This Sunday
Mark 2: 1-12 | BOXES
About the sermon
“If we live within rules without realising what they are for we are living boxed in lives. We can live boxed in lives but Jesus came to open the box so that people saw their divine purpose.
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Come to church, or watch at home:
9AM Busbridge CLASSIC SERVICE
Leader: Peter Shaw | Speaker: Keith Harper
9.30AM Hambledon HERITAGE SERVICE - [PLEASE NOTE LATER TIME]
Leader: Andy Spencer | Speaker: Simon Willetts
10.30AM Busbridge CONTEMPORARY: Conversations from the couch
On the couch: Patrick and Sheila Samuels and Simon Taylor
10.30AM CHILDREN’S WORSHIP [Old Rectory Gardens]
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Face coverings required.
10.30AM Hambledon CONTEMPORARY [RESTARTING THIS SUNDAY!]
Leader: Simon Willetts
4.30PM PATHFINDERS (Years 7-9) in the Hut
7.30PM ICTHUS (Years 10-13) off-site pizza night
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This Sunday at 6.30PM
After church online coffee and catch-ups have moved to twice a month:
6.30PM on 2nd Sundays and 11.30AM on 3rd Sundays
We are still not allowed to offer refreshments at church, but hope to be able to restart the lovely habit of coffee after services when restrictions are lifted.
NExt Sunday 20 June [father’s day]
beginning sermon series God our father | Ephesians 4: 1-6
9AM BUSBRIDGE Classic Service
Leader: Maggie Jagger | Speaker: Simon Taylor
9.30AM HAMBLEDON Heritage Service
Leader & Speaker: Simon Willetts
10.30AM BUSBRIDGE CONTEMPORARY
On the couch: Patrick Samuels & Simon Taylor
10.30AM Children’s Worship in the Old Rectory garden
10.30AM Hambledon Contemporary Leader: Simon Willetts
4.30PM PATHFINDERS (Years 7-9) in the Hut
7.30PM ICTHUS (Years 10-13) in the Hut
The Notices
Here’s some Great THINGS COMING UP IN JUNE…
13 June - A renewed 10.30AM contemporary service at Hambledon | Newcomers welcome event after church | 19 June - Young Adults (20s & 30s) Lunchtime Social | 26 June - Summer Blitz Clear Up Day
You can click on any of the images for details and to sign up.
Changes to Hambledon Services from 13 June
It’s great news that the Heritage Service will now start at the slightly more comfortable time of 9.30AM (at church and on YouTube), and will now be followed by an informal contemporary service at 10.30AM (in person only). In due course there may be coffee and band-led worship at this service, but for now the format is fairly fluid and evolving. On 4 and 17 July the congregation plans to meet on Hambledon Village green to worship alongside the junior cricket match!
Sign up now for the Saturday Summer Blitz Clear up morning on 26 June
10-12AM Busbridge with BBQ 12-1PM
[A similar event will be rescheduled at Hambledon if required]
This is a family event- CHILDREN WELCOME & will be put to “work”!
The traditional Big Spring Clean will be a marginally swifter “summer blitz” to strike off some tidying and maintenance jobs, but more importantly draw people alongside each other and enjoy the coffee break and a lunch together. Please contact the church office to let us know you are coming, or sign up on the web site. Liz will be putting you into teams according to your age and task preference, but we need your willingness and availability ASAP. THE BEST JOB (the BBQ lunch) is now taken, but if you’d like to help the Taylors, please let us know!
BHC Outward Giving - MISSION SUNDAY 27 June - In Aid of TEARFUND India Coronavirus Appeal
The OG group writes: We are so fortunate in this country. More than half the population has been vaccinated, many of us have received second doses with few ill effects, and things are at long last beginning to open up. Compare the situation in India. Deaths from coronavirus are among the highest in the world. Having congratulated themselves on having controlled the pandemic last year the country has in recent months experienced a spiralling outbreak. Cities were locked down in response, and labourers within the cities returned to their villages miles away in the countryside, taking the virus with them.
We have seen on our television/computer screens the distressing images of people queuing to get into hospitals, dying while awaiting treatment, shortages of oxygen, ventilators, not to mention of doctors and nurses. And we wonder: it’s so far away, how does this affect us? Because, as Jesus said in the parable of the Good Samaritan, they are our neighbours. And we are in addition told that until the whole world has been cleared of coronavirus none of us is safe from it, vaccine or no vaccine. And, many of the vaccines we receive are made in India!
It’s time for us to show our compassion and our gratitude. Gift-aided envelopes are available at all services in time for our Mission Sunday on 27 June. Donations can also be made to the BHC appeal online, or via the Tearfund web site directly.
Tearfund have produced a 4-minute video which gives a message of hope, that people in India will get through this with their usual resilience and that recovery will come. But they do need our help now!
Shelagh Godwin for the Outward Giving Group (Julia Stubbs, Annie Bryett, David Jenkins, Sandra Campbell, Shelagh Godwin)
Latest news on the Busbridge Centre conversion project:
Building works to start at the end of June!!!
The centre is being cleared now, and there are items up for grabs (doors, shelves, carpet tiles, curtains…) There’s a list of items below, or pop into have a look after church on Sunday. Please contact the office if you would like anything. Items are free, but donations to the Mission Sunday Tearfund Appeal would be gratefully received!
Look out for the job advertisements for the roles of The Yew Tree Café Manager and assistant manager in the coming weeks.
Here are a few visual cues to whet your appetite for the Yew Tree café to open later this year at Busbridge Church.
These are images from the Mood Board - NOT the actual interior of the café, which will be even better! Key words from the mood board: Good coffee, light & bright, catch up on the news, inclusive, working and recharging, colourful chair…
The Centre Improvement Team are inviting you to Walk-thru & Post-it Prayer for the conversion project, and the ministry that will flow out of the café. Enter through the main door and out via the garden and stay 2m away from others. Pens and post-its will be available for you to write a prayer for the CIT to pray when they meet every Thursday. Please join them in prayer for the Yew Tree café too - the construction industry is challenged by a shortage of materials, which may impact the building works. More Background info.
Would you like to be involved in shaping the Church of England? Nominations are now open for election to Diocesan Synod and despite what you may think, you do not have to be a particular age or from a particular background to stand. Over the next three years, the Synod will be discussing issues such as the environmental crisis, diversity and inclusion, young people and use of financial resources. See here for more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74vO_CmmyKc. If you would like any more information, please talk to Simon Taylor, or email synod@cofeguildford.co.uk or jenny.lansdowne@bhcgodalming.org.
Fancy a break from working from home? Please contact Patrick Samuels if you would be interested in sharing a workspace in the Old Rectory during school hours on Mondays or Thursdays once restrictions permit. Power, Wi-Fi and tea/coffee making facilities available. This might offer the chance for a change of scenery, some interaction with others and an optional prayer and reflection time at 12 noon. patrick.samuels@bhcgodalming.org.
Church Family News
We send our love to Jacqui R, whose brother-in-law, Peter, died on 27 May, having been ill for some time. Please pray for Jacqui and the whole extended family, as they mourn the loss of Peter, and make arrangements for his funeral service.
We send love and many congratulations to Raymond and Una M, who celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on 1st June.
Coming Up NEXT:
See the list below or look up dates further ahead in the full calendar. Select the event to join the meetings on Zoom, or sign up.
BHC Public Zoom Room
946-391-4833 | PW 2021
CLICK HERE to get together on Zoom after each service for a virtual coffee, and mid-week Morning Prayer.
Please Pray for
Heathfield Close and road steward Sue Hardy
Church Lane
Service men and women.
Services at Busbridge Church and Hambledon Church
Services are back in both churches AND broadcast live on YouTube. Communion (bread only) will take place on 1st Sundays of the month in the 9AM Busbridge Classic service, and on 3rd Sundays in the 9.30AM Hambledon Heritage service. Those attending are asked to SIGN UP and wear a FACE COVERING. Singing is not permitted in church, but is allowed outdoors (with face coverings).
Busbridge Church and Hambledon Church are both open daily for private prayer.
The Old Rectory is reopening gradually, and clergy and staff are still mainly working from home. The answerphone is checked regularly, but the best way to reach people is by email.
PRAYER MINISTRY TEAM AVAILABLE
To contact the EMERGENCY prayer chain, email prayer@bhcgodalming.org or call Lisa Olsworth-Peter on 01483 421267.
Listening prayer is available mid-week.
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