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Church Life 

This section introduces various activities and groups connected with the church.  Have a look around!

You can find information relating to our main worship services on a Sunday, pastoral care, activities for older people and those in the community, and our mission.  Elsewhere you can find information relating to children and youth, and small groups.

If you would like more information on any of these groups or activities, or can’t find what you’re looking for, please contact the Church Office on 01895 631239 or email us here. 

Worship services

Pastoral care

Groups in the community

Mission

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Worship services

We have two main worship services a week, on Sundays at 11am and 6.30pm.  Anyone is welcome to come and join us to worship God together or to find out a bit more about us at RBC.

Both services include times of worship by singing, prayer, and listening to God’s Word together as the Bible is read and preached.  The sermons are also available as electronic downloads from here.

The services are usually led by our ministers, but many other people are also involved.  A range of songs are used, from traditional hymns to more contemporary songs, led by a group of musicians. The style is a mix of formal and informal.

We regularly remember Christ’s death for us by sharing in a communion service, and celebrate the baptism of believers as this is requested.

A loop system operates for those with hearing difficulties. The church building has ready access for wheelchair users.

 

 

 

 

 

The morning worship service includes a crèche and a range of children’s and youth groups that run simultaneously with the service.  These are also open to any visitors.  We have a large and lively children’s and youth ministry, with many families in the church fellowship. The congregation in the morning is all-age, from 0 to 90!

The evening worship service includes similar opportunities for praise, prayer and teaching.  Refreshments are served afterwards.

Prayer ministry is also available after both services.

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Pastoral Care

As a church family, Ruislip Baptist Church is committed to caring for people.  We are concerned for people who come to the church regularly, those who used to come but through illness or old age are unable to come anymore, people who come to the church during the week for help and people within the community around us.   A lot of the pastoral care of the church actually takes place through the friendships that develop on a Sunday and during the week as we seek to be a family to one another, particularly through the small groups.

Our full-time Pastoral Co-ordinator plays a major role in how we as a church offer care to people through support, visiting and in practical ways. However, the pastoral care is shared by the whole church.

We also have a group of Pastoral Assistants - a committed group of volunteers who play a vital role in visiting older members of the congregation, those who are sick in hospital, or people with other needs.  Alongside the visits of the Ministers and Pastoral Co-ordinator this group tries to ensure that those who are unable to come to church still feel part of the church family and supports those with pastoral concerns.

Prayer team - after the services on a Sunday there is an opportunity for people to meet with a member of the team to pray. 

Pastoral care is part of being in God’s family and his world. It is an expression of God’s love and care. It is for all ages, and all stages of life.

If you would like to talk with someone or we can help, please contact the church office.

 

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Groups in the Community

For more information on any of these groups please contact the Church Office on 01895 631 239.

 

Tuesday Fellowship

All are welcome to enjoy worship, listen to speakers (who have in the past included representatives from various organisations such as the Salvation Army, London City Mission, and speakers from India, Malaysia and Brazil) and enjoy a cup of tea. An opportunity to deepen friendships and to grow in understanding of what God is doing in the world.

Every Tuesday from September until mid-July, 2.15 – 3.15pm in the Church Hall at RBC.

Organiser: Ruth Hinds

 

Fit as a Fiddle  

An exercise class to music for the over 60’s or the less able of any age. Each session involves both standing and seated exercises, and concentrates on improving balance, strength, mobility, coordination and function. It closes with coffee and a time to socialise.

1^st and 3^rd Wednesday from 10.00 - 11.00am in the Sidewalk at RBC (entrance on Manor Way).

Cost: 30p per session

Co-ordinator: Jane Rowland

 

Women’s Circle

A group of ladies who meet to enjoy listening to a varied programme of speakers from the church fellowship, the local community and charity organisations. Each evening begins with a short devotional time. During the year they support a number of charities and encourage friendship and support amongst members.

1^st and 3^rd Friday at 8.00pm from September to May in the Small Hall at RBC.

Co-ordinators: Joyce Pople and Catherine Adams

 

 

Springboard 

Tuesdays 7 pm, held monthly.

An interactive service for those with a learning disability. Visitors welcome.  The group normally meets at the church, but please contact the Church Office on 01895 631239 for details.  The group is affiliated to Causeway Prospects.

Leaders: Alison Dennis, James Roach

  

 

For further groups in the community, see also Uniformed Organisations for Guides, Brownies and Rainbows.

 

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Mission

What is our mission?

Our mission as a local church is summarised in our mission statement:

Building a vibrant, Christ-centred community with a vision for extending His Kingdom.

We see this mission as one based in our local community, through the church, but much more than just local mission. It includes supporting the spread of God’s kingdom across the world.

This support is shown in prayer, with finance, in practical support, through exchanges and visits, through regular communications, and also particularly by sending people. We support several people and agencies involved in mission, which includes a wide range of activities spread around the world.

 

Why engage in mission?

Our God is a missionary God! He sent his Son to save us and to reveal our loving, awesome Father.  He sends us to share the good news of life in Christ and a message of hope, justice, freedom. The mission might focus on church planting, evangelism or Bible translation, or might be in the areas of training and education, medicine or healthcare, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, or literacy programmes, for example.

Jesus’ last words in Matthew’s Gospel were his missionary command, the ‘Great Commission’: Mt. 28:19-20

¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Jesus also gave the Great Commandment: Mt. 22:37-40

³⁷ … “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

We support mission because this expresses Jesus’ priority, his agenda, his love for all people everywhere. God’s love is such that he wants people to hear the gospel. His love is also shown wherever his message of hope, justice, freedom is shared, whether it is with people in the UK or abroad, as our mission partners demonstrate.

 

Who are our mission partners?

Terry and Jackie Ascott : Terry works with SAT-7, a Christian satellite TV producer and broadcaster, for the benefit of Christians in the Middle East and North Africa. They are based in Cyprus and have three children.

Our mission: To help make available the Gospel to all peoples of the Middle East, in a language and way that will maximize their opportunity to understand and personally consider the claims of Christ. See also the SAT-7 mission statement.

 

Steve and Rebekah Besford are based in Mozambique.

 

RBC members J and D have a long term commitment to student ministry in a large hospital in Asia. Please pray for their work and their vision to equip young people to show the love of Christ through their medical work and to grow to maturity in Him.

 

Ken and Prema Gnanakan

ACTS Institute - ACTS Institute training self-reliant tentmakers with the emphasis on learning Bible, village evangelism and vocational skills. Over 50 residential and 400 extension students are enrolled.

 

 

 

 

Tim Ingram went to Mexico in the spring/summer 2007. He was part of a short-term mission team, sent with Tearfund, based in Ajusco for four months. He was particularly involved in working with children and families through sports and education to support families and schools, build self-esteem with young people, and aid development in some very poor areas. He has also had opportunity to see some of the broader range of relief and development work that Tearfund are involved in, including health care, nutrition, agriculture and literacy projects.

 

Graham Sansom

Graham pastors the Baptist Church in the port town of Vlora in southern Albania. This is a small congregation that he helped to plant in 2002. He is there with BMS World Mission.

In the broadest sense I am in Albania at the invitation of the fledgling Baptist Union of Albania who have  sought the help of experienced pastors in planting and nurturing churches, for them to become mature, established and actively engaged in proclaiming the gospel both here and in other countries. Since 2001 I have been involved in a new church which the Lord has planted in the university town of Vlorë, about three hours drive from the capital, Tirana.

I was brought up in a family where the name of the Lord was loved and honoured and so I grew up knowing the Lord. I cannot remember when I first heard His call and committed my life to Him but I was eleven years old when I believe I first heard the Lord's call to me to be a missionary. I am grateful to Him that the call, and enabling, to follow Him, to commit to Him and (eventually) to serve Him overseas, continue to today. I worked in archaeology for three years before going to university for the first time. I studied biology in London, went on to Exeter to take the post-graduate teaching certificate and then taught in Totnes in Devon for fifteen years. Throughout the years in Devon I was involved in church leadership and eventually left teaching in to train for the pastoral ministry. After a total of twelve years in my first pastorate in Northamptonshire I joined BMS World Mission and came to Albania in 2000. 

As well as leading the local church in Vlorë, I have some pastoral responsibilities for the BMS team in Albania, 'deputising' at the national level for our Europe Representative. I am also on the Board of the Albanian Bible Institute which provides training for the pastorate and other church ministries. One of the particular joys and privileges of being in Vlorë has been working alongside a team of young Albanians with Campus Crusade for Christ who work in the University here. The church in Albania is a young church in more than one sense.

 

 

Janet Souster

(pictured with Maimuna and Hawa)

‘I have been working for SIL in Mali, West Africa since 1995.  SIL works in Malian languages doing linguistic analysis, literacy and Bible translation.  My first assignment in Mali was in a literacy project, producing reading materials in Fulfulde, the language of the Fulani, and teaching people to read and write their own language.  For the last 9 years I have been based in the capital, Bamako, and I am currently the Assistant Director for SIL’s work in Mali.  Although I live in the capital city I make regular trips to visit our field projects in 12 different language areas.  A special joy for me was speaking at the dedication of the Fulfulde New Testament in November 2006, when Fulani people came together from all over the country, to celebrate having the Scriptures in their language for the first time.  

I also enjoy working with many different Malian partner organisations to promote and enable the use of Malian languages in all areas of society.

 

Simon Tulett spent six months from January 2008 with Christians in Sport with their Academy programme. Simon worked in schools and community youth projects in sports-based activities, making Jesus known through the world of sport. He also led youth Bible studies, was involved in schools sports clubs, and as part of the Academy spent time receiving Bible teaching and how to lead others in studying the Bible.

 

 

Pastor Nikolai and Tanya Veremienko

Pastor of a church in Chigorin, Ukraine. The most recent visit was from a team of six from RBC who travelled to Chigorin for a week in May 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

We also have other mission partners working in various parts of the world in both professional and missionary roles. We also engage in partnership activities with churches in other countries, such as sending or hosting short-term mission teams.

See also Links and mission agencies there.

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122 Manor Way  

Ruislip  

Middlesex  

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