Hope Community Church is a Seventh Day Adventist Church situated in Beckenham, Bromley.
It began with a desire to provide a place where people can begin and build a deep relationship with God and with fellow believers, where people do life together in genuine community, and where people grow spiritually in an atmosphere where the grace of God is highly celebrated.
We are a church where God’s Word is honoured as our highest authority on earth and as the source of real and abundant life.
We are a church where people serve one another according to the way that God has shaped individuals, where spiritual gifts, passion, talents, and experiences are a part of how we meet the needs of others both inside and outside of our church family.
We continually strive to become a church that matters to its community that makes a visible, noticeable, and tangible difference on behalf of Christ in the real problems that exist.
Dr. Devron A. Thomas, born and raised in Laborie, St. Lucia, is an ordained minister of the Gospel. Before joining the South England Conference workforce, he served as the Stewardship Director in the Turks and Caicos Islands Conference and Senior Pastor of the Grand Turk District.
Prior to accepting an inter-Union call to serve in the Turks and Caicos Islands Conference, he served as a district pastor in the Saint Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists, tele-evangelist, and speaker for the Open Bible Telecast. As a Pastor, Dr. Thomas executes his duties faithfully, professionally, and strategically. He demonstrates a heart and passion for pastoral nurture, leadership and administration, and evangelism. He is an all-rounder with extraordinary strength in teaching and preaching, having conducted many evangelistic campaigns in several Caribbean islands, the USA, and Canada.
He specializes in Systematic Theology, Apologetics, Church History, and Philosophy. Dr. Thomas holds a Doctor of Theology degree in Historical Theology and has taught various theology courses as an adjunct lecturer at the University of the Southern Caribbean satellite campus. He is the author of two books, “God Science and Miracles” and “Faith in Conflict: The Rise of Anti-Trinitarian Thought in Adventism,” and he is the chief editor and founder of “Faith in Focus Apologetics Magazine.”
Dr. Thomas is married to Dr. Bethia Thomas, a specialist in Natural Resource Management, and together they have three children: Benjamin, Meghan, and Melanie. He is passionate about nature, surfing, and promoting justice and intellectualism within the Christian faith. Devron’s guiding principle in ministry is to “Keep to the cross,” reflecting his belief in the Gospel’s liberating power.
Pastor Andrew Cudjoe was born in Oxford, grew up in Reading and worshipped at the Reading Central Seventh-day Adventist Church. Graduating with an Economics degree in 1995 he worked as an Analyst in the City of London, and in London’s West End for eleven years. During his last employment God impressed him to study for the Ministry at Newbold College where he graduated with a Licence in Theology, and an MA in Systematic Theology.
Pastor Cudjoe started ministry as a Bible Worker in 2015 and progressed into Pastoral Ministry in January 2016 under the discipleship of Pastor Kwadwo Kwarteng-Ampofo at the South West London Ghana, South East Community, Elephant Castle Ghana, and All NationChurches. In March 2018 the Lord privileged him to Pastor the Ashford, Canterbury, Folkestone, and Margate district of Churches. It was in this district that the Lord nurtured and taught him the deep Spiritual rudiments and application of His Word for our time. In August 2020, and January 2021 he became the Associate Pastor of the Croydon, and West Croydon Churches respectively. Under the diligent watch care of the senior Pastor, Pastor Royston Smith, he learned the importance of advance planning, time management, and personal and corporate reflection in the Gospel Ministry.
March 2022 to August 2024 Pastor Cudjoe serving as the Pastor of the Great Yarmouth, and Lowestoft Seventh-day AdventistChurches. He is passionate about encouraging the members to seek and know God for themselves through prayer and His Word.
One of his greatest joys is witnessing the transforming effects of the living Word of God through the Holy Spirit on people’s lives. Pastor Cudjoe’s main aim in ministry is to make known the narrow way of Jesus Christ, and the importance of seeking God’s Will alone in all things.
PastorCudjoe started ministering at Hope Community Beckenham, and Croydon Churches in September 2024. He is married to Auline who is an NHS Dietician, and they have an eleven-year-old son called Joel.
We are a small friendly family church in
the heart of Beckenham - Churchfields Road.