Climate Emergency Toolkit

 

The CLIMATE EMERGENCY TOOLKIT 

As the climate crisis accelerates, millions of lives are at risk. Christians around the world are taking urgent action.

Will you join us?

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​​Step by step, the Climate Emergency Toolkit guides your church or Christian organisation through simple but powerful actions that have an impact far beyond your own walls or community.

 

Download the Toolkit here

Prepare by starting the conversation about the climate emergency and beginning to plan your response

Declare or recognise an emergency in a way that engages your community and amplifies the need for leaders everywhere to act

Impact widely by partnering with your local community and speak up for change together

The Climate Emergency Toolkit has been put together in collaboration with several organisations, as well as activists and church leaders including Christian Aid, EcoChurch, TearFund and Operation Noah

Burton Joyce Zoom Carol Service

 With Revd Anna

Link to Carol Service (You tube)

Happy Christmas!

Christmas Tree Festival

Today, our Christmas Tree Festival goes live on the website!

Yes, it's here on the Christmas Tree Festival page on the website.

This year, sadly, it has to be here, on the website but please come in and wander round. Take your time. Sit awhile. Enjoy. 

If you are out and about in the village, Jenny & Roger have put up all the Christmas Trees they can find outside the church in Meadow Lane - and supplied them all with lights! What a great job! - so do take a look.

If you are able, please make a donation to one of the charities listed on the webpage. 

(But do feel free to give to any charity of your own choosing.) 

Happy Christmas!

If you have a photo of your own tree you would like to add to our Christmas Tree Festival, you can

 email the photo to me here 

and I will add it to the page. 

And ... Nativities! If you can send photos of your nativities, I can add those too. Great. Thank you. 

Here is a post from two years ago of the first Christmas Tree Festival:

Christmas Tree Festival 2018

 

August

August 

Where did August come from? 

What happened to the last three weeks?

Playing catchup: Three Sunday services for the price of one today.

We have been away, meeting up with distant family after months of lockdown.

It is all rather disorientating.

Disconcerting.

Neither here nor there.

Perhaps the reflections, the readings and the hymns in these three services can help us get back on an even keel. Thanks to Moses, Helen, Dinah and Phil for putting them together.

More online worship material is available on URC, Methodist and village CofE websites:

URC Facebook

Methodist Youtube

Village CofE Facebook (Revd Anna)

Christian Aid Week

Christian Aid Week

It is Christian Aid Week next week: 10th - 16th May 2020.

• Christian Aid Plant Sale (& coffee morning)
• Christian Aid Sunday

Because of the VE Day weekend this weekend, Churches Together in Burton Joyce, Bulcote & Stoke Bardolph had planned to hold Christian Aid Week activities next weekend, at the end of Christian Aid Week. Our normal Plant Sale and Coffee morning on the Saturday has already taken place, in effect, virtually, with sales of plants raising around £150.  

This was the email Dinah sent round last week with the news:

Just had a phone call from Brian F... to say he is effectively sold out, and has raised the grand total of £146!  He will have rhubarb to sell in a couple of week’s time (tell me if you would like some). So he hopes to top £150.   He said he would make out a cheque for Christian Aid, Cynthia, so I’ll make sure that comes to you..  He is very chuffed that it has all managed to happen!  

I think we're all very chuffed.  

Many thanks to Brian and to everyone who bought the plants. 
(You will have to make your own coffee!)

As for Christian Aid Sunday, that was to be a united service on Sunday 17th May 2020 but, obviously, that will not be happening this year. However, our weekly service outline for next week here on the BJCC website will be for a Christian Aid themed service so I hope you will look out for that when the time comes. 

In the meantime ... it is Christian Aid Week but there will be no door-to-door or street collection so please give generously using the link below. Thank you.

Christian Aid Week: giving & appeals

 

Food delivery service in Burton Joyce

Subject: Food Delivery Service in Burton Joyce

Information via U3A:

In reply to my earlier email, I've been advised that both Rhubarbs and Willow Tree are offering a delivery service of their menu.

Sue at Rhubarbs has also offered to source general shopping as she will continue to have a daily delivery service. (T.rolls and hand gel not available) Milk and unfilled rolls are also on offer.

Let's hope we can support our local small businesses so that they survive when we emerge the other side of these difficulties.

Sue at Rhubarb's:-  tel. 9314142.  

Elizabeth at Willow Tree:-  tel.9314343.