This Sunday

Christian Character | Job 1:1-3, 13-22;

What is our Christian character as we deal with death and disappointment; as individuals and as a Christian community?

ONLINE Services on YouTube

Welcome: Simon Taylor
Speaker:   Margot Spencer
Reading: Jo Cookes
Prayers:    Simon Willetts
Music:      Arianna Pisetti & Davide Tavernini

The Notices

Available from

9am Heritage service (BCP)
10am BHC MAIN ONLINE SERVICE

Tiny Tigers & Ark for children on YouTube too.

Churches and worship
In light of new government guidance, we are looking at how we can offer Sunday worship in our church buildings and we’re grateful to Michael Stubbs, Tim Davies and Mike Hawkey for their work on getting technology into both churches for live streaming in the Autumn. We have two buildings which can each have no more than 20-35 people in them and there are important deep-clean requirements before and after each use. We are keen to avoid a regular ‘pre-booked ticket only’ approach to worship in a church building.

We believe that the Holy Spirit is asking us to look at how and where we gather to worship and how this fits with us as a mission community for God. We will be able to return to the church buildings once we have worked safety, technology and access out; we are also looking at other ways to gather and celebrate together.

With the summer coming, we are going to try some different approaches to Sunday worship. For this next phase, the teaching will be on the theme Recovery, and we are calling the summer programme for Sundays ‘Break Free’ - it won’t all be on YouTube! (A programme with more details will follow next week.)

A reminder: Busbridge Church and Hambledon Church are open daily from 9.30am to 4.30pm for private prayer and we encourage everyone to pop in. We have received really positive feedback to the display to help guide prayer if at Busbridge and there is also info on Why Pray? at Hambledon.

The Chain of Hope in Busbridge churchyard is growing! There are some very creative designs painted on pebbles, large and small, and some simple ones too. We hope this will encourage you to drop in while we cannot gather physically to worship.

Church cleaning—Due to COVID-19 precautions, we are having to double bag all our potentially contaminated waste and have to store it for 72 hours before throwing it away. If anyone has any spare supermarket-type bags we could use to line our bins, it would be much appreciated if you could drop them off at the front door of the Old Rectory please. You could tuck them behind the Creative Kindness box so they don’t blow away. Many thanks.

New LLMs
We are delighted to announce that Keith Harper and Philippa Baker complete their theological and church training on July 13th to become locally licensed ministers (lay ministers). Normally we’d interview them in church and pray for them. Do congratulate Philippa and Keith and pray for them. They have given two years of their time to for theological study, church placements and residential weekends. (They will be formally licensed in October).

Church Family Support Fund
The stewards of Busbridge and Hambledon Church Family Support Fund would like to send their very grateful thanks to those who have anonymously donated some very considerable funds to the charity. These have given the fund a substantial boost and will enable the stewards to be able to support more people who are in financial difficulty because of the Covid 19 crisis. Thank you very much.

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.

A mobile phone has been handed into the church office. Please contact liz.gorst@bhcgodaling.org if you think it might be yours.

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 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.

Hello from Prime Time—the next PT event will a quiz and catch up on Zoom on 6 July. Penny’s weekly mailings to Prime Time members can now be found on the web site under news.

Thanks to everyone who responded so quickly to Jenna Brown’s appeal to furnish a flat for someone homeless who needed basic items urgently. A facebook post, message to small group leaders and word of mouth achieved a miraculous response in 48 hours. Thank you. The gentleman moved into his new home on Monday.

The Bridge is back! Thanks to Bridge editor, Cathy Brook and team who produced the latest edition of the Bridge magazine, and to all the road stewards who will be delivering it safely around Busbridge next week. There’s lots of positive church and community news in this edition, and the online version is here!

Please pray for
This item has been absent in the notices for a while, so to cover the parishes in prayer, road by road, and picking up where we left off...this week please pray for these roads and their residents, and perhaps include them on a prayer walk this week:

·Maplehatch Close and road stewards Vikki Scarborough and Janet Harvey

· Feathercombe Lane

Public Notice: A faculty petition has been filed (wef 3rd July 2020) in respect of the McLaren Grave Marker - details: keith.harper@bhcgodalming.org

Click here for Godalming Churches Together - July Link Up