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Project Rtfrtsth This fund is sel up forlKNldiw •wJ mwM*inorithFvDY¢ thE Clwch Nor¢muneratiM ￿id¢1therdI1eCtty r* of Chwrh f(f thE with any ofikn. thr I￿n ￿ Pa$￿S StiFeTrJ if a grdnt Catt k s¢wed w coverthi No reithtxrnof h45 been mp4k kn anyof tr mernF£rs irt rc¥¢¢tof yw. save ftr r¢-imtwinB w of txKk¢i eX￿nseS with receipt5- **Annual Report for Sutton St James Baptist Church For the period from 6[th] August 2019 – 31[st] December 2020** Sutton St James Baptist Church (SSJBC) became a CIO on 6[th] August 2019 hence this reporting period is longer than usual. 2019 was a good year for SSJBC as our church family had continued to grow both with those attending on a Sunday for worship and with those attending one or more of the various outreach activities that take place on a regular basis. We had also had our first wedding at the church for over 15 years. Regular outreach activities for 2019 were as follows: - Weekly Sunday Worship and Godly Play for the children - Weekly Thursday coffee morning - Weekly in term time Tuesday School Run Cuppa Stop - Weekly Renew SSJ on a Friday - Monthly Community Lunch - Monthly Men’s Breakfast - Special Events including - Pancake Day Drop In - Easter Cream Tea - Flower Festival - August Cream Tea - Light Party (instead of Halloween) - Pre-Christmas singalong and cream tea. In December 2019 we had 10 people come into formal membership increasing our membership to 15 members – this was a great encouragement. 2020 started in a really positive way with another two weddings, a fantastic pancake day drop in and our community lunches and men’s breakfasts – and then COVID-19 forced us to close our doors. it was vitally important for SSJBC to maintain a presence in the local community as well as maintaining contact with our wider church family which now numbered over 200 people spread across 120 households. As such, it was decided to pre-record our Sunday services and Godly Play stories and created a YouTube Channel and have continued to do weekly services and Godly play most weeks with now over 100 videos on the channel! SSJBC invested in Zoom for our Bible Study and the Guided Prayer part of Renew SSJ hoping that many would link in – but the take up was disappointingly low. Keeping in touch with the church family has been a challenge and takes a great deal of time. Many different medias used from telephone calls, emails, messenger, WhatsApp and monthly posted out letters, often containing little booklets or something similar to encourage people. Birthday cards are sent to everyone in or wider church family to let them know they are loved and missed. Maintaining engagement with our young people has been particularly hard and as such we created Halloween bags which were delivered to over 40 children who are part of our wider church family and Advent Bags were sent to the 25 families who from part of our Sunday Church family which included gifts, envelopes and activities to do each week on the run up to Christmas, whilst the wider church family all received a mailout including special Christmas booklets. SSJBC also set up and led the Sutton St James Support Group to offer shopping and prescription collection for those having to self-isolate and a team of volunteers from the wider community were recruited to help with this. Having to close at such a crucial time in the rebirthing process of the church was particularly tough as we were just getting a real head of steam – however the time that the doors were closed was used to good effect and we stepped out in faith to refurbish the Old School Room and replacing the worn our roof utilising grants that had been secured for this specific purpose, monies raised through previous events and utilising much of the money from the Trust Fund. The building became a silent witness to God’s faithfulness by his provision of grants and of creating opportunities for our community to still support us with by sponsoring tiles in the new roof. As we finish 2020 we are encouraged that we have been able to maintain a presence in our wider community, serve our immediate church family and have greatly improved the building so that when we can reopen again as the community hub that we long to be – it will look and feel far more inviting.