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Schools Ministry Billericay (SMB)

Schools Ministry Billericay (SMB) was established in 1992 to support the local schools in delivering exciting and relevant Religious Education programmes to the children and young people in our town. It is part of the work of 'Churches Together in Billericay', and is run in conjunction with Viz-A-Viz, via Schools Ministry Billericay Management Board.

Schools Ministry Billericay Page on Viz-A-Viz Website

The Schools Ministry Billericay Workers

Jane Andrews was employed in September 2005 in association with Viz-A-Viz Ministries. She has 8 years schools work experience, on a voluntary basis and she has been involved as a church based children’s worker since 1992. She now helps lead a team of nearly 20 volunteers working in both Primary and Secondary schools. Jane is married with two sons.

Sue Reader was also employed in September 2005 in association with Viz-A-Viz Ministries. She has taught Junior Jazzercise (a children’s dance class) for the last 10 years and continues to teach local school children. She was also a volunteer with SMB before being employed. She now helps lead the team of volunteers with Jane. Sue is also married with two sons.

Sue and Jane’s vision for SMB They aim to bring the reality of Jesus to the young people in the schools and create bridges between those schools and the local churches.

They achieve this in a variety of ways, in all 16 schools in Billericay, using assemblies, lessons and lunch time clubs. These include Alf (About Life and Faith), Bible Explorer, Youth Alpha and whatever God inspires them with.

Many thanks for your support Sue Reader and Jane Andrews Schools workers - Billericay.

If you feel you would like to be a part of the schools work in anyway please contact us on Tel 01277 829889 or SMB, Stockbrook Orchard, Stock CM4 9PQ or Email smb@smbbase.freeserve.co.uk

Below see SMB News and Prayer Diary

SMB NEWS

Summer Term 2006 News Letter 

As we (Sue, Jane and SMB’s Volunteers) look forward to an exciting summer we give thanks to The Lord for He is good, His love endures forever!
The opportunities to take the good news of the gospel into our schools increase by the week. God has surely given us the favour of the people. Many thanks to those of you who have so faithfully supported us in prayer (and in many other ways) during these past two terms. The Kingdom is being extended in this place because of your commitment.

Jane and Sue successfully ‘made the split’ last term and are now covering a greater number of appointments, working as individuals as well as a ‘double-act’. We have been so encouraged by the positive response we have had, from the schools, to the material we are delivering. Praise the Lord for His inspiration and equipping. May it ever continue.


During the Spring term we were able to deliver at least 2 assemblies each, in 14 of our 16 schools with themes including ‘Perseverance’, ‘Mothers’ and ‘Looking after Ourselves’. This number increases when the Easter assemblies are included where, for example, Gary Bott and Mark Pape were able to deliver Easter assemblies to 5 different year groups at Mayflower High School. Mayflower’s bookings have been a particular thrill for us all as it has been 3 years since anyone involved with SMB has been invited to deliver their Easter assemblies.
Bookings are already rolling in for this term with our diaries filling up fast.

On April 27th, Sue and Jane will be attending a ‘Multi-Agency Knowledge Sharing Conference’ with all the Head Teachers from Billericay schools. On May 10th and 11th, Gary and Mark will be accompanying Mayflower yr 7’s on trips to Canterbury Cathedral. On Sat. June 17th, Jane and Sue will be teaching a seminar on ‘Reaching our young people for Jesus through our Local Schools at the Eastern Baptists Association Assembly.
Please pray for good relationships and God’s favour for all these opportunities.

Lesson news has been very exciting regarding the hoped for bookings at Mayflower (thankyou to all those who faithfully prayed for this). We were invited to cover 10 lessons with year 11’s where we were able to share testimonies of how God had impacted our lives. This prompted much animated discussion and lively debate. There are plans for us to deliver the same sort of lessons to years 7 and 9 though we have no firm dates as yet (again, please pray for this).
We plan to offer Billericay School the same sort of lesson format for this term.

Major Thanks

This term’s 1st major ‘thank-you’ goes to the amazing ladies from the Buttsbury Infants and Juniors prayer support groups for their fabulous fund-raising, jacket potato lunch. The event was so popular the ladies only just had enough potatoes. This year they raised over 300 pounds, which will go towards supplying ‘It’s your Move’ books for our towns rising year 7’s.
We also want to thank all the lovely people who baked delicious cakes for the Charity table-top sale at the Mayflower hall, and the kind ladies who manned the table. We were able to raise awareness of the work of SMB as well as raising funds. This added nearly 200 pounds, to our funds and probably a few to our waist-lines also.

And last but not least we want to say two HUGE thank-yous to our retiring Chairman, Paul Hinkley for his leadership over many years and our line-manager from Viz-a-Viz, Simon Parish for his guidance, support and wisdom. God has called Paul and Simon along new paths at this time and we wish them both His absolute best for the future. Pray with us for The Lord’s will as we seek to replace these two fine men.

Sue successfully presented OT BX at Quilters Juniors and they are now showing an interest in including NT for their year 6’s next year. Jane presented NT BX at South Green Juniors which has subsequently led to one young man getting permission from his non-church-going parents to attend the local church. Praise God for the encouragement of ‘visible’ fruit. Anita Morgan has bookings for OT and NT at Buttsbury Juniors for this term and although we have yet to finalise firm bookings for Brightside and Sunnymede Juniors we know they are keen to put dates in the diary.

Our e:merge groups have developed well this term with Jill Sinclair (Youth Leader at Billericay Methodists) being involved at Mayflower alongside Sue, Kirby and Mark. Jane, Kirby and Mark continue to lead at Billericay. Growth has been steady and encouraging. Please pray that many young people from our e:merge groups are able to attend SOLID this year.

ALF news this term has been very exciting. Angela Wood from Christchurch and Linda Norton, Childrens Worker from Billericay Baptist Church, continue to do a sterling job delivering a lunchtime club at Buttsbury Juniors, with numbers sometimes reaching 30+.
Sue and Jane, with help from Linda and Kirby Lockert (a Girls Brigade ‘year-out’ volunteer) began a new ALF club at Brightside in February. After wondering whether the new group would attract many attendees, we were overwhelmed when 71 students turned up for the first meeting. During our last meeting we had 55 attendees and 34 of them made a decision to follow Jesus. Isn’t it interesting that we pray ‘that none shall be lost’ and then we can be so surprised when Our Gracious Lord answers our prayers.
May all the glory go to Him.
We would love to start new ALF clubs in the other primary schools in our town. Please pray that God would raise up the workers to go out and bring in this rich harvest and that He would lead these new believers across the ‘bridge’ between school and church.

Dates for the Diary

. Wed. April 26th - Team to prayer-walk all of our towns schools.
. Sat. June 3rd - Musical Concert in aid of SMB, 7:30pm at URC Church. Many talented artists will be performing.
. Sat. June 10th - SMB Summer Fun Day, 10:00am till 2:00pm, at Stockbrook Nursery. Fun for all the family with lunch available, too (+still time to get home for England’s 1st match).

Wishing you all a blessed, warm and wonderful summer.
Sue and Jane

PRAYER DIARY

Summer Term 2006 Prayer List 

April

Weds 19th               Pray for Sue and Jane on their retreat day with Viz.

Thurs 20th             Quilters Junior assembly 10.10am.   Youth meeting at Baptist church - PM.

Fri 21st                   Pray for Emerge group every Friday at Mayflower School.

Mon 24th                Buttsbury Infant assembly 9.05am.  Volunteer meeting at the Link 10.30am.  

Tues 25th               Pray for Emerge group every Tuesday at Billericay School.

Weds 26th              Prayer walking all Billericay schools.

Thurs 27th              South Green Junior assembly 9.10am.  Billericay Education Community Conference.

Fri 28th                  Angela Wood (SMB Volunteer).                                         (Sue and Jane attending).

May

Mon 1st                    Pray that everyone has a refreshing Bank Holiday Monday.

Tues 2nd                 Children and staff at Buttsbury Junior School.

Weds 3rd                Downham assembly 10.10am.

Thurs 4th                Children and staff at Buttsbury Infant School.

Fri 5th                     Sue Pittman - SMB Volunteer and St Johns School.            

Mon 8th                   South Green Junior assembly 10.15am.

Tues 9th                  Peter Brierley - Site Manager of SMB Base.      

Weds 10th                Year 7 Mayflower Canterbury trip today and tomorrow.

Thurs 11th                 Sue and Jane at Christian Resource Exhibition (Youth Day) 10am-5pm.

Fri 12th                     Pray for all Head teachers of schools.

Mon 15th                  Sunnymede Junior assembly 10.30am.

Tues 16th                 Children and staff at Mayflower School.

Weds 17th                Children and staff at Sunnymede Infant School.

Thurs 18th               Sunnymede Infant School Assembly 1.30pm.

Fri 19th                    Gary Bott - Billericay Baptist Church Youth Director.

Mon 22nd                Children and staff at Quilters Infant School.           

Tues 23rd               Anita Morgan - SMB Volunteer.

Weds 24th               Jane to speak at St Lukes - Cranham Ladies Fellowship Group.          

Thurs 25th              Amanda Jones - SMB Volunteer.

June

Sat 3rd                     Musical concert at URC Church in aid of SMB. 7.30pm.                                                    

Mon  5th                  Terry Hodgson - SMB Volunteer and LSA at South Green Infants School.      

Tues  6th                Children and staff at Crays Hill Primary School.        

Weds 7th                 Rebecca Davis (Bex) - SMB Volunteer.

Thurs 8th                South Green Junior assembly 9.10am.          

Fri 9th                     Pray for our fun day tomorrow - that it would be a success.           

Mon 12th                  South Green Infant Assembly 10.15am.

Tues 13th                 Sue and Jane at Christian Schools worker conference.     

Weds 14th                               “                      “                           “         

Thurs 15th               Gywn and Chas Jackson - SMB Volunteers.                 

Fri 16th                   Jane and Sue teaching at Eastern Baptist Association Assembly tomorrow.

Mon 19th                 Sunnymede Juniors assembly 10.30am.           

Tues 20th               Benita Adams and Nicki Harvey and their fabulous puppet ministry.

Weds 21st               Downham assembly 10.10am.

Thurs 22nd            Quilters Juniors assembly 10.10am.         

Fri 23rd                 Children and staff at Sunnymede Junior School.

Mon 26th                Kirby Lockert - Billericay Baptist Church (Optimum Volunteer).     

Tues 27th               Children and staff at South Green Junior School.

Weds 28th              Children and staff at St Peters RC Primary.         

Thurs 29th               Children and staff at Stock Primary School.        

Fri 30th                  Pam Laughland - SMB Volunteer.                

July

Mon 3rd                  All involved at Downham for the start of their Multi cultural week.

Tues 4th                 Children and staff at Billericay School.

Weds 5th                 Pray for funds, for the continued work of SMB.

Thurs 6th                Pray for each and every child within Billericay’s 16 Schools.

Fri 7th                       Pray for the SOLID weekend this weekend.            

Mon 10th                  Children and staff at South Green Infant School. 

Tues 11th                  Mark Pape - Christchurch Youth Worker.

Weds 12th                 Children and staff at Brightside Primary School.

Thurs 13th               Children and staff at Quilters Junior School.

Fri 14th                    Mary Dove - SMB Volunteer.     

Mon 17th                  Children and staff at St Johns School.         

Tues 18th                Linda Norton - Billericay Baptist Church Youth Worker.       

Weds 19th                Jill Sinclair - Methodist Church Youth Worker.

Thurs 20th              Children and staff at Downham Primary School.             

Fri 21st                    Pray all staff and children in all schools have a good Summer holiday.            

Emerge - Every Tuesday at Billericay School and every Friday at Mayflower School

Alf - Every Wednesday at Buttsbury Juniors and every Thursday at Brightside Primary

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