Thursday mornings at BJCC

Thursday Mornings at BJCC

This autumn we may do something new. 

What do you think? 
Is it worth a shot?

Thursdays
9.30 am - 12 noon

Prayer & Share …………....  (in the hall)
An opportunity to meet and share, pray & talk, tea & coffee on tap

Sanctuary ………….........  (in the church)
Somewhere to be still or for private prayer (There may be music)

On the first and third Thursday, this would incorporate the regular Prayer + Coffee from 9.30 to 10.30 ish. Generally, what I see as the usual format is to have some sort of group prayer at 9.30 and then an opportunity to read scripture together at about 10.30, using the lectionary readings for the following Sunday. 

Otherwise, in the hall, there would be tea and coffee and a chance to chat and the church would also be open as a place to get away from it all and be still.

I'd like to give it a go. We'll see what happens.
Phil

It's an EMERGENCY! A Climate Emergency

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

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

Easter

Easter

 Easter has come and gone, but not quite. The season of Easter in church circles at least, lasts until Whit Sunday which this year is June 9th. Plenty of time to finish all those Easter eggs.

Easter doesn't stop on Easter Monday. The seven weeks between Easter Sunday & Whitsun are just as significant as the seven weeks of Lent leading up to Good Friday, if not more so.

It was in this period that Jesus' first disciples had to come to terms with what had happened. We tend to forget. In the New Testament, in the Bible, we fall off the end of the Gospels into an empty space. Following the Gospel accounts of Jesus and his life and death, the next book in the sequence, The Acts of the Apostles, only picks up the story with the Ascension and Pentecost, aka Whit Sunday. There is a gap. 

It was into this black hole that the disciples fell straight after that first Easter weekend. It must have been a very confusing time. Not so much a celebration, more distress and grief. Everything had changed.

You may have noticed in the weeks before and after Easter some kind of rumpus going on in London. Extinction Rebellion. Waterloo Bridge. Oxford Circus. Parliament Square. Marble Arch. And many other places in London were disrupted and disturbed.

One of the groups involved in all this disturbance is Christian Climate Action.

These good folk have taken the Easter message to the streets in the form of a protest against Government failure, as they see it, to act with sufficient urgency to avert impending disaster.

The disaster we face, as David Attenborough and others have told us, has three facets:

1. Global warming leads to climate breakdown
2. Destruction of natural environment is exterminating life in its myriad forms
3. Plastic is getting everywhere

Something must be done. And fast. But it is not just governments. It's all of us. We have to change our behaviour. This, believe it or not, is the Easter message.

Christian Climate Action Facebook page

Climate Action

Climate Action

Friday 15th March 2019

Friday 15th March is Climate Action day. Students and others will be marching from Trinity Square to Old Market Square in Nottingham on Friday:

NOTTINGHAM YOUTHSTRIKE4CLIMATE 

FRIDAY 15 MARCH 11.00 - 14.00 

Nottingham City Council House Old Market Square Nottingham NG1 2DT 

Nottingham march (Facebook) 

#YouthStrike4Climate 

#Fridays4Future 

#SchoolsStrike4Climate 

#ExtinctionRebellion 

#ClimateAction 

#Nottingham

So we'll be featuring Climate Action at the regular Friday morning Coffee Pop-ins at the Community Church hall this week. Come along.

The planet is in trouble

      but we can help

Use public transport, not the car

Don’t travel by air

Change to a green electricity supplier

Go for cardboard and paper

Avoid single-use plastic

Eat local and seasonal, with less meat

Lobby MPs, retailers & producers

FRIDAY 15^TH MARCH 2019
CLIMATE ACTION DAY

 

Sunday services for March -May 2019

Sunday services for March-May 2019

Sunday
March
3        Cafe Church with Phil Colbourn (BJCC)
10      Lent 1. Mick Radnall (Arnold Methodist Church)
17      Lent 2. Communion with Revd Louise Gee
24      Lent 3. Kevin Sharpe (Phoenix Farm Methodist Church)
31      Lent 4. Mothering Sunday with Dinah Dudley (BJCC)

April
7        Lent 5. Phil Colbourn (BJCC)
14      Palm Sunday. Luke Mellor (Arnold Methodist Church)
21      Easter Sunday. Communion with Geoff Ware (URC)
28      Revd Louise Gee

May
5        Songs of Praise with Dinah Dudley (BJCC) (to be confirmed)
12      Ed Lyne (St John's Methodist Church, Standhill Road, Carlton Hill)
19      Christian Aid Sunday, United Service at BJCC (details to be confirmed)
26      Communion with Revd Louise Gee

Sunday services for January & February 2019

Sunday Services Jan-Feb 2019

Jan
6th - Epiphany. Revd Louise Gee
13th - Revd John Wiseman
20th - Covenant / United Service.  Revd David Monkton
27th - Mr Geoff Ware

Feb
3rd - Mr Phil Colbourn
10th - Mr Maurice Turner
17th - Communion. Revd Louise Gee
24th - Rev Richard Byass 

Services start at 10.30am
Please come. You will be warmly welcomed
Coffee follows the service