Month: February 2019

Over the last couple of Saturdays Margaret Brownlee has delivered two safeguarding training sessions to a total of more than sixty people. Based on the Baptist Union’s bespoke safeguarding programmes; Safe to Grow, which focuses on safeguarding children and young people and Safe to Belong which looks at safeguarding issues among adults the events were crammed with important information not only in regard to safeguarding those in your care but also to protecting yourself. 

The BU website describes the purpose of this Level 2 training course as enabling people:  

A new bible study group that meets here at MBC on a Friday morning is growing in popularity. Starting at 9.30/9.45 ish with coffee and biscuits, and finishing around 11 this newly formed gathering devotes some but by no means all of its time to unpacking any issues that the previous Sunday’s sermon may have raised. 

Last Sunday talking with Graham, David Vail, a regular attender, described the group as being very much like a daytime housegroup – somewhere where friendships are formed, the bible is read and prayer is shared. 

Naturally it’s open to everyone so if you are free on a Friday morning pop in. 

Pastor Terefe will be making another trip to Calais on 17th February. He is hoping to take items of clothing and practical goods to help those who are in the camps in Northern France.

He has requested the following: Mens clothing, adult sizes small and medium; women’s clothing adult sizes 10-12; dried food in packets (not tins); soap, toothpaste and feminine hygiene products.

If you can help, please bring the items to church on or before Sunday 17th February.

Thank you.

At the church meeting on 22nd January, the church agreed to continue to develop our new pattern of Sunday morning services whilst moving ahead carefully.

Throughout February we are returning to the previous pattern of one service beginning at the usual time of 10.30am, while we take stock of what we will need by way of teams needed when we go back to holding two morning services in March.

Life Improv: Beacon’s wellbeing course for 16 – 25 year olds, is due to start again on Tuesday 19th February from 6.30pm. The course is running for 6 weeks.

If you are interested in helping or finding out more please see Shona, Graham or others from the Beacon team.

The 2019 Leeds Lent Prayer Diary will be launched on Tuesday 26 February at Leeds Church Institute, 20 Market Street LS1 6DG (opposite Corn Exchange, above ‘Out of This World’).

Buffet provided. To book email events@leedschurchinstitute.org or phone 0113 3917928.

Further details can be found on the MBC notice board next to kitchen and we will have a number of copies available in church (at £1.25 each) nearer to Lent.