Welcome to the year Twenty Ten: The Year of Establishment.

2010 is going to be the biggest year yet here at Bethel City Church and incredibly significant to our future. 2010 is the year that we are intentionally laying the foundations for a significant, sustainable and successful future.

This year we celebrate our second birthday as a church. However, despite being young, we are very aware that we are called to be a people of wisdom. Here at BCC, we are passionate about our King Jesus and the city of Stoke on Trent and we are committed to building a church that can be best described as progressive, expansive, explosive, provocative, audacious, cheeky, pioneering, and even dangerous. However, we are also building a church that is secure, sustainable and wise.

Proverbs 3:19 says,  “By wisdom the Lord founded the earth;by understanding he created the heavens.”

During this year Bethel City Church will be established as a Church in the city of Stoke on Trent and across this nation. 

The Year of Establishment is based upon the scripture found in Isaiah 54:2 - 3:

“Enlarge your house; build an addition. Spread out your home, and spare no expense!
For you will soon be bursting at the seams. Your descendants will occupy other nation and resettle the ruined cities.” New Living Translation

"Clear lots of ground for your tents! Make your tents large. Spread out! Think big! Use plenty of rope, drive the tent pegs deep. You're going to need lots of elbow room for your growing family. You're going to take over whole nations; you're going to resettle abandoned cities." The Message

"Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities." New International Version

Monthly Themes

During 2010 we will highlight a specific theme for each month that you challenge, inspire, encourage and relate to you in a phenomenal way. These monthly themes will run throughout all Bethel City Church ministry including all of our corporate gatherings and internal ministry programmes. Our themes are designed to strengthen and build us as a house.

January | Vision & Purpose
February | Generosity
March | Foundations
April | Right Relationships
May | Personal Hygiene: Clean
June | Built for Purpose
July | Stengthen Your Stakes
August | BCC Beach Party
September | Back to Basics
October | Rock & a Hard Place: Character Development
November | Map My Run: People of Destiny
December | Christmas

Focus 

Throughout the Year of Establishment we shall be focusing much of our attention and operation upon a number of things that will help establish the house and invest in the living stones that make BCC so great. Our focus will be upon City Life Pods, BCC Campuses, BCC Congregations, Financial Infrastructure, BCC Culture, continued leadership development, and continuing to excel and release Next Level Ministry into the House.

Coming Soon in 2010

28th January | Clyde Sandry

30th & 31st January | Mal Fletcher

17th March | Jon Cook [Newcastle Christian Life Centre]

9th & 10th April | Tommy Tenney 

28th April | Simon McIntyre [C3 Church Global]

20th June | Steve Gambil [Abundant Life & Rock Nations]

26th June | Doug Horley

15th September | Roy Todd

9th October | Dave Gilpin [Hope City Church]