Save the Date!
We can’t wait for the Highgrove Weekend Away!
We’re headed to Hebron Hall in Dinas Powys, just over an hour from Bristol.
Booking will open soon, but make sure you reserve the weekend of 5-7 July 2024 in your diaries!
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The Woodlands Church Family is a vibrant, growing family of churches with six churches located across the city of Bristol and a vision to plant more. As we’ve grown, so too has our staff team, and we now have over 50 employees.
We are looking for an experienced HR professional to join our team and help us as we continue to develop our working practices and culture, so that all staff are supported and encouraged to flourish in their roles.
The Role
The HR Lead will oversee our staff recruitment, development and performance review process as well as working with our Trustees and Senior Leadership to ensure we have a healthy workplace culture and positive staff wellbeing. The HR Lead will also have a key role in compliance, ensuring we reflect current regulations and guidance in our practices and documentation.
Terms
The role will be part time, ideally 3-4 days a week with an FTE salary of £30,000-£35,000 depending on experience and qualifications. The annual holiday entitlement is 25 days pro rata. The role will primarily be based at Woodlands Church in Clifton, Bristol with flexible and home working available by arrangement.
How to apply
Please email julia.shrimpton@woodlandschurch.net for the detailed job description and an application form. The closing date for applications is midnight on Wednesday 31 January 2024. This vacancy will close once we have sufficient applications.
If shortlisted, interviews will take place at Woodlands Church week commencing Monday, 5 February 2024.
Please contact dave.roderick@woodlandschurch.net if you have any questions about the role.
Please send all applications to dave.roderick@woodlandschurch.net and cc them to julia.shrimpton@woodlandschurch.net.
On 12 November, we start a brand new 3 week preaching series on the book of 1 John.
Who is God?
What is He like?
The apostle John gives three statements in his first letter to help us understand more of God’s character. Join us as we explore these descriptions and the book of 1 John.
To help us make the most of this series, Peter Hatton will be leading a special Highgrove Bible School evening giving an overview of the book. Join us at 7.45pm on Wednesday 1 November.
We've also launched a D Group challenge for November - groups of 3 or 4 joining together to read 1 John over a 24-day journey using the Bible app. Find out more and sign up to join in!
To kick off the new year well, we invite you to join with all of the Woodlands Church Family for a Week of Prayer and Fasting starting on Sunday 15 January. Our vision is to come together spiritually in prayer and fasting, bringing to God our hopes for the city, for the world and for His Church.
Here are all the ways you can join with us in prayer.
- Join us for an evening of Prayer and Worship on Tuesday 17 January starting at 7.45pm at Woodlands Central. More event details can be found here.
- Join us for our Wednesday 7am prayer gathering on Zoom!
- Click here to download and print our prayer resource.
- Information and guidance on fasting can be found here.
- Join our Facebook News and Notices group for daily prayer posts throughout the week.
January 2023 update!
It's looking like the building work will be completed in early February 2023. Thank you for bearing with us!
29 July 2022
After many years of planning, the Highgrove Building project is now underway!
Following the recent granting of planning permission, we’re extending the building over the current driveway to give greater accessibility with ramps, wider doorways and an accessible toilet, greater visibility with a glass fronted entrance and greater capacity. As well as an additional space to be used in various ways, the foyer will give us more room in that busy crossover period between the two Sunday services.
You can see the plans on the noticeboard in the main hall at church, or online here.
We’ll be able to continue using the building for the majority of the period of building work, but we’ll need to bear with some inconvenience for a while!
Any questions, do get in touch.
You’re invited to join us for our annual Global Partnership Weekend on 12 and 13 June 2021.
Jesus said, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation”.
Join us on Zoom as we hear encouraging stories from our Global Partners. We’ll have seminars about bringing together climate change and mission plus breakout sessions for different regions.
On Saturday, we are running morning and evening sessions on Zoom and then on Sunday we will have a global theme at all our services.
Morning Session:
Dare to care for God’s world
Saturday, 12 June 2021
from 10.30am - 12.30pm
Join us as we take a fresh look at what the Bible says about creation care, plus enjoy conversations with our Global Partners on what that could mean for us all.
Evening Session:
Meet our Global Partners & hear stories of faith
Saturday, 12 June 2021
from 7.45pm - 9.15pm
Join us as we host eight world ‘rooms’ so you can meet our Global Partners, hear stories of faith and find out what's been happening in their lives as they serve God across the world.
It’s been fantastic to be gathering back in the Highgrove building on a Sunday morning. There’s nothing like being together, with the Holy Spirit at work in our midst. But each Sunday is tinged with a little sadness as we recognise how many of our church family are missing.
So we’ve been praying and thinking about how to MAKE MORE ROOM for YOU and for others and we have a plan we’d like to share with you.
From 6 June we will have not one, but two, Highgrove services happening in our building every Sunday morning!
Each service will be an hour long and will have the same format and content. The only thing that will be different will be the way we structure our children and youth provision.
The first service will start at 9.30am. Adults will meet in the main hall while we use the back hall for our Sparklers pre-school-aged group and our Key Stage 1-aged Superstars group will meet in our brand-new side room.
The second service will start at 11am with a second Superstars group meeting, plus our Trailblazers Key Stage 2-aged group and our Devo group for secondary-aged youth both meeting at Sea Mills Methodist Church on Sea Mills Square.
As the children will go into their groups before the start of each service, this plan doesn’t allow for us to worship together across the ages. This is one of our key values at Highgrove, so on the first Sunday of each month we will have two all-age services with no separate children’s provision.
Between each service every week we’re hoping to serve refreshments in our Highgrove garden for much needed chatting and catching up with one another.
We will continue to livestream our service, albeit at the earlier time of 9.30am, so those who can’t yet meet physically can still engage with the service, as well as maintaining the opportunities for others not yet connected to church to easily be able to check out our services.
These plans will almost triple the number of people who can currently meet together on a Sunday morning. And, as social distancing requirements reduce over time, these numbers will continue to increase!
We’re excited by the prospect of not only increasing capacity for meeting together right now, in a Covid-safe way. But also, in time, the potential for further increased capacity beyond our original limits to extend our Highgrove welcome to new guests and increase the opportunities to share the good news of Jesus further and wider than we’ve ever done before!
To double the number of services we provide, as well as livestreaming, is going to be a huge challenge. That’s why we need you! Our teams will need lots of extra volunteers. If you’ve been part of a team before then please step back up. If you’ve not been part of a serving team for a while, then now’s the time to get involved. If you’re new to Highgrove, we’ve found joining a team is a brilliant way to get to know people and to feel you belong really quickly.
This is going to take all of us, but we’re so excited about MAKING ROOM in this next season. We’ll provide more information about these changes and how you can help over the next few weeks. But in the meantime, please be praying with us as we take this exciting step!
Each day during Holy Week, we would encourage you to watch our short lunchtime meditation videos and take time to pray. Reflect on Jesus' journey to the cross and the greatest act of love this world has ever seen.
Follow the links to watch on the Woodlands YouTube channel at 12noon each day:
Rob Scott-Cook shares an Easter greeting and message of Hope with us.
During Holy Week, we're posting short daily meditations.
During Holy Week, we're posting short daily meditations.
During Holy Week, we're posting short daily meditations.
During Holy Week, we're posting short daily meditations.
Each day this week, we'll be hearing a short reflection from some of the leaders of Woodlands Group of Churches. Today, Dave Mitchell shares with us.
Each day this week, we'll be hearing a short reflection from some of the leaders of Woodlands Group of Churches. Today, Clare Thompson shares with us.
Each day this week, we'll be hearing a short reflection from some of the leaders of Woodlands Group of Churches. Today, Rachel Riddall shares with us.
Each day this week, we'll be hearing a short reflection from some of the leaders of Woodlands Group of Churches. Today, Deborah Marsh shares with us.
Each day this week, we'll be hearing a short reflection from some of the leaders of Woodlands Group of Churches. Today, we welcome Tim Dobson.
Each day this week, we'll be hearing a short reflection from some of the leaders of Woodlands Group of Churches. Here is Rob Scott-Cook reminding us of the Word for the Year.
