THIS SUNDAY

Our calling | Isaiah  43: 1-13

What is our calling as individuals, as a church family, as Christians in workplaces, in the community or in a home?

ONLINE Services on YouTube (Heritage & Main)

Welcome:        David Preece
Speaker:          Simon Taylor
Reading:          Naomi Willetts
Prayers:           The Jones
Music:              Paul Ridsdale-Smith

11AM ‘After service’ Coffee for Contemporary and Hambledon congregations.

End of Year parties & graduation ceremonies for Tiny Tigers 9AM, Ark 9AM, Explorers 11.15AM & Pathfinders 10AM (zoom details via email from CYF team).

4PM                   OPEN AIR SERVICE, Old Rectory Garden
                         Simple worship event. Socially distanced, please sign up here and bring your own chair. Face masks are not compulsory, but we ask attendees to consider wearing them from the protection of others.

THE NOTICES

This week’s A Word from is by Margot Spencer - Read more

Churches and worship—Update

As we head into the summer, like many churches, we are using this as a chance to experiment and try things to help us prepare for worship in the future.  Thanks to all those who have completed the survey this week - some 250 responses in 72 hours provided some really helpful feedback and ideas, and we are using some of the info to help shape summer worship beyond church walls and in the community.

Those on the email distribution list also received an invitation to the Open Air service this Sunday at 4pm, to which we ask people to sign up.  Since the invitation went out there has been an update to the instructions:

• Please bring a chair, there will be space to sit, but no seating will be provided apart from the 2 garden benches which we can reserve for those with limited mobility.

• Face masks are not compulsory— everyone will be staying at least 2m apart in the garden at all times.  However we ask attendees to consider wearing a face mask for the protection of others.

If you would like to come to the service, please respond to the email sent on Wednesday or sign up via the What’s On event on the web site here.

what’s on this Summer?

Click HERE for the Break Free on Sundays summer programme, and instructions for Sunday on the Move (19 July). Please note the 4PM zoom with the 2 Simons next sunday, and Live Messy Church on 26 July via zoom. Details and instructions for all the events will follow with the notices each week.

New LLMs
Keith Harper and Philippa Baker complete their theological and church training on 13 July to become Licensed Lay Ministers.  Do congratulate Philippa and Keith and pray for them. Philippa and Keith have both successfully completed 3 years of  intense ministerial training and been awarded Diplomas of Higher Education in Theology, Ministry and Mission by the University of Durham. In October they will be licensed by one of our bishops, this licensing service having been delayed by the Covid-19 crisis.

Now they have completed their training in the Diocese and will shortly  become members of the ministerial team of Busbridge and Hambledon. 

Busbridge Prayer Group, Saturday 11 July
This month's Prayer Time is on Saturday 11th July   ( 2nd Saturday of each month) 8-9am via Zoom , where we pray for our leaders and all those who do anything in the churches.  An Hour of prayer either silent or out loud on items that we care about. 

If you can't make it, but have something or someone you would like us to pray for, do get in contact with Michael Stubbs: michaeleashing@aol.com.

Listening Prayer—8am on Mondays
The Prayer Ministry team invite everyone to an early Monday session to simply listen for God.  Join us for 50 minutes (or as much as you can manage) of listening prayer.  A chance to listen to what God might be saying to you, or our Church community. An opportunity to be still before God with music, a piece of scripture followed by a short reflection and then a time of silence.  At the end there is an invitation to share what God may have said to you if you would like too.  Such a great start to the week. 

Helpful Habits Too
The next Helpful Habits Too (please note, this is not the basic course but a follow-on) will be on Tuesday 14th July, on ‘Praying with images’, and anyone who would like to join needs to contact me for the details and prep. To discuss or to register, please contact Gertrud Sollars, e: Gertrud.sollars@btinternet.com.

HR support requested
We’ve reviewed how we offer employment support and we would like to hear from anyone who might have expertise in this area and join an advisory group to help the PCC care for its staff team.  To offer to help please contact a church warden.

Carer wanted 
Employment opportunity available to provide care support to a Busbridge couple with long standing connections to our church.  Previous experience of care work would be desirable due to the complex nature of this couple’s needs and the post holder must be prepared to carry out personal care tasks. Job share applications considered.  Working hours would be on a rota basis to support the live-in carers to have a break.  The post is for 20 hours a week spread over 5 days, in blocks of approximately 4 weeks on / 4 weeks off.  For further details please contact Penny Naylor via the Church Office or email: penny.naylor@bhcgodalming.org

Alpha Online
Please continue to pray for participants and leaders.  (Email: david.preece@bhcgodalming.org and find all the details on the web site under Courses.)

Hope in Depression—course starts 6 July
Please pray for participants and facilitators on the Hope In Depression course with which starts on Monday.  There is still some room on this course.  This 6 week course was developed by the Hope in Depression charity for delivery by churches, and we are grateful that Simon Willetts has previous experience leading the course and is able to offer the online version to anyone in the local community.  The course is free, and can help those suffering with depression and those supporting them.  The details and the registration form are on the web site, under courses.  Do please pass this onto anyone who might benefit.

In the community
Please see the latest issue of the Trinity Trust Team news letter HERE.

Please pray for
Please pray for these roads and their residents, and perhaps include them on a prayer walk this week:
· Maryvale and road steward Jacky Beale.
· Feathercombe Lane.

Prayer Ministry team available

To contact the EMERGENCY prayer chain, email prayer@bhcgodalming.org  or call 01483 421267.
Listening prayer is available mid-week.
For more information contact Jeannie Postill t 01428 687968.