PRAY: Yield

Author: 5th April 2020

Online Sunday services

Welcome to our online service this Sunday! We’re so glad you could join us.

We have been delighted over the last few weeks to see how TBC have reached out to embrace one another in prayer, in practical support, and in encouraging messages and phone calls. We really are family! Which makes it all the harder not being together on a Sunday. But when you join in this service, know that we are all joining together as family to lift up the name of Jesus, to celebrate God’s love and to enjoy his presence. This week, for the first time, those members of the family who aren’t online will be getting copies of the service on DVD or CD so we really are all together as we worship Him.

One way we can encourage each other while we’re apart is to share our stories of God’s goodness with each other. Please don’t forget what Astrid asked last week, and if you have a story of answered prayer or God being there with you in some other way, please do let us know so we can pass those on.

If our website doesn’t cope with everyone watching at 10.30 on Sunday, please click on the link below the video which will take you to exactly the same thing on YouTube’s server and you can watch there. We’re still keeping these pages on our site though so everyone can comment and discuss the service (please come back and comment after watching on YouTube).

If the video above doesn’t work, please click here.

13 Comments

  1. Paul Vaswani (Post author)

    Good morning!

  2. Frances Collins

    Paul suggested that I share my rhyming version of The Lord’s Prayer, which was originally given as a poem:
    Our Father, Holy is your name. Your kingdom come on earth , as in heaven it came.
    Please feed us daily with your bread. Forgive the wrongs we’ve done or said.
    When tempted, please avert our eyes. And save us from the devil’s lies.

  3. David Goodall

    Thanks for this version

  4. Paul Vaswani (Post author)

    So good to see Chris and Charis leading worship!

  5. Stacey

    Lovely service fuelled with testimony and prophetic words of life. Thank you Paul, Astrid, Chris and Charis. Have a blessed week.

  6. Judy and Tim Dennis

    Thanks to Paul, Astrid, Charis and Chris for a helpful and thought provoking service. The technology feels really seamless. Judy has been reflecting during the lockdown about the wonderful opportunity we have to pray for our broken world, rather like closed orders of monks and nuns who do that.

  7. Suzy Hainsworth

    Thank you for keeping us all going, thank you lord for being there for us and every body who are struggling, the young and the old, the lonely ones, the ones who keep us going every day, for all the people out there who are helping us all, thank you lord jesus, amen.

  8. Barbara Hunt

    It’s good to sit in my living room and imagine myself in church with you all.Thank you God for giving Paulo and all who help him to set this up.Your words were inspiring . I would be interested to know more about daily verse you mentioned. May God bless you all love Barbara

    1. Paul Vaswani (Post author)

      Hi Barbara, The verse of the day I was talking about was from a website called http://www.bible.com – you can create an account and ask them to email you their verse of the day each day in whichever Bible version you like. They also have an app for phones and tablets, which they call YouVersion. If you prefer the verses on your phone then the app will do that for you.

      1. Barbara

        Thanks Paul, successfully downloaded on my phone

  9. Penny Bradley

    Hi Paul and Astrid
    Another thought provoking service , thank you . I liked the idea of not regarding reading the Bible as a task to be got through, but perhaps using our daily bible reading notes as a means of listening to what God maybe trying to say to us. Sometimes one verse does stick out and needs more thought or even action.
    I look forward to sharing Communion next Sunday, a really great idea.
    Love Penny

  10. Liz Long

    Thank you each one for all the work that you’ve put in this week to bring together a brilliant service. The choice of worship songs was great and so lovely to hear Chris and Charis leading our worship. This series on prayer has been really inspiring, practical and today especially challenging. The responsive prayer was really powerful too and very moving. I just thank God that during this time we have more time to listen and ponder with less distraction. How amazing that God is already there waiting for us.

  11. Chris

    Thank you Paul, Astrid and Ellen for a great Easter service . So glad to be able to join you all from home and still be part of the Church community. Lovely also to see our Church children and families taking part in the service. Lots of food for thought in the sermon, thank you.

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