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Treasure Kids Bowling Trip
As a late Christmas treat, the Treasure Kids went bowling in February.
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Valentine's Stall
The church held a stall in the Saturday market in Biggleswade town
centre, giving out balloons, chocolates and leaflets talking about the love
of God for all people.
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Valentine's Activity Afternoon
On 14th February, during half term, we ran an children's activity
afternoon in the church hall. Great fun was had by all.
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Radio Stars
On 1st March, Joan Racher and Trevor Homfray-Cooper were invited to
appear on BBC Three Counties Radio, talking about Panic Link and working
with people who suffer from panic attacks.
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Easter Extravaganza
On Easter Sunday the children sang and 'played' during the service, showing
the rest of the church how to do it! After the service there was the judging
of the Easter garden competition.
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More Activities!
This time an Easter activity afternoon was held in the church hall, and
numerous Easter themed activities were enjoyed by the children attending.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Zoe with the serious message about why we don't celebrate Halloween.
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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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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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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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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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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.
