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Soul Survivor Saturday Celebrations Saturday 11th February 2017 Watford A huge thank you to the wonderful group of 13 who attended the Soul Survivor event in Watford, it truly was a magnificent time of worship, ministry and fun. The evening started with some challenges as one the vehicles had an issue which meant we had to return to base, but God was so good to us through the generosity of Patrick Leyden who is the father of Elena from our youth group. Patrick heard of our problem and kindly volunteered to take us to Watford and back. There was an incredible atmosphere of worship with worship leaders Tom Smith and band, which set the tone for the sermon from Mike Pilavachi, who spoke to us from 1 Samuel about David’s early life tending his father’s sheep and seemingly categorised as insignificant by his Father, only to then to be anointed the next king of Israel. The challenge from Mike to the young people was we may feel insignificant or not good enough but God is able to use us for his Glory. Following the sermon was an invitation to discipleship in which 42 Young people dedicated their lives to Jesus Christ. TO GOD BE THE GLORY! Special thanks to Lisa, Natasha, Alison, Carol and of course the amazing Patrick for supporting me with the young people. God bless Nathan Gordon Youth Pastor

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Soul Survivor Saturday Celebrations Saturday 11th February 2017

Watford A huge thank you to the wonderful group of 13 who attended the Soul Survivor event in Watford, it truly was a magnificent time of worship, ministry and fun. The evening started with some challenges as one the vehicles had an issue which meant we had to return to base, but God was so good to us through the generosity of Patrick Leyden who is the father of Elena from our youth group. Patrick heard of our problem and kindly volunteered to take us to Watford and back. There was an incredible atmosphere of worship with worship leaders Tom Smith and band, which set the tone for the sermon from Mike Pilavachi, who spoke to us from 1 Samuel about David’s early life tending his

father’s sheep and seemingly categorised as insignificant by his Father, only to then to be anointed the next king of Israel. The challenge from Mike to the young people was we may feel insignificant or not good enough but God is able to use us for his Glory. Following the sermon was an invitation to discipleship in which 42 Young people dedicated their lives to Jesus Christ. TO GOD BE THE GLORY! Special thanks to Lisa, Natasha, Alison, Carol and of course the amazing Patrick for supporting me with the young people. God bless Nathan Gordon

Youth Pastor

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CHURCH LEADERSHIP TEAM

Youth Pastor

NATHAN GORDON ROBIN BRENCHLEY

Minister in Training

CHRIS HUGHES

Minister

Morning Service 10:30am and Evening Service 6:30pm (refreshments served after each of these services)

Communion is taken in the evening on the 1st Sunday in the month and in the morning service on the 3rd Sunday.

MARION BRENCHLEY

Church Office details

Office open 9am-2pm Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri. and Wed evenings 6-9 pm Tel: No. 420990

Email: [email protected] Web: www.sbc-church.org.uk

Office Manager: [email protected]

Deacons

MARK WRIGHTON

SHAUN HENDRY

TREASURER ADMINISTRATOR

BRIAN DICKSON DAVID CASSE PAUL BLAKE IAN DERHAM

ADRIAN CHEESMAN GRAHAME ATKINSON

05th 10:30am Nathan Gordon 6:30pm Robin Brenchley

(Communion)

12th 10:30am Alan Cole 6:30pm Chris Hughes

(Testimony)

19th 10:30am Chris Hughes

(Communion)

6:30pm Chris Hughes (World

Mission)

26th 10:30am Chris Hughes 6:30pm Chris Hughes (Training

& Equipping)

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As promised in the January Magazine here is

the new address of our former Minister, Colin

Bass and his wife, Truus. Colin officially

retired as a Baptist Minister on Christmas Day

2016 after serving Hayward's Heath Baptist

Church since 2007.

For those who wish to be in touch with Colin

and Truus their new address is as

below.

24 Wayside Close

Swindon

Wiltshire

SN2 2UQ

Colin’s email: [email protected]

Colin’s mobile: 07846380857

Truus’s email: [email protected]

Truus’s mobile: 07935488682

Val & Roger Hinton

would like to thank

everyone for their prayers

visits, cards best wishes

after Val’s fall and

subsequent hip operation.

May the Lord bless you.

Thank you from Jean Hobbs, for all your

prayers and support for my sister Pat. She has

come through her secondary cancer operation

very well and has been told by the

consultants she does not need any

chemotherapy or radium treatment.

Once I thanked the Lord Jesus she also divulged

she experienced only soreness, no pain.

Thanks be to God for all his goodness to us.

With thanks and love in Jesus,

Jean

Welcome to the family..

Gary and Lindsay Hearn

and

Sashi Shanmugam

were welcomed into

membership on

Sunday 19th February.

We pray that God will

bless you and lead and guide

you in the decisions you make as you serve

him among His people here at SBC.

Sashi has been asked by many people for

details of her husband Sam’s driving school.

As she cannot remember all who asked her

Sashi requested that his details be included in

this months magazine. So for all those who

have enquired here are the details below.

Sam is a RED Driving School instructor and

you can contact him on

07835260900/01795431078.

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THE EGG THAT SHARES THE

EASTER STORY

The new Real Easter Egg 2017 has been launched and this

year a 24 page Easter story-activity book illustrated by Alida

Massari is included in the Original, Egg Hunt and Dark eggs.

The Special Edition has an Easter traditions booklet inside.

The Sharing box with 30 eggs, comes with colour-in posters.

Out of the 80 million Easter eggs sold in this part of the world

every year, The Real Easter Egg is the only one which has a copy of the Easter story in the box, is

made of Fairtrade chocolate and makes a donation to charity from sales.

The Real Easter Egg was launched in 2010 but the supermarkets turned down the idea. It was left

to churches and church schools to place orders to fund the Meaningful Chocolate Company to

make The Real Easter Egg.

Here are a few words from consumers of the ‘Real Easter Egg’

“We want to thank you for your excellent Easter egg production! Chocolate is excellent and the in-

sert of the story of Easter superb. We are so grateful to you and your involvement with Traidcraft

in this”.

“Just back from house group. After study, the subject of Easter eggs came up and a lot of the group

had read in papers about the lack of the word Easter on eggs. Well done. You’ve started

something”.

The whole range can be ordered online at www.realeasteregg.co.uk or from Traidcraft, Eden.co.uk,

TLM trading.com, Embrace the Middle East. Christian bookshops and some cathedrals also have

some in stock.

You can also buy the blue Original egg from Tesco, Waitrose, or Morrison's supermarket, but these

are very limited so go and get yours early.

“Peter Statham would like to thank everyone for their prayers and best wishes for a swift recovery following his recent hip replacement operation with a special thanks to those who took on extra tasks to cover those he was unable to do.”

Robin, Marion and Sam Brenchley, also thank everyone for their prayers , flowers, cards and kindness shown throughout the time of Sam’s accident. Thank you to all those who covered for Marion in the church office and worship team. We are truly blessed to be part of this family of God at SBC. You are amazing. Please continue to pray for Sam’s healing, he is making a wonderful recovery .

Remember the Real Christmas Advent Calendars that has been promoted by Ann Hughes the

last two years. Below is information about the Real Easter Egg . We will not be organising

any purchasing at the church but hope this information will help you if you want to purchase

any for yourself..

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Same area-Looking east

Sunday 26th March 2017

It is very unusual for the editor of the Church monthly magazine to

write an article . However, this month I thought I would share a few

words with you celebrating Mothers Day, which as many of you

already know will be held this month of March.

I must admit at first when I saw the actual day to feeling some

annoyance that Mother’s Day this year happens to fall on the day that

the clocks spring forward one hour. I mean, so much for a lay in or

breakfast in bed, instead some of us will be rushing around more than

usual to get not only ourselves but all the household out of the house

for church. Hopefully leisurely lunches will be on the menu.

For me personally, this year is quite a significant Mother’s day. It will be the first one without my lovely mum

who passed away in 2016. Not long after my mum had died I went to the Hillsong Colour Conference which is

something I try to attend annually. One of the seminars was for mums and carers of young people which I found

very interesting, and I made some notes and thought you may find them interesting too.

1. Get together frequently with your sisters in Christ, sisterhood will make a huge difference as you encourage

one another on the journey of faith. We are relational creatures made for fellowship and what a world of wisdom

we can learn from each other.

2. Remember you are a key person in your family whatever the size, large or small. Make sure your family know

that “Your household, we will serve the Lord”. When those you have nurtured leave home and have to make

their own way in the world, you want to be able to say ‘I have no regrets-I gave my best’.

3. As for them leaving home, yes one day they certainly will, and what will you be doing then. It is so important

not to make your children into idols. Remember the calling God gave you.

4. Yes family life can be hard, just remember though, ‘hard is not wrong-its just hard’-try to make it fun’.

6. Take your kids with you if you can when you are ‘doing church,’ bring them on the journey with you.

7. If there is something you do that you don’t want to pass on, just don’t do it, it’s not worth it as they will look

at what you do, not what you say.

8. Appreciate what God has given you., don’t try to impersonate another person, be yourself. Its only when we

don’t embrace what God has for us, that we are jealous of others.

9. Pray to love God, Pray ‘God give me a heart to love you, Pray’ God make me love your word.

10. We are in a spiritual battle, teach your children to do battle . Teach them their value and worth

11. We are all called to communicate His word and to BIRTH FAITH in the next generation.

Well that’s all for now and I hope you found some of it interesting.

God Bless

Marion

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Woodstock

News

On Thursday 16th February

we held our monthly service at

Woodstock Residential Home and

being 2 days after Valentines day,

the service was based around the theme

of "Love". We had Bible readings,

prayers, poems, hymns and Chris bought

us an epilogue based on the 5 letters of the

word B I B L E.

Our next planned visit is on Thursday

16th March when we anticipate celebrating

2 years of sharing the Good News

(how quickly that time has gone) with the

staff and residents.

Hopefully we will be doing something

special on that occasion involving cake!!!

Thank you to all those who have

participated either with their

presence or their prayers. There is

always room for more volunteers.

If you can join us please sign the sheet

when it goes on the lounge notice board.

We have had a request to hold Christian

services in Pine Lodge Residential home.

At the recent church members meeting the

membership was in favour of accepting this

offer providing of course there are willing

volunteers to provide the necessary help.

If you feel this is something you would like to

be involved in please speak to me David Casse,

either after a Sunday service or

telephone me on 01795 427861.

There will be more information coming soon

regarding dates and times for the new services

once we have a better idea who would be

involved.

In Him

David Casse (Deacon)

Hi everyone we are the youth representatives

who were elected by our youth peers and we

would just like to introduce ourselves to you.

Hi my name is Ethan you

may recognise me as

Jeremy Kyle and other

characters from the

Christmas plays. I'm 13

years old and I have grown

up in this church. I attend

Borden grammar school,

I'm currently in year 9, I'm looking forward to

representing the youth and organising events that

you can look forward to throughout the coming

year. This is to help raise money for our youth

charity Tearfund.

Ethan Emmett

Hi my name is Dani, I sometimes

play violin and sing with the

church and the youth band. I'm 16

and I'm currently in 6th form at

Highsted Grammar School.

I'm very excited to be acting as youth rep this

year and talking with Nathan about uniting the

children and teens, getting us involved in the

church and raising money for Tearfund this year.

Dani Osoba

Our young people’s representatives have requested

a monthly column in the SBC magazine.

So here we go for their first article of introduction.

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