The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St. Augustine of Canterbury in AD 597^{[citation needed]}.

As a result of Augustine's mission, the church in England became an integral part of the Roman Catholic Church and acknowledged the authority of the Pope^{[citation needed]}. Initially prompted by a dispute over the annulment of the marriage of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon, the Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534 and became the established church by an Act of Parliament in the Act of Supremacy, beginning a series of events known as the English Reformation. During the reign of Queen Mary, the Church was fully restored under Rome in 1555. Papal authority was again explicitly rejected after the accession of Queen Elizabeth when the Act of Supremacy of 1558 was passed. Both Catholic and Reformed factions vied for determining the doctrines and worship of the church. This ended with the 1558 Elizabethan settlement, which developed the understanding that the church was to be both Catholic and Reformed:

England ⁱ/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.

Victoria Louise "Vicky" Beeching (born 17 July 1979) is a British contemporary Christian musician and worship leader. She has released five projects: Shelter EP (2002), The Journey EP (2005), Yesterday, Today & Forever (2005), Painting the Invisible (2007), and Eternity Invades (2010).

Vicky Beeching grew up in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom. Vicky began writing songs from the age of 11, and leading worship since her early teens. She went to an all girls school in Canterbury from 11 to 18.

She then got accepted to Oxford. While earning her Theology degree at Oxford University, she was trained by Brian Doerksen and Brenton Brown at Oxford Vineyard. She also recorded with Vineyard Music UK during that time.

Before her move to Nashville, Tennessee, Beeching worked with Soul Survivor UK. In December 2002, she released the Shelter EP through EMI UK and was featured on various Soul Survivor and Vineyard albums.

After moving to the United States, Vicky Beeching signed with Sparrow Records and released a 2005 EP, titled The Journey. Her first full-length Sparrow album, Yesterday, Today & Forever, was released on December 27, 2005.