Is your birthday coming up or have you had a birthday in the last week? If so, let us know and we can sing happy birthday to you!
It’s a tradition at our churches to sing happy birthday near the end of a church service to anyone celebrating around the time. Now that we can’t meet physically that doesn’t mean we have to stop!
Just let Alan know if it’s your birthday around now and enjoy the birthday wishes as part of the Sunday service.
We will be holding an online church service to say thanks for and pray for the NHS, carers and other frontline workers, on Thursday, April 30, from 7pm.
The service will include readings, music and prayers, including one read by local MP and former Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt, and another read by Cllr Pat Evans, Mayor of Farnham, along with pictures of artwork, videos and pictures of key workers.
Lesley Crawley explained the thinking behind the service: “We are living in extraordinary times, like nothing any of us have experienced before. As we navigate our way through them we want to seek God’s guidance and strength, particularly for those who are suffering and those who are working on the frontline in hospitals and care settings, and other key workers who are keeping the country going. And we want to give thanks for everyone who is working so hard across the world and in our own community.
“If anyone would like to offer us some art – especially rainbows – or photos of keyworkers, or if there are children who would like to be videoed saying a prayer, please do get in touch. Send contributions to Alan as soon as you can and certainly by the end of Sunday, April 26th.
“And do join us here on the website on Thursday 30th, from 7pm, to pray and give thanks.” The service will be available on the website from that time here.
If you need guidance for sending in your contributions, click here.
Please find the Taizé service for this week. Special thanks to June and Olivia Jasper for the chants. Please feel free to join in with them – the words are on the screen.
Welcome, we have three online services below for you to join in, plus below is the sermon from Bishop Andrew.
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The parish now has its own YouTube channel where we are posting services, sermons, music and other videos. Please sign up to it by clicking here and then clicking on ‘Subscribe’. Then you can browse our videos to your heart’s content.
In Lesley’s sermon she asks us what changes we want to see in our world after the lockdown, see this blog and please comment there and on Facebook and Twitter to let us know what you think.
St John’s Service
St George’s Service
St Mark’s Service
Bishop’s Sermon
The parish now has its own YouTube channel where we are posting services, sermons, music and other videos. Please sign up to it by clicking here and then clicking on ‘Subscribe’. Then you can browse our videos to your heart’s content.
We’d like to add videos of our church members doing things – singing, poetry, drama etc. If you have anything you would like to share, contact Alan, revd.alan@badshotleaandhale.org
On the first three days of this Holy Week we will be having services of Compline with a short video and reflection. Today we look at Jesus Trial.
As these services use a clip from a longer piece, you cannot click through to YouTube for the film clip, as the clip doesn’t stop if you do!
On the first three days of this Holy Week we will be having services of Compline with a short video and reflection. Today we look at the Watch.
If you click on the YouTube logo at the bottom of the screen you can make the video full screen. This doesn’t work on the video clip, as the clip doesn’t stop if you do!
If you cannot see the responses at the top of the screen, please move your mouse so that it is not over the video.
Article referred to in meditation:
On the first three days of this Holy Week we will be having services of Compline with a short video and reflection. We start today with the foot washing.
As these services use a clip from a longer piece, you cannot click through to YouTube for the video clip, as the clip doesn’t stop if you do!
I have just discovered that my videos have text over the words I put into them. If you move the mouse away from the video these other display items will disappear, allowing you to read the text.
Here is this Sunday’s Taizé Service.
Here is the Order of Service: Taize.
Some of the videos may have adverts – if this is the case you can skip these after about 5 seconds in the bottom right hand corner.
And here is the service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9e_QO1ATho&list=PLt2PKBTM_sfbpPdbB4NR4QMit1jCqOmUt
And here are the main elements:
On the first and third Sundays of the month there is usually a Taizé service at St John’s at 6pm. As this cannot take place at the moment Alan has prepared and posted a Taizé service online. You can find it by clicking here.
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