John Sherbourne

Our latest Time out prayers are led by Kate Slater. You will find them below.

 

Time out is the name we are giving a new initiative which we hope will bring the MBC family together for short periods of prayer and reflection. 

However, Time out isn’t meant to be one way – it’s not simply a platform for us to pray and for you to listen. On the contrary it’s something for all of us to share in, whether that be emailing something to us (a reading, a poem or maybe a prayer) or perhaps even recording your own contribution which we can edit into a forthcoming package.

If that’s something you feel comfortable with please email your message or a link to your video file to either Admin@moortownbaptistchurch.onmicrosoft.com  or to mbcnewspics@gmail.com

Our first two videos which we posted on January 25th are below. 

 

We hope you enjoy Time out, and also that by coming together at either 12 noon or at 8pm as often as you can you will feel encouraged by a very real sense of connectivity. 

At 10.30am on Sunday 21^st February we invite you to Zoom in on our new series, Journeying with Jesus. Each Sunday we’ll discover more about Jesus’ life by jumping into a bible passage from the gospels.  If you want to read ahead, have a look at the picture slide to see the list of themes that take us all the way through the Spring. 

One new way you’ll be able to join in will be to get hold of a ‘bible chat mat’ (see left) that will be available each week in paper form in the car park at church and also HERE on the website and Facebook in electronic form. 

The chat mat links to the theme each week and you can use it during the service as well as through the week in your own time. You can use your chat mat to think of questions, have a conversation, doodle, colour and respond in your own unique way.  

The first two services will be on zoom with both starting at 10.30am. The first of them (Feb 21) will also include a short Communion Service so do get in touch if you don’t have a zoom code and want to connect in. 

It’s always great to have your input so get in touch if you have any thoughts and look out for new opportunities to get involved.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday.

Graham, Shona and Shelley

This morning during Playtime – that’s the name of Moortots’ weekly online broadcast Shelley told us about the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert and about how he prepared himself for the events of that first Easter.

She also introduced us to the idea of during Lent each of us spending just a few moments a day making 40 memorable moments. As you can see from the image above these aren’t too strenuous in that they range from making a mini den right through to having an outside picnic and guessing which raindrop will the first to reach the bottom of the window. 

Right now there are a supply of these Muddy Church 40 Memorable Moment sheets for you to pick up from a box in the MBC carpark, but if you can’t get up there don’t worry you can always download and print one out by clicking HERE.

The idea is that once each “task” is completed you tick it off by colouring the box in and before you know it Easter will be here. 

 

 

On Monday February 15th we said farewell to Wilfred Lynn Wyatt, one of MBC’s most loyal and respected servants. Here there is a full video of his Thanksgiving Service.

Since Wilf’s death you have sent in dozens of tributes and memories to and of this remarkable man. These can be viewed in full by visiting the “Your tributes to Wilf” post on our Home News page.

Within the next few days we hope to be able to produce copies of the full Service on DVD. So if you know of anyone who would appreciate a copy, who doesn’t have access to the internet but does have a DVD player would you please email their name and address to mbcnewspics@gmail.com 

Since Wilf Wyatt’s death memories of and tributes to this amazing man have been flooding into MBC.

Besides those you see here there are many others, in the main brief expressions of sympathy that have addressed directly to Irene and the family; on their behalf may we say a heartfelt thank you. 

The images you see below are pictures that have been created by digitally converting one type of file to another, and whilst they can be enlarged by double clicking on them the conversion process has a somewhat detrimental effect on quality. However, to view a much clearer version simply click HERE  

 

 

It’s with great sadness that we report on the death of Wilfred Lynn Wyatt. Wilf (as most of us knew him), Irene and their young family first became involved with Moortown Baptist Church in the early 1970’s. Since then, and with Irene’s constant support Wilf has served as a Deacon, as Church Secretary, Treasurer, preacher, organist, chorister and between 1996 and 2018 the leader of Autumn Leaves – a bible study cum prayer group focusing on the needs of the elderly. 

In fact such was Wilf’s presence at MBC that among those of us who have been here a while there must be a fount of anecdotes covering no end of subjects. And so instead of us penning an obituary it’s these we invite you to share. 

We’re doing it this way for two reasons: firstly because personal reflections have far more integrity than hear say, and secondly that as a number of Wilf’s elderly friends won’t have direct access to either our church website or to social media we would like to gather all your material together, print it out and deliver it to their homes. 

Please send your contributions just as soon as you can by email to John Sherbourne at  mbcnewspics@gmail.com or by post to Moortown Baptist Church, 204 King Lane, Leeds LS17 6AA marking the back of your envelope TRIBUTE. 

As yet we don’t have any details of Wilf’s funeral Service, which obviously will have to be conducted under strict Coronavirus guidelines. However, as soon we do hear we will let you know. In the meantime if you would like to send a card or a note to Irene or to any other member of the Wyatt family would you please send them care of Moortown Baptist Church, 204 King Lane, Leeds LS17 6AA and we will pass them on. Thank you.