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26th January 2021 We have important news about Coventry Foodbank:- From 1st February, the management of the foodbank will move from the Trussell Trust to the organisation Feed the Hungry. They will, however, remain a part of the Trussell Trust network of food banks. Feed the Hungry is an international charity, with its UK base in Hinckley and offices in 10 other countries. It is food aid charity whose vision aligns with that of the Trussell Trust and food banks in the network. You can read more about what they are currently doing on their website. Feed the Hungry has strong networks in Coventry, which Foodbank will aim to help build upon to provide the community with an even greater service. They will also welcome back a familiar face in the form of Gavin Kibble (a founder of Coventry Foodbank), as Regional Operations Director at Feed The Hungry with direct responsibility for Coventry Foodbank. Day-to-day food bank support will continue as before, with people struggling to afford food still able to access emergency food at the foodbank’s 17 centres in the city. But in the future people will also be able to access a wider range of support with business mentors, work clubs, clothes recycling, and advice on welfare, debt, health and wellbeing. Graham Carpmail, manager of our Foodbank Distribution Centre, has agreed to become a Trustee of the Feed the Hungry organisation.
9th January 2021 In view of the present high rates of Coronavirus infections the church leadership has decided that a plan to re-open our building for worship on 17th January cannot go ahead. (This decision has since been affirmed by a recommendation from the Baptist Union). Services will continue to be streamed each Sunday for the foreseeable future and the question of returning to the premises to worship will be kept under review 8th January 2021 It goes without saying that the pandemic in general and lockdown in particular can cause issues for all of us. You might like to consider these free courses (on Zoom) for yourself or for someone you know. (For more information about the organisation running the courses please email us). 8th January 2021 Inevitably some people are seeing the roll out of the COVID Vaccine as an opportunity to scam people. Please see this warning from the NHS and West Midlands Police. 14th December 2020
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3rd November 2020 Road works continue around the church and this will affect access to the main car park this weekend. We have been advised as follows "The work for new road surfacing and markings is scheduled to take place between Friday 6th and Sunday 8th November 2020. subject to weather conditions. The working hours are between 8.00 and 16.00. We will maintain access to Westminster Road and the car parks next to Grosvenor Road and Warwick Road at all times, via a diversion route between the city centre, junctions 6 and 7 of the Ring Road on Westminster Road and Regent Street to enable us to carry out the work safely. Access to Grosvenor Road will be for "restricted access only" and primarily for residents. Existing on-street parking will not be maintained on Grosvenor Road." From other information received earlier, we know that when the new link road from Westminster Road to the northbound slip road is opened, the current access from the slip road into Grosvenor Road by QRBC will be closed. In Grosvenor Road, the existing contraflow lane for cyclists heading for the city centre will be removed along with the islands and parking bays, and the road will be re-marked to permit two way traffic. We believe there will then be no parking allowed in Grosvenor Road, and access to QRBC will be via (the new link road if required), Westminster Road, and Grosvenor Road in the opposite direction to “normal”. Therefore, please note that (a) access to our front car park may be temporarily restricted, and (b) Grosvenor Road may suddenly become two-way, so we will need to look right as well as left when leaving the front car park. Please exercise extreme caution if and when you are visiting the church building over the next few weeks.
2nd November 2020 This year instead of a Light Party as alternative to Halloween we encouraged people to follow a Light Trail around 16 Coventry Churches. We had a good take up for this across all age groups. Thanks to Sarah White for leading this event. Some people who were not able to participate have asked if they could see the photos that had to be spotted in the windows of the various churches so here they are. You will need to click here and then come back and click here to see the rest. BREAKING NEWS from Sarah "We're going to do a Nativity trail similar to this Light one. But we plan to ask members of the congregation to draw or paint cartoon style nativity characters that we can then use and put up around the churches again" Watch out for more news about this shortly in our daily Updates 28th October 2020 One for the diary
8th October 2020 Queen’s Road Foodbank opens again We are pleased that we have been able to open our foodbank again on a Monday 10.00 -12.00, joining the other 11 centres in the City who are providing an emergency food parcel to people needing support. People in need of help can obtain a voucher from care professionals, such as doctors, health visitors, social workers and the Citizens Advice. This voucher is then exchanged at one of the centres for a prepacked food parcel. We are also able to issue a voucher in emergency situations. Trussell Trust have worked with nutritionists to develop a food parcel that contains sufficient nutrition for adults and children, providing at least 3 days of healthy balanced meals for individuals and families. We also provide essential non-food items such as toiletries and hygiene products. If you would like to provide practical support with donations of tinned meat, fish or vegetables, long life juice, squash, cereals, tea, coffee and packet mashed potato this would be would be appreciated. Financial gifts would also be appreciated. Please pray for our team, for protection and good health as we set out to meet the needs of the many people in our City who are finding life really difficult at this time. 8th October 2020 African Pastors Fellowship (APF ) is an organisation that we as a Church support. We thought you might like to see this short video about their current activities. 22nd May 2020
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25th March 2019 Please note that there will be no service at 6.30pm next Sunday ( 31st March 2019) due to a significant part of the usual evening congregation being at the Church Weekend Away. 15th March 2019 Rev Neil Martin writes:- I begin this article with a confession that I believe is appropriate at this time. My confession is that, at times, I fall into the category of a walking stereotype of a man. When I'm in the kitchen, I'll walk around, open all the cupboard doors to find something, and then yes, I do, I wander off, and leave them all open. I can spend 20 minutes looking through cupboards for something, only to have Liz wander in, look in the first drawer I was at, and produce the searched-for item. You see, I am a cliché: without someone to help organise me, I would have no social life. So, with that in mind, I have drawn together a group of fellow sufferers of Male Stereotype Syndrome (MSS), to organise social events that men who suffer with the awful stigma of stereotypitus may attend. (Please note all men are welcome, including those who do not suffer with MSS.) Please find the dates of planned activities below, with the names of the relevant organisers. Please come and talk to me or email if you have any questions. The first dates are:- Thursday 21st March at 7.30pm The Old Windmill pub Monday 8th April at 7.30pm Curry House (contact Iain Colville)
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16th December 2018 Lots going on in this pre-Christmas season - you can see some of it in this Gallery of photos. 20th November 2018
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15th July 2018 We were looking forward to the service in celebration of 100 years of Girls Brigade at Queens Road Baptist Church and it did not disappoint! 29th April 2018 For the 134th Anniversary of moving to the present building we welcomed a choir and musicians from Georgia USA. They are on a UK tour and those that came to us were from a group known as 'the Sons of Jubal' and also from the Truett McConnell University. They led the morning service and the preacher was Dr J Robert White, Executive Director of the Georgia Baptist Convention. Some photos of the visit can be seen here 30th March 2018 Two busy days of "Rewind to Easter" saw approaching 200 children and their teachers visiting the church to experience the Easter story. Importantly they reported that they enjoyed it and they kept our team on their toes with some great questions.
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14th December 2017 This week we have had the pleasure of welcoming people from various schools to our "Rewind to Christmas" event. At the end of Sunday (17th) morning's service please stay a bit longer and visit the various “stations” set up around the church this week to bring the story of Jesus’s birth alive for local year 6 schoolchildren. The children became “Stable Detectives” and travelled with the wise men (and women) searching for the new baby, they visited the shepherds, the angel, a scary King Herod, before finally arriving at the inn and meeting a grumpy innkeeper, (although he did provide refreshments!) Please come and see what the children saw and enjoy for yourself “Rewind to Christmas!”
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10th October 2017 On Saturday the Global Care Bake-off was held at the church - a very enjoyable event and more importnatly it raise over £2000 (with the help of match funding from Barclays Bank) for work with some of the world's most deprived children. You can see some photos here. 11th September 2017 Next Sunday (17 September), Coventry hosts HSBC UK City Ride Coventry. As part of a day of traffic-free cycling designed to encourage as many people as possible to get out on their bikes, Coventry City Council will be closing roads (More details) between a maximum period of 6.00am and 6.00pm. Roads will re-open as soon as all equipment is taken from the route after the event finishes at 3.00pm and it is safe and feasible to do so. The Ring Road clockwise will remain open throughout so full access to the church will be maintained throughout the day. Some buses will be re-routed - details will, apparently, be on bus stops. We cannot find the detials of this at the time of writing. 7th July 2017 An invitation for you to share with the children you know. (To print it right click and "save image as" [any name you like] onto your computer from where you can print it by opening the file and right clicking again on the image and selecting "print")
3rd July 2017 Since July last year we have been following the progress of and praying for the Delhi Action - Kirsty, Grace, Helen and Sara. And now after their time in Delhi and 8 weeks travelling round the country telling about what they had done, the end of their time as a team has come. You can read their final blog here. 5th May 2017 Our good friends at Spark in the Park are well ahead with planning for the event for children and their families. This year it will run from Monday to Wednesday, 7 - 9 August. Lots of fun is to be had by all. There are a lot of activities available (some are weather permitting) including inflatables, craft, sport, tattoos and time to find out what it says in the Bible about the Superheros that can be found there. More immediately they are fund raising as the event is free. This weekend they have quiz and disco - full details here 7th February 2017 Lent Bible Studies led by Rev Ralph Hanger Lent is a period in the church calendar which is intended for thoughtful reflection and prayer to prepare us for the Easter season – both the drama of Good Friday and the thrill of Easter Sunday. Many of us will be using a Lent Journal which Rev Graham Banks has produced for us to assist us in this thoughtful preparation. As we go through this, he has touched on a number of issues which we might like the opportunity to think about more and talk about with others. This year’s Lent Bible studies will give the opportunity to do just this. We have picked out themes from the journal like – Creation – Suffering – Lamentations – Sacrifice – Abiding in Christ – Gethsemane. We will look at major passages relating to the theme in hand, giving time for all involved to voice their experiences, difficulties or questions or just to listen to what others are saying. Why not come and share in these studies? We will meet on Thursdays 9th,16th,23rd and 30th March and Wednesdays 5th and 12th April – normally in the church lounge from 7.30- 9.00pm. 30th January 2017 During 2016 our food bank team distributed 907 three day food parcels to a total of 2311 people. This number included 1310 adults and 1001 children. A total of 18,650 kgs (or 18.65 tonnes if you prefer) of food was given out from our store, plus over 100 soft toys. This supported people who are finding life tough going in a practical way. In addition to this our fellowship distributed 68 Christmas Hampers to people who needed a bit of support or came to our food bank centre during the Advent season. 20/12/16
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5/12/16 Something for the New Year? The Marriage Course was developed in 1996 by Nicky and Sila Lee (authors of The Marriage Book) for couples looking for practical support to strengthen their relationship. It is for couples who are in a married or cohabiting* relationship and seeking to strengthen their relationship. Some couples do the course to invest in their relationship, others need more urgent help. Either way, the course offers a lifetime of practical ideas and tools to help keep your relationship strong. 29/11/16 Some documents to help with our prayers over the Advent season can be found here. 28/11/16 Our All Age services are an important part of our programme of worship services. Recently they have been on the first Sunday of each month but we are now making this more flexible to include key dates. The dates for the first half of 2017 are:- 29th January; 12th February; 26th March (Mothering Sunday); 16th April (Easter Sunday); 21st May (Communion); 18th June (Fathers Day) 12/11/16
Rev Graham Banks has been inducted as our new minister in a service attended by people from QRBC and many visitors from Graham's previous church in Bognor Regis and other friends from Coventry and around the country. The service was conducted by Rev Anthony Orr who has acted a Moderator during the Pastoral Vacancy. The induction was carried out by Regional Minister Rev Niel Le Tissier and the address was given by Jamie Fredricks, Minister in Training at Opengate Church in Bognor. The service was followed a by tea with masses of food. Photos of the occasion can be found here 3/10/16 We are an Action Team Training Church for the BMS Gap Year project for young people who want to do a Christian gap year and/or explore what God might be calling them to in the future.
You can keep up with their news by signing up for their blogs (contact the Church Office) or following their Facebook page Delhi: Action Team 2016-17. They will return to us in April 2017 to share some of the experiences and what God has been teaching them, before going on a 2 month tour of Churches in the UK. 2/9/16 From the beginning of September until mid October our Sunday morning services will be following the theme of prayer. The feedback from the fellowship meeting held in March showed that almost every discussion group shared some concern about prayer whether as individuals or corporately as a church. As Christians we want to continually draw closer to our Heavenly Father, and like any relationship with someone we love, we need to be able to talk to Him, honestly and openly and to listen and hear from him accurately. So it seems appropriate that we should follow this topic of prayer through into our Small Group bible studies which will be beginning in the autumn. The material we are offering is entitled “Prayer – An Adventure with God” and it’s part of the Scripture Union Lifebuilder bible studies series. If you are part of a Small group and you use the material we hope that you will find it helpful, and if you are currently not in a Small Group but would like to get involved, please contact Anna Grimshaw 8/8/16 The service to mark the beginning of Rev Graham Banks ministry with us (known as an Induction service) will take place on Saturday 12th November at 2pm. It will be led by a new member of the Regional Ministry Team, Rev Neil Le Tissier and be followed by refreshments.
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22/6/16 Over the period from last September we have been having (limited) news of the BMS Kosovo Acrtion Team and praying for them. Since they returned to the UK and visited us in April, they have been touring the country telling of their experiences. You can learn more about this here Please continue to pray.. 21/3/16 Below are few photos of Keith Parr's induction service at Maghull Baptist Church in Liverpool. Over 70 people travelled from Coventry to support Keith and Karen. They were very warmly welcomed by the people at MBC. Rev Phil Jump led the service and Rev Adrian Argile preached. The tea afterwards was exceptional.
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30/11/15 It has been announced that our Minister, Rev Keith Parr, has been called to be Minister of Maghull Baptist Church, Liverpool. He will leave Coventry at the end of February. Many people, both inside and outside the church, will be sorry to see him go but recognise that when God calls, it is good to obey! 17/11/15
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21/9/15 CHRISTIAN AID NEWS - Where is your money spent?
Mary Odey didn't know how to protect her children from malaria. She tried using herbs and a traditional healer, but these were not enough to save the lives of two of her children. Things have changed since our partner AD-CHUS started working in Mary's village. Community Health Agent Ngozi Richard visited the house regularly to teach Mary about malaria and good use of a mosquito net. Mary was able to support her daughter, Christiana, ensuring she was protected during pregnancy and with the birth of her twins, and Mary is now a proud grandmother. 20/7/15 This year we are hoping to be a Training Church for another BMS Action Team but do you remember the Nepal Action Team from a few years ago? Eunice Fifield from that team got married on 18th July to Josh Smith. Our congratulations to the happy couple!
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31/12/14 Thursday Tiddlywinks! We are excited to announce that in the New Year we will start a second Tiddlywinks on a Thursday morning! We will meet most Thursdays in term time. This will have a later start than the Friday group (10.30am) and will run until 12.15pm. This gives us the opportunity to accommodate the many people on the waiting list as well as find spaces for the extras we’re currently squeezing into the Friday morning and give us more opportunity to build relationships with these people. But that’s not all! The majority of the time we would leave the halls set up for the Friday Tiddlywinks which gives us the opportunity (and space) to run short courses – maybe introduction to Christianity, Bbible studies for Mums, parenting help – as well as the opportunity to continue some of the conversations which are often started and unable to be finished due to the nature of the morning groups. This can all be done in the familiar location the Mums know and their children are comfortable in. For more information ring Sarah White on 07967 374625 21/12/14
21/12/14 It has been done before but this morning we celebrated the approach of Christmas by enjoying a Nativity featuring the children and young people. Hours of preparation, huge efforts by the leaders and musicians and the fantastic children led to a memorable event. You can see photos of it here. 28/11/14 For the third year running our Foodbank will be supplying those visiting during Advent with a voucher to collect a Christmas hamper from us just before Christmas. We are inviting donations of suitable food which can be left at the church anytime it is open. We suggest some thing from the following list:-
If you prefer to give money, then that can be used to purchase any items we are short of. Last year we distributed 60 hampers and we hope to do something similar this year 9/11/14 Photos of yesterday's Cream Tea with live music event can be found here 8/11/14 The Thailand Action Team including church member Richard Fuller are now well into their work in Thailand. The links below are an opportunity to catch up on what they and the long term BMS team are doing - it may bring tears to your eyes seeing the situation of those they are working with. The Team's Blog A video about the Rubbish Dump Community in Mae Sot BMS long term work in Mae Sot 5/10/14 Following the extensive refurbishment of some of our rooms which took place a few years ago, we have recently increased the number of our chairs by ordering additional seating from Trent Pottery and Furniture. Following the increase in demand for conference meeting facilities and church activities at Queens Road, we felt we required additional chairs to match the ones we purchased a few years ago to be used in the large hall. Robert Price, Managing Director of Trent Pottery and Furniture where we purchased the chairs commented ‘We were delighted that Queens Road Baptist Church were so pleased with the chairs and decided contact us again when they needed more. We are so pleased to supply furniture to such a worthy cause which does so much within the community. We wish you well in the future and thank you for choosing Trent’. 14/10/14 Here is the Action Team's first blog since arriving in Thailand. It refers to "the dump"...We googled "Mae Sot the Dump" and got the following description (and quite a lot of very sad images, a couple of which are below) but, if you’ve time to do so, have a look for yourself as it will give a further insight into where the team will be working...They will need our prayer support!
13/10/14 In November we have arranged training in Prayer Ministry (Thursday 6th November 7.15 - 9.45pm and Saturday 15th November 9.30am to 4.15pm). If you are interested in this area of service or just wanting to be equipped to pray with anyone who may ask you, this is for you. It will be led by Rev Anne Hibbert, founder and director of the Well Christian Healing Centre in Leamington Spa. Open to those from all churches across the Coventry area. More details and online booking or a downloadable booking form can be found here. Leaflets are also available at the church or ring the Church Office on 024 7652 0621. (A discounted rate is available for members of the QR congregation - please ask for details). 10/9/14 The Church has teamed up with The Well Christian Healing Centre to offer traing this Autumn. For more details and online booking or a downloadable booking form click here 22/5/14 Church member Raj Bagiarban is currently spending time in South Africa with mission organisation OM. Apart from learning to live and work in a multi national team, he has been involved in various outreach activities including a trip to the town of Motohani in Lesotho (below).
21/5/14 Earlier this year we were delighted to welcome to Coventry Pastor Paul Kyalimpa and his wife from Uganda. We are aiming to build relationships between ourselves and the churches that Paul serves in Uganda. We have recently heard from Paul. He says "We are all well and doing well. I have been visiting churches and sharing our visit experience to Coventry and with QRBC. People have been so happy. and I have given bibles to churches and they are so thankful for the gift of bibles from QRBC. The churches have liked the partnership and they say they look forward to praying for you. We have also met with children and given them the clothes and Easter eggs and sweets from UK. On 10th May we had a seminar with the married couples from all churches". The other part of Paul's work is training people in agriculture. He is particularly busy in this at the moment. The photos below show some of the groups he is working with.
27/4/14 For Church Anniversary weekend we organised a walk around Ryton Pools. 43 Adults & 21 children made a total of 64 people + 4 dogs! involved in the afternoon’s event. Out of 58 people on the walk 18 just did the walk.as they had other commitments. 40 returned to church to be joined by 6 more for a chip supper. Photos of the event are here 1/4/14 There are so many activities going on at QRBC, some high profile, some lower profile. Perhaps in the latter category is the Craft Group which has been quietly meeting monthly since 1989. This years Easter activity has been decorating candles with a seasonal theme.
31/3/14 Church member Raj Bagiarban is currently in South Africa on a Mission Discipleship Training course with Operation Mobilisation (OM).
"Me and Evelyn are team leaders for Team 2 … this is a massive shock for both of us as we don’t feel like we are natural leaders. But this will be a fantastic challenge for us both". The team have recently visited a town called Motohani in Lesotho. Before they went Raj wrote "We will be living in mud huts and there is no washing facilities and it’s a 10KM round trip for water everyday. Spiritual warfare here is rife and we are not used to it in the Western world as much" We hope to be able to bring a report of this trip and Raj's other activities soon.
5/3/14 Will you know how to get to church? Work starts soon on the giant redevelopment scheme near the church called "Friargate". The scheme will provide the Council with new offices drawn together on a single site from several places currently. There will also be offices, hotelsand even some housing on what is now the Grosvenor Road public car park although this is all going to take many years to achieve, perhaps fifteen. The first part of the scheme is to change the road layout and to build a bridge deck, 100 metres wide, over the Ring Road to make a sweeping walk from the Station to the City Centre via an enlarged Greyfriars Green. On the weekend of 22nd/23rd March the three "Junction 6" bridges over the Ring Road (two road and one pedestrian) will be demolished and thereafter temporary traffic arrangements will be in place for about 18 months until the new road layout is finalised. Detailed guidance of how to access the church by car can be found here and will be kept updated. Information about changes to bus routes is here Also on 23rd March is the Coventry Half Marathon! The route has been changed and this year, for perhaps obvious reasons it does not come anywhere near the church. The arterial roads that are affected are Holyhead Road and Radford Road - more details here This "artists impression" should be taken with a pinch of salt as it does not appear to offer access to Grosvenor Road or to Central Six. A plan of the finished scheme appears to show these accesses being unchanged from the present i.e off the Ring Road slip road and off the small roundabout respectively.
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24/2/14 VISIT OF PAUL & CHRISTINE KYALIMPA from Uganda 19/2/14 Each week we welcome many people and organisations who hire parts of our church premises. They run various activities which are not under the control of the church but are helping people in various different ways. Some are charities while others are run by people who are making their living from the activities. One such organisation is Patchwork Craft who would like you to know this about them:- "We would like to let you know about our art and craft workshops for adults with learning disabilities in Coventry at Queens Road Baptist Church. Patchwork Craft are running a weekly course on Tuesday afternoons 12.30-3.00, term time only. We have a long history of working with adults with learning disabilities and see great value in the therapeutic benefits of art and craft. Our workshops are an environment where friends can be made and new skills can be developed. We also have a break for a cuppa and biscuit! There is a charge for the workshops, £8 per session or £6 when booking 4 or more sessions. Contact us for more details; 07757438233 / 07930608818 or email us at patchworkcraft@gmail.com" 18/2/14
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28/1/14 The Riding Lights are a theatre company with a Christian ethos committed to producing work with a spiritual heart that encourages, inspires and challenges audiences. They are performing at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, from 1st to 22nd February. The play is Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. You can view a trailer for the show here and more about the Riding Lights is here
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