NPBC DIARY LIFE@NP BAPTIST CHURCH WEEK COMMENCING SUNDAY 15th NOVEMBER 2020 SUNDAY 15th NOVEMBER 2020 SUNDAY 9.45am Kids On-Line Follow the link on the website under What’s Over the summer we spent time seeking God’s heart for His church in Newport On>Events Pagnell. 9.45-10.15am Zoom Prayer Space hosted by Grace and Barry Inwood We believe that God is calling us – first and foremost – to return to Him; to Details in the Church calendar on the website under think about the people He is calling us to be. What’s On>Events Through October and November, we’ll remind ourselves of the Church’s vision 10.30am Church Online Sunday Service statement, and then explore the 6 values that support it – the behaviours that we want to underpin everything that we do. We are already praying that the Holy Spirit might work in us and amongst us THURSDAY as we approach this new season. Join us as we seek to be the people, He calls us to be. 6.30pm Zoom Girls Brigade N:Vestigate and N;gage (Explorers and Juniors ). Details from Grace Inwood 7.30pm Zoom Prayer Space - follow the website link under What’s THIS WEEK On>Events 8.30pm Zoom Girls Brigade N:Counta and N;Spire (Seniors and 10.30am Church Online with Steve Wood, continuing the series “Called to Be Brigaders). Details from Grace Inwood God’s People – We Are Generous (Luke 21:1-4) We have been blessed, more abundantly than we could ever imagine. And we are called to bless others in the same way – with our time, our money, our SUNDAY service and our love. 9.45am Kids On-Line Follow the link on the website under What’s On>Events NEXT SUNDAY 9.45 -10.15am Zoom Prayer Space hosted by Grace and Barry Inwood Details in the Church calendar on the website under What’s On>Events 10.30am Church Online led by with Steve Wood, concluding the series “Called 10.30am Church Online Sunday Service to Be God’s People – We Are For Everyone (Romans 15:7) Jesus spent more time with sinners and the outcasts of society than he did with the wealthy, or the movers and shakers. What does this tell us, and how should it shape the church that we’re called to be? NEWPORT PAGNELL BAPTIST CHURCH Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation – Charity No. 1175783 Lovat Hall, Silver Street, Newport Pagnell, Bucks. MK16 0EJ. www.npbc.org.uk E-mail: [email protected] Tel: Office (01908) 618898 Bookings (01908) 612100 FAMILY NEWS WINTER NIGHT SHELTER We pray God’s healing and peace for those with health problems: VOLUNTEER COOKS NEEDED unwell or awaiting tests and treatment – Rosemary Bridge, Maria As we are unable to use our facilities to provide accommodation for Jones, Cynthia Howes, Pauline Redgrift, Mia, Kate Henderson the homeless this winter season, we are making our kitchen friends having or recovering from cancer treatment - Mandy Dillow, available on Tuesdays Cicily George, Keith Hope, Paul Manning, Poppy, Geoff Colmer We need teams of up to 4 people who will batch cook meals, our Bethany and F4T members, with fragile health transfer them to microwavable takeaway containers and store them those with Covid-19 infection and those who are isolating in a fridge overnight. The meals will be taken to Unity Park Station (The Buszy) on Wednesday mornings for reheating and serving to Give thanks for promising vaccines, praying for wisdom regarding vaccination homeless people who have been put into hotels by the council programmes. during the winter months. Continue to pray for: If you are able to help with this, please contact Keith Bedford or the Church Office. all health workers, particularly Etive leaders in the UK and around the world, for wisdom in decisions they make Pray for our community and church family: those who are grieving all in education – especially teachers under extra pressure DEFERRED TO DECEMBER all struggling with isolation, mental health issues or anxiety over DUE TO LOCKDOWN money, work and the future To mark his 70th year, Keith Bedford entered the Marathon Swims virtual friends and relatives in care homes – Dorothy, Alan and Julia challenge to swim a minimum of 10km during November. Please sponsor our leaders at NPBC Keith’s participation in this challenge using the sponsor form in the Church Office or by visiting his online giving page at Heavenly Father, when the challenges seem overwhelming, remind us of your https://www.give.net/marathonswim10k resurrection power and the miracle of your love, and may we lift our eyes to You can follow his progress on Strava from 1st November look to you, knowing that nothing can separate us from your love. Amen ‘Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church BUILDING DEVELOPMENT FUND and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.’ Those of us of a certain age will soon be receiving the Winter Fuel Ephesians 3:20-21 Allowance from the DWP and may be in the fortunate position of not being reliant on this payment to meet our energy bills. If you are in this position you might like to consider sacrificing part or all of the allowance to the Building Development Project. This can be done by putting your gift in an envelope marked Building Fund and dropping it into the church office or by bank transfer to Lovat Hall Development, Sort Code: 40-52-40, Account No: 00032501. [email protected] [email protected] The Thirty-fifth Edition 11thNovember 2020 Bethany Times with F4T Song of the week We Shall Stand Before the King Your Wednesday We shall stand before the King, With the angels we shall sing, By and by, By and by! Bethany Times Walk the bright, the golden shore, Praising Him for ever more, With By and by, By and by! We shall stand before the King, With the angels we shall sing; Food4Thought Glory, glory to our King! From Hallelujah! Hallelujah! We shall stand before the King. Your Friends at Ring, ye bells of heaven, ring! Newport Pagnell Baptist Church We shall stand before the King, By and by, By and by! There our sorrows will be o’er; There His name we will adore, By and by, By and by! We shall stand before the King… Wake, my soul! Thy tribute bring. Thou shalt stand before the King, By and by, By and by! Remembering in our Remembrance Day edition Lay thy trophies at His feet; --names on the War Memorial in Extra-Extra In His likeness stand complete, --Chris tells of his Grandad’s experiences in Extra-Extra-Extra By and by, By and by! --pray for our country, its leaders and those who serve us today We shall stand before the King… KEEP FIT—KEEP SAFE---KEEP SMILING Written by Edwin Othello Excell (1851—1921) CCLI 4901 “May the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, & the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all, now & evermore. Amen” NEWPORT PAGNELL BAPTIST CHURCH Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation – Charity No. 1175783 Lovat Hall, Silver Street, Newport Pagnell, Bucks. MK16 0EJ. www.npbc.org.uk E-mail: [email protected] Tel: Office (01908) 618898 Bookings (01908) 612100 For prayer or practical needs 07874 372708 (Daytime or evenings) To my dear friends at Bethany and Food4Thought …continued A big event in our lives was being baptised at the Baptist Church some I've been looking at stories written by my brother James and my sister, good few years ago - a special time to look back on. Now, in our older Elspeth about their life in North China when we were interned by the years, we so much appreciate the kindness of others and the wonderful Japanese. I was there too but at about three, my memories of that time care from family members. It feels as if God has brought me on a long are not so clear. There was also my older brother and sister, Peter and journey and has looked over me all the way - wonderful! Tina. With love, until we meet again, Sheila Wiles We were in Chefoo, or Yantai as it is now called, because my maternal grandparents had gone there as missionaries, met and married. We were interned for several years by the Japanese. We were finally rescued by American Airmen at the end of the war and eventually taken back to Britain, to a hostel in Bridge of Weir Scotland, finally ending up in Newport Pagnell where my parents came to be Wardens at Tickford Abbey Older People's Home. My mother was a lovely person - I think she was the first pianist for the An array of smiles from a young Sheila, with Jim, her handsome new Baptist Church when we met in the "Wooden Hut" in Wolverton Road. husband, and in 2008 when they were “awarded MBEs for service to the She would speak at meetings and give talks about her life in China and community of Newport Pagnell”. the work of her parents who had opened an orphanage for Chinese girls. Jim and Sheila Wiles I met Jim during the time my parents were at the Abbey, he lived close Sheila has chosen for her “Song of the week” a great revivalist Hymn by in Park View. We were married in 1957 at the Congregational “We shall stand before the King” written by the exotically named Church and Jim, who was doing his national service at the time, wore American, Edwin Othello Excell.