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On Saturday
10th May
we will be joining with the other Biggleswade churches to take part in
a walk for Turn on the
Tap campaign, to raise awareness of the difficulty many
people face to get clean water. The 4 mile walk starts from Homebase at
2.00 p.m. and goes to Sainsburys and back. For more information on the
campaign, click
here.
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Ladies, on Friday 23rd May there is a Pudding Party at the church from 7.30 p.m., where there will be lots of delicious desserts to try. Come along and join the fun! A donation of £2 is requested.
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We are currently running an Alpha course
from Tuesday evenings.This is an excellent
opportunity to explore Christianity and it's relevance for today. The
course is free and includes a meal each week. For further information,
please contact us.
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Information
about our involvement with Hope 2008 can be found here.
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The young people and children of the church did a Litter Pick on Saturday 9th February. Well done on collecting about 50 bags full of rubbish from two areas in Biggleswade.
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Free
showing of the Disney Pixar film Ratatouille
("rat-a-too-ee"!) at 3pm on Tuesday 12th February
at the church. Free refreshments!.
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On New Year's Eve we had a family party in the church, with plenty of refreshments, a fun quiz, a review of the year, some songs and a magic show. It was a great end to 2007.
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Christmas
Family Service
We celebrated the Sunday before Christmas with an all age service based
around the Nativity story, but with involvement from everyone. There
were numerous presents to open by members of the congregation, which
revealed part of the story, or which carol we would sing next. It was a
great time, enjoyed by all.
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Christingle
Service
On Sunday 16th December, we held our first ever Christingle Service. A
Christingle is made of an orange (representing the world), a red ribbon
round the orange (representing the blood of Jesus, which is a reminder
of the Easter message), four cocktail sticks (for the 4 seasons) with
sweets and fruit on (representing the good things that the earth
provides). Finally there is a candle which represents Jesus as the
light of the world, to show everyone how to live. In the interests of
safety, the church used glow sticks instead! Trevor talked about how
the Christmas story was full of surprises, with the use of some
surprising pictures. There was also a collection for the work of the
Children’s Society, which raised over #87.
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At GroundBreakers
on 6th December, it was snow joke to these newly built snowmen! The
children also watched a film of the nativity story, called "It's A Boy".
To see some more pictures from recent GroundBreakers clubs, click here.
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Friday 30th November was our Ladies Christmas Craft Evening, where there was lots of crafts and activities to try out.
The ladies had a go at making crackers, cards, truffles, table decorations, cake decorations and more!
Thank you to all who helped make it such a successful evening.
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On 31st October we had a Light Party as a friendly and fun alternative to Halloween. There were lots of messy and great games, as well as food and treats. Also there was an amusing video featuring Trevor and Zoj with the serious message about why we don't celebrate Halloween.
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Sunday 7th October was our Harvest
Festival. We celebrated with a family service and a
Harvest Lunch. The meeting sees the culmination of our Shoebox appeal
for Romania and food collection for local distribution. We were
delighted to collect over 60 shoeboxes for our appeal and also
distributed food parcels in Biggleswade.
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We are excited to announce the launch of a new children's club called 'GroundBreakers', which starts in September, for children age 7 to 11 years. Click here for more information.
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A new support group has been started for people affected by agoraphobia and/or panic attacks. The group is called Panic Link, and more information can be found
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On Monday 30th July a group of us went to Clacton-on-Sea for a a day trip to the seaside. We had wonderful weather (for summer 2007!) and a great time together on the beach and the pier.
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We have finished our Alpha course, which was an excellent chance to find out more about the Christian faith, as well as enjoy some wonderful meals together. If you would like to find out more information on the course, visit the Alpha website. If you would like to know when we next run an Alpha course then please contact us.
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25th
Anniversary
2007 is the 25th anniversary year since the formation of Biggleswade Pentecostal Church, and in June we celebrating with a special anniversary weekend, with guest speakers John and Doreen Jessop. We had a baptismal service on Saturday 9th June, followed by a tea, then on Sunday we had celebration services morning and evening.
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Valentine's
Activity Afternoon 
On Wednesday 14th February we had an activity afternoon for children aged 5 to 10 years, with a theme of Valentine's Day. There was fun, games, activities, food and even an appearance by Becky and Barney.
