It's an EMERGENCY!
BJCC declares a CLIMATE EMERGENCY
At our Church Meeting and AGM on Sunday 2nd June 2019 the church agreed to declare a CLIMATE EMERGENCY in recognition of the seriousness of the crisis facing our planet.
And we agreed to register as an ECO-CHURCH and work towards our bronze, silver and gold certificates under the scheme run by A ROCHA, a Christian environmental charity. Both the United Reform Church and the Methodist Church support these initiatives.
Watch this space for further developments at BJCC over the coming months
Declare a Climate Emergency
Sign the WWF petition
"We must mobilise" - Guardian article, June 2nd 2019
It's Summer
And Pentecost is only a week away on Sunday June 9th.
Traditionally, this is Whit Sunday or simply Whitsun.
We used to have a Whit Monday Bank Holiday but all that was changed by interfering politicians a long time ago now.
Like the May Day Bank Holiday on the First of May with its festivities and its dancing round the Maypole, Whitsun has been consigned to history and we have lost another one of our connections with the past. Another of our roots cut off by political (economic) expediency.
End of rant.
So, what is Pentecost?
PENTECOST
Gk: pentecoste, Fiftieth
A festival taking place fifty days after
Easter Sunday
to celebrate the day the Holy Spirit
came like the WIND
to comfort & help the friends of
JESUS
This year, Pentecost happens to be our fifth anniversary:
BURTON JOYCE COMMUNITY CHURCH is five years old!
Come and join us as we celebrate the coming of the HOLY SPIRIT:
10.30 Sunday morning, 9th June
