Trust

This week sees possibly the most challenging aspect of Prayer. Trusting God for the answer! We are perhaps more comfortable with actions that we can have responsibility for, trust takes away our control. But what an example of trust David was, as a shepherd he had faced very difficult situations, and was quick to acknowledge that it was God who had seen him through these trials. This knowledge that he could trust God served him well when he met Goliath. Davis was also the writer of many psalms including Psalm 23, which indicates his trust in God.

Honour

Well this week we were all together again for a Praise Party. It was a challenge to present what it means to Honour God. Not in the material things that we can offe, but with the attitude of our hearts. We identified 3 key elements.
1) Respect- The god who made the universe, how awesome is that, we must remeber and respect the awesomeness that God represents.
2) Pride - to remember in positive and pleased way that the same God, takes an interest in each of us as individuals.
3) Honesty - afterall if God made the whole universe, and knows us better than we know ourselves, how can we think we can deceive Him?

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psalm 51

This week we looked at an important part of prayer. The fact that we all get it wrong sometimes, and need to say sorry to others as well as remembering to say sorry to God.

Provision

This week saw the first Praise Party of the term. We thought it appropriate to look at what God provides, since next week we will all be together for the harvest service.

Talking to God.

We started our new series opening up the topic of prayer. Teaching this accross the ages is a challenge. For the very little ones we introduced the fact that Prayer is a way of "talking" with God. The other groups were able to develop these ideas further, and over the coming weeks we will use the Psalms to look at a number of aspects of prayer.

Ready for a new term...

Well we were all set to go, when we heard the exciting news that one of the young people was going to be baptised in the morning. For those that don't know, in a Baptist Church this happens by the person going completey underwater, before coming up again. Often these celebrations take place in the evening, so we took the opportunity for all ofthe children to see what Baptism is about, and our littlies all got to come back to look at the Baptistry (bit like a funny shaped bath) after the service. One little chap said "I'm looking, but I'm NOT going in!"

Welcome Back

Well we're now into September and time to start thinking ahead. We hope that you've had a good summer. Our Hope Street programme returns on 7th September, come along and join us, we'd love to see you.



Praise Parties will again be the third Sunday of the month, so the dates are as follows:
September - 21st
October - 19th
November - 16th.

In December we will have our Christmas celebration on SATURDAY 13th.
If you would like to join us for this, contact us via the Church Office:
"Hope Street - Praise Party
Union Baptist Church, Easton Street, High Wycombe Hp11 1NJ"