Queen Victoria cordially invites you to shop ya’ guts out!

“Hello peasants. It’s HM Queen Victoria here.

One should like to take this opportunity to remind any and all grubby oiks who usually attend Youth Alpha on a Friday night that the aforementioned group is taking a short break. I believe the common parlance is as follows:

‘Youth Alpha ain’t happin’ this week. So don’t come!’

But one would like to extend to you my personal invite-a-tion to join the rest of your delightful provincial community in Ches’am high street to hang around in the cold, look at the Christmas lights and ride on the big merry go round. For this Friday is the Ches’am Victorian-Christmas-late-night-shopping-thingy. And a jolly nice evening it shall be.

One used to love a bit of late night shopping back in the day.

Should you feel inclined, you are welcome to spend some time in the charming company of your favourite Broadway Baptist church folk as their doors shall be flung open and they shall be serving drinks, cakes and singing carols at the top of their little voices.

So why not join them in the warm for a bit. All are welcome, even the chimey sweeps and apple cheeked street urchins in top hats. Once you’ve had your fill of cake and singing you can go back out side and buy one of those glow-in-the-dark-light-up-sword-thingys just like my own children had in Victorian Britain. That’ll be nice won’t it.

So come to Broadway Baptist Church during the Chesham Victorian night and tell them I sent you.

Ta’rah peasants!”

Disclaimer – some doubt has been expressed over whether these really were Queen Victoria’s own words. It might have been that Dame Judy Dench.

Saltmine Theatre tonight

Tonight’s a biggy at Broadway Baptist Church. We’re hosting Saltmine Theatre company who are on a UK tour with their latest play ‘3 Wise men and a Baby’.
Saltmine played the Chesham Elgiva earlier this year with their own adaptation of the classic book ‘The Cross and the Switch Blade’. It was a sell out and everybody I know who went thought it was great, so don't miss tonight's show.

The show starts at 7.45pm but you’ll want to get down here in plenty of time to buy your ticket and get a seat. Admission is £1 for under 18’s and £3 for everybody else. Quite the bargain huh kids!
If you go to Youth Alpha, Free* Café, Solid Rock @ Chesham Park school or Chesham High school Christian Union then come and say hello.

Here’s some pictures of the Saltmine team looking theatrical and a video about the work of the Saltmine Trust.

Pirates Trilogy-athon!

How evil is your TV?

There is a whole bunch of high quality stuff happening at Broadway Baptist church in the next couple of weeks and it all starts tonight with Youth Alpha.

From 7.30 till 9.30pm we’ll be thinking about TV – What’s good about it? What’s bad about it?
Would Jesus watch it if he had an evening to himself?

If you’re coming please bring along something that inspires you (or something that represents inspiration to you).

Then tomorrow it’s…….

YOUTH ALPHA IN NOVEMBER

For the next couple of Sundays YA will be taking a short break so we can join with the rest of the church in marking Remembrance Sunday and in celebrating the 15th anniversary of Chrysalis Arts Trust (click the link to find out about them).
But Friday nights will keep chugging away.

Tonight we start a new series taken from The Word on the Street by Rob Lacey.

Tonight is entitled NEEDLES and we’ll be looking at 2 Timothy 3:1 to 4 (along with some other stuff).
And playing a bit of…. Ah but that would be giving it away!


The next few weeks look like this:

Friday 16th 'The Crowd' – Ephesians 4:17-24

Friday 23rd 'TV' – Matthew 6:22 – 23 & Philippians 4:8-9

Sunday 25th 'Where did I come from?' - part 1 of a brand new thing, more news soon

Thursday 29th 'Saltmine Theatre present 3 Wisemen and a Baby'
£1 for under 16’s, £3 everybody else.

Friday 30th 'Victorian Shopping Night in Chesham'
No YA tonight but come to church to say hello and get yourself some hot chocolate.



For those who don't know:
Youth Alpha is a group for people in school year 7 to 11. It meets at Broadway Baptist Church on Friday nights from 7.30 til 9.30pm and Sunday morning from 10.30 - 12pm (during the main church service. All meetings are at Broadway Baptist Church, Chesham unless otherwise stated.