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Watch the 2023 Elim Ordination Service featuring 30 ordinands who spent three years as ministers in training.

Ordination represents a milestone in the journey of all those being ordained from the first moment they began to be aware of God calling them to serve Him, His Church and His world with the many and varied aspects of their personalities, gifts and passions until this celebration moment today.

Christian ministry is a huge privilege and a great sacrifice. It is in that sacrifice that there can lie much joy and fulfilment as well as great challenge. Yet each of our ordinands has given themselves to make full proof of the ministry and calling in their lives.

Each has undertaken training and served in local churches or as chaplains, evangelists, missionaries or church planters and will rightly appreciate the recognition of their peers, those they have been serving and leading and of course their friends and family.

Our service is designed to give thanks to God who we recognise first of all gave each of us a wonderful gift of new life in His Son Jesus, but who also calls us to work with Him in spreading the good news and hope of His gift of salvation.

You may not be a follower of Jesus and will, we hope, be curious enough to explore the truth we have found in Him that has forever changed our lives and eternal future. We do pray that the service we share in will be something very special for you as it will for those being ordained.

So as each of our ordinands makes a pledge at the culmination of our service, we invite you to join us in committing our lives afresh to the great commission of Jesus and to the transformation of our communities in all their diversity and need.

Watch live on the Elim YouTube channel direct from Elim's Birmingham City Church. Due to limited capacity, attendance at the event is by invitation only.

Watch the Elim Ordination Service online


Streamed live on the Elim YouTube channel on Saturday 10 June 2023 at 2pm

The Ordinands

Oreoluwapo Adeyemo
Shirene Agbelusi
Bright Baah
Joshua Baker
Gareth Blount
David Butler
Thomas Davis
Alisha Foentjies

Samuel Foentjies
Simon Gardner
Gary Gibson
Stephen Heathcote
Daniel Hudson
Ocheje Thomas Ibrahim
Robert Jones
Praveen Jose

Deanna Joyce
Benjamin Leney
Gregg Mcbride
Paul Mcdowell
Naomi Nelson
Ashley Nixon
Gerald Nkansa-Gyane
Jacqui Richmond

Leigh Richmond
Andrew Robinson
Andrew Rook
Hani Shadad
Chisato Tateyama
Yu Wang

Ordination Service 2021