FIRE SAFETY – Evacuation of the Building during a Service

Meeting Point: In the event of a fire, people should calmly leave the building by the nearest exit (see below) and meet on the grass by the telephone box to the right of the car park exit.

All children’s/youth group leaders are responsible for evacuating the children in their care except for crèche (see separate note under Crèche Room)

Foyer: Exit through main front door

Sanctuary: (as seen from the front)

Rear balcony: Down front steps and through the main front door or down side steps and through the corner room

Left hand side (front half) exit through door between Sanctuary and Music Room

Left hand side (rear half) exit through main front door

Right hand side (front half) exit through door by offices

Right hand side (rear half) exit through main front door

Music Room: Exit through door between Sanctuary and Music Room

Offices: Exit through external door by offices

Disabled toilet: Exit through external door by offices

Meeting Area: Exit through external door by offices

Lounge: Exit through Sports Hall fire exit

Sports Hall: Exit through Sports Hall fire exit

Kitchen: Exit through Corner Room fire exit

Corner Room: Exit through Corner Room fire exit

Crèche Room: Exit through Corner Room fire exit (NB those with children in crèche should pick up their children from the Crèche Room by the door near the ladies toilets and exit by the Corner Room

Gents Toilets: Through main front door

Ladies Toilets: Through Corner Room fire exit

Service Leader to direct from the front of church

Stewards on duty to facilitate exit and to sweep the building following exit

All stewards in attendance to assist elderly and infirm

Administrator or substitute to call emergency services

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FIRE SAFETY – Fire extinguishers situated:

One in Foyer by window

Three in Sanctuary – one on platform by sound desk, one next to organ, one at the entrance from the office corridor

One in corridor by offices

One next to photocopier

One in Corner Room next to emergency exit

One in Sports Hall next to emergency exit

Two outside Corner Room (one is specifically for use on kitchen fat fires)

There is also a fire blanket in the kitchen

Fire Call Points (break glass if you discover a fire)

One in corridor by offices

One in Sports Hall next to emergency exit

One in Kitchen by rear door

One in Corner Room next to emergency exit

One by the external door between Music Room and Sanctuary

Doors and Fire Exits

Main front door

External door by offices

External door between Music Room and Sanctuary

Corner Room

Sports Hall

In the event of an emergency evacuation, all “off duty” stewards will be expected to become “on duty” stewards.

It will be the responsibility of the two “on duty” stewards to check both the ladies, gents and disabled toilets

No heroics! A safe, calm and speedy evacuation of the building should be your main priority. Don’t put yourself at risk. Leave the fire fighting to the professionals.

Church Day Out – Saturday 23rd June

Meet at The Cheerful Chilli Cafe car park at Otley Chevin at 11am
Bring a picnic or use the cafe, bring a blanket or a chair to sit on.

There will be organised walks – a gentle stroll or something a bit more challenging. 

Aiming to finish around 4pm – so stay for as little or as long as you like.

Childrens Sleepover – from 5pm at MBC
After the day out at the Chevin, the year 5 and 6 children are invited to a
sleepover at church with breakfast on Sunday morning before the service.

See Cas for details and to register your child.

In September 2017 MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) sent out a heartfelt plea to Help us buy a plane!  (You may recall David Casson talking about it at MBC).  

As a result of that appeal, and within just 250 days of its launch more than 10,000 people sent a gift towards purchasing a Cessna 208 Grand Caravan (like the one pictured above). This means that today the aircraft is being prepared for take off ahead of joining MAF’s South Sudan fleet. 

Ruth Whitaker – the project’s UK Chief Executive describes this amazing response as “a magnificent outpouring of love towards men, women and children of the world’s youngest nation.” 

You can find our more about the success of this appeal and about MAF’s amazing work across the world by going to http://www.maf-uk.org/how-we-help or you can of course speak directly to David Casson. 

At MBC, whenever a child is Dedicated or receives a Blessing he or she is always given a simple certificate on which it says this: Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19.14. 

Last Sunday (May 27th) it was our pleasure to give just such a memento to Jayden, Nathaniel, Reggie Lynch. However, what made the Service extra special was mum and dad, Debi and Jason’s request that they too should receive a blessing.  

Debi and Jason have kindly given us permission to use some pictures taken at the Service, so many thanks and God blessings on you all. 

To view a larger version of any of these pictures just click on the image.

I think it’s fair to say that no Sunday morning service at MBC is ever what you might call quiet or straight forward. Besides all the traditional elements there’s very often a mission slot, or our children come back in to share what they’ve all been up, sometimes we have a visiting preacher or maybe some weeks just an up date on one of our many and varied projects. Sunday May 20th, however, was even busier than normal.

This was because after a shortened service (one hour, five including Communion) we held the second of our special open Church Meetings.

On the agenda this time was the election or reappointment of deacons, confirmation that Howard Dews is to be our GDPR guru and the latest news on our ongoing search for a new youth worker. Then, an hour later it was time for the top side of a hundred of us to share lunch. 

The gallery below shows a selection of images taken on the day. This includes pictures of a splendid new “stained glass” window, specially designed and built for Pentecost by Kate Slater, our two new deacons – Paul Smith and Phil Laws and a shot taken in the lounge showing what some of our kids were doing during our meeting. 

So there you have it, Sunday May 20th, just another day in the eventful life of Moortown Baptist Church. Fortunately everything ran smoothly even if it was a bit of a struggle getting everything cleared away before it was time for Shona and Graham to clock on again, this time to lead a 4pm Tea Service. 

You can view a larger version of any of these images simply by clicking on the picture

10.30am Morning service, including communion (with children out from the start and young people going out at 11am)

11.30am Special Church Meeting to discuss Youth, future developments and an election of deacons. Children are welcome at the meeting however it will be broadcast in the meeting area to enable families with young children to participate in the meeting while the children are welcome to watch a film in the lounge if they prefer.

12.15pm Bring and share lunch. Please bring enough for yourself and a bit extra.

4.00pm Tea Service – ‘Pentecost’ followed by afternoon tea.

Below is a gallery of pictures taken last Sunday as some of the seven thousand runners who took part in the ASDA Foundation Leeds Half Marathon streamed past MBC. Naturally after the slog up Stonegate Road many were extremely grateful that some of our young people were again on hand offering a short, sharp Haribo boost. 

The event which believe it or not has been “running” for thirty three years is now organised by the Jane Tomlinson’s Run for All project and attracts some of the world’s top athletes.

However, as you can see from Ross Bromley and John Sherbourne’s pictures when the field includes a 44 year old bearded nun called Jonny, Spiderman and a guy weighed down by having a 34kg anchor strapped to his back not everyone is in it to win it. 

So special mention this year to run regular Moira Richardson (right) and also to our Children’s Worker Cas Stoodley. Cas joined Luke Dean, Meanwood Valley Baptist Church’s Youth, Children and Community lead and Ben Jones, founder of Missional Generation to run in memory Luke and Gemma Dean’s daughter Orla who died in March 2017. In fact now the team have all returned safely you can still help their causes: Martin House Children’s Hospice and Leeds Mencap by going on line and visiting https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/orla-river 

Once again one of MBC’s most popular and successful events, our annual plant sale has proved to be a great hit. In just two hours money raised from the sale of plants and donations for coffee and cake totaled £1,200. 

Huge thanks to Jenny Dixon and her green fingered team who between them had spent days, weeks and months preparing for the big day. 

All the money raised will be donated to two charities: Living Local, a community project based here in north Leeds and Christian Aid. 

Here’s a gallery of pictures taken at the sale… you can view a larger version simply by clicking on the image.