Ladies’ Bible Study/Social
The first ladies’ bible study of the autumn will take place on Monday 28th September at 7.30pm and will be a chilli night! Cost will be £4 per person. There is a sign-up sheet at the back so please write your name down if you want to attend!
Same-Sex Marriage
Following on from previous notices regarding book recommendations on this subject, we are planning to run a morning meeting dedicated to this issue. The meeting will take place at Church on Saturday 10th October from 9am-12.30pm. The morning will include biblical teaching and will cover pastoral issues related to SSM. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion during the morning. Eddie, Rob and Dan will be leading the meeting.
The Ark
The next Ark will take place at church on Saturday 26th September from 10- 10.45am. It’s aimed at 0-7 year olds but all welcome for bible stories, songs, wonderful crafts, puppets and cake! We would be grateful for any help with moving the chairs from 9.00am on the morning and putting them back about 11.00ish. If you would like to know any more about the Ark or you are able to help, please see Heather Chilcott.
Men’s Weekend Away
This is taking place from 25th-27th September. Please speak to Ian Holmes if you would like more information about this.
** Support for the Oasis Centre **
The crisis facing refugees in Austria is ongoing, and we would like to take every opportunity of helping the Oasis Centre in its work amongst them. We are currently investigating the possibility of sending out a small team to help at the Oasis Centre for a few weeks, and this will need our financial support. We shall be donating our harvest offerings on Sunday 4th October to the Refugee Crisis. Due to your generosity we were able to send a further £537 to Oasis last week. This brings our total giving to £1995 to Oasis this year. Cheques should be made payable to CBC. Any further donations should be given in an envelope marked ‘REFUGEE CRISIS’, so that your donations can support either Oasis itself or the expenses of any worker or team which we may send out to Austria. If you qualify for gift-aid, please fill in your details on a gift-aid envelope.
Extract of a letter from Carol Halm at Oasis
“With all of the recent developments in Austria ie. so many refugees coming, I appreciate more than ever … your churches’ prayers! God has been so good thus far to give me an extra measure of strength and endurance in the midst of very long, hot and challenging days.”
HARVEST SERVICE
Our annual harvest service will be held on Sunday 4th October. Please bring your tins (no fresh food) on the morning and we will distribute them during the week. Donations will go to the Corsham Churches Food Bank – see the board in the coffee hall for the wide range of items that you can donate. Financial contributions may be made to CBC and marked “Refugee Crisis” on the white envelope. Thank you!
Fabric Deacon
Following Paul Garcia’s resignation as fabric deacon, nominations are now open for the election of a new deacon which will take place at the 5th October Church Meeting. All necessary paper work is on the table at the back of church. Please hand your form in to Alan Kember or Alan Christie.
Chippenham Street Pastors
Chippenham Street Pastors are in desperate need of more volunteers. A new training course will start on the 23rd September with an information evening from 7.30-9.30pm at Sheldon Road Methodist Church Chippenham. If you are interested come along to the information evening or contact the Chippenham Street Pastors’ Co-ordinator or speak to Elspeth at CBC.
Lancasters’ Request
The Lancasters are asking our team going out next month to bring three or four used board games/jigsaws in fairly good condition (things like Scrabble, Uno, Jenga, card games etc). They want to use them for Sanga Sanga visitors. If you can help please contact Kathy Larkman. Thank you!
DBS checks (Disclosure and Barring service)
As part of our church Safeguarding Policy, it is required that all volunteers working with children and vulnerable adults must have a DBS check. If you volunteer in junior church and are not sure if you have had a current DBS check or are having difficulties with the application procedure, please speak to Bev Grylls who is more than willing to help. We have a responsibility to keep the children and adults safe in junior church so please complete your application if you have not already done so. Thank you.
Midweek Service
The next midweek service will be held this Wednesday at 2pm at the church. the text will be Luke 14.1-24 and Eric shall be leading and preaching. There will be communion.
Steph Grylls in Bangladesh
Please pray for Steph as she goes on mission to Bangladesh until December. You can follow her progress via this web link http://missioninbangladesh1778.blogspot.co.uk/
…This Week…
Monday: Mums’ Bible Study, 10am
Wednesday: Midweek service, 2pm
Thursday: Toddler Group, 10am; Corsham Money Debt Advice Centre, 7.30pm
Friday: Corsham Money Debt Advice Centre, 9.30am; Men’s weekend away
Saturday: Prayer in the Hut, 8.30am; The Ark, 10am
…Coming up…
27th September: Nominations close for Fabric deacon
28th September: Ladies’ Bible Study, 7.30pm, chilli night
3rd October: Craft Group, 10am
4th October: Harvest service
5th October: Church Meeting, 8pm
7th October: Midweek service, 2pm
10th October: Same Sex Marriage discussion 9am-12.30pm
12th October: AIM Tanzania short term mission trip
18th October: Special evening youth service, 6pm @ CBC (Bible Sunday at Gastard Church 6pm)