershire and the Birmingham/West midlands areas in order to speak to members of the public about Jesus Christ and the Christian faith (sharing the Gospel/conduct evangelism). Many of these opportunities to engage with the public are often well received and sometimes people will even ask us to pray with them, or may consider keeping in touch for further contact. It would regularly appear that the Coronavirus pandemic still had a profound impact on many people throughout 2021. Individuals who were often looking for the deep answers to life’s big questions. We as a Church would often enter into such conversations and point people to the only hope that is to be found in Jesus Christ’s forgiveness.
As a Church we also had various other, more informal aspects of ministry amongst the members taking place throughout the year of 2021. We had individuals undertaking Bible studies with one another and the conducting of general Church fellowship activities, such as going for meals/walks/coffee shops together.
The Church elders and many of the One Sixteen congregants continue to remain in good standing and relationships with other branches of the protestant/evangelical Christian Communities in the Local area. Often our One Sixteen Church pastor being asked to speak at other Churches and to occasionally meet with leaders and congregants in order to share and mutually encourage one
another within the Christian faith.
We have also had the privilege of inviting several other pastors/speakers to come and share with us throughout the year of 2021. This has been a tremendous blessing/encouragement to the fellowship and their ministry was well received. The regular preaching/teaching ministry from our own Church leadership has been taken from the books of Mark, Revelation and Genesis within the Bible and expounded upon during the Sunday morning preaching.
We continue to hold our regular meetings and services where possible (as per our objectives and activities) and we as Charity trustees remain generally very encouraged for the year ahead.
4) Financial review
As a Church charity we have continued to rely on the kind financial donations of the Church members throughout the year 2021.
Our Bank account (as above) remains in good standing and the Church has made no wider public appeal for funds during the year.
The majority of expenditure made throughout the year of 2021 has been for the use of the hall hire and various items of equipment such as books, resources, evangelistic literature, Church video camera and sound equipment.
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