THIS SUNDAY

Theme: Stilling the storm | Reading: Mark 4:35-41

online

9AM HERITAGE ONLINE Service on YouTube Click here
Leaders: Andy and Margot Spencer
Speaker: Gertrud Sollars

Musical zoom (LIVE) for Creche, Tiny Tigers & Ark led by Lisa Olsworth-Peter (contact lisa.olsworth-peter@bhcgodalming.org for details)

10AM Main ONLINE Service on YouTube Click here
Welcome: Andy Spencer
Speaker: Jackie Farrow
Prayers: Judith Hawkey

Explorers and Pathfinders Zoom in on Sunday (contact vic.hicks@bhcgodalming.org for details)

At Church

10AM MORNING WORSHIP with Communion (in one kind) at Busbridge Church

Face coverings are now compulsory in church. We are currently working to fix the sound outside the church so that people can sit in the churchyard and listen to the service. If this isn’t possible, numbers are limited by the number of locations for bubbles in church. Please keep an eye on the event via What’s On to check the status.

Leader: Margot Spencer
Speaker:  Gertrud Sollars
Music:   Rob and Abigail Hewlett

The Notices

This week

Monday
8AM Listening Prayer

Tuesday
9AM Morning Prayer

Wednesday
7.30PM Alpha Course

Thursday
9AM Morning Prayer

Saturday
9.30AM Hambledon Prayer Breakfast

See What’s On for event details and links to zoom.

NEXT Sunday

Topic: Two Lives Restored | Reading: Mark 5: 21-42

9AM Heritage ONLINE

9AM & 10AM PRAYER BREAKS OUT! event at Busbridge Church

Come and join in this creative way of praying and worshipping with something for all.

On the hour at 9am and 10am there will be a brief service in Busbridge Church.

From this service you are invited to follow the markers (labyrinth-style) to prayer stations around the churchyard, in the Old Rectory garden and inside church. There will be activities for children, an area for prayer ministry and other stations for both reflective and active prayer.  Prayer for healing, the community and the nation.

We hope many of you from both Busbridge & Hambledon will come over the course of the 2 sessions. Numbers in church will be restricted, so it would be helpful to know if you are coming and which service in church you intend to attend.  Please sign up for either time.

9AM start

10AM start

The Plan for September

Circumstances permitting, the plan for Sunday Services from mid September is:

9AM at Hambledon

10AM at Busbridge

4PM Outdoor Family service in the Old Rectory Garden
during September. A more weather proof venue is being sought for when the weather turns more Autumnal!

Work is underway at both Busbridge and Hambledon Churches to enable livestreaming of these services so that those who continue to shield, or have benefited from anytime, anywhere online worship, can still participate.

We are planning for the Church Office in the Old Rectory to be open from 7 September, though staff will be in on a rota basis.

Rae Williams: Longstanding church members will remember, with great affection, Harvey and Rae Williams, who used to live at Merryoak and were part of our church family for many years, before they returned to Rae’s native Australia fifteen years ago.  We have been deeply saddened to learn that Rae died last Friday, shortly after being diagnosed with leukaemia.  Harvey has also been in hospital, but he is recovering well from heart surgery.  Please pray for them all – for Harvey, Cassie, Chris and the wider family – that they may know God’s love, comfort and peace at this very difficult time.

Ben’s Bank Holiday walk (108 miles!) Many of you may remember that we have been, though it seems like a very long time ago, raising funds to redevelop the Church Centre to make it more community focused. As we look to a future where the structure of worship and mission will be evolving, we believe that a coffee drop in could be even more key, and plans are progressing. To ‘do his bit’ and Ben Rogers is undertaking the challenge of doing a sponsored walk to raise funds for the Church Centre redevelopment. The route he’s chosen is the Greensands Way, taking him from Haslemere to a place called Hamstreet, Kent. It is a 108 mile route which he plans to complete 31st August – 2nd September.

Ben is asking for sponsorship for this huge commitment, ideally via GoFundMe here

Any prayers you have to offer would also be a powerful encouragement. If God does speak to in way (word, picture, song) please do forward them to myself at benspets87@outlook.com.’

But an expedition such as this also needs a support crew, refreshment stops, cheering crowds, chalk slogans on the roads, flags waving etc. If you want to be part of this over the bank holiday weekend, please email: church.office@bhcgodalming.org.

Churches Together Link-Up – August Edition Click here for news from all the churches around Godalming.

Please pray for Please pray for these roads and their residents, and perhaps include them on a prayer walk this week:
· North Munstead Lane and road stewards Mark and Katrina Williams
· New Road

Elsewhere

Please see info about the Surrey Churches Ride & Stride with a Difference on 12 September. (Busbridge and Hambledon Churches are on the route.)

PRAYER MINISTRY TEAM AVAILABLE

To contact the EMERGENCY prayer chain, email prayer@bhcgodalming.org  or call 01483 421267.
Listening prayer is available mid-week.

For more information contact Jeannie Postill t 01428 687968.

Youth Discipleship Camp 3-5 August 2020 – Looks like they had fun! And it’s so nice to see the Old Rectory garden filled with life and laughter. Thanks to Anto and the team of leaders for a fab, fun 3 days of learning about following Jesus.

This Sunday

ONLINE

9AM Heritage Service on YouTube
Topic: What’s the point of Sunday?
Reading: Mark 2:23-3:6
Sermon: David Hodson

10AM Busbridge&Hambledon with Godalming Baptist Church All Age Online Worship on YouTube
Miracles in Mark: A Sabbath Healing | Mark 3: 1-6
With sermon, music and prayers contributed by members of Godalming Baptist Church. Plus meet Patrick Samuels (the new ordinand) and Rev Sheila Samuels, curate at St Peter and St Paul.

All online services can be found on the BHC Godalming YouTube Channel

AT CHURCH

10AM Morning Worship (whole benefice) at Busbridge Church
with overflow in the churchyard. Please SIGN UP and wear a face mask to help us cooperate with government guidelines.
Miracles in Mark: A Sabbath Healing | Mark 3: 1-6
Leader: Andy Spencer
Sermon: Margot Spencer
Music: Karen Hart & Graham Sheldrake

The Notices

THIS WEEK

Busbridge Prayer Group meets this Saturday on zoom, 8 Aug at 8am.
We pray for our leaders and all those who do anything in the churches. An Hour of prayer either silent or out loud on items that we care about. If you can’t make it, but have something or someone you would like us to pray for, do get in contact with Michael Stubbs michaeleashing@aol.com. To join click HERE.

Monday
8AM Listening Prayer
7.30PM Hope in Depression

Tuesday
9AM Morning Prayer
2.30PM Prime Time Quiz and social afternoon.
Click HERE for the details and how to join at the end of the Prime Time message from Jane Tomes.

Wednesday
7.30PM Alpha course

Thursday
9AM Morning Prayer

See What’s On for all the details, and links to zoom.

NEXT SUNDAY – see the Summer Programme.
We are on YouTube for the 9AM Heritage Service and 10AM All Age Online service. The Miracles in Mark series continues next Sunday with the topic ‘Stilling the Storm’ – Mark 4:35-41. Keith Harper and Phillippa Baker will be talking about their calling and training to be LLMs and what come’s next.

SIGN UP TO FUTURE SERVICES

For Covid 19 Track and Trace, if you plan to come to the services at Busbridge Church next week and the week after, you can sign up now to save a bit of time on arrival. The list will be kept for 21 days after the service and then deleted.

10AM Morning Worship on Sunday 16 August at Busbridge Church

PRAYER BREAKS OUT EVENT on Sunday 23 August
Come and join in this creative way of praying and worshipping with something for all.

On the hour at 9am and 10am there will be a brief service in Busbridge Church.

From this service you are invited to follow the markers (labyrinth-style) to prayer stations around the churchyard, in the Old Rectory garden and inside church. There will be activities for children, an area for prayer ministry and other stations for both reflective and active prayer.  Prayer for healing, the community and the nation.

We hope many of you from both Busbridge & Hambledon will come over the course of the 2 sessions. Numbers in church will be restricted, so it would be helpful to know if you are coming and which service in church you intend to attend.  Please sign up for either time:

9AM start

10AM start

This is all good practice for when we start to gather again for more regular Sunday services from mid September. Circumstances permitting, the plan for Sundays from mid September is:

9AM at Hambledon

10AM at Busbridge

4PM All Age Contemporary service in the Old Rectory Garden during September. A more weather proof venue is being sought for when the weather turns more Autumnal!

Work is underway at both Busbridge and Hambledon Churches to enable live streaming of these services so that those who continue to shield, or have benefited from online worship, can still participate.

Ben’s Bank Holiday walk (108 miles!) Many of you may remember that we have been, though it seems like a very long time ago, raising funds to redevelop the Church Centre to make it more community focused. As we look to a future where the structure of worship and mission will be evolving, we believe that a coffee drop in could be even more key, and plans are progressing. To ‘do his bit’ and Ben Rogers is undertaking the challenge of doing a sponsored walk to raise funds for the Church Centre redevelopment. The route he’s chosen is the Greensands Way, taking him from Haslemere to a place called Hamstreet, Kent. It is a 108 mile route which he plans to complete 31st August – 2nd September.

Ben is asking for sponsorship for this huge commitment, ideally via GoFundMe here

Any prayers you have to offer would also be a powerful encouragement. If God does speak to in way (word, picture, song) please do forward them to myself at benspets87@outlook.com.’

But an expedition such as this also needs a support crew, refreshment stops, cheering crowds, chalk slogans on the roads, flags waving etc. If you want to be part of this over the bank holiday weekend, please email: church.office@bhcgodalming.org.

Churches Together Link-Up – August Edition Click here for news from all the churches around Godalming.

Please pray for Please pray for these roads and their residents, and perhaps include them on a prayer walk this week:
· New Road and Salt Lane, Hydestile and road steward Olwen Downhill.
· Markwick Lane.

PRAYER MINISTRY TEAM AVAILABLE

To contact the EMERGENCY prayer chain, email prayer@bhcgodalming.org  or call 01483 421267.
Listening prayer is available mid-week.

For more information contact Jeannie Postill t 01428 687968.

Thanks to those who took part in Sunday On the Move last week – it was lovely to see you! The pics show cars at Hambledon Nursery listening to worship; Juliet, Patrick Samuels and Vic at the Prayer Station at St Mark’s (we stood 2m apart at all times, and just stepped in a bit for the photo!) and on the right is the face masked Rector marking out spots in the churchyard for any overflow at the first service back in Busbridge Church this Sunday – all 4m apart. The outside speakers are installed now too.

THIS SUNDAY

9AM HERITAGE ONLINE Service on YouTube Click here

Change is needed in society

Readings: Isaiah 43:18-19, Micah 6:6-8 and Revelation 21:1-7

Speaker: David Jenkins

10AM MESSY CHURCH on zoom: God’s Rescue Plan – the 10 Plagues of Egypt

(Exodus)

Leader: Simon Willetts and the Messy Church team

Equipment you need for the craft:

An empty toilet roll, green paper, white paper, black pen, glue & sellotape!

In the BHC Public zoom room, password 2020.

10AM MORNING WORSHIP at Busbridge Church, overflow in churchyard – Please sign up via the event on the What’s On page, wear a face mask in church. You are welcome to bring a chair in case the church is full, and you are asked to take part outside.

Theme: Miracles in Mark 1: Through the roof; Mark 2:1-12

Leader: Margot Spencer

Speaker:  Gertrud Sollars

Music:   Ian Beckingham

The Notices

Breaking for summer:

There’s been a lot going on in lockdown, and a few things are taking a break in the summer holidays:

• 9AM Morning Prayer has moved to TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS only until September.

• 9.45AM Toddler Sing Along on Tuesdays takes a break in August – the last one is this week 28 July.

• 7PM THURSDAY LIVE stopped last week for the summer.

• The next Sunday PrayerFest 0-60 is 27 September.

What IS on?
Not everything has stopped, so please check the calendar on the What’s On page week to week.

The Children’s, Youth and Families work is also taking a break of sorts, but if you are signed up to a group, you will have received a few things to do and take part in. As well as the All Age Online services coming up on YouTube, there’s a Summer Programme for different age groups, the Summer Challenge for Explorers and Pathfinders and teens will have had an invitation to the 3 day, 2 night Discipleship Camp in the Old Rectory Garden. Whaaat?! Ask Anto.Ficatier@bhcgodalming.org for details.

Coming up …
On Saturday the Churches Together Prayer Breakfast at 8.30am is followed by the Hambledon Prayer Breakfast at 9.30am. Both are open to all to join in the BHC public zoom room.

Monday
8AM Listening Prayer
7.30AM Hope in Depression

Tuesday
9AM Morning Prayer
9.45AM Toddler Sing Along (end of term)

Wednesday
7.30PM Alpha course

Thursday
9AM Morning Prayer

Thursday 30th, Friday 31st, Saturday 1 Aug
9PM New Wine United – post evening session catch ups.
New Wine Breaks out! New Wine is an annual Christian event that a group from our church usually attend, with worship, teaching, ministry, seminars, and a fantastic youth and children’s programme. This year it’s online and free for all to access! Do watch the promotional video, and find the programme and how to access it through this link  https://www.new-wine.org/breaksout.

One of the joys of real life New Wine is meeting after sessions to chat and share a drink or 2, so we have set up Zoom rooms for after the evening session at 9pm. We can watch the evening session first, then meet to chat about what we’ve heard and share a coffee or wine together. Do join us in the BHC Public zoom room, password 2020.

NEXT SUNDAY – see the Summer Programme.
We all back online for the 9AM Heritage Service on YouTube and 11AM New Wine United online worship event.

Ben’s Bank Holiday walk (108 miles!)
Many of you may remember that we have been, though it seems like a very long time ago, raising funds to redevelop the Church Centre to make it more community focused. As we look to a future where the structure of worship and mission will be evolving, we believe that a coffee drop in could be even more key, and plans are progressing. To ‘do his bit’ and Ben Rogers is undertaking the challenge of doing a sponsored walk to raise funds for the Church Centre redevelopment. The route he’s chosen is the Greensands Way, taking him from Haslemere to a place called Hamstreet, Kent. It is a 108 mile route which he plans to complete 31st August – 2nd September.

Ben is asking for sponsorship for this huge commitment, ideally via GoFundMe here

Any prayers you have to offer would also be a powerful encouragement. If God does speak to in way (word, picture, song) please do forward them to myself at benspets87@outlook.com.’

But an expedition such as this also needs a support crew, refreshment stops, cheering crowds, chalk slogans on the roads, flags waving etc. If you want to be part of this over the bank holiday weekend, please email: church.office@bhcgodalming.org.

Outward Giving: 5 Talents
Listen out….. This Sunday morning Five Talents have been awarded the weekly Appeal slot on Radio 4.  Five Talents works through the Anglican Church in rural areas of East Africa and beyond to establish microfinance programmes which enable those who have no access to financial services to set-up and grow the small businesses they depend on.  BHC supports Five Talents through its outward giving programme and Five Talents was the focus of our Harvest Appeal in 2018.  Do listen out through the link here: https://www.fivetalents.org.uk/bbc-radio-4-appeal (at 07:54, 21:25 and online). 

Please pray for the work of Five Talents, its trainers and members of its savings groups as they work through the current crisis.  It would also be great if you could share these details of the appeal with friends and family to help the important work of Five Talents become better known.  

Churches Together Link-Up – August Edition
Click here for news from all the churches around Godalming.

Please pray for Please pray for these roads and their residents, and perhaps include them on a prayer walk this week:
· Monteagle and Westdean and road stewards Guy and Jo Cookes.
· Hambledon Road and Hambledon Nursery School

PRAYER MINISTRY TEAM AVAILABLE

To contact the EMERGENCY prayer chain, email prayer@bhcgodalming.org  or call 01483 421267.
Listening prayer is available mid-week.

For more information contact Jeannie Postill t 01428 687968.

THIS SUNDAY

change begins with us | matthew 25: 31-46

9AM HERITAGE ONLINE Service on YouTube

9-11AM SUNDAY ON THE MOVE – a drive around service, in the community. Start at the Busbridge Village Hall anytime between 9am and 11am. Bring your smart phone (Android phones need a QR scanning app – please download beforehand). More details

Welcome:        Anto
Speaker:          Simon Taylor
Reading:          Abigail Hewlett
Prayers:           Sheila Samuel and friends from St Mark’s
Music:             Lisa Olsworth-Peter

11.30AM ‘After service’ Coffee for Busbridge 8am and Classic congregations
(BHC public zoom room).

4PM               Tea and Talk with the 2 Simons on zoom
                    Join Simon Taylor and Simon Willets on zoom at 4pm to hear about plans for returning to church in September. In the BHC Public Room.

4.30PM SUNDAY ON THE MOVE service available on YouTube.

Please note – contrary to the email, PRAYERFEST is taking a break until September (4th Sunday).

THE NOTICES

The summer Break Free programme started last Sunday with a short service in the Old Rectory Garden and continues this Sunday with Sunday on the Move. If you are comfortable at home, the Heritage Online service will be produced on YouTube every Sunday over the summer holidays.

Please keep checking the Summer 2020 programme page here, as there will be updates and different instructions for each event.

The Future of Worship Survey – results and what next?

Here are some findings!

• 250+ responses in 72 hours! – you care deeply about the future of your church.

• 74% said their spirituality and faith had become more important due to COVID 19.

• 60% were keen to attend church services in the building, with an open air option straightaway.

• 90% indicated an openness to a change in venue if necessary for certain congregations.

Find the further analysis and some thoughts on what next HERE and join the zoom meeting at 4PM this Sunday to hear more about plans for September. See What’s on for the event and link to zoom.

Next Sunday is Messy Church online
A live service on zoom for everyone at 10am, with activities for the children. We’ll be making something to do with the 10 Plagues of Egypt, and the list of equipment you need is here:

• An empty toilet roll 

• Glue or sellotape

• A piece of green paper roughly A5 size (or colour it in a plain piece.) If you have a colour printer, you can print the attached pdf of a piece of Green paper.pdf 
  Black pen

• A small piece of white paper (about one inch by two inches)

OR you can sign up for Morning Worship at Busbridge Church, also at 10am.
A simple service for all congregations in the benefice of Busbridge&Hambledon, led by Margot Spencer. 

To maintain a distance of 2m between bubbles, space in church is limited.  If the church is full, sound will be transmitted by speaker in the churchyard too, and the ground has been marked for people to sit or stand 4m apart.

• PLEASE SIGN UP – Go to What’s On, look down to the full calendar and select the event.

• To help us cooperate with Test and Trace, you will be requested to sign in to services on church premises.  A welcomer will be on the door to take your name down, but it would help us to anticipate numbers, and be quicker when you arrive, if you sign up beforehand.

  PLEASE LEAVE THE CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD DIRECTLY AFTER THE SERVICE – we regret that it is not possible to stay and chat people after the service.

• PLEASE CONSIDER WEARING A FACE MASK IN CHURCH. This is not a legal requirement for churches, and seating inside will be amply spaced to ensure social distancing, but for the safety of others, we encourage people to wear a face covering inside.

New Wine Breaks Out!
New Wine is an annual Christian event that a group from our church usually attends, with worship, teaching, ministry, seminars, and a fantastic youth and children’s programme. This year it’s online and free for all to access! Do watch the promotional video through this link  https://www.new-wine.org/breaksout

One of the joys of real life New Wine is meeting after sessions to chat and share a drink or 2, so we have set up Zoom rooms for after the evening session at 9pm. We can watch the session first, then meet to chat about what we’ve heard, and share a coffee or wine together. Do join us in the BHC public zoom room each evening 30th July to 2nd August.

On 2 August, the New Wine service at 11AM will stand in place of our main online service on YouTube, and we encourage everyone to join that worship.

ALL EVENTS THIS WEEK 20-25 July, and beyond, are listed on the calendar on the What’s On page.

We send our love to Jenny Lansdowne, whose father died suddenly on Tuesday (14th).  Please pray for Jenny, Anthony, Owain, Rhys and Gethin, and for Jenny’s mother and sister.  Hold them all up to God, asking for his peace to surround them and give them comfort.

Please pray for Please pray for these roads and their residents, and perhaps include them on a prayer walk this week:
· Minster Road road stewards Ruth Bennett, Sarah Black and Nick Moore.
· Hambledon Park.

PRAYER MINISTRY TEAM AVAILABLE

To contact the EMERGENCY prayer chain, email prayer@bhcgodalming.org  or call 01483 421267.
Listening prayer is available mid-week.

For more information contact Jeannie Postill t 01428 687968.

THIS SUNDAY

Our calling | Isaiah  43: 1-13

What is our calling as individuals, as a church family, as Christians in workplaces, in the community or in a home?

ONLINE Services on YouTube (Heritage & Main)

Welcome:        David Preece
Speaker:          Simon Taylor
Reading:          Naomi Willetts
Prayers:           The Jones
Music:              Paul Ridsdale-Smith

11AM ‘After service’ Coffee for Contemporary and Hambledon congregations.

End of Year parties & graduation ceremonies for Tiny Tigers 9AM, Ark 9AM, Explorers 11.15AM & Pathfinders 10AM (zoom details via email from CYF team).

4PM                   OPEN AIR SERVICE, Old Rectory Garden
                         Simple worship event. Socially distanced, please sign up here and bring your own chair. Face masks are not compulsory, but we ask attendees to consider wearing them from the protection of others.

THE NOTICES

This week’s A Word from is by Margot Spencer – Read more

Churches and worship—Update

As we head into the summer, like many churches, we are using this as a chance to experiment and try things to help us prepare for worship in the future.  Thanks to all those who have completed the survey this week – some 250 responses in 72 hours provided some really helpful feedback and ideas, and we are using some of the info to help shape summer worship beyond church walls and in the community.

Those on the email distribution list also received an invitation to the Open Air service this Sunday at 4pm, to which we ask people to sign up.  Since the invitation went out there has been an update to the instructions:

• Please bring a chair, there will be space to sit, but no seating will be provided apart from the 2 garden benches which we can reserve for those with limited mobility.

• Face masks are not compulsory— everyone will be staying at least 2m apart in the garden at all times.  However we ask attendees to consider wearing a face mask for the protection of others.

If you would like to come to the service, please respond to the email sent on Wednesday or sign up via the What’s On event on the web site here.

what’s on this Summer?

Click HERE for the Break Free on Sundays summer programme, and instructions for Sunday on the Move (19 July). Please note the 4PM zoom with the 2 Simons next sunday, and Live Messy Church on 26 July via zoom. Details and instructions for all the events will follow with the notices each week.

New LLMs
Keith Harper and Philippa Baker complete their theological and church training on 13 July to become Licensed Lay Ministers.  Do congratulate Philippa and Keith and pray for them. Philippa and Keith have both successfully completed 3 years of  intense ministerial training and been awarded Diplomas of Higher Education in Theology, Ministry and Mission by the University of Durham. In October they will be licensed by one of our bishops, this licensing service having been delayed by the Covid-19 crisis.

Now they have completed their training in the Diocese and will shortly  become members of the ministerial team of Busbridge and Hambledon. 

Busbridge Prayer Group, Saturday 11 July
This month’s Prayer Time is on Saturday 11th July   ( 2nd Saturday of each month) 8-9am via Zoom , where we pray for our leaders and all those who do anything in the churches.  An Hour of prayer either silent or out loud on items that we care about. 

If you can’t make it, but have something or someone you would like us to pray for, do get in contact with Michael Stubbs: michaeleashing@aol.com.

Listening Prayer—8am on Mondays
The Prayer Ministry team invite everyone to an early Monday session to simply listen for God.  Join us for 50 minutes (or as much as you can manage) of listening prayer.  A chance to listen to what God might be saying to you, or our Church community. An opportunity to be still before God with music, a piece of scripture followed by a short reflection and then a time of silence.  At the end there is an invitation to share what God may have said to you if you would like too.  Such a great start to the week. 

Helpful Habits Too
The next Helpful Habits Too (please note, this is not the basic course but a follow-on) will be on Tuesday 14th July, on ‘Praying with images’, and anyone who would like to join needs to contact me for the details and prep. To discuss or to register, please contact Gertrud Sollars, e: Gertrud.sollars@btinternet.com.

HR support requested
We’ve reviewed how we offer employment support and we would like to hear from anyone who might have expertise in this area and join an advisory group to help the PCC care for its staff team.  To offer to help please contact a church warden.

Carer wanted 
Employment opportunity available to provide care support to a Busbridge couple with long standing connections to our church.  Previous experience of care work would be desirable due to the complex nature of this couple’s needs and the post holder must be prepared to carry out personal care tasks. Job share applications considered.  Working hours would be on a rota basis to support the live-in carers to have a break.  The post is for 20 hours a week spread over 5 days, in blocks of approximately 4 weeks on / 4 weeks off.  For further details please contact Penny Naylor via the Church Office or email: penny.naylor@bhcgodalming.org

Alpha Online
Please continue to pray for participants and leaders.  (Email: david.preece@bhcgodalming.org and find all the details on the web site under Courses.)

Hope in Depression—course starts 6 July
Please pray for participants and facilitators on the Hope In Depression course with which starts on Monday.  There is still some room on this course.  This 6 week course was developed by the Hope in Depression charity for delivery by churches, and we are grateful that Simon Willetts has previous experience leading the course and is able to offer the online version to anyone in the local community.  The course is free, and can help those suffering with depression and those supporting them.  The details and the registration form are on the web site, under courses.  Do please pass this onto anyone who might benefit.

In the community
Please see the latest issue of the Trinity Trust Team news letter HERE.

Please pray for
Please pray for these roads and their residents, and perhaps include them on a prayer walk this week:
· Maryvale and road steward Jacky Beale.
· Feathercombe Lane.

Prayer Ministry team available

To contact the EMERGENCY prayer chain, email prayer@bhcgodalming.org  or call 01483 421267.
Listening prayer is available mid-week.
For more information contact Jeannie Postill t 01428 687968.

This Sunday

Christian Character | Job 1:1-3, 13-22;

What is our Christian character as we deal with death and disappointment; as individuals and as a Christian community?

ONLINE Services on YouTube

Welcome: Simon Taylor
Speaker:   Margot Spencer
Reading:   Jo Cookes
Prayers:    Simon Willetts
Music:      Arianna Pisetti & Davide Tavernini

The Notices

Available from

9am    Heritage service (BCP)
10am  BHC MAIN ONLINE SERVICE

Tiny Tigers & Ark for children on YouTube too.          

Churches and worship
In light of new government guidance, we are looking at how we can offer Sunday worship in our church buildings and we’re grateful to Michael Stubbs, Tim Davies and Mike Hawkey for their work on getting technology into both churches for live streaming in the Autumn. We have two buildings which can each have no more than 20-35 people in them and there are important deep-clean requirements before and after each use. We are keen to avoid a regular ‘pre-booked ticket only’ approach to worship in a church building.

We believe that the Holy Spirit is asking us to look at how and where we gather to worship and how this fits with us as a mission community for God. We will be able to return to the church buildings once we have worked safety, technology and access out; we are also looking at other ways to gather and celebrate together. 

With the summer coming, we are going to try some different approaches to Sunday worship. For this next phase, the teaching will be on the theme Recovery, and we are calling the summer programme for Sundays ‘Break Free’ – it won’t all be on YouTube! (A programme with more details will follow next week.)

A reminder: Busbridge Church and Hambledon Church are open daily from 9.30am to 4.30pm for private prayer and we encourage everyone to pop in.  We have received really positive feedback to the  display to help guide prayer if at Busbridge and there is also info on Why Pray? at Hambledon.

The Chain of Hope in Busbridge churchyard is growing!  There are some very creative designs painted on pebbles, large and small, and some simple ones too.  We hope this will encourage you to drop in while we cannot gather physically to worship. 

Church cleaning—Due to COVID-19 precautions, we are having to double bag all our potentially contaminated waste and have to store it for 72 hours before throwing it away. If anyone has any spare supermarket-type bags we could use to line our bins, it would be much appreciated if you could drop them off at the front door of the Old Rectory please. You could tuck them behind the Creative Kindness box so they don’t blow away. Many thanks.

New LLMs
We are delighted to announce that Keith Harper and Philippa Baker complete their theological and church training on July 13th to become locally licensed ministers (lay ministers). Normally we’d interview them in church and pray for them. Do congratulate Philippa and Keith and pray for them. They have given two years of their time to for theological study, church placements and residential weekends.  (They will be formally licensed in October).

Church Family Support Fund
The stewards of Busbridge and Hambledon Church Family Support Fund would like to send their very grateful thanks to those who have anonymously donated  some very considerable funds to the charity. These have given the fund a substantial boost and will enable the stewards to be able to support more people who are in financial difficulty because of the Covid 19 crisis. Thank you very much.

Listening Prayer—8am on Mondays
The Prayer Ministry team invite everyone to an early Monday session to simply listen for God.  Join us for 50 minutes (or as much as you can manage) of listening prayer.  A chance to listen to what God might be saying to you, or our Church community. An opportunity to be still before God with music, a piece of scripture followed by a short reflection and then a time of silence.  At the end there is an invitation to share what God may have said to you if you would like too.  Such a great start to the week. 

Helpful Habits Too
The next Helpful Habits Too (please note, this is not the basic course but a follow-on) will be on Tuesday 14th July, on ‘Praying with images’, and anyone who would like to join needs to contact me for the details and prep. To discuss or to register, please contact Gertrud Sollars, e: Gertrud.sollars@btinternet.com.

HR support requested
We’ve reviewed how we offer employment support and we would like to hear from anyone who might have expertise in this area and join an advisory group to help the PCC care for its staff team.  To offer to help please contact a church warden.

A mobile phone has been handed into the church office. Please contact liz.gorst@bhcgodaling.org if you think it might be yours.

Carer wanted 
Employment opportunity available to provide care support to a Busbridge couple with long standing connections to our church.  Previous experience of care work would be desirable due to the complex nature of this couple’s needs and the post holder must be prepared to carry out personal care tasks. Job share applications considered.  Working hours would be on a rota basis to support the live-in carers to have a break.  The post is for 20 hours a week spread over 5 days, in blocks of approximately 4 weeks on / 4 weeks off.  For further details please contact Penny Naylor via the Church Office or email: penny.naylor@bhcgodalming.org

Alpha Online
Please continue to pray for participants and leaders.  (Email: david.preece@bhcgodalming.org and find all the details on the web site under Courses.)

Hope in Depression—course starts 6 July
Please pray for participants and facilitators on the Hope In Depression course which starts on Monday.  There is still some room on this course.  This 6 week course was developed by the Hope in Depression charity for delivery by churches, and we are grateful that Simon Willetts has previous experience leading the course and is able to offer the online version to anyone in the local community.  The course is free, and can help those suffering with depression and those supporting them.  The details and the registration form are on the web site, under courses.  Do please pass this onto anyone who might benefit.

Hello from Prime Time—the next PT event will a quiz and catch up on Zoom on 6 July.  Penny’s weekly mailings to Prime Time members can now be found on the web site under news. 

Thanks to everyone who responded so quickly to Jenna Brown’s appeal to furnish a flat for someone homeless who needed basic items urgently.  A facebook post, message to small group leaders and word of mouth achieved a miraculous response in 48 hours.  Thank you.  The gentleman moved into his new home on Monday.

The Bridge is back! Thanks to Bridge editor, Cathy Brook and team who produced the latest edition of the Bridge magazine, and to all the road stewards who will be delivering it safely around Busbridge next week. There’s lots of positive church and community news in this edition, and the online version is here!

Please pray for
This item has been absent in the notices for a while, so to cover the parishes in prayer, road by road, and picking up where we left off…this week please pray for these roads and their residents, and perhaps include them on a prayer walk this week:

·Maplehatch Close and road stewards Vikki Scarborough and Janet Harvey

· Feathercombe Lane

Public Notice: A faculty petition has been filed (wef 3rd July 2020) in respect of the McLaren Grave Marker – details: keith.harper@bhcgodalming.org

Click here for Godalming Churches Together – July Link Up

Other News this week – posted on Instagram and twitter

PRINT NOTICES (PDF)

This Sunday

FREEDOM FROM HOPELESSNESS | Galatians 5: 1-12

Click HERE for the ONLINE Services on YouTube

Available from
9AM Heritage Service (BCP) With traditional liturgy from the Book of Common Prayer and hymns recorded at Busbridge and Hambledon.

10AM BHC Main Online ServiceThe main act of worship for Busbridge&Hambledon Church with contemporary band-led worship music.

Both servicesWelcome: Dave Preece
Speaker: Simon Taylor
Reading: Faith Guildford
Prayers: Margot Spencer
Music: Becky Whiteman

5PM Prayerfest 0-30 Praying for young people and young  adults.

This week’s ‘A Word from’ Simon Willetts: What we might learn from the Hambledon Buzzard

Recent articles you might have missed:  Rector’s Reflection: GOD’S NORMAL: HOW ARE WE TO BE AS A CHURCH FAMILY?; A Word from Andy Spencer: A thought for Father’s Day; and Hello from Prime Time.  These can be found under News on the Home page of the web site.

What happens on the 4 July?We welcomed the announcement earlier this week that, with the further easing of COVID 19 restrictions, churches will be able to open for worship from 4 July.  A limit on numbers, and social distancing will still be in place, and we are awaiting full details of the guidelines from the CofE next week.  –  There will be an update on plans on the web site, and in the notices next week.  

Our online worship and events will continue and we recognise that it will be a long time before we can fully return to worshipping together, and things are likely to be  different when we do.  If you have not seen the thinking so far on church in the future, please take a look at the documents by Simon Taylor on the web site under Rescue, Recovery, Renew.

Busbridge Church and Hambledon Church are open daily from 9.30am to 4.30pm for private prayer and we encourage everyone to pop in. There are notices and images displayed to guide prayer if people wish, and at Busbridge, an invitation to take part in the prayer walk in the church yard and add a pebble to the Chain of Hope. (Have you decorated your link in the chain yet?) We hope this will encourage you to drop in while we cannot gather physically to worship.

Thanks to those that have volunteered for the rota to open and close the churches. This involves a government stipulated cleaning and checking process to keep visitors safe.

Prayerfest 0-30 this SundayYoung people and the affects of the current crisis on their future plans, development and emotional health are very much on our hearts and minds at the moment.  All are invited to join Shan Hallam and those involved with CYF ministry to pray specifically for all ages from 0-30 from 5pm on Sunday.

Listening Prayer—8am on Mondays
The Prayer Ministry team invite everyone to an early Monday session to simply listen for God.  Join us for 50 minutes (or as much as you can manage) of listening prayer.  A chance to listen to what God might be saying to you, or our Church community. An opportunity to be still before God with music, a piece of scripture followed by a short reflection and then a time of silence.  At the end there is an invitation to share what God may have said to you if you would like too.  Such a great start to the week. 

COMING UP

Alpha OnlineThe course got off to a great start last week, and more participants are due to join from next Wednesday.  Please pray for participants and leaders.  The course is open to late joiners too—email: david.preece@bhcgodalming.org and find all the details on the web site under Courses.

For others elsewhere on their journey, the next Helpful Habits course has been moved to Tuesdays, and will start on 30 June, 8-9pm.  The course involves 3 or 4 stand-alone sessions on different ways of praying.   The first one, will be ‘Praying with my pen’.  To discuss or to register, please contact Gertrud Sollars, e: Gertrud.sollars@btinternet.com.

Hope in Depression—course starts 6 JulyThis 6 week course was developed by the Hope in Depression charity for delivery by churches, and we are grateful that Simon Willetts has previous experience leading the course and is able to offer the online version to anyone in the local community.  The course is free, and can help those suffering with depression and those supporting them.  The details and the registration form are on the web site, under courses here.  Do please pass this onto anyone who might benefit.

In the community
Hello from Prime Time—the next PT event will a quiz and catch up on Zoom on 6 July.  Penny’s weekly mailings to Prime Time members can now be found on the web site under news. 

#CreativeKindness. You can find information about how our young folk are spreading light and hope to those who aren’t using the internet and see some of the lovely creations on the web site. Do keep them coming.

PLEASE PRAY FOR

This item has been absent in the notices for a while, so to cover the parishes in prayer, road by road, and picking up where we left off…this week please pray for these roads and their residents, and perhaps include them on a prayer walk this week:

· LATIMER ROAD AND ROAD STEWARD LINDA SMITH

· HAMBLEDON CRICKET GREEN AND VOLUNTEERS AT THE VILLAGE SHOP.

DON’T FORGET

If you are not connected in some way and would like to be, please let us know  (e: catherine.garner@bhcgodalming.org).

The Coronavirus Response team is ready to help those self-isolating— e: coronaresponse@bhcgodalming.org.

The CFSF is receiving donations AND applications for financial gifts.  Details on https://www.bhcgodalming.org/c19-givingandsupport.  

If you have anything to post, thoughts, prayers, musings—remember the BHC Together facebook group is yours to do so!

Prayer Ministry team available

To contact the EMERGENCY prayer chain, email prayer@bhcgodalming.org  or call 01483 421267.

Listening prayer is available mid-week.

For more information contact Jeannie Postill t 01428 687968

This Sunday

HOPE WORTH SHARING WITH THE NEXT GENERATION | PSALM 78: 1-8

Click HERE for the ONLINE Services on YouTube

Available from
9AM Heritage Service (BCP) with traditional liturgy from the Book of Common Prayer and hymns recorded at Busbridge and Hambledon.

10AM BHC Main Online Service
The main act of worship for Busbridge&Hambledon Church with contemporary band-led worship music.

Both services
Welcome: Simon Taylor
Speaker: Dave Preece
Reading: Pippi Williams
Prayers: Liz Cooke
Music: Paul Ridsdale-Smith

11AM After Service Coffee on zoom (Busbridge 8am, Classic and 6.30pm congregations) – see what’s on for joining instructions.

Be part of the worship this Sunday to see a father and son doing a bacon butty BBQ in the rain. Father and son look rather similar. Frighteningly so!  We feel another set of out takes in the near future!!!!

New articles to read this week: 

Rector’s Reflection: GOD’S NORMAL: HOW ARE WE TO BE AS A CHURCH FAMILY?; includes news of working alongside other local churches.

A Word from Andy Spencer: A thought for Father’s Day; Andy reminisces about the London to Brighton bike ride, but sadly there’s no photographic evidence.

and Hello from Prime Time. – Penny, self-confessed technophobe, is ironically our latest ‘blogger’. The emails she sends to Prime Time members are now going on the web site for all to enjoy.

Notices

Churches Opening for private prayer
We are delighted that Busbridge Church and Hambledon Church are now open daily from 9.30am to 4.30pm for private prayer. We know that many of you will welcome this opportunity.

For visitors to the church, our aim is to provide a warm welcome and a way to connect with God, or perhaps discover Him for the first time.  There are notices and images displayed to guide prayer if people wish, and at Busbridge, an invitation to take part in the prayer walk in the church yard and add a pebble to the Chain of Hope.  (Have you decorated your link in the chain yet?) We hope this will encourage you to drop in while we cannot gather physically to worship. 

Thanks to those that have volunteered for the rota to open and close the churches.  This involves a government stipulated cleaning and checking process to keep visitors safe.  Please let liz.gorst@bhcgodalming.org  know if you would be able to help on a weekly basis.

This Sunday is Unplugged Live at 6.30pm on zoom.  The first service had about 100 attendees of all ages, as well as youth – so our largest live and interactive event so far.  To keep us on time, please zoom in from 6.20pm to exchange ‘hellos’ as the service will start promptly at 6.30pm.  There will end the formality!   

COMING UP

Alpha Online—starting 24 June
The ALPHA course has attracted lots of participants since it was  adapted for use online in March.  The current crisis has led people to evaluate life now and as they knew it, and provided the time to engage in wider questions.  Alpha works for people at many stages of their Christian journey:

· If you are new to the Christian faith or just starting to ‘dip your toe in’

· If your friends or family ask you about what you believe and you’re never really sure what to tell them

· If you’ve been a Christian for a long while but have never felt you could ask questions about your faith

· If you’re fairly new to church and want to get to know some more people.

Busbridge&Hambledon has run many Alpha courses in the past and indeed many of our church members are the fruit of those courses. Dave Preece is starting the online version on Wednesday 24 June at 7.30pm.  Please pass on the details to people and encourage them to sign up on the web site.    And if you can help support or facilitate on Wednesday evenings, please contact david.preece@bhcgodalming.org, before the prep session on Monday 22 June.

HELPFUL HABITS PRAYER COURSE

For others elsewhere on their journey, the next Helpful Habits course has been moved to Tuesdays, and will start on 30 June, 8-9pm.  The course involves 3 or 4 stand-alone sessions on different ways of praying.   The first one will be ‘Praying with my pen’.  To discuss or to register, please contact Gertrud Sollars, e: Gertrud.sollars@btinternet.com.

Hope in Depression—course starts 6 July

This 6 week course was developed by the Hope in Depression charity for delivery by churches, and we are grateful that Simon Willetts has previous experience leading the course and is able to offer the online version to anyone in the local community.  The course is free, and can help those suffering with depression and those supporting them.  The details and the registration form are here.  Do please pass this onto anyone who might benefit.

All invited to pray—As well as Morning Prayer on weekdays, there are 3 opportunities to gather virtually in prayer for different things—Prayerfest this Sunday focuses on prayer for children, youth and young adults at this particularly challenging time for them, Churches Together and Hambledon prayer breakfasts next Saturday morning also welcome all.

In the community

CYF team news—this week Anto, Judith and Simon delivered their first virtual Praise assembly to the year 6 and Keyworkers’ children who are back in Busbridge Junior School.  All the tech went well!

Juliet delivered Kindness4keyworkers gifts to Hambledon Nursery staff as they welcomed back their nursery school leavers.  The Head at HN was really grateful said the staff would be ‘blown away’ by the gesture.

Hello from Prime Time—the next PT event will a quiz and catch up on Zoom on 6 July.  Penny’s weekly mailings to Prime Time members can now be found on the web site under news. 

Penny has had an offer from Sister Mary at the convent to make a limited number of reusable face masks for vulnerable people who need help to source one.  If you would like a lovely gingham face mask, please contact penny.naylor@bhcgodalming.org.

#CreativeKindness. You can find information about how our young folk are spreading light and hope to those who aren’t using the internet and see some of the lovely creations on the web page here. Please do keep them coming and let Penny know if there’s anyone who might like to be on the receiving end.

DON’T FORGET

The Coronavirus Response team is ready to help those self-isolating.
e: coronaresponse@bhcgodalming.org.

If you are not connected to a small group in some way and would like to be, please let us know. 
e: catherine.garner@bhcgodalming.org. 

The CFSF is receiving donations AND applications for financial gifts.  Details on https://www.bhcgodalming.org/c19-givingandsupport.  

If you have anything to post, thoughts, prayers, musings—remember the BHC Together facebook group is yours to do so! 

Prayer Ministry team available

To contact the EMERGENCY prayer chain, email prayer@bhcgodalming.org  or call 01483 421267.

Listening prayer is available mid-week.

For more information contact Jeannie Postill t 01428 687968

NEWS THIS WEEK:

What’s On, Churches reopen for private prayer, Alpha Online starting 24 June, Busbridge, Chain of Hope.

LATEST RECTOR’s REFLECTION: George Floyd

Rector’s reflections & A Word from: ……. Please check the news section on the home page, and top menu regularly for updates and reflections from Simon Taylor and the clergy team. 

This Sunday

Waiting for Hope | Titus 2:1; 11-15

Click HERE for the ONLINE Services on YouTube

Available from
9AM Heritage Service (BCP)
with traditional liturgy from the Book of  Common Prayer and hymns recorded at Busbridge and Hambledon.

10AM BHC Main Online Service
The main act of worship for Busbridge&Hambledon Church with  contemporary band-led worship music.

Both services
Welcome: David Preece
Speaker: Simon Willetts
Reading: Frances Shaw
Prayers: Daniel and Fran Duffell
Music: David Marson

11AM After Service Coffee on zoom (Hambledon and Contemporary congregations) – see what’s on for joining instructions.

NOTICES

Churches Reopening for private prayer
We are delighted to let you know that from Monday 15 June we plan to open Busbridge Church and Hambledon Church daily from 9.30am to 4.30pm (approx.) for private prayer. We know that many of you will welcome this opportunity.

As per government and CofE guidance, there will be instructions to visitors to use hand gel on the way in and way out, to avoid touching surfaces and to keep at least 2m apart from others.  Opening daily will involve a government stipulated cleaning and checking process when the church is opened and closed each day.  This will fall to staff initially, while we seek to fill a rota of volunteers.  Please let liz.gorst@bhcgodalming.org know if you would be able to commit to this humble act of service on a weekly basis.

For visitors to the church, our aim is to provide a warm welcome and a way to connect with God, or perhaps discover Him for the first time.  There will be notices and images displayed to guide prayer if people wish, and at Busbridge, an invitation to take part in the prayer walk in the churchyard and add a pebble to the Chain of Hope (see the video above).  We hope this will encourage you to drop in while we cannot gather physically to worship.  Our starting theme in the churches next week is Why Pray?

COMING UP

The next film discussion in this coming Tuesday 16 June at 8pm on the documentary 13th which has been selected for its relevance to the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd.  As we are challenged to think more about our own understanding of the complex story of racism, this documentary about the issues facing African Americans might be a good place to start.  Details for the film, the meeting details and the questions for discussion are on the web site calendar.

The next Unplugged Live service will be on Sunday 21 June at 6.30pm, but do zoom in from 6.20pm to exchange ‘hellos’ as the service will start promptly at 6.30pm.  There will end the formality!  

Alpha Online—starting 24 June
The ALPHA course has reaped a good harvest since it was  adapted for use online in March.  The current crisis has led people to evaluate life now and as they knew it, and provided the time to engage in wider questions.  Alpha works for people at many stages of their Christian journey:

· If you are new to the Christian faith or just starting to ‘dip your toe in’

· If your friends or family ask you about what you believe and you’re never really sure what to tell them

· If you’ve been a Christian for a long while but have never felt you could ask questions about your faith

· If you’re fairly new to church and want to get to know some more people.

Busbridge&Hambledon has run many Alpha courses in the past and indeed many of our church members are the fruit of those courses.  Simon Willetts will be leading the introductory session of the online version on Wednesday 24 June at 7.30pm.  Please pass on the details to people and encourage them to sign up on the Alpha page here.    And if you can help support or facilitate on Wednesday evenings, please contact simon.willetts@bhcgodalming.org, ideally before the prep session on Wednesday 17 June.

For others elsewhere on their journey, the next HELPFUL HABITS prayer course has been provisionally scheduled to start on Weds 24 June.  The course involves 3 or 4 stand-alone sessions on different ways of praying. The first one, will be  ‘Praying with my pen’.  To discuss or to register, please contact Gertrud Sollars, e: Gertrud.sollars@btinternet.com.

In the community

Kindness for Keyworkers. The next recipients of our small care packs will l be staff at Hambledon Nursery and St Dominic’s School.  We’ve had lovely messages from staff at BJS and Hydon Hill to say thank you.  Thanks to those on the Coronavirus Response volunteer list who have helped Judith and Penny make up the gift bags too.  

#CreativeKindness.  You can find information about how our young folk are spreading light and hope to those who aren’t using the internet and see some of the lovely creations on the #CreativeKindness page here. Do keep them coming.

Church family news

We send our love to Simon Gilbert, whose mother died last weekend.  Please hold Simon, Juliet and the whole family in your prayers.

Many people will remember Jean and Harry Whitehouse, who were members of Busbridge Church for a number of years, before they moved to Eastbourne in 2015.  Ed and Chris Payne, among others, have visited them there and kept in touch.  We have been saddened to hear that Harry died last week; Jean remains in their flat, with a carer.  Please pray for Jean and their family, that God will sustain them and give them his peace.

ELSEWHERE

Outward Giving: SALCET has been very busy this week because El Salvador got totally bashed by Storm Amanda (the first hurricane of this season) on 31 May (Pentecost Sunday!) and there have been massive floods, loads of landslides and 17 deaths. El Salvador is in strict lockdown because of Covid 19 as well, and the poorer people have been struggling for food even before the storm.

It wasn’t really reported in the UK – we only heard this last weekend when we received messages from our projects in El Salvador. Anyway, SALCET has been able to send financial aid to 2 of our projects where they have been flooded out and need food parcels too, and this has largely been made possible by the generosity of Busbridge&Hambledon and the money raised in the Christmas collection.  So, we want to thank everyone and ask for ongoing prayers for El Salvador.

We received the following e-mail from El Salvador this morning, from Ruth Cruz who is organising the help for San Carlos, which is very encouraging. Having more trouble getting money through to Carlos Gomez at Panchimalco, but hopefully it will arrive early next week. Christ and Maggie Jagger.

Don’t forget

¨ If you are not connected in some way and would like to be, please let us know  (e: catherine.garner@bhcgodalming.org).  The Coronavirus Response team is ready to help those self-isolating— e: coronaresponse@bhcgodalming.org.

¨ The CFSF is receiving donations AND applications for financial gifts.  Details on https://www.bhcgodalming.org/c19-givingandsupport.  

¨ If you have anything to post, thoughts, prayers, musings—remember the BHC Together facebook group is yours to do so! 

THIS SUNDAY

Joyful living: The Fruit of Hope Romans 12:9-21
The sermon for the YouTube services this week has been recorded by Simon Willetts. 

9am       Heritage online service (BCP)  |         BHC Godalming YouTube from 9am

10am      BHC benefice online service |           BHC Godalming YouTube from 10am
Mark Williams is welcoming, Suzie Lambert is reading and prayers are led by Chad Grayer. 

The pdf above lists the events for next week and next Sunday – or please use the calendar.

This week’s reflection:

Save the Date! has been contributed by Frances Shaw and can be found on the web site in ‘A Word from’.  Please check the news section on the home page, and top menu regularly for updates and reflections from the clergy team. 

This week we’ve also added information about thinking and planning for the New Normal of church.  See the Rescue, Recovery, Renewal section under COVID 19 or the link from the home page.  For the moment you’ll find Simon Taylor’s paper and presentation on The New Normal, and a podcast in which Ed Olsworth-Peter is interviewed for Leaders Asking the right questions.  If you have any thoughts, insights or feedback please email church.office@bhcgodalming.org.  You may not, and it’s OK to pray, wait and see. 

Jill Johnston has also written this week to acknowledge the valued contribution that Pat Hilton made as a Pastoral Assistant.

Kindness for Keyworkers.

Staff at Busbridge Infant and Junior Schools, and La Verna and Hyden Hill care homes were delighted to receive the little gifts packages to show our appreciation and offer encouragement.  Judith and Penny picked the treats with love and care (on a budget) and they have been well received. 

#CreativeKindness. 

For those we know that aren’t on the internet and are finding harder to stay connected. Thanks for those who’ve supported their children in creating these messages and pictures to spread some cheer.  Do keep them coming. Please see the details on the web site. 

Coronavirus Response Team news & Volunteers Week 1-7 June

Ten weeks in, we really want to express enormous thanks to all who have volunteered to be part of the community response team, by shopping, posting letters, collecting  prescriptions or making a friendly ‘phone call to those in isolation.  None of us knows how long this situation will continue, but many are still regularly shopping for local residents and, as we recognise that it is a huge commitment, we are so grateful to you all.

We also know that, for various reasons, some have had to step down from regular volunteering; others have not been used as much as they had hoped.   Huge thanks to you too.  We could not have done it without you. Margot Spencer (on behalf of the Coronavirus Response Team)

P.S. Busbridge&Hambledon Church is mentioned in the roundup for Volunteers Week too which provides a view of lots of local activities.. 

Church family news

Happy 90th Birthday to (Bishop) Michael Baughen and Congratulations to Jim and Shelagh Godwin on their Golden wedding anniversary this week.  They will all be sorry to miss planned celebrations, special hymns, cake after church (and the birthday bumps?) – but we do send our love.

Congratulations to the Roseblades on the safe arrival of baby Stellan last Sunday—a brother for Jacob and Lucca. As you can see, all is well.  Ruth’s bump has been just out of shot for the last few interviews in the online services, and she has been excused from filming this week.

If anyone would like a link to watch Alan Mayne’s committal service please contact the administrator at Godalming Baptist church on email: office.gbc@btinternet.com.

Sharing Memories Churchyard photos project

We’re creating a team to put our Busbridge churchyard records on our website so people can access them. Thanks to Sue Saunders, Dennis Amy and others we already have the photos and the information. We would like to offer these on our website. Hambledon Churchyard records are already searchable but we don’t have photos yet.  You might like to look at our website (who we are/history pages) to see the churchyard memorials information that we’ve already made available to everyone.  If you could get involved please contact Michael Stubbs e: michaeleasing@aol.com.

The Cellar on the Move

Please see HERE for the letter from Chris Jagger about the Cellar.  Due to the current crisis and uncertainty, the trustees of the Warehouse Christian Trust took the difficult and very sad decision not to renew the lease on the café in Crown Court in May, after serving the vulnerable in our community there, in the name of Jesus, for more than 40 years.  WCT is grateful to local churches including Busbridge&Hambledon for their support over the years, financially and in prayer and volunteers, and is asking for this to continue as it looks for a new venue and makes plans to carry on its important ministry.  A number of Busbridge&Hambledon church members are involved as supporters and trustees and would be happy to answer any questions— Chris Jagger, Shelagh Godwin, Ray Brown, Vic Hicks, David Hart, Jacqueline Hindley, Nick Harris, Gillian Dally and Guy Gammell.

COMING UP

The zoom film discussions provide an opportunity to explore social and ethical themes presented in mainstream film and documentary, through a Christian lens.  The next film discussion is in the diary for Tuesday 16 June at 8pm on the documentary 13th which has been selected for its relevance to the Black Lives Matter movement following the murder of George Floyd.  As we are challenged to think more about our own understanding of the complex story of racism, this documentary about the issues facing African Americans might be a good place to start.  Details for the film, the meeting details and the questions for discussion are on the web site calendar.

The next Unplugged Live service will be on Sunday 21 June at 6.30pm, but do zoom in from 6.20pm to exchange ‘hellos’ as the service will start promptly at 6.30pm.  There will end the formality!  

Don’t forget

¨ If you are not connected in some way and would like to be, please let us know  (e: catherine.garner@bhcgodalming.org).  The Coronavirus Response team is ready to help those self-isolating— e: coronaresponse@bhcgodalming.org.

¨ The CFSF is receiving donations AND applications for financial gifts.  Details on https://www.bhcgodalming.org/c19-givingandsupport.