Here are some great events coming up that you might be interested in. You can click on the images to find out more and sign up for each event.
Bible School - 19 February
Wholeness course - 21 Feb
New ID course - 22 Feb
Naturally Supernatural with Mike Pilavachi - 25 Feb
Hope to see some of you there!
To kick off the new year well, we invite you to join with all of the Woodlands Church Family for a Week of Prayer and Fasting starting on Sunday 15 January. Our vision is to come together spiritually in prayer and fasting, bringing to God our hopes for the city, for the world and for His Church.
Here are all the ways you can join with us in prayer.
January 2023 update!
It's looking like the building work will be completed in early February 2023. Thank you for bearing with us!
29 July 2022
After many years of planning, the Highgrove Building project is now underway!
Following the recent granting of planning permission, we’re extending the building over the current driveway to give greater accessibility with ramps, wider doorways and an accessible toilet, greater visibility with a glass fronted entrance and greater capacity. As well as an additional space to be used in various ways, the foyer will give us more room in that busy crossover period between the two Sunday services.
You can see the plans on the noticeboard in the main hall at church, or online here.
We’ll be able to continue using the building for the majority of the period of building work, but we’ll need to bear with some inconvenience for a while!
Any questions, do get in touch.
This week we are very excited to launch our Discipleship Groups (D-Groups for short) for the Lent period.
The Bible is essential reading for Jesus’ followers. Jesus himself said,
“ Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. ”
The Bible is God’s word, and it’s where we encounter God and how we get to know him better. But it’s often quite hard to commit to reading the Bible in the busyness of daily life. We need other people to encourage us and keep us going!
So for this Lent period we are starting our D-Groups, a group of 3, 4 or 5 people who commit to reading the Bible everyday and meet each week to discuss about the passages they’ve read. Here’s a video from Ed and Deb explaining it in more details:
As explained, we will be starting on March 2 and continuing on until April 17. Do visit the D-Groups page on the website to sign up!
Are you or someone you know looking for a new job opportunity? Sea Mills Community Initiatives are seeking to employ an Operations Manager whose primary role will be to bring leadership and management to our day-to-day activities as a charity. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in our community.
Salary: £23,000 pa pro rata (up to full-time hours by negotiation) 1 year fixed term contract, to be extended subject to funding Closing date for applications: Monday 21 February 2022
To find out more go to: https://www.smci.org.uk/vacancies
“ As tragic as these last few weeks have been. As difficult, scary and uncertain as they’ve been, they have been an incredible opportunity for people to be awakened to some of these underlying trends. And they offer an opportunity for us all to work together to tackle them, to take them on, to change.”
Jesus said, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation”.
Join us on Zoom as we hear encouraging stories from our Global Partners. We’ll have seminars about bringing together climate change and mission plus breakout sessions for different regions.
On Saturday, we are running morning and evening sessions on Zoom and then on Sunday we will have a global theme at all our services.
Join us as we take a fresh look at what the Bible says about creation care, plus enjoy conversations with our Global Partners on what that could mean for us all.
Join us as we host eight world ‘rooms’ so you can meet our Global Partners, hear stories of faith and find out what's been happening in their lives as they serve God across the world.
It’s been fantastic to be gathering back in the Highgrove building on a Sunday morning. There’s nothing like being together, with the Holy Spirit at work in our midst. But each Sunday is tinged with a little sadness as we recognise how many of our church family are missing.
So we’ve been praying and thinking about how to MAKE MORE ROOM for YOU and for others and we have a plan we’d like to share with you.
From 6 June we will have not one, but two, Highgrove services happening in our building every Sunday morning!
Each service will be an hour long and will have the same format and content. The only thing that will be different will be the way we structure our children and youth provision.
The first service will start at 9.30am. Adults will meet in the main hall while we use the back hall for our Sparklers pre-school-aged group and our Key Stage 1-aged Superstars group will meet in our brand-new side room.
The second service will start at 11am with a second Superstars group meeting, plus our Trailblazers Key Stage 2-aged group and our Devo group for secondary-aged youth both meeting at Sea Mills Methodist Church on Sea Mills Square.
As the children will go into their groups before the start of each service, this plan doesn’t allow for us to worship together across the ages. This is one of our key values at Highgrove, so on the first Sunday of each month we will have two all-age services with no separate children’s provision.
Between each service every week we’re hoping to serve refreshments in our Highgrove garden for much needed chatting and catching up with one another.
We will continue to livestream our service, albeit at the earlier time of 9.30am, so those who can’t yet meet physically can still engage with the service, as well as maintaining the opportunities for others not yet connected to church to easily be able to check out our services.
These plans will almost triple the number of people who can currently meet together on a Sunday morning. And, as social distancing requirements reduce over time, these numbers will continue to increase!
We’re excited by the prospect of not only increasing capacity for meeting together right now, in a Covid-safe way. But also, in time, the potential for further increased capacity beyond our original limits to extend our Highgrove welcome to new guests and increase the opportunities to share the good news of Jesus further and wider than we’ve ever done before!
To double the number of services we provide, as well as livestreaming, is going to be a huge challenge. That’s why we need you! Our teams will need lots of extra volunteers. If you’ve been part of a team before then please step back up. If you’ve not been part of a serving team for a while, then now’s the time to get involved. If you’re new to Highgrove, we’ve found joining a team is a brilliant way to get to know people and to feel you belong really quickly.
This is going to take all of us, but we’re so excited about MAKING ROOM in this next season. We’ll provide more information about these changes and how you can help over the next few weeks. But in the meantime, please be praying with us as we take this exciting step!
Each day during Holy Week, we would encourage you to watch our short lunchtime meditation videos and take time to pray. Reflect on Jesus' journey to the cross and the greatest act of love this world has ever seen.
Follow the links to watch on the Woodlands YouTube channel at 12noon each day:
Everyone knows Sea Mills rich maritime history. The stories of Sea Mills legendary pirates are, well, legendary. Their treasure though remains a mystery. It's your mission to seek it out, using the clues on a treasure map to navigate around Sea Mills. You can book as a family or as a small group of friends (up to 6 friends in a group). Book your timed slot to start the adventure. Arrgggggh.
