Plant Sale, Saturday 15th May – 2 til 4pm

Like many things over the last year the way we are planning our annual Plant Sale is changing. For now, however, here’s everything you need to know: When – Saturday 15th May, Time – 2pm-4pm, Where – Church Car Park, Proceeds to the Romania Support Group.
 
If you are bringing plants which you are growing for us would you please drop them off on the Saturday morning, there will be people at church to receive them (times tbc)
 
Also on the day please be sure to obey the by now familiar Covid-19 rules; no more than six people or two households in a group and please keep a safe distance from people in other groups.

More details will be given out closer to the day.  However, if you have any questions please contact Jenny Dixon on steveandjenny@ntlworld.com or Nicky Gibb on nickyg8@btinternet.com

Church at Home 18th April. Jesus the Friend

Sunday April 18th sees us looking at Jesus the friend. During our service we shall be unpacking the story of Jesus’ visit to Mary and Martha’s home based on the account we find in Luke chapter 10 verses 38 to 42. 

However, before our usual live stream welcome which you can join us for at 10.45am on facebook.com/moortownbaptistchurch or alternatively HERE Shelley will be hosting a 10am Zoom Communion, with invitations being sent out in the usual way. 

Naturally there’s a chat mat, available for download HERE or to collect from outside church. And the link to our YouTube playlist is HERE

Ahead of our annual Plant Sale MBC’s garden upgrade starts to take shape

With the ground leveled and the paving slabs on order MBC’s new outdoor seating area is fast taking shape. When completed the garden will feature benches, a table and a number of flower beds. Many thanks to those who helped prepare the ground and also of course to our volunteer gardeners who are working tirelessly to improve the church grounds.
 
However, like many things over the last twelve months the way we are planning our annual Plant Sale is changing. For now here’s everything you need to know: When – Saturday 15th May, Time – 2pm-4pm, Where – Church Car Park, Proceeds to the Romania Support Group.
 
If you are bringing plants which you are growing for us please drop them off on the Saturday morning, there will be people at church to receive them (times tbc)
 
Please observe the usual social distancing rules. No more than six people or two households in a group, please keep a safe distance from people in other groups.
 
Please be careful how and where you park as there will be people milling about. We suggest parking at the far end of the car park and along the front wall of church. The large area to the side of the Music Room will be being used for the sale.
 
More details will be given out closer to the day.  However, if you have any questions please contact Jenny Dixon on steveandjenny@ntlworld.com or Nicky Gibb on nickyg8@btinternet.com

19th April. The Music Room opens for prayer and there’s a Beacon of hope as our Monday morning cafe goes alfresco

Hi everyone. from next Monday, 19th April, we are reopening the Music Room for private prayer from 10am until 11ish. This will be on a drop-in basis, no need to pre-book. We have capacity for up to 12 people to pray in the Music Room at the same time socially distanced or sitting with people in your bubble. The Beacon Café will also be running at the same time. 
 
However, as the rooms inside church can only be used for worship and prayer this means that Beacon cannot meet in the Sanctuary as usual until after June 21st. Hence, we have going al fresco!
There will be tables and chairs set up outside (the forecast is very good) and volunteers will be serving hot drinks and individually wrapped cakes (please note there will be absolutely no self service).
 
If people want to take their drinks into the Music Room and pray that’s fine but if we exceed 12 people in there then some people will need to wait outside until someone leaves. 
 
We would also ask that people don’t use the Music Room as a place to shelter and chat as this is not permitted and may of course disturb those that are praying.  Also, once you have finished praying please wipe down the chair and table you have used before leaving.  Antibacterial products and paper towels will be available for this purpose.
 
Outside at Beacon, people will be allowed to sit in groups of six, or two households but must keep a distance of 2 meters between themselves and other groups. There is no upper limit for people outside as long as they stay in their sixes and don’t mingle with other groups. It is not now compulsory to wear a face covering outdoors, however feel free to wear one if it makes you feel safer.
 
Unfortunately the book swap will not be available for COVID reasons. However, if you want to bring a book to read either inside as part of your devotional or outside in a quiet space in the sun then that’s fine too.
 
We would ask that people use their own private toilet facilities before coming, however if the use of the church toilets is necessary then the two cubicles on the office corridor will be available. Please ensure that you clean and sanitize areas you have touched afterwards. There will be antibacterial products and paper towels available in each cubicle for this purpose. The toilets on the main corridor will not be available.
 
The above events have been approved by the ILT, and the Health and Safety team. A full risk assessment will be carried out for both beforehand.
 
Can’t wait to see you there! If it works we will do it every week.
 
God bless!
 
Kate 

Church at Home – Sunday 11th April – Jesus the chef

On Sunday 11th of April we continue Journeying with Jesus. Today we look at Jesus the chef with John chapter 21 verses 1 to 14 as our text.

To join us for our live 10.45am Facebook stream you will need to go to facebook.com/moortownbaptistchurch or to click HERE and then afterwards to take part in our pre-recorded YouTube programme you’ll simply need to click HERE

This week’s chat mat is again available from the box on the MBC steps or by download HERE 

Easter 2021 – share your special memories

With Covid-19 restrictions gradually easing it is to be hoped that next Easter, Easter 2022, will be a little bit more “normal” than the last two.

That said, by the number of posts that have been flying around Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like it looks as if despite certain limitations most of us have not only survived but had a good time doing so.

If you have any special memories or better still photographs of your 2021 Easter experience why not share them. You can do this by emailing them to mbcnewspics@gmail.com and towards the end of the week we’ll pop them into a gallery and put them on the church website. 

There’s a couple of examples here to get us started. Above you see Shelley who spent part of Easter Monday baking bunny inspired bread (and Easter dinosaurs) while below we get a glimpse of the Sherbourne family who enjoyed a zoom Easter Quiz in which each of the seven contestants had their own specialist round. 

 

Easter Day – Church at Home – remember there’s no live stream but at 10.30am we start the day on Zoom with a live, all age communion

On Easter Day we begin our worship at 10.30am with a live all age communion zoom. Invitations to this will or already have been sent out to everyone on our mailing list. However, if you haven’t received one and you would like to join us all you need to do is contact Shelley on shelley.dring@moortownbaptistchurch.onmicrosoft.com and she will add you to the list. 

Following that you are all invited to switch over to the MBC YouTube channel for a full blown Easter Celebration. Once again Chat Mats are available (I nearly but not quite said compulsory) and as in previous week’s they can either be picked up in person from the box in the doorway at church or download right HERE

Elsewhere on the website you can find a full list of everything that’s happening at Moortown over Easter but if you have children one of things I think looks absolutely brilliant is the QR Code trail. Being of a certain age I know very little about QR Codes but those much younger than me tell me that it involves finding a number of yellow signs in the MBC carpark, scanning them on your mobile phone and hey presto you’re straight through to a video all about the Easter story… a special bonus is, I’m told, that if you do this between 10am and 4pm on Saturday April 3rd you’ve also a fair chance of finding some chocolate eggs! 

So we look forward to seeing you all on Sunday either live on zoom or even more virtually via our YouTube playlist.

Good Friday – a 30 minute reflection




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