Here at Burton Elim we believe God is on the move! He is building His church, and we are excited to be part of all that He is doing.  As we experience His power at work, we know that the gospel is still the hope for our nation, and that he has equipped his church with power to be His witnesses.
 
Believing that the best is still to come, as God pours new wine into His church we are drawing inspiration from the parable of the growing seed in Mark 4:26-29 and have embarked on a new adventure  intentionally investing  to create new wineskins ready to hold that new wine.  This adventure and investment is seeking God's will in the following areas:

Moor St Consultation

As our AGM on Sunday 19th January 2025, we gave an update on the progress so far and the next steps.  We are currently preparing a Heritage Statement and Listed Building Applications for submission to the local authority. This will begin a process of discussion with Staffordshire County Council’s planning and conservation team about what we are allowed to do with the Moor St building, and what specifications will be required.  We anticipate that these discussions could take a large part of this year to complete.

This will allow us to identify what we are allowed to do by way of repairs and maintenance but also redevelopment. At the AGM we shared with the church the concept of developing our “Gentiles Court”.   The largest part of the Jewish temple was the space around the worship area where people could meet to be discipled, and to explore faith in God. As we look to the future, this is where we need your help to decide what we need as a church to carry out our mission and ministry in Burton.  We have a good space to worship that can currently seat up to 250 people, but the spaces around this begin to restrict how we can provide the other things we are doing and might want to do in the future.

We shared that we would be sending out a questionnaire inviting you to give us your thoughts and ideas about what facilities we need, both now and in the future.  The link below will take you to an online questionnaire that we would really appreciate you completing to share your thoughts and ideas with us.

Moor St Consultation 

Once we have received everyone’s ideas, we will take some time to consider these as a building team before providing our design requirements to our Building Consultant. Together with outcome of the Heritage Statement discussions he will then draw up plans for us to consider for the redevelopment of Moor St to meet our current and future ministry needs.

Please can we ask you to complete the questionnaire by the end of February to share with us your ideas and thoughts so we can include as many people’s input as possible for how we might redevelop our facilities.

A similar approach will be used for Princess St when we have a second minister in place.

For those unable to complete the questionnaire online, a hard copy is available upon request.

Thank your support and help with this

I pray you have a great week!

God bless,

Chris Drury
Pastor, Burton Elim
Church Office: 01283 205323