Coronavirus & us

Coping with COVID-19

Here we want to…

  • To focus, not on the fear of COVID-19, but on the real hope which is ultimately found only in Jesus Christ our Saviour.
  • To encourage, and challenge in these uncertain times.

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The small print
We have used a variety of sources and have attempted to acknowledge these as far as possible. Much of the material shared is widely available on social media.  In those instances where we have inadvertently shared something that is subject to copyright and/or without appropriate acknowledgement or permission, we do apologise.  At times links are given which lead to external sites and other material over which we have no control. Our focus on this page is on the current pandemic, but we recognise that there may be some items, or sources on the linked sites, with which we may not be in full agreement.  We do trust however, that the material aimed at hope and encouragement will be much appreciated.

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No 8 Matthew Campbell – now married(!) – is director of Baptist Youth. Here he shares from his life, his current role, his disappointments of a postponed wedding in lockdown, navigating through lockdown and much more.

No 7 Gail Curry, director of Irish Baptist Women, shares how she came to faith, how God has been at work throughout lockdown and some of the lessons she has learned.  https://www.facebook.com/HRBC1908/videos/749961475821734/

No 6 My husband and 65 days of Coronavirus (recorded end of May 2020)

No. 5 “INSIDE // Lockdown 2020” by Seth Lewis

I cannot tell (COVID-19)

I cannot tell why grief and sadness linger
Why jobs are lost, and people face despair;
When this will end, if vaccines come and rescue,
Why isolation stalks the earth again.

But this I know, Christ feels the hurt upon the cross;
The Spirit weaves our lives together still.
And some glad day, through Providence, the Father
May turn this wave of loss to Glory by His will.

I cannot tell how we can be together
When all our ways of doing so are lost;
How we can be one body in communion
If every form of touch comes at a cost.

But this I know, we’re sealed upon the heart of God
The Spirit dwells within our fearful souls.
And Christ finds ways to show his face to all of us
To lift our hopes and meet us in our mortal fears.

I cannot tell how long this time of fear will last
If there’ll be months, or years of damaged lives;
When once again we’ll gladly throng together,
To sit and laugh, to dance and play and kiss.

But this I know, we’re finding things both good and true
About our God, each other and ourselves.
So after this we’ll know we’ve met our darkest hour
And now there’s nothing we will have to face alone.

-by Sam Wells, Vicar at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

No. 4

No. 3 Peace instead of Anxiety and Turmoil

PLAY HERE    50,000 masks and more!

No. 2 A different place (Nicaragua) but the same God!

No. 1 This puts everything in perspective

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