Racial Justice Sunday | Reading: 1 John 4:7-21
THIS SUNDAY
9.15AM BUSBRIDGE Classic Service
Led by: Keith Harper
Speaker: Peter Shaw
Busbridge Church & Online
9.30AM HAMBLEDON Heritage Service [Holy Communion]
Leader and Speaker: Simon Willetts
Hambledon Church & Online
10.30AM BUSBRIDGE Contemporary Service
Leaders: Clare Haddad & Patrick Samuels
Speaker: Margot Spencer
Busbridge Church & Online
10.30AM HAMBLEDON Contemporary Service
Leader and Speaker: Simon Willetts
Hambledon Church
Next Sunday 20 Feb
Always joyful | Reading: 1 Peter 1: 1-9
Part 1 of Living Holiness
The sermon series for 20 Feb to 27 March will examine this theme in 1 Peter.
9.15AM BUSBRIDGE Classic Service
Led by: Frances Shaw
Speaker: Simon Taylor
Busbridge Church & Online
9.30AM HAMBLEDON Heritage Service
Leader: Dudley Hilton
Speaker: David Jenkins
Hambledon Church & Online
10.30AM BUSBRIDGE Contemporary Service
Leaders: Chris Garner & Simon Willetts
Speaker: Simon Taylor
Busbridge Church & Online
4PM HAMBLEDON Messy Church
Leader and Speaker: Simon Willetts
Hambledon Village Hall
6PM BUSBRIDGE Evening [Holy Communion]
Leader: Simon Taylor
Speaker: Clare Haddad
Busbridge Church
Good things come in 3s… please give thanks for
i) the new small group that has formed following the 3 week “pop-up” small group which ran in the new year. There will surely be another pop up chance to try a small group in due course.
ii) this week’s worship night for our musicians, worship leaders and those involved in sound and audio vision for services. Ben Ford led a great evening to affirm and inspire the team. If you would like to find out more, please contact Ben. Sound and a/v is always keen to welcome and support more team members.
iii) Muddy Church. This is truly a fresh expression worth celebrating. The rain stopped and the sun came out last Sunday for a glorious morning. It’s growing, and we are glad. If you haven’t tried it yet, do look out for details of the next MC on 6 March.
Meanwhile longer standing ministries such as the Men’s Group breakfasts, and Nexus are enjoying being back together in person in the Old Rectory, both groups offering ways to engage, socially, with topical matters through a Christian lens.
And the works to the Yew Tree Café are into the final push. The long-awaited bi-fold doors are being installed this week, yay!
Looking forward to Lent?
The BHC theme for Lent this year is “Letting the Light Shine”, and understanding JOY, even in testing times. To accompany the journey through 1 Peter in the sermon series, there will be short daily reflections online. 40 key verses from 1 Peter have been shortlisted, and it would be great if members of the church could shine their light in the reflections, along with members of the clergy team. If you’d like to contribute a short (30-60 seconds) thought or prayer on one or 2 of the days, or would just like to find out more, please fill in the form below. You can submit this in writing or ideally film it on your phone.
The Yew Tree Café - Opening March 2022
Sponsor an item
You can now sponsor an item. You can 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. View the YEW TREE items sponsorship list and go to Donate and either donate by BACS transfer or the donate function and use ref: YT[item].
Volunteer! See the vacancies page.
Response to the initial call for café volunteers last week has be been great, but we’d like 6-10 more people to make the team up to approx 20. 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:
Road Steward needed for Summerhouse road. There is a vacancy coming up for a road steward to be the church rep, pray for and deliver the Bridge magazine in Summerhouse road. Please contact David Brockman e: editor.atthebridge@gmail.com if you could take on this role.
Prime Time presents … all welcome.
Simon T is grateful to the men and women of the Godalming Mother’s Union for their recent invitation to be part of a Question Time panel. The panel included local dignitaries and politicians. All panel participants were treated to a gift of home made Mother’s Union marmalade. If you haven’t heard of the Mother’s Union and their amazing work then check out https://www.mothersunion.org/
COVID UPDATE 27 Jan 2022
Following the latest changes to the Covid-19 rules in the UK, all legal restrictions are lifted for churches and places of worship. This means that face coverings are no longer a legal requirement in services. However, The Church of England and the Bishop of Guildford suggest that churches consider maintaining some precautions for the care and consideration of all members, and that these are at the discretion of the incumbent.
Busbridge&Hambledon church continues to welcome the use of face coverings in services, and a supply of masks and hand sanitiser is available in both churches and the Old Rectory. Neither church is large enough to guarantee social distancing, but we hope that those to wish to keep a little more space between themselves and others can do so. Communion will be celebrated in one kind until the end of February, when the decision to share the common cup (or invest in individual glasses) will be reviewed again. Thank you for your ongoing co-operation, and respect for each other.
Coming Up:
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).
Please Pray for
Local gyms and leisure centres
The Paddock and road steward Judith Rolfe
Upper Vann Lane
ELSEWHERE
Please see the February issue of Link Up HERE and info on other local church events:
DECISION MAKING AND THE WILL OF GOD Led by Andy Peck, Saturday 23rd April 2022, 9.30 am - 1 pm. (Coffee available from 9 am) at Godalming Baptist Church, Queen Street, Godalming, Surrey GU7 1BA
If you are looking to following in the ways of Jesus you will want to do what He says, but this is not always easy to figure out, especially when there is no chapter and verse on the topic.
Whether you have a major decision ahead or not, make the decision to attend, and all other decisions will be sorted!
Andy Peck is a Bible teacher, trainer, broadcaster and editor who has made his fair share of decision mistakes!
He hopes that sharing what God has taught him will benefit those who attend. He is married to Nic (his best decision) and has two teenage boys.
Please reserve a place, with payment of £5, by contacting Sally Pollard (email: pollard3@hotmail.co.uk) Tel-01483-428646 by Friday 14th April
There is a Spring ‘Naturally Supernatural Conference 2022’ being put on this year because of the volume of demand. It is on Wednesday 11th to Saturday 14th May at Soul Survivor Watford. The conference is all about spending time in God’s presence, with extended times of worship and ministry. We’ll be studying God’s word and hearing from some great teachers as we explore what it means to live biblical, naturally supernatural lives today. It’s only £76 as well. If you are interested in going, either book directly at https://naturallysupernatural.co.uk/ or chat with Julia Stubbs eashingstubbs@aol.com. if you want to know a bit more.
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.