GBC Weekly News 9 January

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Sunday 9 January Covenant Service
10.30am Sunday Celebration at Grace Fellowship, Little Stukeley
Led by Daniel Beckett. The service will include renewal of our Church Covenant.
BOOKING REQUIRED: We want to encourage as many of you as possible to attend each week. To book your place please click here. We will ensure that we maintain good ventilation - please feel free to bring a blanket and to sit away from the main entrance area. Because of the current Covid situation, we are keeping a seating plan at Grace Fellowship. We'll do this by taking photos - which we will keep for 3 weeks and then delete.
The service will be available on our YouTube channel later in the day
1.15pm Songs of Praise on BBC1
4.30pm McCartney House service
7.00pm Generation Rising at GBC
8.00pm Prayer Meeting on Zoom. See below.

Children's and Youth events will also take place during the morning at GBC. Contact the office if you require further information.

Sunday 16 January
10.30am Sunday Celebration with Communion at Grace Fellowship, Little Stukeley
Gospel of Mark. Led by Delia Steer and Daniel Beckett
4.00pm GBC Songs of Praise on our YouTube channel
7.00pm Generation Rising at GBC

Our Week of Prayer continues until Sunday 9 January.
Please contact the Office for the Zoom link which will be the same for each session, each of which is for one hour.
Friday 7 Jan: 7.30am & 8.00pm
Sunday 9 Jan: 8.00pm

Prayer Walk this Saturday (8 January)
We will meet at GBC at 9.00am and finish at 10.30am.

FNP and Toast restart this Friday (7 January)
FNP starts at 7.00pm and Toast at 8.15pm
Further details about these activities are available on the website or contact the church office

Work Day | This Saturday (8 January) | 11.00am onwards
Can you help for an hour or more? We will meet at GBC at 11.00am and allocate tasks to be carried out here and at Grace Fellowship. Tasks will include: clearing up after Christmas, moving items between the sites, general tidying and cleaning ready for next term. If you know that you will be able to help sometime during the day, please let Daniel know as that will help with planning. Many thanks.

Circle of Security Parenting Course
From Tuesday 25 January we will be starting an 8 week Circle of Security Parenting Course at GBC.
The sessions will be from 1.15pm to 2.30pm each week, with refreshments served beforehand.

During the course we consider how our attachments to our children work and why they are so vital in this relationship, as well as thinking about becoming reflective – rather than reactive – parents. It is a mixture of video material and discussion times.

For more information and to book, please contact Anne Ambler

Alpha Course
We plan to run an Alpha course on Tuesday evenings from 8 February at GBC. Please pray for this and give thought to whom you might invite. For further information, contact Carolyn.

Happy Birthday
Birthdays coming up in the next few weeks are as follows
(addresses in Blue Pages):
21st January - Tom Houghton

Refugee Project
Storage space is required for storing furniture and items being donated for the Refugee Project. If you have garage (or other) space that could be used, please contact Sarah Noble (352447)

Happy New Year from the AMEN team

Thanks to all at GBC who contributed to the AMEN shoebox initiative before Christmas. The team have contacted us to say that despite various challenges, the 2021 shoebox collection was very successful and they were able to send 2417 boxes to Romania in December. They send thanks to everyone for contributions and prayers. In addition to the shoeboxes, a lot of hand crafted blankets were also distributed. If anyone would like to be knitting blankets, or gloves, hats, scarves or teddy bears during the year please contact Carolyn for info.

While we hold some of our activities at GBC and Grace Fellowship, we need to continue to follow sensible guidelines about keeping ourselves and others safe. This includes asking people:

not to attend if they have Covid symptoms,
to sanitise hands on arrival and during their time on the premises, and
to wear a mask when in the building

We will also have to limit numbers for capacity reasons and have implemented a booking system for our Sunday morning worship service. To book for this coming Sunday, use the link above. It may be that demand exceeds available spaces so those trying to book later may receive a 'full' response. We will try to manage this by asking people who are present one week to not book in for the following week until the Friday - to give others a chance to book spaces - BUT IF THERE ARE SPACES AVAILABLE ON FRIDAY, GO AHEAD AND BOOK.
For those unable to use online booking, please phone the church office on 01480 458565 from Tuesday morning and we can book your space for you.

The Worship Area and Resources Room remain out of bounds while the building work continues. Please do not access GBC through the side entrance in Clyde Yard. In the event of an emergency and a need to vacate the building, exit through the fire door in the kitchen and make your way to the front car park - avoid using the fire door in the Worship Area foyer.

Previous editions of the weekly news are available on our website click here

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Daniel Beckett, Lead Pastor, mobile: 07909 767505
Carolyn Keats, Associate Pastor, mobile: 07763 347119

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Our address is:
Godmanchester Baptist Church East Chadley Lane Godmanchester Huntingdon, PE29 2BJ United Kingdom
01480 458565
godmanchesterbaptist.org
Registered Charity No: 1188171

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