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Your amazing fundraising!
Members of Stanley Road Baptist Church were inspired by God’s creation in the creation of their 2023 calendars!
Capturing creation
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“Why are we creative? Because God’s creative!”
It was this thought that started Stanley Road Baptist Church on a journey of getting in touch with God’s creation and their own creativity, which ended in them putting together some beautiful calendars to raise money for BMS World Mission!
“We decided to do a ‘summer of snapping’ and take photos of God’s creation,” explains Steven Hewitt, Pastor of Stanley Road Baptist Church. “We encouraged people to get creative and there was a really good response.”
In September, the photos were exhibited and showed a beautiful glimpse of God’s creation across the UK, from Morecombe promenade to the streets of Bath.
The church voted on which photos were their favourites to include in their calendars, which were sold in support of BMS, as well as two other local charities. Altogether they raised an amazing £345!
Thank you so much to everyone at SRBC who contributed to the calendars, we think they’re wonderful!
BMS Christmas treats!
Thank you so much to Sudbury Baptist Church for your festive BMS prayers!
BMS Rep Jennie Hembery put together a wonderful Christmas tree with BMS decorations, as well as some BMS-themed goody bags of sweets. Each bag was labelled with either the name of a mission worker, the name of a BMS partner or the name of a department at the BMS UK office for people to pray for.
And what made the goody bags BMS-themed? Each sweetie started with either a B, an M or an S! Thank you so much for your prayers, we can’t wait to see what creative ideas you come up with next Christmas!
The fundraising superstars in Haddenham!
When BMS staff saw amazing pictures on Facebook of the folks at Haddenhamcum-Dinton Baptist church growing pumpkins to raise money for BMS, we thought it was fantastic. But it turns out the fundraising spirit goes even further! From movie nights to concerts to quizzes to coffee mornings, their yearly calendar is packed full of events to raise money for world mission. Thank you so much to every member of Haddenham Baptist who’s given to support BMS over the last year – your pennies and pounds have made so much possible!
