British Pakistani Christian Association

BPCA celebrated its 50 years in November 2019 (1969-2019).

Prior to 1967 the Chowdhry brothers- Mujeeb, Najeeb and Waheed had started a home church. The services at St. Mary’s were originally led by lay preacher Akhter Samuel

The pioneering Pak-Christian Church at St. Mary’s, London proliferated across the UK through traceable oral-history links. In 1994 the church moved to a new premise. Many of the BPCA leaders who attended the event were asked to speak and present trophies to the leading dignitaries within the Pakistani Christian community- see list.

The Revd. Daniel Singh, the first ordained Church of England Asian minister, who galvanised the church, was posthumously awarded a trophy for ‘Outstanding leadership for Pakistani Christians in the UK’. (In 1978 the Rt. Revd Trevor Huddleston, Bishop of Stepney, had paid for Singh to attend Oak Hill College.) The award was collected by Dishad, his son-in-law.

Two of the leaders present were Michael Nazir-Ali a former Anglican bishop and James Shera MBE , former mayor of Rugby. (See notes)

Some thing separate, but interesting, I found an article about the voices of foreign language speakers and multilingual congregations in the Church of England
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Everytime I think I’ve forgotten
I thin I’ve lost the mother tongue,
it blossoms out of my mouth
Sujata Bhatt

Sources used
Evangelicals now
Church Times