Month: April 2025
Shelley’s message highlights the lead up and the celebration of Easter 2025
Dear friends
This Sunday at 11am we welcome John Wilson, who served with BMS for 36 years in France, to share with us from Luke 9:51-10:3 and we continue to look at the disciples and the cost of following. There will be a group for our younger friends during the service.
Sunday 13th April 11am is Palm Sunday all age café church (café church is on the 2nd Sunday just this month) looking at Luke 19:28-40
Sunday 20th April 11am Easter Sunday celebration with baptisms, cake and refreshments and Easter egg hunt after the service.
Sunday 27th April 11am Easter Communion.. on the Emmaus Road Luke 24:13-35 with a group for younger ones.
Sunday May 4th all age Café church
Next week
Sunday 6th April 7-8pm Rock solid youth social with pizza
Monday 7th April Beacon warm welcome café 10-12 in the building
(No stepping stones for two weeks)
Tuesday 8th April Tuesday afternoon house group, see Howard Dews.
Wednesday 9th April 1.45pm until 4pm in the music room ‘Calamity Jane’ film with refreshments, All ages welcome. No lunch club today.
Wednesday 9th April the House group who meet in church are having a social at Shelley and Nathan’s house. Talk to Ruth or Andy Berry or Lesley for more information.
Thursday 10th April 2-4pm in church Warm welcome craft group. All welcome, no previous experience necessary but you may also come with your own projects to do or share.
For the other Wednesday night housegroup contact Diane S and for Friday night contact Jonathan or Hilary darling.
The next deacons meeting is the 22nd April at 7.30pm in church. The next church meeting is Tuesday 13th May 7.30pm including deacons elections.
Easter
Please pick up your Easter cards this Sunday to hand out and keep.
No youth group meeting on Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday
A special Easter beacon café will be held on 14th April, 10-11.30 with Easter crafts and snacks! All ages welcome. Beacon has a break on April 21st.
Wednesday 16th April Easter worship and prayer in church 7.30-9pm. Some songs to start, time to pray, draw, write, film in your thoughts in a book you can take away about Easter.
Thursday 17th April 2-4pm in church Warm welcome craft group. All welcome, no previous experience necessary but you may also come with your own projects to do or share.
Friday 18th April 10-11am Good Friday service and reflection in church
Friday 18th April 2.30pm join with other churches on Alwoodley Green on King Lane for a Good Friday outdoor service (opposite the little Tesco). Feel free to bring a chair and grab a drink. The craft group have kindly been making ‘seed crosses’ that we can give out on the afternoon to help people remember the story of new life in Jesus at Easter.
Sunday 20th April 11am all age Easter Sunday celebration with baptisms, refreshments, and Easter egg hunt after the service. Please pray for Anne and Wei Wei who will be baptised on Easter Day.
Wednesday 23rd April 1.30pm Easter Wednesday worship with communion. (There will be lunch club this day too but anyone can come, even if you are in Lunch Club beforehand).
70 years of MBC
Saturday 12th April Birthday barn dance for all ages in church 7pm with live music and a meal. Everyone welcome. Put it in your diary, bring people along. Collect free tickets from Lesley, myself, Karen or Rachel. If you lead a group and know that you have people in the group who want to come, do collect some tickets to give out and let us know the number of tickets taken please.
Tickets are going! If you know you want to come please come and get a ticket. You don’t need to be able to dance, just come along and spend some time together. All friends, family welcome! Tickets are free and includes a meal.
The nearest Sunday to the official ‘beginning’ of MBC is Easter Sunday so we will have extra cake on that day and will thank God for all He has done, what He is doing and what He wants to do as well as for the family of God here in Moortown.
If you have anything that relates to when the church began do pass it on and we’ll share them over Easter.
Have a look on the website to find out the first 50 years here… thanks John S for putting this up.. https://moortownbaptistchurch.org.uk/with-a-barn-dance-beckoning-and-with-mbc-approaching-its-70th-anniversary-we-invite-you-to-step-back-in-time-and-relive-our-first-50-years/
A Thankyou..,
Over £500 was given at the funeral and celebration of life of Gillian at MBC a few weeks ago. David and family would like to say thankyou.
Thanks to those who have been working on the garden and carpark this week in the sunny weather. If anyone wants to help with this do let us know. A reminder that the well loved community plant sale takes place at MBC on 10th May! Talk to Jenny D or Lesley in the office for more information.
Last few things for now…
If you are aged around 11 to 35, have a heart for young people, parent/grandparent/carer, lead them or simply want to pray for them to be encouraged by Jesus and be empowered to share, then on 8th May in the evening at North church there will be a hub night to pray for exactly this! There are hub nights happening all over England, Scotland, wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland over the next few months and this is our nearest. More information to come.
I am having a couple of days off but will be around from next Tuesday afternoon on our journey towards Easter.
Isaiah 61:11 – For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.
In Christ
Shelley