Pray each day
Each month, you’re invited to pray for church and all that is happening with our monthly Prayer Calendar. You can view and download the February calendar below.
Grand Designs Series for February
Grand Design Series
"Understanding your identity in Christ is absolutely essential to your success at living the victorious Christian life.”
- Neil Anderson
This February, we want you to come on a journey of well-being and wholeness as we dive into a new series about understanding our identity in God.
The search for identity and belonging is a preoccupation for many people in the 21st century. Exploring ‘who I am’ is a great question for followers of Jesus, but the answer may be different to the prevailing spirit of our age.
It’s a counter cultural idea that our identity is rooted in a relationship with another and a facet of our relationship with God rather than something that we ‘own’ and can shape. Lost at the fall, a new and healed identity is one of the things Jesus came to restore.
Our sense of identity can have a profound affect on our sense of personal value and calling, our ability to overcome life’s challenges and our mental and emotional health.
Over this series, we will be looking at three aspects of the rich identity that God gives to all his people and look at how it helps us to deepen our relationship with God, work out our personal sense of identity and find wholeness, peace and purpose in the world.
Here’s what our messages will be looking at each week…
4th February: Child
11th February: Citizen
18th February: Friend
We are also running our Wholeness course starting on 13th February, which we encourage you to sign up for. Its runs over six consecutive Tuesday evenings.
You can also go deeper with the topics using the series notes. Download a copy below.
MESSAGES FROM THIS SERIES
Featured
Love Running | Philip Jinadu | 28th January 2024 at 6.30pm
Love Running is an incredible initiative that helps ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Philip Jinadu from Woodlands Metro is with us to share how we can all join in and be part of something truly heroic. Get fit. Get friends. Change the world.
Join us either in person or on the weekly livestream.
Love Running | Philip Jinadu | 28th January 2024 at 11am
Love Running is an incredible initiative that helps ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Philip Jinadu from Woodlands Metro is with us to share how we can all join in and be part of something truly heroic. Get fit. Get friends. Change the world.
Join us either in person or on the weekly livestream.
Prayer: Discern, Obey & Pray | Clare Thompson | 21st January 2024 at 6.30pm
As we go into the New Year this January, our focus is on seeking to grow in our own personal prayer life. We’ll be celebrating our annual Prayer Week as Woodlands Church Family and our Sunday series will provide guidance on what the Bible says about how to pray, fast and connect with God.
Come on the journey with us either in person or on the weekly livestream.
Prayer: Discern, Obey & Pray | Nigel Savage | 21st January 2024 at 11am
As we go into the New Year this January, our focus is on seeking to grow in our own personal prayer life. We’ll be celebrating our annual Prayer Week as Woodlands Church Family and our Sunday series will provide guidance on what the Bible says about how to pray, fast and connect with God.
Come on the journey with us either in person or on the weekly livestream.
Bible School with Tim Dobson: Getting the most From Psalms
Once a month, we run Woodlands Bible School during our 6.30pm service. We are joined by Tim Dobson speaking about getting the most from the book of Psalms. All are welcome.
21st Jan 2023
Listen to the session below:
Prayer: Good Habits | Dave Mitchell | 14th January 2024 at 6.30pm
As we go into the New Year this January, our focus is on seeking to grow in our own personal prayer life. We’ll be celebrating our annual Prayer Week as Woodlands Church Family and our Sunday series will provide guidance on what the Bible says about how to pray, fast and connect with God.
Come on the journey with us either in person or on the weekly livestream.
Prayer: Good Habits | Dave Mitchell & Richard Pollard | 14th January 2024 at 11am
As we go into the New Year this January, our focus is on seeking to grow in our own personal prayer life. We’ll be celebrating our annual Prayer Week as Woodlands Church Family and our Sunday series will provide guidance on what the Bible says about how to pray, fast and connect with God.
Come on the journey with us either in person or on the weekly livestream.
Prayer: Give Yourself to God | Matt Dobson | 7th January 2024 at 6.30pm
As we go into the New Year this January, our focus is on seeking to grow in our own personal prayer life. We’ll be celebrating our annual Prayer Week as Woodlands Church Family and our Sunday series will provide guidance on what the Bible says about how to pray, fast and connect with God.
Come on the journey with us either in person or on the weekly livestream.
Prayer: Give Yourself to God | Dave Mitchell | 7th January 2024 at 11am
As we go into the New Year this January, our focus is on seeking to grow in our own personal prayer life. We’ll be celebrating our annual Prayer Week as Woodlands Church Family and our Sunday series will provide guidance on what the Bible says about how to pray, fast and connect with God.
Come on the journey with us either in person or on the weekly livestream.
Dwell: Monthly Women's Events
Dwell is a monthly event that gathers women of all ages from any congregation together to meet with the expectation of growing faith and friendship.
Women will be inspired, encouraged, and equipped by encounters with the Holy Spirit and through relationships with one another. And all this will be done over coffee & pastries!
No sign up required, just come along to the Crypt at Woodlands.
Dwell happens on the 3rd Saturday of each month from 10am - 12pm.
Visit the diary for more details.
TLG: January's Mission Partner
Each month at Woodlands Central, we have a monthly offering where we raise funds to support our local mission partners.
This January, we want to highlight Transforming Lives for Good (TLG), who work to bring hope and a future for struggling children. You can become an Early Intervention Coach, if you can give one child, one hour a week.
As a Christian charity, TLG are confident in the difference that churches of all shapes and sizes can make in their own communities. Woodlands is a TLG partner church and so we encourage our members to find out more about TLG and how to get involved on their website:
www.tlg.org.uk
You are also always welcome to give online to our Local Partnership Fund, which supports of mission partners in Bristol.
New Year's Eve Morning | 31st December 2023 at 10.30am
It’s New Year’s Eve! We hope you enjoy being with us today and we wish you a happy 2024.
Come along in person or tune into our weekly livestream.
Prayer Series for January
Prayer Series
As we go into the New Year this January, our focus is on seeking to grow in our own personal prayer life. We’ll be celebrating our annual Prayer Week as Woodlands Church Family and our Sunday series will provide guidance on what the Bible says about how to pray, fast and connect with God.
Here’s what our messages will be looking at each week…
7th January: Give Yourself to God
14th January: Good Habits
21st January: Discern, Obey & Pray
MESSAGES FROM THIS SERIES
Vacancy for HR Lead
The Woodlands Church Family is a vibrant, growing family of churches with six churches located across the city of Bristol and a vision to plant more. As we’ve grown, so too has our staff team, and we now have over 50 employees.
We are looking for an experienced HR professional to join our team and help us as we continue to develop our working practices and culture, so that all staff are supported and encouraged to flourish in their roles.
The Role
The HR Lead will oversee our staff recruitment, development and performance review process as well as working with our Trustees and Senior Leadership to ensure we have a healthy workplace culture and positive staff wellbeing. The HR Lead will also have a key role in compliance, ensuring we reflect current regulations and guidance in our practices and documentation.
Terms
The role will be part time, ideally 3-4 days a week with an FTE salary of £30,000-£35,000 depending on experience and qualifications. The annual holiday entitlement is 25 days pro rata. The role will primarily be based at Woodlands Church in Clifton, Bristol with flexible and home working available by arrangement.
How to apply
Please email julia.shrimpton@woodlandschurch.net for the detailed job description and an application form. The closing date for applications is midnight on Wednesday 31st January 2024. This vacancy will close once we have sufficient applications.
How to apply
The closing date for applications is midnight on Wednesday, 31st January 2024. This vacancy will close once we have sufficient applications.
If shortlisted, interviews will take place at Woodlands Church week commencing Monday, 5th February 2024.
Please contact dave.roderick@woodlandschurch.net if you have any questions about the role.
Please send all applications to dave.roderick@woodlandschurch.net and cc them to julia.shrimpton@woodlandschurch.net.
January Prayer Calendar
Pray each day
Each month, you’re invited to pray for church and all that is happening with our monthly Prayer Calendar. You can view and download the January calendar below.
Christmas Eve Morning | 24th December 2023 at 10.30am
Happy Christmas Eve! We hope you enjoy being with us today.
Come along in person or tune into our weekly livestream.
Folky Christmas | 17th December 2023 at 7pm
We hope you enjoy our Folky Christmas service.
In December, we look forward to Christmas and we remember the coming of our saviour Jesus into the world. Throughout this month, we’ll be hosting lots of joyful Christmas themed services - with Carols by Candlelight, a Christingle and even our musical Nativity. We hope you can join us and invite your friends!
Come along in person or tune into our weekly livestream.
Carols by Candlelight | 10th December 2023 at 7pm
We hope you enjoy our Carols by Candlelight service.
In December, we look forward to Christmas and we remember the coming of our saviour Jesus into the world. Throughout this month, we’ll be hosting lots of joyful Christmas themed services - from Christingle to our musical Nativity, and even Folky Christmas. We hope you can join us and invite your friends!
Come along in person or tune into our weekly livestream.