Skipton Baptist Church Blog

Hi
I am just working on the website at the moment trying to improve what we are doing

Changing the world one life at a time

We will be running a Christians Against Poverty Money Course at the end of January. (Click button on home page for more information) Talking to the people at CAP, one of them was telling me that when someone comes to faith because of the help and friendship they have received a ships bell is rung in their office in Bradford. This is to let everyone who works there know the good news, Not only has someone got their debt under control they have also found a new life in Christ.

I liked the idea so much that I invited the church on the first Sunday of the New Year to do something similar. Being Baptist I didn’t think bells would quite work for us but everyone here is familiar with prayer sticks (over grown lolly pop sticks that you write the name of someone or some cause you want to pray for and carry it with you).

My suggestion was this, that as we journey into the New Year there will be people and places where we will want to make a difference because we love Jesus. So I suggested we wrote the names of those people or places on a stick and when we see God at work and a difference being made in their live or in those places we have named we bring the stick back and place it in the ‘love vase’ (a large heart shaped vase that will be at the front of the church). I told people they could then take another stick and over the course of the year I hoped we would have the joy of seeing the jar filled to overflowing - a testimony to God at work changing lives, one life at a time.

The difference can be big or small it doesn’t matter, it’s just that I believe we as church can make a difference in this world and in our community one life at a time and in doing so change the world.

Rob

Back in June this year I was fortunate enough to be given a three montn sabbatical by the church. During that time I decided that it would be good to do some theological thinking and a little practical work.

The practical work was to learn how to design and build a new website for the church as our old one was getting a little creeky round the edges.

Two months of intensive labour went on during the summer to get the basic site into place and then when I was back in the office things slowed down as I began to fill the site with information.

I am glad to say that as of today it is done, well that is until everyone lets me know what needs to be changed from typo’s to information.

Hope you like what you see