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October is our BH World Mission Awareness Month 
Sunday 3rd October
Our good friend Richard Brunton will be preaching at the 10.00 service and sharing something of what God is doing around the world.
 
Sunday 10th October
James Poole from Wycliffe Bible Translators will preach at 10 & 6.30
and after the 10am service we’ll have a short seminar, ending at 12.15.
 
Sunday 24th October
Tom Heaton a mission partner from Vietnam will be preaching at 10
and after the service we'll grab coffee and he’ll say more about
the work in Vietnam back in the church building.
 
Sunday 31st October
Chris Wright from the Langham Partnership is preaching at 10 and 6.30
Before the evening service do come to the church centre for tea from 4.30, and then from 5-6 before the evening service he’ll broaden our horizons on world mission.
 
Seminars are open to everyone, no need to book, refreshments available.
 
All our prayer meetings in October will include a mission focus
& some of our Mission partners will join us too.
Wednesday 6th, 20th & 27th                       7-7.30 p.m. on Zoom
Wednesday 13th -The main event           7.30-8.30 p.m. in church & on Zoom.
Let’s be praying

• For all our preachers – that they would teach faithfully God’s Word & get us excited to be sharing Jesus wherever God calls us.  
• For us- that we would listen to The Holy Spirit prompting & encouraging us to respond to God’s Word and act on it. ​

As we celebrate God's goodness to us this Harvest the JHMT are inviting the church family to support one of our Mission Partners .

Festive exists to equip and inspire gospel work in the often-overlooked area of Further Education and Sixth Form (16-18 year olds).  
We support individual students and Christian unions around the country offering mentoring, encouragement, prayer and free resources. 

​Here are a couple of upcoming projects we would love your support with:
1. New version of Beyond beans on Toast (BBOT).
BBOT is an evangelistic ‘university survival manual’ that was first written 7 years ago by Claire Povey (a former BH congregant). Alongside student-friendly recipes and top tips, the book also features several testimonies of students who found Jesus during their time at university.   The vision of the book has always primarily been for it to get into the hands of non-Christian students heading to university. Since its first publication, over 25k copies have been given away and UCCF now also include it as part of a fresher’s pack that they produce! We really want to see the impact of this book grow and for many more non-Christian students to hear its message. However, a lot changes in 7 years and it is now very out of date and in need of a full reworking with updated advice, stories and a re-design! Some of the funding from the harvest appeal will therefore go directly into the costs of us re-writing and producing this evangelistic book, resulting in thousands more non-Christian students receiving it in the years to come and reading stories of a God who changes lives! 

2. Launching a new FE staff network
An exciting new area that we are exploring is how we can work more with Christians employed in the FE/Sixth form sector. Working with the Association of Christian Teachers, we are hoping to develop a new Christian FE staff network this term. Our aim is to firstly, help support Christian staff to live out and share their faith in what is often a very secular and difficult working environment.  And secondly, we want to encourage and connect with Christian staff as we are increasingly recognising the important role they can play in supporting Christian Unions and Christian students in colleges. Staff can help CUs keep running in lean years and offer advice and support to CU leaders. They are often key allies when booking venues or when students are seeking to run mission activities. Funding from the harvest appeal will pay towards the costs around developing this project and help us to promote and connect with Christian staff around the country in colleges and sixth forms. 

If the appeal for the project chosen exceeds the project cost then the JHMT will donate the remainder to the appeal beneficiary to use for another aspect of their ongoing ministry as appropriate.
If you would like to support the BH Harvest Appeal then please contact the BH church office for further details .