About Us
Reaching Tamworth with the life-transforming love of Christ
Are you new to the church or the area? If so, you are very welcome to join us! Please do check out our "I'm New" page to get all the information about what goes on at our church.
We are a dynamic church made up of people from all walks of life and from different nations. We love to see new people and are confident that you will feel right at home. Our Sunday mornings begin with a warm welcome and an invitation to join us in celebrating the good news about Jesus Christ. We are also very active in our local community working alongside other agencies and running our own projects in order to express the love of God in a practical way.
Tamworth Elim Church is a member of the Elim Pentecostal Church which has around 600 churches in the UK as well as churches in thirty five countries around the world (registered charity 251549).
In 2002, our church launched a charitable company in order to flexibly respond to the needs of our local community through a range of social projects. Our church leaders also serve as trustees of The Manna House (Tamworth) Company (Registered in England and Wales as a Company Limited by Guarantee No. 4491448; Registered Charity No. 1093988). The registered office for the Manna House Company is 258-264 Glascote Road, Glascote, Tamworth B77 2AY.
Our Heart of Welcome
Tamworth Elim, in pursuit of its mission of outreach to our community, is equally welcoming of all of society. We encourage a spirit of “belonging” within a loving and accepting church family whilst individuals develop their personal understanding of, and life commitment to, God in Christ by the power of His Holy Spirit.
Tamworth Elim intentionally seeks to nurture a culture of acceptance and diversity without an emphasis on demarcation or judgment. The focus of discipleship at Tamworth Elim through both formal teaching and the example of our shared lived experience is on unconditional grace and forgiveness, love, tolerance, service and celebration together as beloved children of God.
In human relationships, Tamworth Elim’s focus is on “how” we love each other in Christ over and above “whom” we love. We seek to encourage and emphasise an openness of heart not a particularity of doctrine, but always centred on the primacy of Christ, Saviour of the world and whose supreme and perfect example we seek to follow.
OUR HISTORY
The Elim Pentecostal Church movement is an evangelical organisation. Emerging from the Welsh Revival of 1904-5, it grew with amazing speed, largely as a result of the great evangelistic work of its founder George Jeffreys. There are now over 600 Elim churches here in the UK, and the Elim movement is represented in over 35 countries. Across the globe there are over 500 million Pentecostal Christians.
Locally
In the late 1890’s, Miss Shepherd and Miss Watson started a Gospel Mission in Halls Row in Tamworth. A small church building was purchased in 1919 in Park Street and the church joined the Elim movement in 1923.
The church remained in Park Street until 1969, at which time a former Methodist Church building at the corner of Bamford Street and Glascote Road was purchased. It was used until 1977, when a compulsory purchase order was taken out by the Council, and a new church was built on our present site.
In 1996 the Elim Church purchased a row of derelict houses on the Glascote Road adjacent to the church, and created The Manna House, a multi-purpose centre for the entire community of Glascote and which is used every day of the week for a host of charitable and community purposes.
In 2003/4 a further building programme was undertaken. This added further office space, larger catering kitchen, 64 place day nursery, day centre annex, and a church auditorium able to seat 250.