Birmingham

We are small-ish group of people commited to each other and to being a faith community together here in Birmingham, UK.

Things started in June/July 2003 when Joe and Sarah Baker decided to start experimenting what it might mean to be a local church energised by the vision of shalom. Things were fairly quiet for the first year as we gently thought through the implications and applications of all that we'd percieved within the shalom vision. We were very conscious of not coercing anyone to join us or corralling people into acting, behaving or believing in a particular way, joining a movement (or indeed creating a movement to join) or dragging people away from other churches or commitments. Being inspired by the Anabaptists, coercion of any sort was not the way to start!

Things were very gentle until summer 2004 when suddenly several people decided to join us, until now (Winter 2006) we number a little under 30 people (roughly 50:50 adults and children).