Browse content similar to 20/11/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
This week on Songs Of Praise I'm in my home city of Birmingham, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:06 | |
and as part of the BBC's "Black and British" season, | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
I'll be discovering how one black Christian couple from the Midlands | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
ended up launching a whole new Christian denomination. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:17 | |
And we hear about the challenges they faced in the early days. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
When I arrived in this country, we were not welcome. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:26 | |
Nevertheless, there was no place in me to have any hatred. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
We hear how a charity funded by Children In Need | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
supported a bereaved family. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
I like St Giles. They help me. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
They helped my daddy as well. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
And it's Stir-up Sunday and I'm going to be stirring up | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
a Christmas pudding with a star baker. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
Benjamina, you are Star Baker. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
This week we'll be enjoying hymns old and new from across the country. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:05 | |
Leicester, Cheltenham, Southampton and here in Birmingham. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
And we'll be paying a special tribute to songwriter Leonard Cohen | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
with the help of Alexandra Burke. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
# Hallelujah. # | 0:01:16 | 0:01:23 | |
But it's in Leicester we start, with an uplifting Gospel hymn. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
Following the postwar invitation from the government, | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
Caribbean families began to settle in Britain. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
Many, including the Lyseight family who arrived in 1951, | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
found some of the white British congregations | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
were less than welcoming. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
We discovered some were saying they had been to other places | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
and they were not welcome. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
Nevertheless, this did not allow us to have any animosity | 0:04:44 | 0:04:49 | |
against the folks. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
So there was no place in me to have any hatred | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
because the Lord was leading us through all these situations. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:59 | |
Rose's husband, Oliver, took matters into his own hands | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
and in Wolverhampton he founded the UK branch | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
of the American New Testament Church of God, | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
inviting newly arrived families to join. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
He did the preaching and I did the singing. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
Between 1953 to 1956 the church grew. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
I mean, grew immensely. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
The congregation Oliver founded over 60 years ago | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
is still thriving today and is known as Harvest Temple. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
It's one of a network of 130 churches across the country | 0:05:38 | 0:05:42 | |
with over 30,000 members. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
How do you feel now about the fact that the denomination | 0:05:46 | 0:05:50 | |
is all over the country? | 0:05:50 | 0:05:52 | |
When I look back and see now the expansion, | 0:05:52 | 0:05:58 | |
the growth of this organisation, | 0:05:58 | 0:06:02 | |
I am really amazed and this allows me to know how great God is. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:07 | |
When Oliver died in 2006, the funeral attracted huge crowds | 0:06:08 | 0:06:13 | |
eager to celebrate the life of a man | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
who had brought a new Christian denomination to the UK. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
When we arrived I just realised how important my husband was. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
It was so beautifully done. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
# You are my hope | 0:06:27 | 0:06:33 | |
# Hope like no other. # | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
What do you think Oliver would think about the growth | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
and the development of the church? | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
Oh. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:46 | |
He would fall off his chair! | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
We are blessed. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
And honestly speaking, I am enjoying it to the fullness of my life | 0:06:53 | 0:06:59 | |
and I give God all the praise and all the glory. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
Friday was another spectacular night for BBC Children In Need | 0:09:34 | 0:09:38 | |
and it's still not too late to play your part in the fundraising. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:42 | |
But before I tell you how, | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
let's meet a young family who received help. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:47 | |
# I go before you always. # | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
Father of three Mike Stanley was a successful singer-songwriter | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
and appeared on Songs Of Praise. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:58 | |
In December 2010 he was looking forward to spending Christmas | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
with his wife and three young sons when suddenly he was taken ill. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:08 | |
He was rushed into hospital. We didn't have any warning. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
There were no symptoms and we were told he had bowel cancer. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:17 | |
I had three small boys at home. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
I needed to try and look after them | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
but I needed to try and look after Mike in hospital as well. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
It just felt like everything had come crashing down around us. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:32 | |
Mike was told his cancer was terminal and the family | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
were referred to St Giles Hospice, | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
who didn't just offer care for Mike. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
With the help of a grant from Children In Need, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
the hospice offers expert support and counselling to children | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
and young people facing up to the loss of a loved one. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
Without St Giles' support I don't know where I'd be. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
They helped us all through Mike's illness. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
They helped us during the last few days of Mike's life. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
Mike passed away on the 6th of June 2013. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
It was so calm. It was really peaceful. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
Erm... | 0:11:14 | 0:11:15 | |
Sorry. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:16 | |
It was particularly difficult for Luke. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
-That's a massive heart. -Who's in the middle? | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
-Daddy. -Who's that? -Me. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
Leaving a notebook for Luke to record his feelings in, | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
with a note from Dad at the front, | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
was one of the suggestions from the hospice team. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
This is your very own book to write down your thoughts | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
and do your own drawings and describe your own feelings. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
I needed help with explaining things to the boys | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
and they were really, really helpful. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
They gave me a lot of support in what to say. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
Activities to do with them to help explain it more. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
Mike did a memory box for each of us. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
He had things in there that Luke can now look at and remember his daddy. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:03 | |
What was the song that he sang? | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
Remember he wrote it for you, called My Child. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
# My child You are a gift from God. # | 0:12:09 | 0:12:14 | |
My worry was that the support would end and it didn't. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:18 | |
In fact, it grew even stronger. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
They offered a counsellor for me | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
and the boys have got a counsellor who they just love. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
What does that remind you of with Daddy? | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
-He liked to go to the beach. -He liked to go to the beach. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
I like St Giles. They helped me and they helped my daddy as well. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:42 | |
So for Luke, I will continue to be as good a mum and dad that I can be. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:49 | |
"Luke's memories of Daddy," and I've got a guitar and piano | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
because he liked those instruments. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
With the help of St Giles, they've given me | 0:12:54 | 0:12:57 | |
the courage and strength to know that I can still be | 0:12:57 | 0:13:01 | |
a good mum and bring up my three boys as best I can. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:05 | |
If you want to help children like Luke, | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
you can find out how to donate at... | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
Staying with that theme of Children In Need, | 0:15:45 | 0:15:48 | |
you can still help us raise funds because the winning designs | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
of our Christmas card competition are now on sale. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
All the details are on our website... | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
And of course, proceeds go to Children In Need. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
Our next performance is a tribute to Leonard Cohen, | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
who died last week, and whose most famous song, Hallelujah, | 0:16:10 | 0:16:14 | |
was inspired by a story from the Bible. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:17 | |
Alexandra Burke sang it for us at the Songs Of Praise Big Sing. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:22 | |
# I heard there was a secret chord | 0:16:26 | 0:16:30 | |
# That David played and it pleased the Lord | 0:16:30 | 0:16:34 | |
# But you don't really care for music, do you? | 0:16:34 | 0:16:40 | |
# Well, it goes like this - the fourth, the fifth | 0:16:42 | 0:16:46 | |
# The minor fall and the major lift | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
# The baffled king composing Hallelujah | 0:16:50 | 0:16:56 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:17:08 | 0:17:15 | |
# Your faith was strong but you needed proof | 0:17:21 | 0:17:25 | |
# You saw her bathing on the roof | 0:17:25 | 0:17:29 | |
# Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya | 0:17:29 | 0:17:37 | |
# She tied you to her kitchen chair | 0:17:37 | 0:17:41 | |
# She broke your throne and she cut your hair | 0:17:41 | 0:17:45 | |
# And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah | 0:17:45 | 0:17:52 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:17:56 | 0:17:59 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:18:04 | 0:18:12 | |
# Maybe there's a God above | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
# But all I've ever learned from love | 0:18:29 | 0:18:34 | |
# Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya | 0:18:34 | 0:18:40 | |
# And it's not a cry that you hear at night | 0:18:41 | 0:18:45 | |
# It's not somebody who's seen the light | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
# It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah | 0:18:49 | 0:18:57 | |
# Oh-oh-oh | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:19:09 | 0:19:14 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
# Oh-oh-oh | 0:19:19 | 0:19:23 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:19:26 | 0:19:34 | |
# Hallelujah | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
# Hallelujah. # | 0:19:42 | 0:19:50 | |
Thank you. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
I know we've mentioned Christmas already, | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
and it's still five weeks away, | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
but the church calendar experts amongst you | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
might know why today is a good day | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
for Kate Bottley to do a spot of baking. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
It's Stir-up Sunday. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
These two are linked, and I've enlisted the help of a Star Baker | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
to help me with my Christmas pudding. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
-Hello! -Hi! -THEY LAUGH | 0:20:24 | 0:20:27 | |
-Shall we do this? -Come on in. -Thanks, Benjamina. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:29 | |
I have a nice job, I get to award Star Baker, | 0:20:29 | 0:20:32 | |
and Paul and Mary have decided Benjamina, you are Star Baker. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
Benjamina, I am so excited. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
I can't tell you what a massive Bake Off fan I am. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
-Was it everything you hoped it would be? -It was crazy. -Yeah? | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
You don't know what to expect. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:48 | |
I mean, it was intense at times, don't get me wrong. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
It was really stressful, really exhausting. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:53 | |
But it was such an amazing opportunity. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
Breathe. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
It'll be all right. | 0:20:58 | 0:20:59 | |
In the middle of all that nerves, | 0:20:59 | 0:21:01 | |
in the middle of all that high-adrenaline stuff, | 0:21:01 | 0:21:03 | |
what about your faith? How did that help? | 0:21:03 | 0:21:05 | |
It really helped me to just keep calm. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
You're in the middle of it, it's not going right, you're like, | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
-"Oh, my gosh!" -Yeah. -But that's when you can just say, "Lord, help me." | 0:21:10 | 0:21:14 | |
-People were praying for you like crazy? -Oh, gosh. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
-Church family were on it. -Fantastic. -So, you know, all the prayer. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
-So today is Stir-up Sunday. -Yeah. -What are we making today? | 0:21:19 | 0:21:23 | |
-We are making a Christmas pudding. -Course we are! -Christmas pudding. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:27 | |
-So we're going to start with our dry ingredients. -OK. -Yeah? | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
So we've got some flour and we've got some suet and our breadcrumbs... | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
-Can I start doing this? -Oh, mix, mix away. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:33 | |
-KATE GASPS -I can't believe I'm baking | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
with someone from Bake Off! | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
There's a special prayer in The Book Of Common Prayer | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
which we say on this Sunday, that starts with the phrase... | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
..and, in Victorian times, this prayer became... | 0:21:44 | 0:21:47 | |
The traditional Sunday when you heard this prayer in church, | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
you'd go straight from church, straight home | 0:21:49 | 0:21:51 | |
and make your Christmas pudding. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
Thank you. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:54 | |
I definitely just didn't lick my finger. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:58 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:21:58 | 0:21:59 | |
So tell me about your church family. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:01 | |
-Oh, they are amazing. -They must love you. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:04 | |
-SHE LAUGHS -I love them! | 0:22:04 | 0:22:05 | |
And do you bake for church? | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
Um, a little bit, little bit, yeah. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
Between you and me, we're unstoppable. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
Your baking, my theology - we've got this, we've got this. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
Amazing. Great team. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
There's a massive thing missing, though, | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
and it's that huge bowl of dried fruit. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:19 | |
-Dried fruit, which has been soaking in orange liqueur all night. -Has it? | 0:22:19 | 0:22:22 | |
-All night. -Let me just try one of those raisins. -So, yeah, I hope so. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:26 | |
'Tradition says that members of the family | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
'would stir the pudding mixture from east to west | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
'to remember the wise men that visited Jesus. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
'So Benjamina's called in her sister and her mum.' | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
Well, I've always wanted to do this. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
Here's one you made earlier! | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
-Benjamina, that looks absolutely beautiful. -Oh, thank you. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
It's so gorgeous. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:47 | |
I've got MY spoon. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:48 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:22:48 | 0:22:49 | |
-Do you want to grab one and all dig in? -There we go. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
And it's not too late for you to have a go | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
at making your own Christmas putting. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
If you go to the Songs Of Praise website, | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
you can find Benjamina's recipe there. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:01 | |
But now... | 0:23:01 | 0:23:02 | |
the proof of the pudding's in the eating. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:04 | |
-So let's dig in. -Let's dig in. -Dig in. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
Oh, it's really nice. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:12 | |
-Mmm! -Really good. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:13 | |
We heard earlier how the first black British church | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
got off the ground in Wolverhampton. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
Well, the story comes bang up-to-date here | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
at Birmingham City Church. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:04 | |
# At the mention of your greatness | 0:26:05 | 0:26:08 | |
# In your name I will bow down... # | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
Birmingham City Church started in the 1920s | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
with a predominantly white congregation. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:18 | |
Now it's home to members representing 60 nationalities. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:22 | |
We would say that our type of worship is active worship. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:29 | |
It's done sincerely, it's done thoughtfully, | 0:26:29 | 0:26:32 | |
but actually it is exuberant. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:34 | |
So there's lots of actions and it seems outward in our service, | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
but it comes from a deep inner conviction that, | 0:26:38 | 0:26:42 | |
if we're going to live this, let's live it from a sincere heart. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:45 | |
We're here to honour him first. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:48 | |
Mark first found faith through the black church denomination | 0:26:48 | 0:26:52 | |
we heard about earlier, the New Testament Church of God. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:55 | |
They put foundations in my life. | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
They gave me a framework of how to minister, | 0:26:58 | 0:27:02 | |
they gave me a framework of how to welcome. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
Anyway, it's great to have you here. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:06 | |
And I think that's carried through all my ministry, in that, now, | 0:27:06 | 0:27:10 | |
we feel like we should welcome everybody to our church, | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
no matter what race, creed they are. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
Over 50 years ago, that same welcome was extended to the Storrod family, | 0:27:16 | 0:27:21 | |
the first black family to join. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
I can genuinely say we weren't categorised by our colour, | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
we were just loved. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:29 | |
And that love was colourless. It was just love. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:33 | |
And that same love has threaded its way through | 0:27:33 | 0:27:35 | |
to this generation and my generation, too. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
The diversity that we have here | 0:27:39 | 0:27:41 | |
was something that the church envisaged back then. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
They said they wanted this church to be a multicultural church, | 0:27:43 | 0:27:46 | |
a church where everyone can come and it embraces all things. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
I think we're really mirroring that now. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:51 | |
So what does it feel like to be part of the church that is so diverse? | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
Oh, it's awesome. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:55 | |
It's family, and that's what God wants us to be, a family. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
Cos he is our heavenly Father, | 0:27:59 | 0:28:01 | |
and he wants us to be a family and to love one another. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
It's not a formula, it has to be a desire for unity, | 0:28:04 | 0:28:07 | |
a desire for all things God and that's what you see here. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:11 | |
And it works and it's awesome. So all are welcome. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:15 | |
Let's sing together - Lord, You Are Good. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:20 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:30:47 | 0:30:51 | |
It's almost time to go. | 0:30:56 | 0:30:58 | |
Next week, Connie Fisher marks the start of the season of Advent | 0:30:58 | 0:31:02 | |
with a life-changing story of giving and receiving. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:05 | |
We'll hear how one man donated a kidney | 0:31:07 | 0:31:09 | |
to save the life of someone at his church. | 0:31:09 | 0:31:12 | |
And there's a brand-new Christmas song from Matt Redman. | 0:31:12 | 0:31:16 | |
# How far... # | 0:31:16 | 0:31:19 | |
This week, we've heard of growing churches and changed lives, | 0:31:19 | 0:31:23 | |
and that's the theme of our final song. | 0:31:23 | 0:31:25 | |
It was recorded in Southampton Central Hall. | 0:31:26 | 0:31:29 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:33:35 | 0:33:37 |