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  • BHC seeks a Digital Producer and Technician for Online Ministry!

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    Job Ad Digital Producer for Online Minsistry

    Busbridge&Hambledon is a thriving evangelical and charismatic Anglican Church looking for someone who can help us fulfil God’s vision for our church. Over the last year, we have rapidly developed worship online, and our online services are part of an emerging strategy for ongoing digital ministry which will support and sit alongside our physical community.

    The Digital Producer and Technician will work closely with the existing BHC team and take responsibility for the aligned creation and delivery of content across all our digital channels in order to grow our community, increase the reach of our ministry and ensure the smooth production of our services and events streamed online.

    A personal Christian faith consistent with our Church is essential for this role.

    This role is a fixed 6 month contract, from 25 June to 31 December 2021, with a view to extending the term and role in 2022.

    How to apply for the job

    For full details on this position, including the Person Specification, Job Description and an Application form, please see the Job vacancies page for the Role description, and application form. If you have the skills, passion and calling for this role with us, we look forward to hearing from you!

  • Join the National Day of Reflection | 23 March

    Organised by Marie Curie, the National Day of Reflection looks to reflect on our collective loss, support those who’ve been bereaved, and hope for a brighter future.

    We are tolling the Busbridge church bell at 12 noon today to mark the minutes silence.

    You may like to use the CofE prayer card:
    https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/COFE_03015_DayofReflectionPostcard_AW.pdf

    Other suggestions to mark the anniversary:

    1. Encourage people to phone or send a card to anyone who may feel bereaved: Church of England research shows that 6 out of 10 adults have lost someone in the last year where they would have attended the funeral. 4 out of 10 say they have lost someone close to them.

    2. Plant a seed, a bulb, a bush as a sign of hope.

    3. Tie a yellow ribbons to a prayer tree or railings as a sign of their prayer and support for all who are bereaved.

    4. Use the 8.00pm ‘share the light’ moment to light candles and lanterns in windows.

    Reflect

    Loving God, 
    You hold all our times in your hands, our past, our present, our future. Be close to us now as we remember all the difficulties and disappointments of the past year. Be especially close to all of us who are thinking of someone we loved and knew, but see no longer, whether family, friend, colleague or neighbour. Help us to trust that they are at peace with you, and comfort us with your presence. 

    Connect

    Loving God, 
    You place us in families and communities, and we give you thanks for all those around us who serve us and help us in so many ways. Give wisdom to community leaders, to our schools, hospitals, care homes and other agencies who make a difference to our lives. Help each of us to have the courage to reach out with thanks and kindness to those around us and to speak words of faith as we share the good news of your love.

    Hope

    Loving God, 
    As we journey towards Easter, help us to live as people of hope, knowing that beyond the pain of the cross lies the joy of resurrection. Inspire us in our worship, through our churches and in our homes, that we may bring glory to you and joy to others. Be with those who are struggling in mind, body or spirit, and give courage to those who are facing uncertainty and change ahead. Help each of us to keep our eyes fixed on you, that we may reflect your light to all whom we meet.

    Prayers

    Dear God,
    Be with us as we think about all that has changed this year,
    And help us to trust that you are always with us.
    Be close to us as we remember those who have died,
    And help us to trust they are at peace with you.
    Show us how to reach out to others with kindness and care,
    So that hope shines out in every heart and home,
    Amen
     
    God of Love,
    As we think about all that has changed this year,
    help us to trust that you are always with us.
    As we remember those who have died,
    help us to trust they are at peace with you.
    As we reach out to others with kindness and care,
    may hope shine out in every heart and home.
    Amen

  • Wait for breakfast / skip a meal today

    Wait for breakfast / skip a meal today

    …make space in your day for God / and consider those less fortunate than you.

    Fasting is fashionable again (!), with lots of nutritionists and health gurus expounding the benefits of fasting and “intermittent” fasting (12, 14 or 16 hours overnight) to boost our immune systems and self healing, and as an antidote to over consumption!

    Funny, it’s forever been part of biblical teaching and discipleship, not for weight loss or physical health (though no doubt God meant that for us as well), but as a way of refocusing ourselves on what’s important.

    Read more in this article (for youth) by Martin Saunders: https://www.youthandchildrens.work/Past-Issues/2017/March-2017/Fast-but-not-least

    Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

    Luke 4: 1

  • Watch “I too am CofE”

    Ahead of this Sunday’s talks on The Challenge to promote racial justice, watch this 7 minute video concerning BAME people in the Church of England.

    You might also like to look at The Race Chat on BBC 6 August – not Christian, but a light hearted but serious look at dealing with the issue. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08mx9cj

    Romans 12:2

    Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.” … Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”

  • The BHC Online Ministry team – An invitation to serve on the Online ministry production team

    We are on a recruitment drive for new volunteers, or “disciples” as we think of them at Busbridge&Hambledon church. If this is something you’d like to be involved in, or find out more, please contact Jacob Taylor, e: jacob.taylor@bhcgodalming.org. (Jacob is currently leading our online ministry).

  • Watch Amazing Grace sung by 50 countries

    Watch Amazing Grace from 50 countries to remind you that faith is global.

    This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

    Psalm 118: 24

  • Walk 10,000 steps today

    Walk 10,000 steps today

    That equates to about 8 km, or an 1 hr and 40 mins walking, depending on your stride length and walking speed. (You don’t have to do it all in one walk! )

    The added bonus is that it’s a great excuse to meet a friend you can’t otherwise see, so that’s an added dollop of well-being!

    For help and inspiration see: https://www.medibank.com.au/livebetter/be-magazine/exercise/how-to-walk-10000-steps/#:~:text=Ten%20thousand%20steps%20equates%20to,it%20all%20in%20one%20walk.

    Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

    Prov 3:5-6.

  • Eco Challenge 1: Turn that light off!

    Eco challenge!

    Turn off lights in rooms you aren’t using today.

    Bible verse of the day:

    Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

    Psalm 119: 105

    Our Lent and Easter appeal is in aid of our mission partner A Rocha UK. Find out about the work they do.

    These are bleak times. We live not just with a global pandemic, but accelerating climate change and species loss. Is there hope? And can A Rocha UK realistically make a difference?

    The answer is a resounding ‘yes’ to both – if we have confidence in what we know, humility about what we don’t, openness to work with others, and the faith to go where we believe God is pointing us. 

    A Rocha UK was founded twenty years ago as a local Christian conservation project in a deprived and multi-ethnic area of Southall, west London. That work goes on, based at our Wolf Fields reserve. But who would have dreamed that A Rocha UK would now be leading a fast growing network of Christian organisations committed to managing their land for nature, with Partners in Action in all four UK nations? Or that we would be facilitating an Eco Church movement of more than 3,100 local churches in England and Wales, learning how to care for creation in all they do. Or that we would be hosting an ‘online community’ – the phrase hadn’t even been invented 20 years ago – of ‘Wild Christians’ caring for nature. Of course, there have been hard times and setbacks too. But we are amazed at where God has led, and often carried, us. …More

  • 24 Feb | Be encouraging!

    Hide encouraging notes in unexpected places or send an encouraging message to a friend.

    Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

    1 Thess 5 v 11

    Some of the most important benefits of encouragement include:

    1. Accomplishment. Words of encouragement work like energy pills. …

    2. Hope. When we are at our lowest, we tend to withdraw from other people because we fear their judgment. …

    3. Perspective. …

    4. Self-esteem. …

    5. Success.

    (Taken from Google search on: benefits of encouragement)

  • Day 7 – It’s Trolley Tuesday! Make a donation to the Godalming Community Store or Food Bank

    Day 7 – It’s Trolley Tuesday! Make a donation to the Godalming Community Store or Food Bank

    Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me” (Matthew 25:40, 45, NIV) – One of Mother Teresa’s favourite texts in the Bible, which she often quoted to support her ministry to the poor.

    It’s Trolley Tuesday! Drop a donation for the Godalming community store at one of the collection points between 9 and 11am. Check the web site HERE

    Not in Godalming? Make a donation to your local Food Bank.

    From the Community Store web site:

    PLEASE CAN YOU DONATE ANY OF THESE ITEMS?

    All in date, unopened tinned and packaged food items and domestic cleaning products are very much appreciated. With some items more in need than others, donations of the items listed below are particularly welcome:

    Donations needed:

    Cereal
    Conditioner
    Egg/Rice Noodles.
    Kitchen Towels
    Meat Meals
    Multi Pack Crisps
    Pesto
    Shampoo
    Stock Cubes
    Sweet Treats
    Tinned Salmon
    Tinned Veg
    Toilet Rolls
    UHT Milk
    Variety of Veg Based Soup (Not Tomato)
    Washing Up Liquid

    Thank you for your support for the Community Store, working with St Marks Food Bank we hope between us we are able to help as many people as possible in our community who find themselves in need of support.

    A huge thank you to those who have already donated and to those kind  people who regularly donate.

    HOW TO DONATE TO THE COMMUNITY STORE

    The Store takes in donations and makes them available free of charge to others.

    If you would like to support the Community Store, this can be done by taking donated goods directly to the Wilfrid Noyce Centre during the Store’s opening times, or you can donate on Tuesday mornings between 9.00am and 11.00am at the following locations:

    Compton Telephone Box (Sundays between 8am-5pm)
    Budgens Petrol Station & Convenience Store, Bramley
    Binscombe Church
    Long Gore
    St John’s Church
    Busbridge Church
    Godalming College
    The Borough Hall
    Godalming Library
    Milford Village Hall

    In addition to Trolley Tuesday location points, the Godalming & Farncombe Coronavirus Assistance Group have set up several additional drop off locations to help make it easy for you to continue to donate.  Please see map for the extra locations.