Welcome
Welcome to our weekly news update for the week beginning 23rd March 2025.
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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.
Sun 16th Mar
Tomorrow we’ll be meeting to worship at 10.30am at the chapel and online. Our theme will be ‘Hope in our Communities’ and our guest speaker will be Sam Burnett from The Wave in Littleham.
After the service we’ll be sharing lunch together then having a church meeting - please do stay (and bring some food!) if you can.
For more info about our services, please click here.
Experience Easter
This week the Churches Partnership is hosting ‘Experience Easter’ - an event for school children in which they get to hear and engage with different parts of the Easter story. Thank you to everyone who has helped to make this happen!
If you’d like to see what it’s all about, there is an open drop-in session from 3-4pm on Wednesday afternoon at S. Peter’s C of E Church. Do go and have a look!
Chapel Working Party
The next chapel working party will be on Weds 2nd April from around 9.30am. There’s lots of different jobs that need doing, so if you’re able to pop in (even if only for a short time) it would be very much appreciated!
BMS World Mission
Churches in Sierra Leone are being supported by BMS to discover how their resources can be used to transform their communities, known as church and community mobilisation.
- Church and community mobilisation facilitators are being trained in 350 new churches across Sierra Leone. Pray for God’s blessing over the facilitators and the churches they lead.
- Pray for BMS-supported partner workers Rev Titus and Rev Steven in their roles as church and community mobilisation co-ordinators. Pray for them as they organise activities and support facilitators across Sierra Leone.
- “Church and community mobilisation gave me dreams and it made me realise I could reach them,” says a participant. Give thanks that lives are being changed.
Giving
A massive thank you to everyone who gives regularly to support the church. We only survive through your generosity, so it is much appreciated!
If you'd like to give, there is an offering bag available in the chapel each week. If you'd rather give by standing order or another regular payment, there's lots of information on the church website here.
Alternatively, you can now give by text message:
- To donate £5, text BSBC to 70970
- To donate £10, text BSBC to 70191
We also have gift aid forms available which will help us to claim back an extra 25p for every £1 you give, at no extra cost to you.
If you'd like any more information please speak to our treasurer, Liz.
