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Distinctive in our Welcome
Reading: Colossians 3:1-17

THIS SUNDAY

9.15AM BUSBRIDGE Classic Service [Holy Communion]
Leader: Andy Spencer
Speaker: Peter Shaw
Busbridge Church & Online

(Coffee will be served in the chancel after Classic).

9.30AM HAMBLEDON Heritage Service
Leader: Keith Harper
Speaker: Simon Willetts
Hambledon Church & Online

10.30AM MUDDY Church
Meet at Hydon’s Ball car park
Leaders: Mark Puddephatt and Suzie Lambert

10.30AM HAMBLEDON Contemporary Service
Leader: Keith Harper
Speaker: Simon Willetts
Hambledon Church

6PM Busbridge Evening Service
Leader: Simon Willetts
Busbridge Church

Next Sunday 13 Feb

Racial Justice Sunday | Reading: 1 John 4:7-21

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

The Yew Tree Café

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:

Nexus.  On Thursday 3rd February, we’ll welcome two members of the community fundraising team from Oakleaf Enterprise, our Charity for 2022.  Jen Clay and Jane Felton will come and talk to us on ‘Oakleaf and mental health in the Surrey community’.  The pandemic has had a devastating impact on the mental health and wellbeing of many.  Oakleaf transforms lives and builds new futures for adults; developing the skills and confidence they desperately need and by reducing their feelings of social isolation.  In this way, Oakleaf empowers individuals to participate again as active members of the community.  The charity also works hard to promote awareness and reduce the stigma of mental health. 

Do join us to learn more about the work of this increasingly important charity, which we are pleased to support this year.  Mental ill-health can happen to anyone! We’ll meet in the Old Rectory at 8.00pm.  All welcome, including men! We will be collecting Membership fees for 2022, which remain at £18, and there will be a visitor fee of £5.00 for non-members.  These fees cover refreshments, gifts or fees for speakers and charity donations. For more information, please contact Janetmharvey@btinternet.com or katekaye2@btinternet.com

Men’s Breakfast this Saturday. Gents are invited to the first men’s get together of the year in the Old Rectory, 8.15am this Saturday….prize winning porridge…tasty toast…homemade marmalade (award winning!)…and just to be different this month, bagels infused with fruit  (award winning).

As usual we will have a conversation about something topical…but this month we reach up to a higher level. "What is truth?" is the snappy title chosen by your hosts.  Not just in the context of Partygate, but for the Ukraine crisis and all the other "facts" that we are bombarded with daily. 

Prime Time presents … all welcome.

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).

Church Family News

We have been deeply saddened to hear of the death of Cynthia Miller, a longstanding member of Hambledon Church.  She had been in a care home for some time, but died last Sunday, in hospital.  We send our love to Derek, their daughter Janet and the wider family.  Please pray that God will surround them all with his love, peace and comfort.

Please Pray for

  • The work of the Cellar and Skillway

  • Tuesley Lane and it’s road steward Lesley Reeves

  • Vann Lane

ELSEWHERE

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.

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.

Notices for 30 January 2022

THIS SUNDAY

Transforming communities:  bearing fruit, generous sharing
Galatians 6

9.15AM BUSBRIDGE Classic Service
Leader: Philippa Baker
Speaker: Patrick Samuels
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: Margot Spencer
Speaker: Dudley Hilton
Hambledon Church & Online

10.30AM BUSBRIDGE Contemporary Service
Leaders: Andy Spencer and Simon Willetts
Speaker: Patrick Samuels
Busbridge Church & Online
NB New locations for Sunday morning children’s groups: The Ark meets in the Village Hall, Explorers 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.

10.30AM HAMBLEDON Contemporary Service
Leader: Margot Spencer
Speaker: Dudley Hilton
Hambledon Church

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.

Next Sunday 6 Feb

9.15AM BUSBRIDGE Classic Service
Busbridge Church & Online

9.30AM HAMBLEDON Heritage Service
Hambledon Church & Online

More details >>

10.30AM MUDDY Church
Meet at Hydon’s Ball carpark with hot drinks and instruments.

10.30AM HAMBLEDON Contemporary Service
Hambledon Church

6PM Busbridge Evening Service
Busbridge Church

The Yew Tree Café

The café is looking great, with new windows and a new kitchen and terracing underway! New café manager Lizzie Soar started this week, and will spend the next month preparing for the café opening, now in early March. We are hoping to appoint an Assistant manager or 2 soon, the advert is on the vacancies page if this interests you, or you know someone who you could pass it to. (Please note that the closing date has been extended to 28 Jan, and the hourly rate is increased since the role was first advertised).

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:

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].

Nexus.  On Thursday 3rd February, we’ll welcome two members of the community fundraising team from Oakleaf Enterprise, our Charity for 2022.  Jen Clay and Jane Felton will come and talk to us on ‘Oakleaf and mental health in the Surrey community’.  The pandemic has had a devastating impact on the mental health and wellbeing of many.  Oakleaf transforms lives and builds new futures for adults; developing the skills and confidence they desperately need and by reducing their feelings of social isolation.  In this way, Oakleaf empowers individuals to participate again as active members of the community.  The charity also works hard to promote awareness and reduce the stigma of mental health. 

Do join us to learn more about the work of this increasingly important charity, which we are pleased to support this year.  Mental ill-health can happen to anyone! We’ll meet in the Old Rectory at 8.00pm.  All welcome, including men! We will be collecting Membership fees for 2022, which remain at £18, and there will be a visitor fee of £5.00 for non-members.  These fees cover refreshments, gifts or fees for speakers and charity donations. For more information, please contact Janetmharvey@btinternet.com or katekaye2@btinternet.com

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).

Church Family News

We send our love to Catherine Pearsall, whose mother, Louise, died last weekend, in South Africa.  Please hold Catherine and Derek in your prayers, and also the wider family in SA.  Pray for God’s love and comfort to surround them all, as they mourn Louise and as they have to make arrangements at such a distance.

Please Pray for

  • The Yew Tree Café - new staff, recruitment of volunteers, Mark Pateman’s team and the building works.

  • Local health centres and surgeries

  • Underhill Close and its road steward vacancy to be filled.

  • Woodlands Road

ELSEWHERE

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.

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.

Notices for 23 January 2022

The Notices for this week are recorded by new team members Ben Ford, Worship, and Lizzie Soar, Yew Tree Café manager!

This Sunday

10.30AM CHURCHES TOGETHER UNITED SERVICE
St John’s Church, Farncombe
Watch online: https://youtu.be/bav_4qgZ4zo
No morning services at Busbridge church or Hambledon church.
Churches Together in Godalming and villages around unite at St John’s Church, Farncombe this Sunday at 10.30AM to launch a week of prayer for Christian Unity. (Parking is limited, so please walk or share lifts where possible).

6PM BUSBRIDGE Unplugged
Led by the Unplugged Youth team and band
Busbridge Church

Next Sunday 30 January

Transforming communities:  bearing fruit, generous sharing
Galatians 6

9.15AM BUSBRIDGE Classic Service
Leader: Philippa Baker
Speaker: Patrick Samuels
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: Margot Spencer
Speaker: Dudley Hilton
Hambledon Church & Online

10.30AM BUSBRIDGE Contemporary Service
Leaders: Andy Spencer and Simon Willetts
Speaker: Patrick Samuels
Busbridge Church & Online
NB New locations 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 Contemporary Service
Leader: Margot Spencer
Speaker: Dudley Hilton
Hambledon Church

BHC Public Zoom room - for morning prayer and other online meetings and events: The password is now 2022.

The Yew Tree Café

The café is looking great, with new windows and a new kitchen and terracing underway! New café manager Lizzie Soar started this week, and will spend the next month preparing for the café opening, now in early March. We are hoping to appoint an Assistant manager or 2 soon, the advert is on the vacancies page if this interests you, or you know someone who you could pass it to. (Please note that the closing date has been extended to 28 Jan, and the hourly rate is increased since the role was first advertised).

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:

Thirdly, 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].

The Bridge Magazine—Editor appointed
Thank you to all those who have been praying for a new editor so that the Bridge magazine can continue. We are delighted to share that longstanding Busbridge resident and church member David Brockman has accepted the role, and will be in post to produce the next issue.

The Jan/Feb Issue of the Bridge is available online HERE.

Nexus.  On Thursday 3rd February, we’ll welcome two members of the community fundraising team from Oakleaf Enterprise, our Charity for 2022.  Jen Clay and Jane Felton will come and talk to us on ‘Oakleaf and mental health in the Surrey community’.  The pandemic has had a devastating impact on the mental health and wellbeing of many.  Oakleaf transforms lives and builds new futures for adults; developing the skills and confidence they desperately need and by reducing their feelings of social isolation.  In this way, Oakleaf empowers individuals to participate again as active members of the community.  The charity also works hard to promote awareness and reduce the stigma of mental health. 

Do join us to learn more about the work of this increasingly important charity, which we are pleased to support this year.  Mental ill-health can happen to anyone! We’ll meet in Busbridge Church at 8.00pm.  All welcome, including men! We will be collecting Membership fees for 2022, which remain at £18, and there will be a visitor fee of £5.00 for non-members.  These fees cover refreshments, gifts or fees for speakers and charity donations. For more information, please contact

Janetmharvey@btinternet.com or katekaye2@btinternet.com

The PCC met last week and discussed many things. Anyone on the church electoral roll is always welcome to sit in on a PCC meeting and we’ve sometimes had interested people do this so do consider popping along to a PCC sometime. The PCC discussed some recent vandalism at Busbridge Church and the PCC approved the installation of cctv to protect the building and to support our new Yew Tree coffee volunteers. Reports on buildings, ministry and other activity were received and the PCC sub-groups set their meeting dates. There are several PCC groups which oversee things as diverse as children’s ministry to ecology. The PCC looked at plans for the year ahead and the PCC is focussing on local mission, stability of our ministry areas and resources. The PCC gave special thanks for Richard Cooke’s work in helping resolve damp issues at Mervil Bottom in Hambledon. The thinking about exploring joining with St Peter and Paul’s and St Mark’s churches was looked at and the PCC noted that David Wilkin is the chair of this whole process. Anyone in the church family can approach David Wilkin to discuss this matter or to ask questions. A reminder that the minutes of PCC meetings will be published on the web site in due course, and can be found via the footer on the web site.

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).

Please Pray for

  • The Yew Tree Café - new staff, recruitment of volunteers, Mark Pateman’s team and the building works.

  • Local health centres and surgeries

  • Underhill Close and its road steward vacancy to be filled.

  • Woodlands Road

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.

Notices for 16 January 2022

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.

Brief Update for 9 January 2022

The weekly Notices will restart for 16 January

Services resume this Sunday 9 January:

9.15 Classic at Busbridge - at church and online
9.30 Heritage at Hambledon - at church and online
10.30 Contemporary at Hambledon

See Sundays and the Church Calendar for what’s on. All the regular events and activities are back on by next week!

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 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 Nov/Dec Issue of the Bridge is available online HERE, including Christmas events and services at church.

Yew Tree Café seeks Assistant Manager - the ad and job spec for this role is now available on the vacancies page here. Please contact Karen Hart via e: yewtreecafe@bhcgodalming.org if you want to find out about it.

NEW YEAR OPPORTUNITIES
Alpha in 2022: The next online course is starting 11 January so please use Christmas as an opportunity to consider it for yourself or inviting others. Mark Puddephatt will be hosting a pop up house group for 3 weeks. It’s a ‘no obligation’ chance to try out being a small group and all the good things that come with it. As Mark says “There is no down side”. 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 in the new year. Contact Keith Harper or Mark Puddephatt via the church office if you are interested in more info on either Alpha or trying a small group.

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).

Please note:

Busbridge Morning Prayer (Weds, online at 9am) will start again on 5th Jan.
Reflective Prayer (Mondays, online at 8.45am) will start again on 10th Jan.

Please Pray for

  • A new editor, deputy editor and treasurer to continue the Bridge magazine.

ELSEWHERE

Churches Together in Godalming and District is looking to increase the number of lay church representatives. There are three meetings a year and the opportunity to get involved in Churches Together events as and when you are able to do so. It's a great way of getting to know our fellow Christians in the other local churches and they're a very nice, friendly bunch. Interested? Have a chat to Margot Spencer or drop an e-mail to margot.spencer@bhcgodalming.org

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.

 
 

FIND US EVERY SUNDAY at Church Street Godalming Town Centre, Brighton Road Busbridge, Franklyn Road & Hambledon and MID-WEEK at the the Old Rectory, Old Rectory Gardens GU7 1XB and the Yew Tree Café, Hambledon Road, GU7 1XB.