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.
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)
A Carol Service For Woking
On Sunday we had our annual Welcome Church Carol Service for Woking at the HG Wells Conference Centre in the heart of Woking.
This year we partnered with the Cobham Brass Band who provided the music as we sang traditional carols and heard the Christmas story in several readings. We saw a powerful new Welcome Story from Sue, I talked about Jesus being God With Us (click here to listen), and we finished up with mince pies and mulled wine.
While this took place, at the 4pm service, the kids had an exciting Christmas Party of their own upstairs.
I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who was involved in serving, and to everyone who gave up their time to attend.
Some highlights for me included:
- A reading by the newly elected MP for Woking, Jonathan Lord, at the 4pm service
- A solo rendition of Away In A Manger by Romilly, aged 8
- Readings at both services by Councillor Beryl Hunwicks, the Mayor of Woking
- Hearing Cobham Brass Band play some fantastic Christmas numbers before and after each service
If you missed it then you really missed out, but A Carol Service For Woking will be back again next year, and this time we will be in our own new building.
Here are some pics to highlight the event:
Speaking on Jesus being God With Us
Great to see the services fill up
Romilly singing a solo
Amazing Refreshments
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