Black Country Churches Engaged
the sub-region’s ecumenical intermediate body
The Sponsoring Body | The Effective Befriender |
The Sponsoring Body
The Black Country Churches Engaged Sponsoring Body takes corporate responsiblity for Local Ecumencal Partnerships within the sub-region1.
Membership of the Sponsoring Body includes all the members of the Church Leaders' Meeting, but realistically its business most concerns:
The Rev Bill Anderson
The Rev Adrian Argile
The Rt Rev Clive Gregory
The Rev John Howard
The Rev Roy Lowes
The Rt Rev Mgr Canon Patrick McKinney
The Rt Rev David Walker
The Chairman is: The Rev Peter Christie
The Secretary is: Mr Michael Topliss
Denominational Ecumenical Officers:
The Rev Barry Gilbert
The Rev Simon Mansfield
(The Rev David James)2
Mr John Jordan
Mr Patrick Kelly3
The Rev Robert Readshaw
The Rev Stuart Scott3
The Rev Phil Thomas
Befrienders of the Partnerships:
Mr Donald Anderson
Mrs Ann Bayley
The Rev Anthony Howells
Miss Jean Tuck
1 Additionally, this Sponsoring Body looks after The Church at Perton, which technically is in Staffordshire, and also takes an interested in the Tettenhall Covenant which crosses the secular boundaries.
2 but there are no LEPs in the BCCE's part of the Birmingham Diocese.
3 DEOs who also act as LEP Befrienders
Office Address:
18 Selman’s Hill
Bloxwich
Walsall
West Midlands
WS3 3RJ