About Eileen Becejac

Leader of The Newbold Sisterhood. Loving God and others is her way of living. Born in Singapore, Eileen moved to the UK when she was 12 years old and has also lived in France and Indonesia as an adult. Wife to Sasha, Mum to 3 children, former entrepreneur, marketing professional, and passionate about getting women at Newbold Church to lean in, connect and flourish in our community and beyond.

Each time as a woman, I knew that if I had said something, it would have looked as if I was the woman waving her hand whining about her situation so at first, I did not say anything at all. Enough is enough. When we don’t say anything…

Who do you stand up for

Why should we step up against acts of injustice? Why can’t we just live our own lives in peace? Do our voices count? Does standing up make a difference? If I call myself a Jesus follower, then I must…

One of the leaders of the Newbold Church Walkers group, Veselinka Becejac, shares one of her recent experiences where she felt God demonstrate His care once again… “Every day as a Christian is an exciting new experience for me.” On Saturday, 7th August 2016, our Newbold Church Walkers group began our 5 mile walk in…

A Prayer For Nice

A prayer from our Sisterhood member, Gil Senty, who lives in the south of France… Dear Lord, We live in a world that is dying. So many people have lost sight of you. Such terrible things are happening. Today we pray for the people of Nice. We can’t believe how people can feel they have…

5 lessons learnt from being a leader of The Newbold Sisterhood

In late 2015, The Newbold Sisterhood?celebrated the fifth year of our women’s conference, ‘Our Story Our Song’?and the beginning of The Newbold Sisterhood itself. Here are 5 things that I’ve learnt in the past 5 years as leader of The Newbold Sisterhood which I hope will resonate for you in the coming year: 1. There…

Our Wonderful Merciful Saviour All Powerful One Our Father Full of love and who is the main source of Peace. We praise you and give you the glory for all the great things that you have done. We thank you for the peaceful surroundings that we can worship you in. We humbly come to you…

I must admit that there have been days in the past month when I did not want to step out of my house. Have you had days like that? When the only thing you can do is just to do the next thing that needs doing and then the thing after that… My friend, J,…

When You Don't Feel Strong Enough

Earlier this year, at the beginning of 2015, when the content editors, Anna Radosh and Judith Nyirenda, and I were planning out this blog?s content calendar, we came about with a main theme ? ?Stronger Together? ? and then we broke it down even further into 12 sub-themes: 1. A Strong Woman? seeks strength from…

Welcome to the first blog post from The Newbold Sisterhood.

The first thing that you need to know is that you are very welcome. If you are a woman and if you attend Newbold Church, you are automatically part of our sisterhood.

If you are joining us online for the first time, we are so glad that you can join us on our blog journey and we hope that you will feel just as welcome as if you met us in person.