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Welcome Network Christmas Newsletter 2021

December 6, 2021 by BandM Leave a Comment

Recent Christmas Poster on the Community Noticeboard

Dear Partners and Friends of Welcome Network

WHATEVER HAPPENS…We started 2021 with the word, Whatever happens keep on singing!

In different ways this is what we have been doing, and we sense God’s pleasure as we glorify Him in our worship.

Bright River Chapel worship.

One way has been through Bright River Chapel –our weekly online gathering from Alnwick which happens every Sunday from 4pm on zoom (with a facebook livestream from 4.15pm). You are very welcome to join us from wherever you are on the globe as we worship the Lord, and encourage and pray for one another (ID: 7253379548 Password: Albafarne).

On January (15th) we will be hosting a BURN in our local town of Alnwick led by our good friend, Lynne Gowland. This will be an extended time of worship over six hours where people from all across Northumberland can join together in an atmosphere of worship and the prophetic.

In a very different singing genre, we began Awake Gospel Community Choir this year. It is a great opportunity to bring together anybody in our area of Northumberland who enjoys having fun singing gospel music. We are still in the early stages having had just seven sessions! We are not quite Brooklyn Tabernacle choir yet!

OUR VILLAGE Please pray for the goodness of God to touch the people of Shilbottle, as we post a Christmas gospel magazine and prayer card through the doors of the 800 houses in the village. The community notice board which we erected alongside our property this year has been well used and right now is looking particularly Christmassy! There are posters of local village events and information about carol services. By the notice board is a Community Prayer box through which local people can let us know things for which they would like prayer. We want to thank ‘I Am church’ for their generous gift towards installing this, as well as the many who gave individual gifts.

Albafarne Prayer Garden, Summer House

Our village chaplaincy work continues with regular meet-ups with different ones and the occasional larger event such as the outdoor Remembrance Day service, which we help to coordinate. If you would like to spend time away connecting with God, our prayer garden,Albafarne, is open throughout the year.  There is a summer house you can use, as well as the garden plus a toilet and tea/coffee making facilities. You are very welcome.

POCKETS  Every month, we now meet on zoom with a lovely group of mission- minded folk. They are scattered all across the North East of England, but we are able to encourage and support one another as we love God, and do life in our local communities. Let us know if you would like to join us for one of these “Pockets” Conversations.

NORDIC COUNTRIES  This year, we have really enjoyed being part of a group called Nordic365, praying for all the Nordic countries. We don’t know yet, what God has for us to do in 2022 – please pray for us!

Four books for Christmas!

BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS!  If you like poetry, Mary’s two books of poems may be just the thing to inspire and encourage you or your loved ones! My Song Matters  and Beyond the Door.

Also, Launching after Lockdown, our recent prophetic and devotional book, will help you to enter into the new season that we are in.  Finally Sentness – Discover the apostolic within you  is our latest book; in which we encourage everyone that we can all be apostolic! A real wake-up call! Some Teaching sessions based on the book, and expanding our thoughts about Sentness, along with special guest interviews, are now available to view on You tube.

THANK YOU   Last, but not least we want to say a BIG THANK YOU for all the support and prayers for what we do. If you have benefitted from our work in Welcome Network, please consider supporting us financially. This can be a one-off or a regular gift – see details on how to do this at the end of this newsletter. We are very grateful for our base of supporters whom God has prompted to help us.

Bob & Mary, Snowy Shilbottle!

Please also pray for us that we will hear what God is saying and be a blessing in the North East, in the UK and in Scandinavia. We would love to keep in touch, and let us know how we can pray for you!

Much Love and a very Happy Christmas!

from Bob and Mary Bain XXX

Welcome Network, 29 Grange Road, Shilbottle, Alnwick NE66 2XN; Mob: 07988564299

e-mail:  bobbain@hotmail.co.uk; See our website blog for ministry news and info:-welcomenetwork.org

To support our work, please send gifts to Welcome Network,HSBC sort code 40-16-11 A/C no. 22141965 or use our giving link:- https://www.give.net/welcomenetwork/oneoff  

 

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SENTNESS THREE- “Building”- Third of Four Online Sessions

October 21, 2021 by BandM Leave a Comment

Connecting, supporting and working together

 

The third of four online sessions this Autumn from Bob and Mary’s recent book:-
“SENTNESS- How apostles help us to be apostolic.”

Interviews with in-depth & interactive teaching

Monday 1st November

6 45pm Coffee and Chat for 7pm start UK time

Zoom Link:-
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7253379548?pwd=TlZSOExsMkxheVJvYVY1eTN1a1JCUT09

ZOOM ID 725 337 9548         Password:- Albafarne

Teaching from Bob and Mary, and an interview with

SPECIAL GUEST:-

Gary Seithel (Across Havering)

THE THIRD SESSION:-

Hidden in the Ordinary
Building Healthy Relationships
Working together in Mission


“Apostles are foundational – they wake us up to our destiny…. we become aware of, and released into, our calling and purpose in God.”

LINKS to previous ONLINE SESSIONS:-

Sentness Introduction   https://youtu.be/t11iLFKxJ7U
Sentness 1 part 1  Being Sent  https://youtu.be/YKTaAgZqn9E
Sentness 1 part 2 Being Sent  https://youtu.be/Dzga8OQMNTU
Sentness 2    Becoming Mothers and Fathers to those around us.
https://youtu.be/3EZ0HUZ2Ulg

“Sentness” – the book, is available from Amazon:-
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Sentness&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_nos_2
“sensitive,inspiring and timely”     Hugh Osgood
“a balanced insight into the gift of the apostle”      Alan Dickinson
“Bob and Mary are well qualified to offer their thoughts on this foundational and pertinent ministry.”Christen Forster
“beautifully down to earth”       Robin Jegede Brimson

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SENTNESS TWO:- “Parenting” – Second of Four Online Sessions

October 3, 2021 by BandM Leave a Comment

“PARENTING”

Becoming Mothers and Fathers to those around us.

The second of four online sessions this Autumn
from Bob and Mary Bain’s recent book*

“SENTNESS – How Apostles help us to be apostolic.”

Interviews with in-depth & interactive teaching

Monday 11th October

6 45pm Coffee and Chat for 7pm start (UK time)

Zoom Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7253379548pwd=TlZSOExsMkxheVJvYVY1eTN1a1JCUT09

ZOOM ID 725 337 9548            Password:- Albafarne

Teaching from Bob and Mary,

and an interview with  SPECIAL GUEST:-

Alan Dickinson

(As One NE & Senior Ldr of Bay Church)

THE SECOND SESSION:-

 God is in the Parenting business

Mothers & Fathers in the Church

How Parents can ‘apostle’ their children

Parenting your community

“Apostles are foundational – they wake us up to our destiny.
…we become aware of, and released into, our calling and purpose in God.”

 

* “Sentness”- the book, is available from Amazon

“sensitive, inspiring and timely”   Hugh Osgood
“a balanced insight into the gift of the apostle”   Alan Dickinson
“Bob & Mary are well qualified to offer their thoughts on this foundational and pertinent ministry” Christen Forster
“beautifully down to earth”   Robin Jegede-Brimson  

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WELCOME NETWORK AUTUMN NEWSLETTER 2021

September 23, 2021 by BandM Leave a Comment

Dear Partners and Friends of Welcome Network,

Abigail and Scott April 2021

As  a family,  we have the pleasure of more wedding celebrations with our daughter, Abigail and son-in-law, Scott. They got married in a registry office in April, but can now finally have the church wedding celebration this October. Woohoo!

Over the autumn we have been unpacking the content of our Sentness book, subtitled ‘How apostles help us to be apostolic’, with online teaching in four sessions on Being Sent, Parenting, Building and Presenting. Each time we are  having an interview with someone on these themes and will end in November with a Question and Answer panel. The upcoming dates are Mondays 11th Oct, 1st  November and 29th November.                   

We got excited a couple of years ago at the way Gospel Community Choirs are being used not only to have fun singing together,  but also as a way of showing God’s love to people, as they listen to the lyrics or take part.To our great amazement, it is now happening in our local market town of Alnwick. We have met up with a lovely lady here,  who is now our choir leader,  and we have started the Awake Gospel Community Choir.  We sing a mix of classic and modern gospel songs. About ten of us are involved at the moment.

Locally, in our village, (Shilbottle) we continue to serve in our part-time role as Village Chaplains. It has been a great pleasure to see the community noticeboard we provided, now being used! We are adding a community prayer box,  so that people can post their prayer requests. These will be prayed for confidentially by ourselves and two lovely ladies who do not live locally. We will again be co-ordinating the civic Remembrance Day service this November, with villagers from different Christian backgrounds taking part.

During the lockdown, we started a short worship service on Sundays at 4pm called Bright River Chapel,  ‘an online gathering from Alnwick’*. People join in online, via zoom or facebook, not only locally, but from further afield as well. It has been a joy to fellowship together with dear friends in different parts of the country. If you are local to us, you are welcome to join us as part of the broadcasting/ worship team each Sunday. (*email bobbain@hotmail.co.uk for details)

Our aim is always to encourage and nurture the revival of our nation through the bringing together of the prayers, the worshippers and the prophetic. Earlier in the year we have had a number of events online to do this.

Various groups and individuals have also begun visiting our home and prayer garden – Albafarne again, after quite a pause, due to the covid restrictions. People can come to pray and draw near to God. You are also very welcome! We have also held a Prayer Day ourselves, and an Open afternoon for the village.

The Pockets Conversation group had a social in our garden in the summer. During this last year, we began this group, and started meeting up every month with various mission-minded couples, individuals and small groups, scattered around the North East, to pray, share and encourage one another.

Helping churches – We continue to provide wide-ranging input and advice to ongoing or new, ministries and churches. We don’t charge for what we do, but support towards our work is always welcome.

Last, but not least, we want to thank God for all of you, our Welcome Network team and supporters  – you have been a great blessing especially through the covid pandemic. Thank you for your prayers and financial giving. It has all helped, and we appreciate so much, your input into our lives!

Let us know how you are doing.

Much Love from

Bob and Mary Bain XXX

Welcome Network, 29 Grange Road, Shilbottle, Alnwick NE66 2XN

Mob: 07988564299 e-mail:  bobbain@hotmail.co.uk

See our website blog for ministry news and info : welcomenetwork.org

To support our work, please send gifts to Welcome Network,

HSBC sort code 40-16-11 A/C no. 22141965

 or use our giving link, https://www.give.net/welcomenetwork/oneoff

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