Welcome to Hall Green

Welcome to the website of Hall Green Baptist Church. For those of you in a hurry, details of our meetings can be found via the ‘What’s On’ link above. For those of you with time to browse, we would especially recommend ‘The Word’ section of the site which is updated most weeks and includes last Sunday's sermons in audio.  If we can be of any assistance, please get in touch through the email link on the right of each page.

Haworth 1940s Weekend - War in Words Exhibition

Click here to visit an online version of our exhibition displayed as part of the 1940s weekend.

War Poetry - The Cross of Wood

God be with you and us who go our way
And leave you dead upon the ground you won.
For you at last the long fatigue is done,
The hard march ended; you have rest to-day.
You were our friends; with you we watched the dawn
Gleam through the rain of the long winter night,
With you we laboured till the morning light
Broke on the village, shell-destroyed and torn.
Not now for you the glorious return
To steep Stroud valleys, to the Severn leas
By Tewkesbury and Gloucester, or the trees
Of Cheltenham under high Cotswold stern.
For you no medals such as others wear -
A cross of bronze for those approved brave -
To you is given, above a shallow grave,
The Wooden Cross that marks you resting there.
Rest you content; more honourable far
Than all the Orders is the Cross of Wood,
The symbol of self-sacrifice that stood
Bearing the God whose brethren you are

by Cyril Winterbotham

Hall Green's Coffee Morning

Please join us each Thursday morning for coffee and a chat at Chapel between 10:00am and 12:00 Noon.  This is a great opportunity to meet with new people, both visitors to the area and from the community. All are welcome!