Dear friends
I want to thank you all those who came up to the church building and took part in the plant sale, the service on Sunday morning and youth on Sunday night. There is always a great deal of work and prayer behind the scenes to all these things. We put a few posts on social media and chatted to the midweek groups who are part of our wider community and now most of the plants have been taken to a good home and donations given. I am glad I got a few myself!
Tomorrow we meet at 11 for our service in the building online. We will be sharing communion. There is a separate group available for our younger friends during the talk, exploring the theme of hope and prayer visually. We are looking at how our minds are being transformed (Romans 12:2) over the next few weeks and last week looked at hope; the idea that part of having a renewed mind is that we can find hope in difficult times. This doesn’t mean we are always hopeful, but that there is hope for us to access and this renews our thoughts and how we live. We’ll have the same reading as last week from 1 Peter 1:1-12 and I’ll be continuing this theme with you.
All the usual groups are on this week apart from Thursday night ‘bible in 24 hours’ as it’s the church meeting at 7.30. Gareth will be in touch with this group to look at alternative times to get together. All welcome to the church meeting where there will be updates from deacons, myself and other areas of church life. God is guiding us as a church so do share if you have any pictures or words that might help us as we discern all this.
Our month of prayer continues. If you want to be reminded of themes for each day or to join the prayer whats app then do find more information here May Day launches MBC’s month of prayer – Moortown Baptist Church
Next week we meet at 11am again and see afresh what happened at Pentecost. We find another way that our minds are being renewed is to realise that God is faithful and the impossible seems possible.
We now have access to wifi in the sanctuary linked to our digital health hub project. More news on this on Thursday night. We still need to sort a guest password to make it easier to access but if you want wifi when you are in Beacon, craft group or church on Sundays then do ask Rachel or myself for the current password and we’ll put you in the right direction.
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.”
1 Peter 1:1
In Christ
Shelley
Shelley