Parkstone Baptist Church

Sunday mornings

Parkstone Baptist Church gathers together each Sunday morning from 10.30am.
We usually meet for about 70 minutes. Most folk stay on for a while longer since we enjoy each other's company, usually with a drink of tea, coffee or water in hand.
Folk tend to start arriving from around 10.15am, to greet each other and have a chat together before we begin at 10.30am.   

What's coming up on Sundays? 
We are just taking our first steps into the book of Acts, which records how the apostles and disciples made steps toward forming a new community of faith which would continue to follow the teachings of Jesus. 

En route to Acts we spent a couple of weeks taking an overview of Luke's gospel as we see a clear connection between the two books based on the very first verse of Acts:
"In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach".
We pondered just who 'Theophilus' might be and how Luke's gospel is good news, especially for anyone who feels like an outsider looking in (you can view a summary on YouTube here).

We are now looking forward to discovering from Acts how Jesus' actions and teaching continue on through his followers! In these early chapters we have a number of good friends of PBC coming along to help us on our journey.

Acts chapters 1-2: a new community is born

Sunday 14th June - Journeying through Acts 
Chapter 1:1-11 - The son ascends: Jesus appears to the disciples and is taken up into heaven
Communion with Ben Lucas

Sunday 21st June - Journeying through Acts 
Chapter 1:12-26 - The 12 restored: a new apostle is chosen
with Andy Edwards

Sunday 28th June - Journeying through Acts 
Chapter 2:1-24 - The church is born: Peter speaks of a promise to God's people
with John Good (from Ocean Church, Poole)

Sunday 5th July - Journeying through Acts  
Chapter 2:25-41 - The church is born: Peter speaks more about God's promise of Jesus 

Sunday 12th July - Journeying through Acts  
Chapter 2:42-47 - The church is born: the new community takes its first steps
Communion with Ben Lucas

with Ian Pethick (from Buckland Road Baptist Church, Poole)

Sunday 26th July - Journeying through Acts  

Chapter 4:1-22 - The church grows: arresting developments
with Kim & Steve Chaloner (from Longfleet Baptist Church, Poole)

Sunday 2nd August - Journeying through Acts
Chapter 4:23-31 - The church grows: the disciples learn about prayer 
with Judie & Ian Hare 

Sunday 9th  August - Journeying through Acts
Chapter 4:32-37 - The church grows: the disciples learn about generosity

Sunday 16th August - Journeying through Acts
Chapter 5:1-18 - The church grows: the disciples learn about openness
with Simon Gray (SCBA Regional Minister)

Sunday 23rd August - Journeying through Acts
Chapter 5:17-6:7 - The church grows: the apostles are put on trial  

Where were you before embarking on the journey through Acts?
We recently completed our journey through John's Gospel, an epic adventure for us as church, lasting nearly two years! We took time to read together, to learn from the encounters that many different people had with Jesus which John then wrote about for us. We discovered afresh how John helps us to believe more in Jesus as the Son of God, and by believing in Jesus we have discovered more about life in his name. This is the reason that John gave for writing his Gospel (John chapter 20 verse 31). 

We have been putting together a series of very short videos covering key things we have learned, and questions we have posed, and we are posting them up to our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
There should be a new video posted every few days, as we catch up with our Sunday mornings.