Easter 2020
We may not be able to meet in person, but our hearts are very much open. As our thoughts turn to Easter please do consider joining us for one of our online events. God bless.
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Bolton Villas Family Church
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Sunday Morning Worship – 29 March 2020
Here is the video of this morning’s service.
Worship: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSdbgei7dETKZ6zAO1qZR9JPznVZTedj5
Bible Passages:
- Ezekiel 37:1-14
- Psalm 130
- Romans 8:5-11
- John 11:1-45
The giving page Ashley mentions is here. It can also be found on the blue menu bar at the top of the page.
Sunday Morning Worship – 22 March 2020
If you missed our service on Facebook this morning then don’t worry as the video of that can be found on our Facebook page and is also embedded below. Do join us on Thursday evening at 6.15pm for our Bible study and again next Sunday. May God bless you all.
Weekly Bible Study
In this brave new online world we live in, Pastor Ashley has started a new weekly Bible study that we would encourage everyone to watch, to read their Bible, and to consider the question. This week’s study focuses on Romans 8. The questions Ashley challenges us to consider are:
- What does the reading say about God?
- What does it say about yourself?
- What are you going to do about it?
Come back next Thursday to watch the next one.
Hair Today… Gone Tomorrow. Again!
One of our members has gone all hairy in order to raise money to support Youth Work taking place here at Bolton Villas Family Church as well as for emerge in Bradford. Justin has been growing his hair, beard and moustache since doing Movember in November 2019 and plans to have it all shaved off nearly 7 months later in May 2020.
Justin’s fundraising page on Give As You Live gives more details about the work he is aiming to support as well as providing some increasingly hairy pictures of the man in question.
This isn’t the first time Justin has gone bald in aid of Bolton Villas as he did something similar in 2009 when we were raising money for a re-building project. However this particular campaign is proving to be more hair-raising than previously as we’re currently speculating as to whether the beard will be long enough for plaits!
So, please do support Justin’s fundraising campaign by visiting his donation page and supporting both these wonderful causes (even if we do say so ourselves!).
Thanking you in advance.
Encounter Night
Our next Encounter Night will take place on Friday 28th February starting at 7.30pm. As always it will be a wonderful opportunity to worship our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to hear from God as He speaks to us. Please do consider joining us as we seek to encounter the Living God.
You can help us to raise FREE funds…
Bolton Villas Family Church is pleased to announce that we’ve partnered with Give As You Live to help raise FREE funds.
If you’d like to help us do this then all you need to do is to sign up to the Give As You Live website, choose Bolton Villas United Reformed Church Charity as your chosen charity and every time you shop online via Give As You Live a FREE donation will be made to us and it won’t cost you a penny extra!
Give As You Live has over 4,000 retailers including Amazon, eBay, John Lewis and Expedia. Plus, you can also compare insurance and energy companies, get voucher codes and create donations and fundraising pages all to help raise money for our charity.
To get started click on the image below or visit www.giveasyoulive.com/join/boltonvillasfamilychurch.
Month of Prayer
During January 2020 we will be spending the month focused on prayer. As well as our regular Sunday services we will also be holding some daily open prayer meetings. We’re going to be asking God to cleanse us and refresh us.
Why? Because we believe God has spoken to us. We believe He has given us a prophecy. We believe He is telling us:
It’s not working.
Lay things down.
Come to Me in prayer
and see how I will restore you.
We believe God is calling us to spend time praying and listening to Him. We must therefore be obedient.
You are very welcome to join us in prayer, either virtually or in person. As part of our month of prayer we have also put together a Prayer Diary of Bible verses that we’ll be praying through twice a day. If you would like a copy then please email [email protected].
It’s Christmas!
The season of advent is now upon us, the time when we as Christians remember the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago and prepare ourselves for when he will come again in glory.
Here at BV we’re gearing up for this wonderful and joyous season, the Christmas decorations are up, our Messy Christmas event has taken place and tomorrow sees our traditional Christmas carol concert with the Hall Royd Band. Here’s a glimpse of what else we have going on this Christmas.
Start Course
If you have questions about God, Jesus and the journey of life then why not come along to our Introductory Night where we’ll tell you all about our Start Course which will run over 6 sessions in the following weeks (at a time to be decided with the participants).
There’ll be no pressure, just open friendly conversation about matters of faith. We’d love to see you.
