John Sherbourne

To watch MBC’s Sunday morning service you need to google www.facebook.com/moortownbaptistchurch

The first and the final parts of the service are live, that’s 10.45am to 10.55 and then again from 11.30am to 11.45.

In between these live streams there are a number of pre-recorded items such as an informal chat from one of the MBC families, some exercises, prayer, a mini sermon and two or three hymns/songs.

The link that you need to go to to choose which of these you want to watch will also be showing on the Facebook page you are watching. It is a link to Youtube. So when the first live bit finishes, click on the Youtube link displayed and either one by one select the features you are interested in or click on the first one and they will open up automatically one after the other.

At 11.30am Graham or Shona come back live. If you happen to be watching something else when they do you will be given a reminder on screen that MBC is live again.

Every service is stored at www.facebook.com/moortownbaptistchurch which means it is available to be viewed at any time; obviously as more and more material is posted on the MBC Facebook page it means the item you are looking for will have moved further down the page but don’t panic, don’t give up, scroll down and you will find it.

One thing, however, you do need to be aware of is that in my experience the precise procedures for watching anything online do differ depending on which type of device you are using. By that I mean that a mobile phone, a tablet and a laptop may not all act the same. The advice above relates to a lap-top but don’t worry too much because the catch up i.e. the recording that is stored immediately following each service at www.facebook/moortownbaptistchurch is accessible via all devices.

AND FINALLY ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT IS THAT REGARDLESS OF WHAT OTHER PEOPLE TELL YOU YOU NEED NEITHER A FACEBOOK NOR A YOUTUBE ACCOUNT TO WATCH OUR SERVICES LIVE OR TO AT ANY OTHER TIME.

Alongside keeping in contact with one another we are aware that there are needs to basic practical support at this time.
This is mainly about doing essential shopping, picking up medication and running other basic errands. None of these involve personal physical contact contrary to government advice.

This is a kindness we can show. This will be a useful service to some of our church members and of course to our neighbours.

As a church we have signed up to the neighbourhood welfare hub being run by Leeds City Council / Voluntary Action Leeds. Via this we will receive some referrals of local people with needs.

If you are able to offer such service and are not self-isolating please contact Graham on 07979343857 or Shona on 07735458661 to offer your help. Referrals will come through them.

We need to build up a list of volunteers.

Thanks

Graham and Shona

It all started this morning when John Sherbourne said on Facebook that he had “designated today a Cliff Richard and the Shadows day,” meaning that for the first time in ages this lack of freedom we are all experiencing had given him the opportunity to work his way through his not inconsiderable collection of Cliff and the Shads CDs.

Fast forward three hours and Steve Scaife, another MBC member old enough to know better also pops up on Facebook not only to comment on John’s original post but, from the comfort of his lounge to perform one of Cliff’s biggest, if in this case wholly inappropriately named hits The Young Ones.

Ever one for a challenge this spurs John into action. First job dust off the old guitar, find a plectrum and dig out one of his seldom used You be Hank backing tracks.

You can see and hear the result of both posts here, first Steve’s and then John’s version of Apache… it may not surprise you that so far neither (particularly John) have been offered any work!

https://www.facebook.com/steve.scaife.3/videos/2732853453490636/

Youhttps://www.facebook.com/john.sherbourne.54/videos/2548297578719442/

We had a message recently from Pam Parkinson at Caring For Life in which she told us about a short film that their CEO Jonathan had made about the particular challenges they face at the dreadful time.

You can watch this film by following this link https://www.caringforlife.co.uk/ and you can see their April Prayer requests below.

Here at MBC we are continuing to follow the Try Praying/Catching the Wave themes for Lent just as we would if we were all meeting together. These are: 29^th March Restoring and Rebuilding; 5^th April (Palm Sunday) Grace – coming into the city with grace, love, sacrifice and hope and 12^th April, Easter Sunday, Purpose – the redeeming and inviting purpose of God in Jesus.

So for this Sunday via this link www.facebook.com/moortownbaptistchurch our theme is Restoring and Rebuilding and the running order for our service is as follows.

From just before 10.45am and again at 11.30am a live Stream with Graham

Between these “live” we have a number of easy to access Youtube posts which this week include: a song and hymn playlist; Get up and get active with Phil Commons; Hello MBC with the Chukwenuweniwe’s; a bible reading: Nehemiah 2: 1-8 by Ramayah Peter; Unpacking the story with the Powell family; a talk from Shona and finally prayers led by Abi and Sam Tilley

The sign up details are the same as last week www.facebook.com/moortownbaptistchurch

Remember the live streams will be at the beginning and end of the programme.

Following on from Tuesday’s on-line Oasis Café Shelley once again enlisted the help of Rowan and Daisy to bring us Moortots. Quarter an hour of story telling, requests, singing and chat broadcast live via www.facebook.com/moortots was great.

All being well both Oasis Café (Tuesday at 11am) and Moortots (Thursdays also at 11) will be regular features, so if you haven’t already done so it’s worth making a note of these two web addresses; the first one for the church, this is a really effective way of getting news to you quickly and the second one specifically for Oasis and Moortots.

www.facebook.com/moortownbaptistchurch

www.facebook.com/moortots

PS If you missed either Oasis Café or Moortots, or you would like to see them again simply go to the moortots link above and you’ll find it there.

Our first Oasis Café live on-line went out at 11am this morning. Shelley, Rowan and Daisy Dring (not forgetting cameraman/dad Nathan) did a brilliant job presenting ten minutes of interactive singing, storytelling and prayer.

Don’t worry if you missed it live, you can watch it again by clicking on the link below.

Throughout the weeks as of course on Sundays we are planning to put together a number of these interactive presentations so please keep checking here on the website and on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/moortownbaptistchurch