The Beacon Church is a Methodist/United Reformed local ecumenical project and was formed in September 2003 when the congregations of three churches in Dover - the Methodist churches at London Road and Tower Hamlets and St Columba United Reformed Church -joined together.

We are now very much one church, welcoming everyone to come and share in God's love.

These are exciting times for The Beacon, and we hope you will come and join with us as we move forward into the future.

The last Methodist service was held at London Road on 24 August 2003, and the last services were held at St Columba and Tower Hamlets on 31 August. These were occasions of mixed emotions - sadness at the end of an era, but excitement at what is to come.

Our first service together as The Beacon Church was a service of Holy Communion, led by the Rev. John Lines, who was then our Minister.

In the evening, we used the musical setting of Holy Communion, Breaking Bread, for a service which was also attended by members of the other Methodist Churches in the Dover and Deal Circuit.

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