During the month of February 2020, our series titled Jesus Close Up will look what the Bible says about who Jesus is, as a teacher, Lord, healer and miracle worker. We'll consider how we can live by example and try to become more like Jesus in our day to day lives. Watch this first talk of the series by Dave Mitchel from 2 February 2020.
Jesus Close Up: Teacher | Dave Mitchell (7pm)
2nd Feb 2020 - 7pm Service
During the month of February 2020, our series titled Jesus Close Up will look what the Bible says about who Jesus is, as a teacher, Lord, healer and miracle worker. We'll consider how we can live by example and try to become more like Jesus in our day to day lives.
Watch this first talk of the series by Dave Mitchell, with a prayer beforehand from Rob Scott-Cook and a testimony from Rachel Riddall at the end.
You can download the group discussion notes below:
Prayer Power
For January 2020, our series focused on Prayer Power, which looks at how we can unleash the power of prayer in our everyday lives. We look at praise, petition, confession and fasting and study how King David prayed in the scriptures.
Instead of discussion notes for this series, we recommend all our small groups to encourage discussion and action around people’s prayer lives this month. Check out The Prayer Course from Pete Grieg (Founder of 24/7 Prayer) which includes 8 short video sessions to help us get focused in our prayer life.
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Prayer Power: Fasting | Dave Mitchell (11am)
26th January 2020 - 11am Service
This is the final week of our Prayer Power series for January 2020, which looks at how we can unleash the power of prayer in our everyday lives. Dave shares with us on the topic of fasting and we read about how King David prayed in the scriptures.
Instead of discussion notes for this series, we recommend all our small groups to encourage discussion and action around people’s prayer lives this month. Check out The Prayer Course from Pete Grieg (Founder of 24/7 Prayer) which includes 8 short video sessions to help us get focused in our prayer life.
Prayer Power: Fasting | Dave Mitchell (11am Sermon)
26th January 2020 at 11am with Dave Mitchell.
Fundraiser for Refugees in Iraq
Join us for a special fundraiser for STEP (UK), a development charity committed to working alongside young people and their families in the Kurdish region of Iraq.
Come enjoy Middle Eastern mezze and hear about the impact of STEP on the lives of refugees living in Kurdistan, Iraq. Annet from Iraq will give a talk at this event. Bring your friends and enjoy food and music while raising money for this great cause.
Visit the STEP (UK) website to find out more about their work:
http://www.step-uk.com
A suggested donation of £15 per ticket*
Event will be held in The Crypt at Woodlands Church, Bristol.
*If you are keen to attend, but on a limited budget - please email Julia Debling at STEP.
Venue: Crypt, Woodlands Church
Date: Saturday, 8th February 2020
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
For full event details and tickets, see the event details page.
Prayer Power: Petition | Rachel Riddall (7pm)
19th January 2020 - 7pm Service
It’s Prayer Week at Woodies! Starting today until 26th January. This is the third week of our Prayer Power series for January 2020, which looks at how we can unleash the power of prayer in our everyday lives. Rachel shares with us on the topic of petition and we read about how King David prayed in the scriptures.
Instead of discussion notes for this series, we recommend all our small groups to encourage discussion and action around people’s prayer lives this month. Check out The Prayer Course from Pete Grieg (Founder of 24/7 Prayer) which includes 8 short video sessions to help us get focused in our prayer life.
Prayer Power: Petition | Rachel Riddall (7pm Sermon)
19th January 2019 at 7pm with Rachel Riddall on the topic of prayer power, specifically on petition.
Prayer Power: Confession | Rob Scott-Cook (7pm)
12th January 2020 - 7pm Service
This is the second week of our Prayer Power series for January 2020, which looks at how we can unleash the power of prayer in our everyday lives. Rob shares with us on the topic of confession and we read about how King David prayed in the scriptures - specifically at Psalm 51. At the end of the preach, Clare leads us in a prayer of confession.
Instead of discussion notes for this series, we recommend all our small groups to encourage discussion and action around people’s prayer lives this month. Check out The Prayer Course from Pete Grieg (Founder of 24/7 Prayer) which includes 8 short video sessions to help us get focused in our prayer life.
And don’t forget - Prayer Week starts at Woodies on 19th January and runs until the 26th.
Prayer Power: Confession | Rob Scott-Cook (7pm Sermon)
12th January 2020 - 7pm Service
This is the second week of our Prayer Power series for January 2020, which looks at how we can unleash the power of prayer in our everyday lives. Rob shares with us on the topic of confession and we read about how King David prayed in the scriptures - specifically at Psalm 51. At the end of the preach, Clare leads us in a prayer of confession.
Instead of discussion notes for this series, we recommend all our small groups to encourage discussion and action around people’s prayer lives this month. Check out The Prayer Course from Pete Grieg (Founder of 24/7 Prayer) which includes 8 short video sessions to help us get focused in our prayer life.
And don’t forget - Prayer Week starts at Woodies on 19th January and runs until the 26th.
It's Prayer Week!
Let’s get praying in 2020! It’s Prayer Week from 19th - 26th January 2020.
There are loads of events going on throughout Prayer Week across the Woodlands Group of Churches. We’d love everyone to get involved and take part. If you haven’t listened to the January podcast about prayer yet - that’s a great place to start. Dave, Clare and Rob all share helpful ways we can have a more fulfilling prayer life.
Here’s what’s happening:
24/7 Prayer Room: Book your time slot
Worship & Prayer: Sunday, 19th January at 7pm service at Woodies
Morning Prayer: Monday to Friday mornings at 7.15am in the Foyer at Woodies
‘Seek First’ Worship & Prayer Event: Tuesday, 21st January at 7.45pm at Woodies
Southside Prayer: Thursday, 23rd January from 8-10pm at Filwood Community Centre, Barnstaple Road, BS4 1JP
To find out more and helpful tips, check out our Prayer page
Prayer Power: Praise | Helen Paynter (11am)
5th January 2020 - 7pm Service
Happy New Year! This is the first week of our new Prayer Power series for January 2020, which looks at how we can unleash the power of prayer in our everyday lives. Helen shares with us on the topic of praise and we read about how King David prayed in the scriptures - specifically at 2 Samuel 22.
Here is a link to the discussion notes:
Prayer Power: Praise | Helen Paynter (11am Sermon)
5th January 2020 at 11am with Helen Paynter speaking on Prayer Power: Praise.
To continue exploring this topic, you can download the discussion notes.
Prayer Power: Praise | Tim Dobson (7pm)
5th January 2020 - 7pm Service
Happy New Year! This is the first week of our new Prayer Power series for January 2020, which looks at how we can unleash the power of prayer in our everyday lives. Tim shares with us on the topic of praise and we read about how King David prayed in the scriptures - specifically at 2 Samuel 22.
Here is a link to the discussion notes:
Prayer Power: Praise | Tim Dobson (7pm Sermon)
5th January 2020 at 7pm with Tim Dobson on Prayer Power: Praise.
To continue exploring this topic, you can download the discussion notes.
Wholeness Course starting on 4 Feb 2020
The Wholeness Course is a 6 week course looking at the foundation of freedom and identity, which helps people to find God’s love, healing and forgiveness.
Are you considering whether now is the time to deal with those recurring issues? Refocus your purpose, know your significance, be confident in who you are. Live free from irritation, annoyance, fear, anxiety. This life is available, and the Wholeness Course can help us to find it and start living it.
I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. - John 10:10
The Wholeness Course includes:
Testimony from those who have found breakthrough
Teaching rooted in the Bible and in our experience and inspired by the Spirit
Pointers on how to tackle those things which seem to hinder us and hold us
Prayer time with God, and with a prayer minister if you choose
The next course begins on 4th February 2020 and runs for 6 weeks on Tuesday evenings in the Main Hall at Woodlands.
Simply register online for the Wholeness Course. All are welcome.
Women's Refresh Morning on Saturday, 1 February
It’s nearly time for our Refresh Morning!
It’s a great chance for us to gather together as women from across the Woodies congregations to worship, hear from God and be refreshed when winter seems to be dragging on.
The morning will include coffee and pastries, plus interviews and Deb Marsh from Highgrove will be speaking on Proverbs 31:25 - "She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.”
The Refresh Morning begins at 9.15am and finishes at 12.30pm. A £3 ticket includes pastries and refreshments.
Save the date:
Our next women’s event after this Refresh Morning is our all-day conference on 20th June 2020.
Prayer Power - Preaching Series for January 2020
Unleashing the Power of Prayer
Join us as we kick start 2020 with a new series on Prayer Power - which looks at how we can unleash the power of prayer in our everyday lives.
There will be four themes for sermons across the month, including praise, confession, fasting and petition and we’ll be focusing on the prayer life of David, using scriptures from 2 Samuel and the Psalms.
You can watch the different sermons that make up this series below.
Watch this sermon from Woodlands Church in Bristol, the first of our new Prayer Power series for January 2020. Talk given on the topic of praise on 5 January 2020 at our 11am service.
EcoChallenge for January: Carbon Footprint
At Woodies, we are keen love God's creation and our People + Planet group is key in helping us to reduce our impact on the environment as a church. For the year ahead, we want to challenge everyone in church to do the same - so each month we’ll be having an EcoChallenge.
The Thinking behind EcoChallenges
At Woodies People and Planet, we have been thinking for a while about how we should, as Christians (and as a church) respond to the global environmental crisis we are facing. If you have started thinking about this too, like us you may well have found it rather overwhelming! The scale of the problems we face seem to be far bigger than us, yet at the same time we are so often contributing to the problems by our own lifestyles in many different ways. It can be hard to know where to start.
We are aiming to pitch the challenges so that whether you are a card-carrying environmentalist, or a pretty average member of the public, they will be achievable and relevant. Some will be focussed on personal actions to take: our actions do make a difference, and moreover we are all influenced by what we see our friends and neighbours do - so individual changes we make can be part of a wider change in culture in our church, our city and our country. Of course, a lot of the things which need to happen go far beyond what we can do as individuals, so some months we will be asking you to call on large corporations or on our government to take action. Please do have a go at them; we hope that you will find them useful.
January 2020: EcoChallege - “How Big is Your Carbon Footprint?”
For January’s challenge, it seems appropriate that we begin by having a look at the impact we make and measuring our own carbon footprints. We’d recommend the World Wildlife Fund’s Carbon Footprint calculator as it is very quick and easy to use and also can give you helpful tips on some things to focus on if you want to take steps to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions.
There are so many ways you can reduce your carbon footprint, but first you can measure your Carbon Footprint with this simple online questionnaire:
Then take some time to think about the results:
Was your impact about what you expected?
What are the things you do which make the biggest contribution to your carbon footprint?
Were there any surprises?
Personally I was surprised by how much impact my car-use was/is having. We believe that the Earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, and that ultimately He is in charge. As January is a month where as a church we seek to refocus on prayer, let’s also take this opportunity to pray - pray for leaders and those in responsibility that they have the wisdom and courage to take significant action against climate change. Let’s pray too for ourselves that we can learn to treat our world in a way that honours its creator.
If you’d be interested in finding out more about our group, or have some feedback about the challenges, connect with us:
Sunday 29th Dec - No 9.15am or 11am - Service at 10.30am
Dec 29th - The Sunday after Christmas will be an all aged service at 10.30am, so no 9.15am or 11am service.
There will be an 8am and 7pm service as usual.