SBC Afternoon of Prayer 3rd January 2020 - ‘Beginning the New Year with God.'
On the first Sunday of the New Year, congregation members spent time in prayer and reflection - "alone with God in their bubble".
News and Events
Carol Service - Churches together
Another chance to watch the Churches Together in Sandbach Carol Service
Exercise in Tier 2
The socially distanced exercise walking group pictured on the way to Arclid Airport
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Good News for Everyone - Link
Here is the link which Dennis mentions in his talk, in case you missed it!
Help over Christmas
Information from the Cheshire East Local Area Coordinator about support services and help available this winter.
Hands
During our video service on the theme of hands, some hands were busy combining creativity with prayer.
Christmas Shoe boxes
The 129 shoeboxes have been collected by Dave and Steve Cooke of Teams4U and are at the warehouse in Wrexham. They will be sorted by age and gender, ready for loading onto lorries bound for Romania, Belarus or Moldova. A few more pictures of the busy packers added on 20th November.
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Reset the Debt
A campaign for a biblical Debt Jubilee for people who have been swept into debt by the effects of Covid-19, to relieve low-income households from the burden of unavoidable debt that many were forced to take on during lockdown.
The Joy of Creation
Creative offerings from members of our church community.
"Zoom Coffee" - and more fish!
At our latest Sunday morning online chat time we enjoyed looking at the fish created as craft work during our online service. The service was based on the story of Jonah and the whale. And the fish pictures have kept arriving since then. You can see them in full technicolour detail, along with other works of art, on the Photos page.
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The Church in our post-Covid world -A reflection by Sally Nelson on the BUGB web
The Church has a unique opportunity to be a hopeful presence in a traumatised nation, but this needs to include speaking and listening.
The Baptist Union Environment Network
A new Baptist network that will connect people with a passion for the environment and climate change is to launch on 6 September Â
A challenge to end homelessness
Not having a secure home means not being able to set roots in a place, become part of a community and flourish in the ways that we are meant to. As churches there are many things that we can do to help prevent people falling into the sort of situations that I found myself in. (written by Revd Grace Thomas, Anglican vicar with lived experiences of homelessness.)
Baptists Together - and God's kingdom
Baptists Together hold a common value; that we are a Movement which shares a hunger for God’s coming Kingdom and seeks to confront evil, injustice and hypocrisy and challenges worldly attitudes to power, wealth, status and security both within and beyond our Union.
A Prayer message from the Faith and Society team
The Baptists Together Faith and Society team tell us how they are drawn into the disciples' story as they walked with Jesus and watched him pray.
Another chance to catch up on 16th August.11.30 am.
If you’ve been missing those conversations after church, this is a chance to catch up! We are going to get together on Zoom. we can see each other and talk to each other through a PC, tablet, or smart phone. You can even join by telephone if you don’t want the pictures!
Kneeling for Racial Justice
A response in solidarity with people experiencing racial injustice.
Good News for the poor
Inspiring stories of kindness and compassion from Church Action on Poverty
Baptists Together Faith and Society Team
As Christians we are called to link our faith with all aspects of our lives and to engage with contemporary issues which affect our society in general. We want to encourage Baptists to hear the call of the gospel to work for freedom, peace and justice. The Faith and Society Team, alongside the Joint Public Issues Team and others, engages in theological reflection and research to provide information and study resources on a variety of social and political issues as well as topics for prayer.
#StayandPray - Prayer for Lebanon
We are urged to pray for Lebanon. The pandemic has worsened their economic crisis and their currency has now plummeted to a record low, leading to nationwide mass protests. We pray for peace and for end to the hunger and poverty experienced across the nation.
