Encounter Church
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|location = Bournbrook
|country = England
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|architect = John Edward Knight Cutts and John Priston Cutts
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Encounter Church formerly known as Selly Oak Elim Church and formerly St Wulstan's is a parish church of the Church of England in the Bournbrook district of Birmingham,The Buildings of England. Warwickshire. Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Books. {{ISBN|0140710310}} p.202 but which is now an Elim Pentecostal Church.
History
St Wulstan's Church, Bournbrook, was established as a mission church to St Mary's Church, Selly Oak, in 1893.[http://www.porterce.me.uk/wulstan/history.htm The history of St. Wulstan's, Bournbrook] Countess Beauchamp laid a foundation stone for a new church building in Exeter Road on St Wulstan's Day, 19 January 1906,{{cite news |author= |title=On Saturday afternoon... |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000484/19061013/023/0005 |newspaper=Tamworth Herald |location=Tamworth|date=13 October 1906|access-date=3 June 2015}} the inscription declaring that it was being built "To the Glory of God and for the benefit of the People of Bournbrook".St Wulstan's Church, Bournbrook: Jubilee Day Programme (1956) The church was built of red and blue brick by the architects J. E. K. Cutts (1847-1938) and John Priston Cutts (1854-1935), was designed to accommodate 713 worshippers, cost approximately £5,600 ({{Inflation|UK|5600|1906|r=-4|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}){{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}} to construct was consecrated by the Bishop of Birmingham on 6 October 1906.{{cite news |author= |title=On Saturday morning... |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000379/19061012/015/0002 |newspaper=Lichfield Mercury |location=Lichfield |date=12 October 1906 |access-date=3 June 2015 }}
In 1983 the parish of St Wulstan's, Bournbrook, merged with St Stephen's Church, Selly Park, and the Exeter Road building was swapped with Selly Oak Elim Church's building in Alton Road, Bournbrook. The local Elim congregation had been founded in 1936, and had initially met in people's homes before holding meetings at the Selly Oak Institute; hence why it is called the 'Selly Oak' Elim Church even though it is located in Bournbrook.
In 2018 Selly Oak Elim Church changed its name to Encounter Church.{{cite web|url=https://www.encounterchurch.uk/who-we-are/|title=Encounter Church: Who We Are?|accessdate=6 April 2019}}
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Category:Elim Pentecostal Church
Category:Churches in Birmingham, West Midlands