JAN |
Sunday Morning
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22th |
ALL IN – Sarah T |
29st |
Prayer Day - Andrea |
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We meet in the main hall of Wetherby High School at 10am, and a warm welcome is extended to everyone.
Coffee and Tea is served from 9:50 - 10:10!
More information
Tadcaster Service at 4.00pm |
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Our Vision Statement:
We will be a spirit filled, radical growing church with a burning desire to lead people to a knowledge of Jesus, actively serve the community and fight for social justice.
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Wetherby Community Church was planted some 15 years ago, as a result of a clear vision from God.
We seek to build a relevant community of faith; modeling the principles of the early church and early Salvation Army. It seeks unashamedly to reach and influence whole families with the message of grace, love and acceptance. |
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Upcoming Events and In The Know Notices
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We are thrilled to announce that we have appointted our new Children’s and Youth worker: Claire Spivey. Her
primary focus will be to develop all of our Children’s work. Her start date is 30th Jan and we will welcome her on Feb 5th |
29th January Prayer Day.
Our plan is to pray together in worship, then share lunch and then prayer walk to
Tadcaster where we will join with our friends in a prayer and worship session at 4.00pm. Hoping you will join in all or part of this day. Living Distinctively! |
Photos from the Christmas 2011 Youth Event are online.
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DIARY:
Monday:
7.30 Tom HG
7.30 Jeremy HG in Harrogate
Tuesday:
7.30 Dougie
Wednesday:
10.00: Andrea HG
1.30: Prayers
4.30: Livewires
7.00: Encapture
Thursday:
7.30 Chris Barker
HG
Friday:
10am Derek Gaunt HG
7.00pm Sanctuary and Street Angels
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HG=House Group
Speak with the
leaders above about joining one |
Living Distinctively 2012
Our theme that we have taken for the year is to live distinctively. We are
thinking through how and what makes us different to the world. Our guest
speakers will speak to this theme as well as our main Sunday sessions also
featuring key aspects of Christian living.
"So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out" Romans 12
Our prayers as a leadership team are that the church would continue to live out this life and that people would see that we are different, not in a weird way but in a way that shows the transforming work of Jesus in our lives. |
Recruitment/Participation Practice
All volunteers and visitors can attend in an observationally role as a one off in all programme activities. It goes without saying they will have to be shadowed in these. However it is then expected as the norm that before they work/volunteer that they will have handed in their completed CRB and application form before they can begin working/volunteering officially. Participation in such work would be reviewed if a CRB was returned as unsatisfactory.
It is then expected that Safe and Sound training will happen as soon as humanly possibly after this. Recognizing that we may not be able to run S&S straight away after every volunteer volunteers. However we would want all references to be present as soon as humanly possible. Failure to do so within an agreed time frame (upto a max of 1 month) will also have to result in the participation/work being stopped pending receipt of it.
ESafe Practice:
We just wanted to share with you, the wider church, what is good practise in regard to the use of internet and mobile Technology, when interacting with children (children are under 18s). Its called ESafe Practise:
Following good Safe & Sound practice we expect all people
involved in our youth work to abide by the fact that they should not have any under 18s on their Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking sites. This includes personal mobile phones. This aligns our practice with educational practices. Failure to ignore such practice may leave staff liable to disciplinary action or to being prevented from working with young people.
You will understand given the work we are engaged in that we must, in all things, be seen to be upholding the highest of Christian standards as we seek to live distinctively.
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