Weekly News 12/02/23

Welcome to our weekly news update for the week beginning 12th February 2023.

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For the full calendar of services and other activities going on in our church, please click here.

For safety reasons we don't publish the Zoom details for our services or meetings online. If you'd like to join us on Zoom, please get in touch for the details.

Tomorrow we're meeting to worship together at 10.30am at the chapel and on Zoom.

We'll be gathering around the communion table, and Mark will be preaching for us. Children's activities will be available.

Please get in touch for the Zoom details.

On Wednesday 22nd February Seachange (the old Health & Wellbeing Hub) are hosting a Cost of Living Support Workshop. This will run from 2pm-4pm, and will include help and advice on reducing energy bills, accessing grants, maximising benefits and more.

If you or anyone you know might find this helpful, you can book a place by phoning 01395 446896.

Our next church meeting will be held on Thursday 23rd February at 7.30pm. This is our chance to come together in prayer and worship, share some of the practical things going on in church life, and discern how God might be leading us together.

We'd love it if as many could join us as possible. You can participate by coming to the chapel, or on Zoom (get in touch for the details).

This year's service for the World Day of Prayer will be held at 2pm on Friday 3rd March at Temple Methodist Church.

Everyone is very welcome to come. For more info about the World Day of Prayer and this year's theme, please click here.

There is no Partnership Lent course this year. However, St. Peter's Church would like to invite everyone to four sessions they are running looking at Richard Rohr's book 'The Universal Christ.' Fr. Richard comes from a radical Mystical and contemplative school of catholic theology in the same vein and stable as Julian of Norwich, William Blake and Thomas Merton and while you don’t need to have necessarily read the book, it would give a solid background to the course.

The sessions will start at 7pm in the Peter Hall, on the following dates:

• Tuesday 14^th March – The four worldviews
• Wednesay 22^nd March – Spiritual transformation.
• Tuesday 28^th March – Christ is everywhere
• Wednesday 5^th April – Contemplation

Thank you for your ongoing financial support for the church. There's lots of information about online giving, standing orders and how your money will be used by clicking here.

Alternatively, you can now give by text message:

• To donate £5, text BSBC to 70970
• To donate £10, text BSBC to 70191

Join us in praying for the victims of the Türkiye-Syria earthquakes. Find the full prayer sheet available to download on our website.

- Pray for ongoing rescue operations, that they might still yet find survivors under the rubble. Pray that aid will reach survivors who are now in desperate need of medical treatment and emergency items.

- Pray for those families who have lost loved ones or whose loved ones are currently missing. Pray that God will give them peace and strength in the face of this devastating tragedy.

- Pray for BMS partners in Türkiye, Syria and Lebanon, that God will guide them wisely as they respond with relief efforts.

For more news, stories and prayers from BMS, please visit their website by clicking here.