Mike Royal
Mike Royal is the General Secretary of Churches Together in England CTE (from 1st May 2022). He is the former Co CEO of The Cinnamon Network, helping churches with their community engagement and former pioneer at award winning education charity Transforming Lives for Good TLG. Mike has an academic background in urban planning & black theology. He has been in ordained ministry since 1993 and was consecrated a Pentecostal Bishop in 2016. He is also a Forensic Mental Health Chaplain who lives in Birmingham and is happily married to Viviene
The intercultural church: growing in unity
31 March 2023The main vision of the early pioneers was to plant churches that would both be a place of belonging for people from the Caribbean but would also welcome the indigenous population through their doors. Unfortunately, as a result of receiving a less than warm welcome in churches in the UK, they pioneered their own. Churches like the New Testament Church of God and Church of God of Prophecy were planted in the 1950s and 1960s, not only in the large cities like London and Birmingham but…
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Mike Royal - Share his story
5 April 2017I’m convinced the opportunity the church has, to share the message of Jesus, is built on the credibility of the great work the church has done over the last 15 years. As the saying goes:people don't care about what you know, until they know that you care. My own story started in the leafy suburbs of London in the 1970s. As a child growing up with my two sisters, I thought everyone lived like this. How wrong I was! My parents had emigrated from Jamaica in the 1950's as many had done, to help…
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