Bishop Dr E.C. Beswick MBE

FOUNDER/PRESIDENT

About

Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick MBE, is the founder and President of the Joint Council of Churches for All Nations (JCCAN), formerly known as the Joint Council of Anglo Caribbean Churches (JCACC). Bishop Dr. EsmeBeswick is the Senior Pastor of Nebaioth Prophetic Church and has spent 50 years as a Pastor working in Brixton and Stockwell in the London Borough of Lambeth. 

She is a well known Ecumenist and has blazed a trail for Black Pentecostal Ministers in ecumenical circles and is cited in Debretts, which regularly publishes lists featuring Britain’s movers and shakers. Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick has served at the highest level in the ecumenical field. Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick MBE has served as Chair of the Brixton Council of Churches, Borough Dean of Lambeth, Agenda Committee member of the British Council of Churches, Steering Committee member of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. In 1982, Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick participated at a service at Canterbury Cathedral, where she met the late Pope John II to mark the 20^th Century martyrdom including the late Martin Luther King. Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick has participated on a religious programme on ITV, known as ‘This is the Day’ in the late 1970s. The Bishop has appeared on Premier Radio on several occasions and on the BBC Radio 4 answering questions on the Woman of the Year.

Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick was a Nurse in Kent in the 1960s. She continued her ecumenical work in East London, when she became the Chair of the Zebra Project, which was a Christian based race relation organisation in London. Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick MBE was a Hospital Chaplain at Whipps Cross University Hospital from 1986-1991. The Bishop has acted as a Consultant for the edition of Religions in the United Kingdom (UK) at the University of Derby in 1995. Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick has participated in the Enthronement Services of two Archbishops held at Canterbury Cathedral, the Rt. Hon. Dr. George Carey and the Rt. Hon. Dr. Rowan Williams.

She became the first black woman to hold the position as a President of the Churches Together in England (CTE) 2002 - 2006, a presidency which she held for four years. She represented the Black Majority Churches, the Lutheran Churches, the Orthodox Churches and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). A former President of the Christian and Muslim Forum 2005-2010 and at present, is an honorary President of the Christian and Muslim Forum. Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick has also served on the Inner Cities Religious Council for a number of years.  The Council was an Advisory Body to the government on Religious, Racial and Social Discrimination Issues. Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick is a former member of the Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe – a position she held for five (5) years. 

Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick MBE participated at Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Golden Jubilee Service at Windsor Castle, St George’s Chapel in 2002, where she co-signed the first covenant committing English Church Leaders to working together in the presence of her Majesty The Queen.

Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick is the former Patron of the Race Equality Employment Programme (REEP) - 2003 – which polices various sectors of industry including the Armed Forces and the Police Force, to ensure that they compile with equality practices and procedures. At present, Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick is one of the Patrons of the Churches Council on Ageing. Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick MBE was an Observer at UK Airports – namely, Heathrow and Gatwick for many years. She was privileged to work with the Home Office Chief Immigration Officers regarding visitors from the Caribbean Islands and beyond to these ports.

She is a Sitter at the National Portrait Gallery in the Church Leaders Section since 2005. Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick was a Supervisor for Newman University, Birmingham – 2017 - 2018 for Post Graduate Students Fieldwork.

Bishop Dr. Esme Beswick is married to Pastor Herbert George Beswick who has worked alongside her in the ministry. They have four children, Derick, Mark, Michelle and Sharon, nine grand-children and two great grandchildren. 

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