We’ve made a short video to talk about what’s happening with our Carol Services this weekend and how we’re going to make them as safe as possible for all who attend. Please do give it a watch:
See you at the weekend 🧑🎄🤶
Update On Our Carol Services
Christmas
Update On Our Carol Services
We’ve made a short video to talk about what’s happening with our Carol Services this weekend and how we’re going to make them as safe as possible for all who attend. Please do give it a watch:
See you at the weekend 🧑🎄🤶
God Knows What It’s Like …
Christopher Hawes has written and produced a brilliant video for us this Christmas; it’s my privilege to share it here. Please can I encourage you to watch it and to share it as widely as possible with friends and family?
Why not post it on social media, or message, email and What’s App it to the people you know?
Merry Christmas.
I’m Dreaming Of A Welcome Church Covid-19 Christmas …
… but it won’t be much like the ones we used to know! The pandemic has made a huge difference to what we can do this year, but we’ve still got some great events planned. Hopefully you’re enjoying our Welcome Church Video Advent Calendar; please make sure you also put these events in the diary so you don’t miss out:
On December 20th in the morning we have a Baptism Meeting
We may not be together in person to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but we can certainly celebrate some of the new Christian births we’ve seen this year. God has been at work despite all the restrictions 😃
There was quite a long time when we couldn’t do baptisms at all due to the Covid regulations, but we’re now allowed to go ahead and we’ve waited long enough! Join us at 9am or 11am at WelcomeChurch.online where we’ll witness 13 people ‘taking the plunge’. Our last preaching series was all about being fruitful, and this is some of our fruit as a church; don’t miss it!
On December 20th in the evening we have our Carol Service with Compassion UK
We love partnering with Compassion UK, and as a church we’ve sponsored over 140 children with them in a certain part of Togo in Africa. We’ve also provided funding for a Child Survival Programme which was raised during our final Building Fund Gift Day in 2019. Through this partnership with Compassion we’re helping to release children from extreme poverty in Jesus name.
Rather than try to pull together our own Carol service in this unusual and difficult time, we’re delighted to partner with Compassion. Join us at 6.30pm at WelcomeChurch.online, bring the whole family and let’s be ready to sing along at home!
On December 24th we have our Christmas Eve online communion
Our online communion meetings are very precious, and what better way to kick off your Christmas than to gather with your family and church to remember Jesus and all he’s done for us? It starts at 6.30pm on Zoom and lasts for about an hour. All the details are in the picture below. Let’s intentionally put Jesus at the heart of our Christmas celebrations this year.
Finally, on Christmas Day we have a Christmas Day Family Meeting
It starts at 10am prompt at WelcomeChurch.online and will last for about 30 minutes. It will be lots of fun for all the family and a great way to remember what Christmas is all about. Don’t be late or you’ll miss it 😃.
After that we’ll be back with a Sunday meeting to kick off the New Year, on Sunday January 3rd at WelcomeChurch.online.
Whatever you’re up to this year, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
The “Welcome Church Video Advent Calendar” is here
Christmas is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate our faith in Jesus and, because we can’t be together this year in the way we’d like to, we’ve created the Welcome Church Video Advent Calendar 🎅🏼🎁😃
Each day during advent, including on Christmas Day itself, we’ll be releasing a short video to help us focus on Jesus and connect with one another. In these videos we’ll be hearing the Christmas Story from the Bible, enjoying some Christmas themed encouragement and finding out from some Welcome Church people what Christmas means for them.
Why not take this opportunity to watch each day’s message as a family and share the run up to Christmas together?
This Christmas will be different from any we’ve known before, so let’s really make sure we connect with Jesus and connect together as a church too.
There are FIVE ways to access the Advent Calendar:
You can receive it as a daily What’s App message direct to your mobile phone (instructions given below)
It will be available on our website by following this link
It will posted on our Facebook page and our Instagram account
You can subscribe to receive it as a daily e-mail by following this link here
You can view it on Vimeo by following this link
To sign up for the Advent Calendar on What’s App, please follow these simple instructions:
- Add ‘Welcome Church Advent’ to your contacts/address book with the number 07591 184 471. This step must be completed first.
- Send a message with the single word “Advent” to this contact using What’s App. You will receive a confirmation message to say you’re registered *
- Enjoy the daily video when it arrives each day as a a What’s App message direct to your phone
Merry Christmas!
(*Please Note: This WhatsApp number will not receive incoming messages other than the request to register. If you delete the contact from your address book you will stop receiving the daily messages)
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