You are welcome to join us in person for our Sunday morning services at 10.30am. A booking system is currently in place, together with Covid guidelines, to ensure your safety. If you would like to join us in worship, please email or phone the office by Thursday evening. Email office@herefordbaptistchurch.org.uk or phone 01432 352209.
HBC would like to invite you and yours to take part in our Backpackers Holiday Club this Summer! With a strong travel theme, there will be plenty of fun activities to get stuck into, crafting to do, and exciting games to play as the children get to “visit” a different European city each day; it’ll be like five different holidays in one week!
At Backpackers, in amongst all of the games and crafts, the children will hear about, and be given opportunities to explore, the Good News of Jesus; with connections between the games and different cities the children will be “visiting” being made through to moments throughout the events of Easter.
This Holiday Club is for children aged 5-11, and will run from 2nd-6th August 2021, from 9:30am-12:30pm. There will also be an All-Age Church Service focussed on the themes of the Holiday Club on the 8th August, starting at 10:30 am which you would be more than welcome to come along to if you would like!
If you have any questions, or would like to book your children in for this exciting week, please contact us at: office@herefordbaptist.org.uk
Childrens’ groups have restarted and it’s great to welcome families back into the building! We have two groups running for ages 3-11years, on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sunday of each month. We are following current Covid guidelines to keep all our children safe. The first Sunday of each month is all-age worship, child friendly with activity books to help the children engage.
May news letter from the Churches together in Hereford.
Each week we will be streaming our Sunday morning service, live on our website and our Facebook page. The service will start at 10.30am.
You can watch on our website by clicking HERE.
Or on Our Facebook page by clicking HERE.
The new sheet which contains the readings for the Sunday service, Prayers and any news for the coming week can be found by clicking the link below.
We would love you to join us for our Easter services this year. All of these will be available on our website and on Facebook.
You can watch on Facebook HERE or on our website HERE.
We hope you can join us for our service this morning at 10.30am.
You can watch live on Facebook or by clicking HERE
Reading for Sunday
Psalm 39 ESV
What Is the Measure of My Days?
To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
39 I said, “I will guard my ways,
that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle,
so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
2 I was mute and silent;
I held my peace to no avail,
and my distress grew worse.
3 My heart became hot within me.
As I mused, the fire burned;
then I spoke with my tongue:
4 “O Lord, make me know my end
and what is the measure of my days;
let me know how fleeting I am!
5 Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
6 Surely a man goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing[a] they are in turmoil;
man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
7 “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?
My hope is in you.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions.
Do not make me the scorn of the fool!
9 I am mute; I do not open my mouth,
for it is you who have done it.
10 Remove your stroke from me;
I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
11 When you discipline a man
with rebukes for sin,
you consume like a moth what is dear to him;
surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
12 “Hear my prayer, O Lord,
and give ear to my cry;
hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am a sojourner with you,
a guest, like all my fathers.
13 Look away from me, that I may smile again,
before I depart and am no more!”
James 4:13-17 ESV
Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
For your Prayers
“Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders” Deut 33:12
Our Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever. Let us continue to praise him, for he is good. We can also cry out to him, too, as he desires us to be dependent on him and cry out on behalf of others. He delights to save.
Continue to pray for the frontline staff in the NHS and allied services: including Kate F
Pray for the Ceney family as they plan Heather’s funeral. May they know the strength of the Lord.
Pray for all those working long hours in essential services.
Pray for those in vulnerable situations such as India, Lagos in Nigeria, refugee camps……
For those shut in there are many prayers to keep us busy and useful. Our Father is everywhere and has capacity to answer and the power to do so.
When you open the video in our website it will be set on mute (unfortunately this is the default, so we can’t change it).
Move your mouse over the video, you will then see the speaker symbol in the bottom right corner.
Turn the sound up and you should hear everything!
During the month of February we will be praying for the outward facing ministries within HBC.
Each day there will be a different prayer request from one of the groups, we would love for you to spend time praying for these with us.
The full month’s prayers can be downloaded here – Prayers February 2020