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Stechford Baptist Church
Stechford Baptist Church is a small Baptist church in Stechford East Birmingham UK, notable for a 40-year history of combating racism and promoting community cohesion in a UK urban-deprived setting. In the vanguard of attempts from the 1960s to engage immigrant West-Indian communities within mainstream indigenous churches, it played a key role in opposing the National Front during the 1970s. By the 1980s and 1990s it achieved a 50%/50% balance of indigenous and non-indigenous membership and leadership, thereby contrasting sharply with a UK tendency towards majority-white and majority-black churches, where splits are typically in the 90/10 ratio. During the 1990s the church developed relationships with a number of black-led community groups which had grown out of the Handsworth Riots (which also included Stechford), and from 2000 the church worked actively to support asylum-seeker rights. One of the church leaders, Mrs E C McGhie-Belgrave, was awarded the MBE in 2002 and subsequently the Queen's Golden Jubilee Award in 2004 () for her contribution to community cohesion and Black-White issues in Birmingham.
==History==
Stechford Baptist Church preserves a complete set of written minutes from the date of its founding. A history () of Stechford Baptist was commissioned by community organisation Shades of Black () in 1998.
The church was established in 1906, beginning meetings at the Council Schools and subsequently in the Masonic Hall. The present building, a Canadian timber frame and asbestos panel structure, was erected in 1926 on a larger plot of land acquired by the church. The timber frame structure was expected to last about ten years, to be replaced by a permanent brick structure. However, this work was never undertaken, and the additional land was sold for housing in the 1970s. For a long time the timber frame structure was known as 'Stechford Baptist Hall' (), or Stechford church hall () a reflection of the expectation of a permanent structure.
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