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May Prayer Calendar
May Prayer Calendar

Mind the Gap: Sexual Revolution - David Mitchell/Hannah Mitchell

May 13th  2018. Generation Gap: Sexual Revolution (Matthew 19:1-12). There has been a sexual revolution in my lifetime. Over my 60 years of life there has been a sea change in behaviour and values. The accessibility of birth control, and the swinging sixties kick started that change. Homosexual acts were illegal when I was born; now it is illegal to discriminate against people on same sex grounds. More recently gender fluidity is becoming accepted, very young people have access to hard core sexual material on line, 42% of marriages end in divorce. I could go on, but things have definitely changed! It is easy to see how different generations can have very different pre-suppositions about sexual ethics and practice. Our challenge as Christians is not to be driven by culture (whether pro or anti our current values) but to find the heart of God and distinctives of His kingdom for our lives and lifestyles. Download Discussion notes

Living as Witnesses: Works - Jon Wilcox

May 13th 2018. Living as Witnesses: Works. (Acts 4:32-37). In the Church Calendar we are in the season leading up to Whitsun, Pentecost Sunday. The book of Acts documents the first Pentecost and the gift of the Spirit to enable the disciples to be witnesses (Acts 1:8). Our series this May will look at what it means to be a Witness in the power of the Holy Spirit (alliterating around the letter W quite strongly!). Download Discussion notes

Mind the Gap: Sexual Revolution - David Mitchell/Hannah Mitchell (7 pm Podcast)

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May 13th  2018. Generation Gap: Sexual Revolution (Matthew 19:1-12). There has been a sexual revolution in my lifetime. Over my 60 years of life there has been a sea change in behaviour and values. The accessibility of birth control, and the swinging sixties kick started that change. Homosexual acts were illegal when I was born; now it is illegal to discriminate against people on same sex grounds. More recently gender fluidity is becoming accepted, very young people have access to hard core sexual material on line, 42% of marriages end in divorce. I could go on, but things have definitely changed! It is easy to see how different generations can have very different pre-suppositions about sexual ethics and practice. Our challenge as Christians is not to be driven by culture (whether pro or anti our current values) but to find the heart of God and distinctives of His kingdom for our lives and lifestyles. Download Discussion notes

Living as Witnesses: Works - Jon Wilcox (am Podcast)

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May 13th 2018. Living as Witnesses: Works. Acts 4:32-37. In the Church Calendar we are in the season leading up to Whitsun, Pentecost Sunday. The book of Acts documents the first Pentecost and the gift of the Spirit to enable the disciples to be witnesses (Acts 1:8). Our series this May will look at what it means to be a Witness in the power of the Holy Spirit (alliterating around the letter W quite strongly!). Download Discussion notes

Global Partners Weekend 8th-10June

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The Global Partners Weekend (8th-10th June) is a series of special events to help expand and challenge our views about mission and caring for people in God’s world.

Over the weekend itself, a number of our Global Partners will also be returning so there's the chance for you to meet up with them in person and hear direct up-to-date news from mission work all around the world. 

Monday June 4th Global Partners Prayer (7:45pm - 9:30pm, Crypt) Join us for our regular prayer gathering, this month featuring a special share and prayer on the Middle East and Asia.

Friday 8th June Morning Prayer Watch (7:15am - 8:15am, Foyer) our regular Morning Prayer Watch will be led this month by our Global Partner Debbie Wright.

Friday 8th June Caring for God's People and His Planet (7:45pm - 9.30pm, Upper Hall) Practical Stories from Global Partners from the Himalayas to the urban slums of Asia

You are invited to come along to an evening where our returning Asian Global Partners Matthew and Catherine share stories of how faith in Jesus is inspired by practical sustainable action. This evening is held together with the Woodlands People and Planet group.

There will also be an opportunity to share stories of faith-inspired sustainable action right here in Bristol and time to pray together for solutions that will see Jesus's hope and transforming power overcome darkness everywhere!

Please follow the link to sign up and let us know you are coming.


Friday 8th June Seamills Supper Events: Supper events in congregational homes in Seamills; contact globalpartners@woodlandschurch.net for further details

Saturday 9th June Men's Breakfast (9:00am - 10:30am, Crypt) Radical, cross-cultural living; please follow the link to book in, so we know how many to cater for.

Saturday 9th June Prayer, Worship and ‘Treasure Hunting’ (9:45am - 12:30pm) on the streets of East Bristol (a chance to share the gospel creatively during Ramadan); for further information and to book, contact globalpartners@woodlandschurch.net 

Saturday 9th June French Connections with God: Coffee, Crepes and creative conversations with our French global partners.

Saturday 9th June Working for Unreached Peoples (3pm - 5pm, Crypt). For those thinking they may want to work in Africa and Asia in sensitive contexts. An informal gathering with a global partner working in South Asia, to hear their journey, the ups and the downs, and ask those questions you have always wanted to do. (book with jongpwe@gmail.com)

Sunday 10th June. Our Global Partners will be sharing at each of our services and engaging with our children and teens during their provision, too.

ThanksGiving Evening Tues 19th June

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A celebration of God's goodness to us as a group of churches over the past year. Join us for worship, videos, good news stories, a glimpse at future plans and the surprisingly entertaining financial accounts! Evening starts at 7.45pm.

(Let us know what you are thankful for on Instagram using #WoodiesThanksGiving)

 

Living as Witnesses: Words - Clare Thompson

May 6th 2018. Living as Witnesses: Words. (Acts 4:29) In the Church Calendar we are in the season leading up to Whitsun, Pentecost Sunday. The book of Acts documents the first Pentecost and the gift of the Spirit to enable the disciples to be witnesses (Acts 1:8). Our series this May will look at what it means to be a Witness in the power of the Holy Spirit (alliterating around the letter W quite strongly!). Download Discussion notes

Living as Witnesses: Words - Clare Thompson (am Podcast)

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May 6th 2018. Living as Witnesses: Words. (Acts 4:29) In the Church Calendar we are in the season leading up to Whitsun, Pentecost Sunday. The book of Acts documents the first Pentecost and the gift of the Spirit to enable the disciples to be witnesses (Acts 1:8). Our series this May will look at what it means to be a Witness in the power of the Holy Spirit (alliterating around the letter W quite strongly!). Download Discussion notes

Mind the Gap: Generation Gap - David Mitchell/Steve Ballard

May 6th 2018. Generation Gap (Malachi 4:6) Teenagers were a twentieth century invention! But every age has recognised the generation gap, the gap between older and younger people around behaviour, beliefs, and culture, and a gap that seems to be widening in our rapidly changing 21st Century world. The Bible speaks of generations working together, ‘old men and young men seeing visions’. Malachi 4:6 says ‘He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse’ Download Discussion notes

Mind the Gap: Generation Gap - David Mitchell/Steve Ballard (7 pm Podcast)

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May 6th 2018. Generation Gap (Malachi 4:6) Teenagers were a twentieth century invention! But every age has recognised the generation gap, the gap between older and younger people around behaviour, beliefs, and culture, and a gap that seems to be widening in our rapidly changing 21st Century world. The Bible speaks of generations working together, ‘old men and young men seeing visions’. Malachi 4:6 says ‘He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse’ Download Discussion notes

Wonder Conference 11-12th May (Shane Claiborne/Jason Upton )

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LoveBristol have invited two very inspiring friends to come to Bristol to the WONDER2018 Worship Conference, to explore with us what it means to worship God with our whole lives; they are both worshippers with a radical edge!

On Friday evening and over the Saturday we will explore together what it means to live out of a worshipful encounter with God that affects every part of our lives. It’s all for Jesus.

Shane Claiborne has been to Bristol several times, he loves this city and our desire to build community and unity here. Shane has been drawn into campaigns for justice for the poor in his city of Philadelphia, US, and most recently his focus has been on campaigning for the end of the death penalty. His worship of Jesus has led him to the front lines of a fierce fight for justice, but in conversation he is a light hearted and warm follower of Jesus with a contagious faith!

Jason Upton is a singer song writer who’s songs are full of depth and raw honesty, He seems to be able to lead others into a deep place with God where healing and freedom are found, and authentic worship rises up to God. He is a deep and challenging thinker and truly believes that worship is more than just singing> His conviction is that as we worship the Holy Spirit comes in power and sends us out to bring transformation to our world.

The Wonder Conference also includes breakout speakers from Davids Tent Worship Festival and from Just Love. Come and join us! Get your tickets here www.wonder2018.org








 

10 Days of Prayer: 'Thy Kingdom Come' 10th-20th May

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From May 10th-20th Woodies is joining in with 'Thy Kingdom Come' a global Prayer Movement initiated by the Arch Bishop of Canterbury. Last year Christians from 85 countries and over 50 denominations joined in, praying intentionally  for friends, families, neighbour's, colleagues and communities, culminating on Pentecost Sunday.

One of the simple suggestions this year, is to choose 5 people to pray for every day during these 10 days to experience the love of Jesus.

Here at Woodies, we will be opening our Prayer Room which is themed around the Lord's Prayer from midday on Thursday 10th of May until midnight on Saturday 19th. Do book a slot here.

We will also be gathering on Thursday 17th from 7.45-9.30 for a worship and prayer event. To pray those ancient Biblical prayers, 'Your kingdom Come...' and 'Come Holy Spirit' as we head to Pentecost.

Spread the word!

Spirit: River - Rob Scott-Cook

April 29th 2018. Spirit: River (Ezekiel 47). Ezekiel was a priest, the son of a priest, carried into exile in the first wave of Babylonian captivity with Jehoacin in 597 B.C. Five years later when he was 30 and the age he would have started his temple ministry Ezekiel has a visionary encounter with God and is commissioned as a Prophet. His deeply symbolic work carries a strong focus on the temple and also on the Spirit. At the end of his book Ezekiel has a vision of a restored temple and the return of the glory of God to the temple and Jerusalem (40, 43). Then flows the amazing picture of a life-giving river flowing out of the temple, which is picked up and amplified in the last chapter of the bible in Revelation 22. Download Discussion notes

Spirit: River - Rob Scott-Cook (7 pm Podcast)

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April 29th 2018. Spirit: River (Ezekiel 47). Ezekiel was a priest, the son of a priest, carried into exile in the first wave of Babylonian captivity with Jehoacin in 597 B.C. Five years later when he was 30 and the age he would have started his temple ministry Ezekiel has a visionary encounter with God and is commissioned as a Prophet. His deeply symbolic work carries a strong focus on the temple and also on the Spirit. At the end of his book Ezekiel has a vision of a restored temple and the return of the glory of God to the temple and Jerusalem (40, 43). Then flows the amazing picture of a life-giving river flowing out of the temple, which is picked up and amplified in the last chapter of the bible in Revelation 22. Download Discussion notes

Power Encounters

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April 8th 2018. Spirit: Glory (Ezekiel 1&2) Ezekiel was a priest, the son of a priest, carried into exile in the first wave of Babylonian captivity with Jehoacin in 597 B.C. Five years later when he was 30 and the age he would have started his temple ministry Ezekiel has a visionary encounter with God and is commissioned as a Prophet. His deeply symbolic work carries a strong focus on the temple and also on the Spirit. Download Discussion notes

April 15th 2018. Spirit: Belly. (Ezekiel 3:1-11). Ezekiel was a priest, the son of a priest, carried into exile in the first wave of Babylonian captivity with Jehoacin in 597 B.C. Five years later when he was 30 and the age he would have started his temple ministry Ezekiel has a visionary encounter with God and is commissioned as a Prophet. His deeply symbolic work carries a strong focus on the temple and also on the Spirit.  In Ezekiel 2, God says to him ‘Eat what I give you’ and in Ezekiel 3 he is given a scroll to eat that gets into his belly and (literal meaning) bowels. Download Discussion notes

April 22nd 2018. Spirit: Bones. (Ezekiel 37). Ezekiel was a priest, the son of a priest, carried into exile in the first wave of Babylonian captivity with Jehoacin in 597 B.C. Five years later when he was 30 and the age he would have started his temple ministry Ezekiel has a visionary encounter with God and is commissioned as a Prophet. His deeply symbolic work carries a strong focus on the temple and also on the Spirit. Ezekiel 37 is a memorable prophetic vision of the valley of dry bones, an image which speaks as powerfully to situations of apparent ‘death’ and decay today as it did about the nation of Israel in the 5th century BC. Download Discussion notes

April 29th 2018. Spirit: River (Ezekiel 47). Ezekiel was a priest, the son of a priest, carried into exile in the first wave of Babylonian captivity with Jehoacin in 597 B.C. Five years later when he was 30 and the age he would have started his temple ministry Ezekiel has a visionary encounter with God and is commissioned as a Prophet. His deeply symbolic work carries a strong focus on the temple and also on the Spirit. At the end of his book Ezekiel has a vision of a restored temple and the return of the glory of God to the temple and Jerusalem (40, 43). Then flows the amazing picture of a life-giving river flowing out of the temple, which is picked up and amplified in the last chapter of the bible in Revelation 22. Download Discussion notes

Living with the End in Mind

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March 11th 2018. Living with the end in mind: Gospel of the Kingdom Mark 13:10. Stephen Covey, best-selling author of ‘7 habits of highly effective people’ says ‘begin with the end in mind’. The Bible narratives all point towards an end and Jesus’ parables often address those who fail to live with the end in mind. Jesus said to his disciples when asked about the ‘end of the age’, ‘The gospel must first be preached to all nations’(c.f. Matthew 24:14, Luke 24:47). So far everyone who has predicted the end of the world has got it wrong! Does that mean that it’s not for humans to discern, or that conditions for the end of the ages have not yet been fulfilled? Download Discussion notes

March 18th 2018. Living with the end in mind: Day of the Lord: Malachi 4. Stephen Covey, best-selling author of ‘7 habits of highly effective people’ says ‘begin with the end in mind’. The Bible narratives all point towards an end and Jesus’ parables often address those who fail to live with the end in mind. Malachi in the last book and the last verses of the Old Testament points towards the great and terrible day of the Lord. If it happened tomorrow would that be good news or bad news as far as you are concerned? Download Discussion notes

 

March 25th 2018. Living with the End in Mind - Return of the King (Zechariah 1 v 16-17, 9 v 9-11, 12 v 10-11, 14 v 6-9). Start off with feedback from Sunday's message. What did those that were there - or those that have caught up online - take away from it? What encouraged them, what informed them and what challenged them? Spend some time discussing the response to the message and the issues that it raised. Download Discussion notes

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