Welcome to this Guide
for visitors to Elim churches
We want this publication to serve refreshing for all who encountered
as an introduction to who we are it. Our world can sometimes feel
as a church and how we can serve like a desert, and so our 21st-cen-
you, and as an opportunity to tury churches seek to be a place of
share a little of what we believe. spiritual resource within their com-
munities.
Tens of thousands of people across
Britain attend our churches every I am delighted that someone has
week. While the congregations range made this magazine available to you
in size from small groups to those of and trust that the following pages
over a thousand – all have a similar will bless and encourage you as you
aim that unites them. It is a desire to read them.
reach up to God in worship and to
reach out to the community in serv-
ice, and to share the difference that
Jesus Christ has made in their lives.
Nearly a century ago our founders
wanted the name of their new Move-
ment to express their vision and val-
ues – and so chose the name ‘Elim’.
This was the name of an oasis in the
Bible that the people of Israel discov- John Glass
ered as they wandered through the General Superintendent
desert. It provided both shade and Elim Pentecostal Church
Acknowledgements
© copyright 2007 Elim Pentecostal Church, UK. Editor-in-Chief: John Glass.
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