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    • Anna — I learned to trust God
    • Eleanor — I believed in Jesus but I didn’t know Him
    • Siân — I found something better
    • Esther — It feels like I’m finally alive!
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      • Garin Jenkins — God has been with me all my life
      • Billy Burns — He tried to kill me, but when I met him, I liked him
      • Tamar Pollard — The freedom and power of forgiveness
      • John Mosey — My daughter was killed at Lockerbie

Appendix

  • The Beginnings of Calvinistic Methodism
  • The Forward Movement
  • Trinity Chapel
  • Painful Change
  • Blessing in Adversity
  • Strengthening the Work
  • Appendix

Ministers of Trinity and Bethel

Rev. J. B. Thompson (September 1916 – March 1919)
Rev. Llewellyn Evans (March 1919 – June 1920)
Rev. Richard E. Jones (August 1921 – February 1927)
Rev. John Harries (November 1928 – March 1931)
Rev. J. Lewis Evans (November 1931 – March 1948)
Rev. E. B. Goronwy (January 1949 – May 1957)
Rev. D. Leslie Jones (September 1959 – Autumn 1966)
Rev. John M. Davies (January 1967 – March 1979)
Rev. John Mainwaring (September 1980 – July 2000)
Rev. Mark Barnes (September 2007 – present)

Those sent to labour in the gospel

Ieuan Evans (c. 1935)
Ceridwyn Evans (c. 1935)
David Phillips (1949)
Geoffrey Fewkes (1965)
Brian Nott (1969)
Andrew Bowden (1972)
Nigel Clifford (1977)
Nathanael and Anna Ayling (2010)

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Prayer and Bible Study
Each Wednesday at 7:00pm we meet together for a bible study, and to pray. The bible studies are led by our pastor, Mark, or one of the other members of the church, and the prayer time is open to everyone.
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Keith’s story

“I started to see I wasn't the nice guy I thought I was”

After I retired I missed spending time with people and thought I’d find some sort of community in a church. I was quite nervous about going by myself. Eventually, when I did go to Bethel, it was quite reassuring. There were even people on the front door to welcome me. Listening to the preacher came as a bit of a shock though. He said no-one was good enough to go to heaven. I thought that as long as your good deeds are more than your bad you’ll be fine and go to heaven but this wasn't what God said in the Bible. I started to see I wasn't the nice guy I thought I was. God was on my mind more than ever and I knew I needed him so I started to go to Bethel regularly. I often thought about the wrong things I’d done in my life and wondered if God really wanted me.
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