LEIGH BAPTIST CHURCH “MESSENGER” January 2026
VERNON ST / CHURCH ST. LEIGH. WN7 1BH
Website : www.leighbaptistchurch.org.uk Contact: admin@leighbaptistchurch.org.uk
Pastoral Leader – Val Hulme ( Days Off Tues and Fridays)
email : pastoral.leader@leighbaptistchurch.org.uk TEL 07817142192
Check LBC website for updates and info also LBC FACEBOOK page
H A P P Y N E W Y E A R !
Dates for your Diary:
Sun JAN 4TH 10.45am Worship by Revd Neil Brighton
Sun JAN 11th 10.45am OPEN SERVICE (shortened) followed by Church &Congregation meeting.
Sun JAN 18th 10:45 am Sunday Bible Study Val Hulme
Sun JAN 25th 10.45am Covenant and Communion service Val Hulme
Wednesdays 14th 21st & 28th JAN 10-11am Prayer meeting. Drinks at 9.45am
Other users of the building
Wednesdays throughout January 7.30pm All Singers Great and Small community choir
Thursdays throughout January 10:00am - 12:00pm: Atherton and Leigh Foodbank.
Wed 14th January 1pm Workd day of Prayer committee meeting.
The Christmas decorations will be taken down and returned to the loft for storage following the Service on January 4th . We need people to help with this . Many hands make light work.
Our pastoral leader will be back on Monday 5th January
Bible Verses and Scriptures About the New Year -
Let's read what Scripture tells us about God's promises and face the new year with hope! Our Lord wants us to seek out His will for our lives and to live life FULLY alive. Stop Satan's goal of making you feel defeated and overcome. You can start this New Year renewed!
New Year Bible Verses
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Isaiah 43:18-19 - “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Revelation 21:5 - And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Ephesians 4:22-24 - To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.