__NOTOC__ Carl Beech is President of Christian Vision for Men, having formerly been General Director, an

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movement focused on

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/ref> In 2014, he founded The Gathering for Men, an annual Christian men's weekend festival. Beech is also the founder of the Codelife movement, which aims to encourage men to spend more time reading the Bible. Beech was converted to Christianity at the age of 18. After studying a degree in

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he worked as a financial consultant, church planter, youth worker, and senior

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.Carl Beech
on the CVM website Beech was the National Director, and subsequently General Director, of Christian Vision for Men between 2005 and 2015. Beech sits on the councils of student movement Fusion and Restored, an international Christian alliance working to transform relationships and end violence against women. Until September 2016, Beech sat on the council of the

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. He has written a number of books, including ''Man Prayer Manual: How. When. Why''. He is a contributor to '' Sorted'' magazine and a columnist for ''iBelieve'' magazine. In February and March 2008, a two-part featured interview with Beech for '' Christianity Magazine'' about outreach to men was also published on video on '' Premier.TV''. Beech hosts a weekly radio show called ''ShedTalk'' on

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with Dave Lodge and Jeremy Geake from Christian Vision for Men.

Personal life

Beech is married to Karen. In 2008 he cycled from

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, each in nine days and in 2016, he cycled 850 km from

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to raise money for The Message Trust.

Bibliography

* ''Spadework: Laying Foundations with 52 Men from the Bible'', 144 pp,

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, 2007. * ''Groundbreaker: Real Life Stories – Then and Now'', 32pp,

, 2007. * ''Real Men, Real God, Real Spirit'', 28pp, Grove Books Ltd, 2008. * ''The Code'', 127pp, Monarch Books (

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), 2011. * ''52 Men of the Bible'', 144pp, CWR, 2014. * ''Man Prayer Manual: How. When. Why'', 176pp, CWR, 2016.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Beech, Carl 1971 births Living people Baptist writers 21st-century British Baptist ministers British evangelicals British male non-fiction writers Leaders of Christian parachurch organizations Writers from Essex