Magor Baptist Church

Newsletter for 24th July to 3rd August 2026

Sunday 26th, morning service, 11.00 a.m.

Forthcoming events

Sunday 26th, morning service, 11.00 a.m.

Wednesday 29th, Forget-Me-Nots, 1.00 p.m.

Thursday 30th, Reflective Prayer, 9.00 - 9.45 a.m.

Sunday 2nd, morning service, 11.00 a.m., with communion

From Mark

A Portrait Gallery

The Sunday is the third in our summer sermon series called ‘Portraits of the Christian’. A big thanks to those who brought a picture last Sunday on the theme of Ambassador. This Sunday the theme is Athlete.

Some of you might want a little bit of time to work on what you might bring. So, here are the forthcoming portraits that we’ll be considering on each Sunday (except 9th August):-

2nd August : Parent

9th August : guest preacher

16th August : Pilot

23rd August : Fool

30th August : Shepherd

So, if you like painting, drawing, doodling and want to work on something simply bring it with you to church on the Sunday morning. It’s exciting seeing what you produce.

The Big BOOK Giveaway

We want to encourage you to read good Christian books. So, we are giving our books away! On Sunday 2nd, 9th &16th August we will put our stock of books on tables in the schoolroom and invite you to help yourself.

Any books that remain after the 16th will be donated to Book Aid - a charity that collects Christian literature to send overseas to areas experiencing ‘book famine’.

Prayer Meetings

Throughout July and August the Monday evening meetings will stop, but there will be a morning meeting on Thursdays - see below.

July Charity Offering - St David’s Hospice Care

From their first year of operation, caring for six patients, St David’s Hospice Care has grown to become one of the UK’s largest provider of hospice at home care, now caring for over 3,700 patients and families.

St David’s Hospice Care

August Charity Offering - Toybox

Toybox is committed to ending the global injustice of children living and working on city streets. The charity began when a couple were prompted by their Christian faith and decided to act. Today they continue to act, motivated by that same Christian faith, to see a world in which no child is forced to live or work on the streets.

For over 30 years, they have been working alongside street children, first in Latin America and now in Asia and Africa. Their core purpose today remains consistent with the reason Toybox was created - to help children marginalised and abused by those who should be protecting them.

Toybox

Rubbish clear-out

To help with the cleaning of the church premises we are hiring a small skip so that we can dispose of rubbish and leftover bric-a-brac items. If there is anything that is needed but is at risk of being thrown away please clearly label or mark it for safekeeping.

The skip will arrive on Tuesday 4th August and will be there on the right-hand side of the church for 3 weeks.

If you know of items that are not needed feel free to recycle them if possible. Otherwise, if you intend to dump them in the skip, please do so as soon as possible after the skip arrives, in case other people make use of the space available!

Reserves Grants 2026

At the Church Meeting on Monday the allocation of the £20,000 Reserves Grant money was agreed. You can read it at the button below:

Reserves Grant allocation

Church Magazine

The summer issue of the Church Magazine is available to read on the website and there are some copies available in the vestibule.

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