Dear friends
This Sunday we look forward to welcoming everyone to join in the baptism service for Rachel, Jess, and a dedication for Amber. We start at 11am in the building and online. Afterwards everyone is welcome to stay for samosa’s, cake, tea and coffee! If you have a cake (no nuts, please) to contribute then do bring it along on Sunday and leave it on the table in the sports hall. Thanks to all those who have been working on our new sound system for the last few weeks and all the prep work before that.
Sunday 6th October is our harvest thanksgiving café church! There’s breakfast pastries, fruit and drinks during the service. An email went out this week about what to bring. Money contributions for caring for life or money/food for North Leeds and West Foodbank please.. the food bank have specifically asked for…
Milk (UHT), soup, long life fruit juice, sweet and savoury spreads, long life sponge puddings, tinned vegetables, pasta/curry sauce, tinned fish, tinned rice pudding, tinned custard, tinned tomatoes, tinned meat, biscuits, rice, teabags, toilet roll and powdered milk (not baby milk)
There will be opportunity in the service to give money directly online.
Everything continues as usual through the week with Beacon warm welcome café at 10am on Monday, craft group welcome space on Thursday, stepping stones on Tuesday at 10am and lunchclub on Wednesday. There are housegroups and bible studies through the week. Do ask if you are unsure or would like to try them out. You don’t need to commit to being there every time and can go to more than one at a time. There;s Tuesday afternoon in the building (see Rod Russell or ask Lesley), Wednesday in the building at 7.30pm, Wednesday ladies (see Diane Sunter), Thursday in the building at 7.00pm. Friday morning at 10am (see Shelley) and Friday eve in Adel at 8pm.
Rock Solid for youth meet on Sunday evening at 7pm.
A reminder that there will be a get together for anyone who attended any of the prayer course in the building after café church (6th October) (bring your lunch).
There’s a deacon’s meeting on Tuesday evening this week at 7.30pm in the building. Unfortunately, there wasn’t another night in the next two weeks before our next whole church meeting to get everyone together for this but it clashes with the city wide prayer gathering but if anyone else can go along then do go with our blessing and I’d love to catch up with you afterwards.. Leeds Citywide Prayer Gathering
Tuesday 1st October, 7:45 – 9:30pm
North Church, 98 Kirkstall Road, LS3 1HJ
Other things..
Intercultural Worship Conference
Saturday 30th November, 10am – 4pm
Venue – St George’s Centre, 60 Great George Street, LS1 3DL
A great chance to learn and share in conversations and dialogue on Intercultural Worship.
You can find out more and register here.
Here’s a link to the latest edition of the Baptists Together magazine. This edition includes a few articles on different forms of discipleship File.aspx (baptist.org.uk)
Finally, if you didn’t join the service last week, I wanted to let you know that we started a new series based on the book of Ruth. Feel free to catch up with the first part of Ruth 1 and we continue with the rest of Ruth 1 tomorrow as we see the thread of promises woven through our baptisms and dedication. We look forward to joining with you.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:18-19
Shelley
PS. The images at the top of this post show Shelley preaching at MBC last Sunday. Now being unable to attend I decided to watch the service on YouTube and during her talk I couldn’t resist grabbing a few screenshots.
When Shelley’s husband Nathan saw them he said she looked as if she was doing all the hand movements to the hit song YMCA, whereas I just wished she could be a bit more animated!
JS