REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Readings Micah 4: 1-4 and James 4: 1 & 6-7
We will
remember them
10.30AM HAMBLEDON REMEMBRANCE SERVICE
Leader: David Jenkins
Speaker: Simon Willetts
Hambledon Church & Online
10.45AM BUSBRIDGE REMEMBRANCE SERVICE
Leader: Andy Spencer
Speaker: Philippa Baker
Busbridge Church & Online
All meet in church. Please arrive in church in time to register children for their activity before the service starts at 10.45am. Children will leave for activities in the Old Rectory after the Act of Remembrance.
Please note: Hand sanitiser and face coverings are available in both churches for those that wish to use them. Holy Communion is celebrated by each congregation once a month (at a service in the benefice each Sunday.): Holy Communion Sundays.
NEXT SUNDAY 21 NOVEMBER
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 and Mark 13:32-37
9.15AM BUSBRIDGE Classic Service
Leader: Keith Harper
Speaker: Peter Shaw
Busbridge Church & Online
9.30AM HAMBLEDON Heritage Service
Leader & Speaker: Simon Willetts
Hambledon Church & Online
10.30AM BUSBRIDGE Contemporary
Leader: Chris Garner & Patrick Samuels
Speaker: Graham Sopp
Busbridge Church & Online
4PM HAMBLEDON Messy Church
Hambledon Village Hall
6PM BUSBRIDGE EVENING SERVICE [Holy Communion]
*** & special prayer event for the climate crisis and COP26***
Leader & Speaker: Simon Willetts and the Prayer Ministry Team
Busbridge Church
The Notices
Lisa and Simon remind you of the top notices this week: Remembrance Sunday, the Walking Advent Calendar and Lisa’s new job!
Lisa is leaving us 😢 - for great new things 😊 to take up a post as deputy director at Spring Harvest. We know that music-worship ministry and Lisa’s input into prayer, creative arts and bringing Christian music to our church school has been a hugely important. Lisa’s last Sunday is 28 November when she will be leading worship at the Busbridge Contemporary service and Unplugged. If you’d like to contribute to a leaving gift for Lisa, please send a cheque to the church office, or transfer to the Busbridge PCC bank account by Friday 19 November.
The better news is that Ben Ford has accepted the position of Interim Worship Pastor and will oversee music and worship at Busbridge&Hambledon over Christmas and the coming months. Ben is living with family in Busbridge having returned from Hong Kong where he worked with St Stephen’s Society (Jackie Pullinger’s charity). Ben will be introduced in services from 21 November.
Planning for CHRISTMAS!…
(we’re still whispering it at the moment, but it’s only 16 sleeps until the start of Advent…)
Living Advent 2021
The CofE Christmas theme for 2021 is “At the heart of Christmas” and Busbridge&Hambledon will be incorporating this message in it’s Advent and Christmas events. The creatives among us are producing a large heart of foraged wood this Sunday to go on display in Busbridge churchyard throughout Advent. Look out for it from 28 November.
Window displays needed for the Walking Advent Calendar
Sign up here if you’d be willing to provide a display for a day in December:
https://bhcgodalming.churchsuite.co.uk/events/8tglfhoj
We need 16 more great households to put an advent display or photo in their front garden/window/door/gate. So many people did the walk last year and it was a great message from our church into the community.
Save the Date: Christmas Charity Quiz—Sat 4 Dec! The very popular annual quiz organised by Nexus will be once again on Zoom. Quiz masters: Alan Betts and Dudley Hilton. Enter individually or in teams of 6: “breakout rooms” will be used for teams to confer. To join the Quiz: Make a donation to Phyllis Tuckwell! Go to: www.justgiving.com/PamelaDaltonWilliams. It’s vital that you ‘Show’ your name, even if you ‘Hide’ your donation amount, so that we know you want to join our Quiz!!
BHC Carol Services - Call for Choir Singers
The traditional Christmas Carol services with choirs will take place on 19 December: 6pm at Busbridge, and 7pm at Hambledon. If you would like to find out more about joining the choirs please let Alan Harvey, Hambledon, (alan.harvey@bhcgodalming.org) or Julie Nelson, Busbridge, (julie.nelson@phonecoop.coop) know. There will be a benefice-wide rehearsal to kick things off on the evening of Thursday 18 November; and three further rehearsals at each church. For dates and details, and to sign up see: https://bhcgodalming.churchsuite.co.uk/events/h7qgmzho
A huge thank you to Julie Nelson for helping once again to organise the Busbridge carols. It's such a blessing to have someone take care of all the practical and administrative side of things, and makes it feel much less overwhelming!
The Bridge Magazine—looking for an new editor and treasurer. It is with huge gratitude and appreciation (and more than a little regret) that we share that Cathy Brook, who has been editor of the Bridge for 6 years, will be stepping aside at the end of December. Lesley Reeves will also be ending her tenure as treasurer. This leaves important vacancies in one of our key local mission and outreach activities. Do please contact Vic Hicks if you would like to find out about these roles. The role of editor is paid, and could be shared with a deputy editor. More details about the roles will be available next week.
The Nov/Dec Issue of the Bridge is available online HERE, including Christmas events and services at church.
The Outward Giving team needs new members urgently, to oversee the outward giving and work with our mission partners. To find out about the work that the OG team makes happen on behalf of Busbridge&Hambledon Church, please see the Outward Giving page.
Waverley have offered to help resettle some Afghan refugees. The churches response is being coordinated by the Diocese but the BHC home group led by Julia Stubbs is the contact point in Busbridge. If you have anything to donate please contact Julia Stubbs (eashingstubbs@aol.com) or Sarah Black (sarahblack536@gmail.com) or there will be a box at the back of church on Sunday.
The first family who are arriving this week have 2 young children .
Things they need for the family are :
-household items, food parcels, toiletries etc
-clothes and toys for a boy aged 2 and a 4-year-old girl.
-any household electricals have got to be new, for health and safety reasons.
Most families have arrived with very little and would be very grateful for anything our church can do to help support families to resettle here in the UK.
The Cellar Camino Café urgently needs volunteers on a Wednesday morning, 9 to 1, to cover a staff shortage. They are enormously grateful to those from BHC who help out on other days of the week. If enough people volunteer the workload should not be too arduous or too frequent. Speak to Shelagh Godwin or contact the Cellar direct. Mark Puddephatt and members of his house group would be willing to talk about the joy of serving for this local church mission partner.
Movie Matinees are back! and the next one is on 27 Nov in Busbridge Church. Hosted by Prime Time, open to all.
BUSBRIDGE JUNIOR SCHOOL APPLICATIONS
If you are thinking of submitting a church application to Busbridge Junior School for September 2022, please visit the Busbridge Junior School website and familiarise yourself with their admission criteria (‘About Us’, ‘Admissions’). If you meet the criteria, email catherine.garner@bhcgodalming.org for an information sheet. The deadline to submit the supplementary info form to the church office is 10 December.
Coming Up NEXT:
See the list below or look up dates further ahead in the full calendar. Select the event for details and the location (online or on site).
church family news
All who knew Pat Hilton are warmly invited to the long-delayed Service of Thanksgiving and Celebration for her life, which will take place at 3pm on Saturday 20th November in Busbridge Church, followed by refreshments (also in church). Dress code – “Glad rags, not sad rags”!
For those unable to be there, the service will be live streamed on YouTube, where it will also be available to view subsequently on “catch-up”. Please contact Dudley if you would like the access details when they are available. Please be praying for Dudley, Robert, Catriona and the wider family. It has been a particularly long wait to celebrate Pat's life and they will be grateful for all your prayers.
Please Pray for
All those who attend the annual benefice Memorial Service on Saturday 6 November, that they might find comfort, and give thanks for our bereavement team and pastoral assistants as they care for those who have lost loved ones.
Please continue to pray for the COP26 conference in Glasgow from 31st October - 12th November. At this significant time for our country and the world we must unite in prayer.
Park Road and road steward Anthony Field and Frances Morris
Lane end
Those working in medicine.
ELSEWHERE
Waverley Abbey Trust (CWR), based in Waverley Abbey House Farnham. We are primarily a college offering Christian counselling training and Spiritual Direction courses. The catering is an important part of the students experience and we are currently understaffed. It's a great job for youth who may be looking for part-time work between studies or at weekends. Or for anyone looking for a full-time position of this kind. There are both full time and part-time opportunities. The job descriptions, person specifications and main terms of employment are available from Iain Jones. Iain.jones@waverleyabbey.org
See Churches Together Link Up - November Issue for news from around other churches in and around Godalming.
Catch up on News from other areas
Busbridge and Hambledon Churches are open daily for private prayer.
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.