Notices Sunday 15th Dec 2024

Sunday Services – 15th Dec 2024

If you prefer not to appear on the live stream/recording at Priory Street, you’re advised to sit in or under the balcony.

December’s Junior Church Verse

‘With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.‘
Mark 10:27

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Plea from Souper Friday
We are very excited about the potential new Souper Friday starting In the Rudloe Community
Centre. Our current project at Priory Street regularly brings in 50-60 households who have no
connection to God or any faith. This has been a great opportunity for us and we have seen some
small successes over the 5 years we have been going, in people coming to church and getting
involved in the other ministries of our church. It regularly takes 8 volunteers to run the café and Marketplace with additional volunteers chatting to our customers. For us to be successful we will need a similar amount of new volunteers every week to make it work. So please, if you feel your heart is In helping Souper Friday at Rudloe, contact Colin Whiting, Paul Garcia, Carol Gale or Brenda New. We would love to welcome you on board.
You can read the full letter from the Souper Friday team here and collect a pledge form from the back of church. Pledge forms can be put in the offering box.

Junior Church – urgent help needed
We are urgently looking for two more teachers to join the Junior Church team to support the important ministry and share the Gospel and your love of Jesus with our church children.
The children are God’s next generation to pass on the Word to, we want to provide those firm foundations and truths for these precious lives and to encourage them in their faith journey with Jesus. 
Please prayerfully consider if you can help us, even if once every 6-8 weeks, you will be such a blessing to the team and children.  If this is something you can consider, please follow this link

Updating information for children in junior church
In the coming weeks,  we will be asking your children to fill in an information sheet about themselves, asking them about what they enjoy in junior church,  the activities they enjoy and any things they find difficult.  This will be done during the junior church sessions. The aim is to use the information in order to help the teachers and leaders plan and deliver the junior church sessions more effectively. There will be a couple of questions for parents to answer too.  We appreciate the time taken to complete these forms and anticipate them to be beneficial to everyone in junior church.  If you have any questions regarding the information sheets,  please speak to Rhiannon or email: childrensworker@corshambaptists.org

Prayer walk around Corsham – Sat 14th Dec 8.30am
Please join us on a prayer walk around Corsham tomorrow morning. We’ll set off from Priory Street at 8.30am.

Youth Night in – this Sunday 15th Dec 7pm
Just us this Sunday! Then after Christmas we will have lots of fun activities planned including DTI road trip, game nights, themed dress ups, Chinese lanterns, laser quest and much more. If you or your child is 11-18 then you are very welcome to join us, 7-8.30pm Sunday nights. For more info, please speak to Dan or grab a flyer from the back of the church. 

Our Christmas Services

Carols by candlelight – Sun 15th Dec 6pm
We would love you to join us as we hear about the prophecies & events around Jesus coming into the world. We will light up the church by candlelight and sing traditional carols together. If you would like to watch online please use this link. We are collecting donations for Oasis on this evening. You can read more about Oasis and their mission here.

Midweek Service – Christmas Carols – Wed 18th Dec 2pm
Join us for some festive carols and fellowship as we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ in our Christmas midweek service. Please join us after the service for refreshments.

Family Christingle service – 22nd Dec 4pm
Join us for a fun, family event of making Christingles, hearing the Christmas story and a time of singing carols together…featuring a special costume!

Christmas Eve service – Tues 24th Dec 6pm
Join us on the night before Christmas as we join together to learn more about the birth of Jesus and what Christmas means to us as Christians.

Christmas Day service – Wed 25th Dec 10am
Join us at 10am at Priory Street for a short family service, giving thanks & praise for the birth of Jesus. We will be collecting donations for Tearfund. You can read more about Tearfund and their mission here.

F.L.A.G.S – Wed 18th Dec 4pm
Parents of key stage 2 children – join Rhiannon and the team for FLAGS as we learn about God together. 4pm Priory Street.

Thank you from Compassion
Thank you so much for your kind donation at Harvest of £450.69 to all at CBC. We are so grateful for your generous support. Thank you once again for all that Corsham Baptist Church are doing for children through Compassion.

A cashless church
A reminder that we are encouraging people to use the new card machine for offerings going forward. You will find the machine at the back of Priory Street. Elders will be on hand at the back of the church should you need any help in using it.

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Christianity Explored Course – Thurs 16th Jan 7.30pm

We’d love to invite you or perhaps someone you know to join our next Christianity Explored course where we will explore more about the life of Jesus. This seven-session series will give you time and space to think through who Jesus is, why he came and what it means to follow him. You will have the opportunity to ask any questions and share your thoughts with the group in a relaxed and informal setting. We will meet for 7 weeks and each week we’ll share a meal together, read a bit of the Bible, hear a short talk and have a chat based on the talk. Please share this with friends, family, neighbours and colleagues who you think may be interested in joining us. Please speak to Adam if you’d like to join us adamj@corshambaptists.org

Bereavement ministry and support – Date TBC

As a Church we are planning to host a half day course on a Saturday morning run by Care for The Family called “The Bereavement Care Awareness Course”. The aim is to show us how best to support people we know who are suffering in grief. If you are interested in this half day course, please email your interest to bereavement@corshambaptists.org so that we can book a date and provide you with more information.

The Bereavement Journey Course – 5th Feb – 26th March

We will be offering another course from 5th Feb – 26th March, if you would like to sign up or receive more information please email bereavement@corshambaptists.org or visit the website to find out more. The course is for anyone who has suffered a significant loss, recently or in the past, and are finding their grief difficult to process. This is a seven week course consisting of small group discussions and videos developed by Christians. The course is open to anyone in our local community whether or not they attend CBC. Please speak to Adam, Gordon or Anne Hill for more information.

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Pastoral care

Tim and Kathryn Hogg will be heading up a team to best support any ‘non-spiritual’ needs for the church. They are asking the church for willing helpers to assist where possible.
Roles include:
* Visiting to homes and hospitals to be a friendly face and listening ear
* Helping with tasks like shopping or setting up an online shopping order.
* Being part of the meal train ably run by Sarah Blaikley
We want to be a church that can be responsive and loving to meet the needs of all the church family, so please prayerfully consider what you could do to help. For more information please email priorystpastoral@corshambaptists.org.

Christianity Explored

We are running another Christianity Explored course starting on 16th January 2025 at 7.30pm.  Over seven sessions, one per week, guests will read Mark’s Gospel to find out more about the life of Jesus Christ. The structure of each session is simple: a short Bible study, a talk and a discussion based on the talk. We need people to volunteer to cook a simple meal each week, volunteer helpers & table leaders. Full support & training will be provided. Please contact Adam if you can help adamj@corshambaptists.org

Volunteer required – Health & Safety Ministry Leader

Could you take on this role? Click here to read the role description and if you’re interested in helping in this way, please speak to Jonny Street or any of the trustees. 

Volunteers required – Junior Church

Volunteers are needed to enable this ministry to continue at our Sunday services. You don’t necessarily have to teach and it won’t be every Sunday. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. If you feel you can serve in this way, please complete the form here so that the necessary safeguarding checks can be done. Any questions please contact vicki.kelly@corshambaptists.org.

Safeguarding at CBC

Should you have any safeguarding concerns, no matter how small, please contact the safeguarding team at safeguarding@corshambaptists.org – you can find the full safeguarding policy here.

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• Prayer for Missions & the Persecuted Church: the first Tuesday of every month, 8pm on Zoom. Contact the office for login details.
• FLAGS (Fun Learning About God and Scripture): Wednesdays at 4.30-5.30pm during term time. For Primary School-aged children.
• Women’s Bible Study: we meet once a month, usually on a Monday evening at 7.30pm, but the dates change so please check the notices for the current month! We’d love to have you join us!
• Souper Friday Café: Friday mornings from 10am-1pm. Come and enjoy a free drink, cake and soup. Open for help with food items to take away too. Speak to Colin, Carol G, Brenda or Paul G for more information.
• Toddlers: Thursdays 10:00am-11:30am during term-time only.
• Life groups meet in person and/or online. Contact us if you’d like to join one.
• Youth Groups – contact Dan for further details.

Please send items for next week’s notices to luciebc@corshambaptists.org by 12 noon on Thursday.