__NOTOC__ Carl Beech is President of

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, having formerly been General Director, an

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movement focused on evangelism to men.Alt URL
/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

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at the age of 18. After studying a degree in

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he worked as a

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church planter Church planting is a term referring to the process (mostly in Protestant frameworks) that results in a new local Christian congregation being established. It should be distinguished from church development, where a new service, worship center or ...

, youth worker, and senior

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.Carl Beech
on the CVM website Beech was the National Director, and subsequently General Director, of

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

Personal life

Beech is married to Karen. In 2008 he cycled from

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and the length of

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

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to raise money for

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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 British Baptist ministers British evangelicals British male non-fiction writers Leaders of Christian parachurch organizations Writers from Essex