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    • Keith — I realised I wasn’t the nice guy I thought I was
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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
      • John Mosey — My daughter was killed at Lockerbie
      • Alison and Kevin — Our faith has helped us every single day

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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Henry Olonga’s story

“I felt that God was calling me to speak out against Robert Mugabe ”

One day I read a verse from the Bible, and it said ‘Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow’. And in the very same verse, the Bible said, ‘Rebuke the oppressor’. The verse hit me between the eyes. I felt that God was calling me to say something, to speak out against this oppressor, Robert Mugabe. I saw the country desecrated by its rich and powerful leaders, I just felt I've got to speak out.
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Adventurers and Discoverers
The Children's Club takes place in term time every Thursday night from 4:45 until 6pm between September and May. The club is for children in Junior School, and comprises of games, singing, and Bible stories.  There are also special events at different times of the year. If you'd like your child to come, please contact…
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