Sunday 17th January 2021

The Mission of God: Colossians 1:21-23 Join here on Sunday @ 10am (open from 9:30am) Meeting ID: 856 5293 2481 / Passcode: 799696

A Farewell to Sarah Hayes As you will know Sarah is stepping down from her role as our Operations Leader at the end of this month. In her time as our 'Ops Leader' Sarah has worked tirelessly (and we mean tirelessly!) to bring us up to date, developing the systems, policies and practices which enable church life and ministry to happen so effectively. For this we are very grateful. If you wish to express your thanks in the form of a gift to Sarah, please contact Mick Court who will be arranging this. Mick can be contacted on: [email protected]

Online ALPHA COURSE—26th Jan 2021

6 week course starting on Tuesday the 26th January 2021 at 8pm on Zoom. Sign up via ChurchSuite here or contact the church office to book your place - [email protected]. WHAT’S NEWS THIS WEEK ... Youth activities Friday night 7:30pm: Transformers / Years 7&8— games, challenges & community. Sunday morning 11:15am: Breakfast Club / All youth welcome— helping young people make sense of current times and how their faith and the bible is relevant today. Sunday evening 7:30pm: What’s Next / All youth welcome testimonies, bible teaching & games.

Contact Rob for log in details or more info: [email protected]

Children’s activities

There will be no family church this week but watch this space, we will be back soon!

Upcoming children’s activities: Sunday evenings 6:15pm: Missing Link / Years 5&6 – games, community and the New Testament– this week comparing the 4 Gospels. Champions / Years 3&4 online meetups: time slot and day of the week is due for review please check your messages.

Contact the church office for log in details or more info: [email protected] New to ABC? Thank You!

Have you recently joined us at The Altrincham and Partington CAP Debt Centre wish to our Sunday morning service or THANK YOU for your incredibly generous giving for our watched back later & would like Christmas appeal. We were able to provide 35 families to find out more about ABC? If with a large festive meat pack, a weeks worth of winter so, drop us an email fruit and vegetables, chocolates, soft drinks, a cookery at [email protected] and we can send you our book and a children's storybook. The clients were What'sNews directly & also help overwhelmed and so touched when their hampers you find out more about how to arrived. An extended thank you to the many 'elves' who get involved. kindly delivered them straight to their door!

Greater Manchester Prayer Gathering Thursday 21st January at 7:30pm Joining in unified prayer as the church of Manchester has been so powerful and is needed more than ever as we navigate these strange times. On the evening we will be taking time to pray for your churches and also for your leaders. On the evening, you will find the event both on the Facebook page or on YouTube here; GreaterManchesterPrayer WHAT’S NEWS THIS WEEK ... Altrincham Community Response Hub 0300 330 9073 or 08082 787803

SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY How You Can Help

As we are in another lockdown we anticipate there will be greater demand for our Wellbeing Call Service. If you would like to volunteer for it or find out more, please let Rachel know. If you would prefer face to face contact whilst chatting (obviously socially distanced) we will also be starting up a new Buddy Walking Scheme. More details will follow next week. If you have a bright idea, or feel that God is prompting you with something, then get in touch. We need prayer to underpin all that we are doing. Please pray for wisdom, strength and protection for the whole team. Thank you.

If you know of a neighbour, or a friend, or maybe it is yourself who needs support from the Response Hub, please contact Rachel on [email protected] or phone 07519617539 or the Hub 0161 941 2018.

Christmas Giving -Thankyou to everyone who has sent donations for our three Christmas projects, Toybox, The Hub response and the Ugandaid student. The collection will remain open until the end of January. Please contact the church office for more information [email protected].

Used stamps appeal Please don’t throw your used postage stamps away! Baptists Together would be delighted to receive your used postage stamps which can be used to raise funds for Home Mission. All stamps should be cut from envelopes etc leaving approx ¼ inch of paper around them. If possible please send Foreign stamps separately, marking clearly on the outside of the envelope ‘Foreign Stamps’. Please send your stamps to: Baptist Union Stamps, P.O. Box 6198, Leighton Buzzard, Beds LU7 9XT. To receive an acknowledgement, please include your email address. Click here for more information about donating stamps and other collectible items WHAT’S NEWS THIS WEEK ...

Our new website New Hub website launched! If you haven't already done so do check out our new website Check out https://ourhub.org for our new at www.altrinchambaptist.org for all Hub website. Obviously things are a little that is going on in the life of ABC. quieter at the Hub recently but there is still Here's a few pointers of what you can lots of content to check out about the Hub find and where:. and all the groups on the website. As with - What's news - the latest copy can be the church site it should be IT friendly for all downloaded from the link at the devices whether desktop, tablet or mobile. If bottom of the home page you do spot any typos or issues drop us an - Missed a recent service and want to email at [email protected] and we can watch it? Visit Livestream, under update it. Thanks the Learn heading for the last 3 service recordings - Want to listen back to a recent sermon? Click on Sermons header on the home page for our recent sermon series - Need the zoom details for an event or service? Visit the What's on page using the link on the home page Care for the Family online events:

Visit the care for the family website here to view a list of all of their online events.

We normally travel the country with our different tours, however, we are currently bringing our 2020 events to you online, in line with the government guidelines on COVID-19.

We have been running events for nearly 30 years, speaking to parents and couples all over the country in an effort to support and help those in all stages of family life. Our engaging, practical and experienced speakers aim to share helpful insights to support you and those you love. We look forward to you joining us online, but if you can’t join one of our events, know that we offer support and resources to help you online, plus an eager team ready to help at 029 2081 0800.