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Ok, so maybe it was a day early early but when you have someone who is an author, spoken word poet, presenter, writer, comedian, event host, warm up man etc. etc. all lined up for a live Facebook interview anyone can be excused for treating World Book Day as a moveable feast. 

And that’s what happened last Wednesday when just a couple of hours after Shelley, Rowan and Daisy had presented live Moortots Playtime our Children and Families lead returned to our screens to chat with all round good egg Joe Fisher.

Joe’s most recent work is a beautifully illustrated and incredibly topical book called When the bugs came which is described online as “a funny, charming, heart-warming and authentic recall of the events of Lockdown as told my Jacob, Isla and Mum.”

During their chat which you can catch up with HERE Joe talks about where the inspiration for the book came from and just some of it’s themes; the importance of hand washing (with or without musical accompanyment), home schooling and of course isolation. He also, as all authors do plugged his website https://joefisherauthor.com/

Well done Shelley this was a great addition to your outreach armoury and hopefully just the first of many such treats. 

Catch up here with all the latest news from MBC’s Mission Partners Mark and Andrea Hotchkin in Chad and John and Sue Wilson in Paris. 

The images you see below are scans of just one part of the messages, to see the whole thing, in high quality, please follow these links.

Hotchkin

Wilson

There will be a Special Church Meeting at 8pm on Tuesday 9th of March. 

This meeting will again be help on Zoom with a link sent out in the usual way. 

This Sunday’s Church at Home, like last weeks is being help on Zoom. It begins at 10.30am and by now you should have received the invitation, meeting ID and password. 

As part of our Journeying with Jesus theme, today we think about Jesus the builder taking as our text Luke chapter 6 verses 46 to 49. Naturally our chat mat, which you can see above also focusses in on this thread and can we suggest that to get the most from it you need to either download a high quiality version by clicking HERE or pop up to church and help yourself to a paper copy which you will find in the box on the front steps. 

Sunday the 28th is of course Shona and Graham’s last day as MBC’s co-ministers so please do all you can to be with us. 

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