Christian character is revealed under pressure.
What does this mean for us in 2022?
Watch Simon’s intro to the BHC vision for 2022: to deepen our understanding and expression of Christian character - as individuals and as a church over the next 12 months.
The topics for January start with a revision of the Busbridge&Hambledon Church vision and mission:
9 Jan: Galatians 5.1-12 Loving God: distinctive and generous love | 16 Jan: Galatians 5.13-26 Making disciples: life together, generous living | 30 Jan: Galatians 6 Transforming communities: bearing fruit, generous sharing
This Sunday
Making disciples: life together, generous living
Galatians 5.13-26
9.15AM BUSBRIDGE Classic Service
Leader: Keith Harper
Speaker: Simon Taylor
Busbridge Church & Online
(Coffee will be served in the chancel after Classic and before and after Contemporary for those that would like it. As coffee is optional, face coverings can be removed for this time in church. Please exit via the vestry to avoid congestion if people are setting up and arriving for the next service).
9.30AM HAMBLEDON Heritage Service
Leader: Simon Willetts
Speaker: Peter Shaw
Hambledon Church & Online
10.30AM BUSBRIDGE Contemporary Service
Leader: Patrick Samuels
Speaker: Simon Taylor
Busbridge Church & Online
NB Location changes for Sunday morning children’s groups: The Ark has moved to the Village Hall, Explorers will now meet in The Hut (youth space in the Old Rectory), and the crèche and Tiny Tigers remain in the Old Rectory too. Please drop off children off from 10.20am.
4PM HAMBLEDON Messy Church - Noah, The Ark and God’s promises!
Hambledon Village Hall
6PM BUSBRIDGE Evening Service [Holy Communion]
Leader & Speaker: Simon Taylor
Busbridge Church
Next Sunday 23 January
10.30AM CHURCHES TOGETHER UNITED SERVICE
St John’s Church, Farncombe
No morning services at Busbridge church or Hambledon church.
6PM BUSBRIDGE Unplugged
Led by the Unplugged Youth team and band
Busbridge Church
BHC Public Zoom room - for morning prayer and other online meetings and events: The password will be updated to 2022 on Monday 17 January, after 8.45am Reflective Prayer finishes at 9.30am.
The Yew Tree Café update
“Our vision is to be a church and community space that cultivates friendship, and delivers a high quality service to all visitors with an atmosphere of pastoral care”
Could you be part of this?
The café is looking great, with new windows and a new kitchen and terracing underway! New café manager Lizzie Soar will be introduced in Busbridge services this Sunday, and will spend the next month preparing for our opening, hopefully mid February. We are hoping to appoint an Assistant manager or 2 soon, the advert is here if this interests you, or you know someone who you could pass it to. See the vacancies page here.
So now we are looking for volunteers to work alongside them to bring this exciting project to life!
What is involved?
· Being part of a great team, taking orders and delivering drinks and food to customers
· Watching out for those who need a friendly ear or a chat
· Training as a barista on our amazing coffee machine should you wish to
· Committing to 1 shift per week, 3-4 hours, for 6 months then for a mutual review (holidays allowed!)
· Coming to a half day training before the café opens to meet others and learn how things work! Probable dates 2nd or 5th February
If you would like to find out more, please contact us on: Yewtreecafe@BHCGodalming.org or talk to Lizzie, Karen Hart, Carol Jones, Chris Garner or Sarah Black at the end of services, or pop you details in the form below:
There will soon be an opportunity to sponsor an item for the café. When the centre was first built, many sponsored a brick and signed it, we still have the photos of all the signatures! In a week or so we will have a list online of items and prices for you to choose to sponsor, everything from a mop and bucket to a coffee cup to a sofa! We want the café to be owned by the whole congregation and this is one very practical way of demonstrating this.
The Bridge Magazine—looking for an new editor and treasurer.
The Jan/Feb edition of the Bridge will for the last issue for the foreseeable future as we wait for people to step into the roles of editor, deputy editor and treasurer. We are so grateful to Cathy Brook and Lesley Reeves for all their work in recent years.
The Bridge is provides a special link between church and community, which we are keen not to lose. Do please contact Vic Hicks if you would like to find out about these roles. The role of Bridge editor is paid, and could be shared with a deputy editor. Click the link for details.
The Jan/Feb Issue of the Bridge is available online HERE, including Christmas events and services at church.
NEW YEAR OPPORTUNITIES
Alpha in 2022: The next online course is postponed, but will be rescheduled once there is sufficient interest.
The 3 week pop-up house group - a ‘no obligation’ chance to try out being a small group and all the good things that come with it - is now full, but you can still let us know you are interested by contacting Simon Willetts. As we grow as a church family, Small Groups are the best (and only way) to look after, feed and nurture members of the family and we’ll be looking at that more this year.
Outward Giving - Calling all Compassion Sponsors!
Currently most of us are not linked to a church on their systems ,so Compassion can’t pull off data on all the. Gilder we sponsor ,relating us to Busbridge or Hambledon churches. If you are happy to be so linked, could you let me know your name and postcode, which I can then add to a GDPR form to send to them. Many thanks, Julia Stubbs :email to eashingstubbs@aol.com
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
We send our love to Niki Ford, whose older sister Janet died this week. Please pray for the whole family, especially Nikki and her siblings, Janet's husband Mike and their children Emma and Ben; pray for God's peace and comfort to surround them all.
We send our love to Sylvia Harrison, in Hambledon, whose husband Chris died earlier this week. Chris managed the project to redevelop the Hambledon Church vestry and build the new rooms a few years ago. Please hold Sylvia and their family in your prayers, that God may surround them with his love and comfort.
Please Pray for
The pop up house group starting 18 Jan
A new editor, deputy editor and treasurer to continue the Bridge magazine.
The Yew Tree Café - new staff, recruitment of volunteers, Mark Pateman’s team and the building works.
Our emergency services
Windy Wood and road steward Gemma Taylor
Wormley Lane
ELSEWHERE
Bereavement Day at Godalming Baptist Church - 5 Feb 2022. Please download the information:
Bereavement Day flyer
Booking & additional info re. Covid regulations
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 01483 421267.
Listening prayer is available mid-week.