 | | SBC Review of 2025 | | Enjoy some highlights of the past year at SBC , which ones were your favourite and which ones had you forgotten about? https://youtu.be/x1fbeBxZ2Uw
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 | | SBC enjoys quizzing fun while fighting leprosy! | | Last Saturday was our latest fund-raising event. Wendy Piccinini from TLM (The Leprosy Mission) exercised our brains as our quiz mistress, and the five teams did their best to come up with answers. There were also delicious cakes to buy. £325+ raised.
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 | | CHRISTMAS LIGHTS SWITCH-ON | | As usual SBC will be serving mince pies, biscuits and hot drinks when Father Christmas switches on Seldon's lights on Friday 28 November at 5pm.
Please leave donations of mince pies and wrapped chocolate biscuits in the downstairs coffee bar
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 | | INSIGHT December 2025 / January 2026 - DEADLINE TOMORROW! | | I hope you will let me have your thoughts about Christmas and your hopes and prayers for the New Year. Do you have any particular memories you could share, perhaps something you have read, or written yourself, or just wishing your friends at SBC...
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 | | SBC Preschool to welcome babies! | | From January 2026, they will add a baby section to their age range, and cater for little ones from one year old.
The main hall is now partly carpeted for the "Baby Room". The picture shows how one end of the hall will be set up once the babies join.
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 | | Toy and pyjama service | | On Sunday 30th November, we will be holding our toy and pyjama service. All gifts need to be NEW and will be donated to Quest Academy School on Monks Hill. New Pyjamas to be for ages 4 to 11 please.
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 | | Churches come together (unexpectedly!) | | Our church was jam-packed on Sunday morning as Croydon Jubilee Church had to evacuate their morning service in the Selsdon Hall - and came to us. A faulty fire alarm was too loud for them to continue their planned service.
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 | | Harvest gifts - thank you | | "My name is Nicola Knock, and I’m the Community Hub Co-ordinator at Selsdon Primary School. I just wanted to introduce myself and extend a heartfelt thank you to you and everyone at Selsdon Baptist Church for your hugely generous donation of food...
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 | | SBC Covenant service | | On Sunday 21st September, we will be gathering for our Covenant Renewal Service in SBC. This is an important occasion when we think afresh about our love and commitment to one another, in light of the greatest love of all, that of God towards us most full
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 | | Transgenderism | | At the Church Meeting on Sunday, Trevor showed us a draft statement on the Transgenderism issue, which the diaconate are proposing that SBC adopts. The draft statement is attached.
The leadership hope to have an agreed approach in place for this ...
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 | | We'll be seeing more of Kathryn! | | At the Church Meeting last Sunday, SBC members voted enthusiastically to increase Kathryn's hours to full-time from her present 28 hours a week.
Kathryn will use the extra hours to support some of the outreach activities to children and families ...
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 | | Farewell Hilary! | | As many of you will know, our Children’s and Families Worker, Hilary, recently shared with us her decision to step down. We want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to Hilary, who completed her time in this role last weekend...
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 | | Congratulations Rev Kathryn! | | On Sunday 15th June, the Ordination service for Kathryn was held as part of the morning service. Rev. Claire Nicholls - Regional Minister went through the ordination ceremony and we are super excited that Kathryn is now a Reverend.
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