Basingstoke

Welcome to Basingstoke Salvation Army Online

Worship. Preaching.

An Online Family Where You Belong.

Each weekend we broadcast our worship meetings around the world.

You can find positive, practical encouragement wherever you find yourself.

Basingstoke Corps now has its very own app, downloadable on the Apple App Store (for iPhone and iPad) and the Google Play Store (for most other smartphones and tablets running on Android).

The app allows you to:

Access the latest content from Basingstoke Corps. Receive positive practical encouragement anywhere you are at anytime.

* Watch all the latest worship meetings from Basingstoke Salvation Army.

* Watch all the latest sermons.

* Join LIVE worship meetings.

* Read my blog.

The app should notify you when new content becomes available and when we go live.
 

For iPad and iPhone Users

On your iPhone or iPad, click on this link, or head to the App Store and search for "Basingstoke Salvation Army" (without the quote marks). Click on the "Get" button to download the app to your device.
 

For Android Users

On your smartphone or tablet, click on this link, or head to the Play Store app and search for "Basingstoke_Salvation_Army" (without the quote marks, but you must use the underscores ("_") due to a Play Store bug) Click on the app when you find it and then click on the "Install" button to install the app on your device.
 

For Kindle Fire Users

If you already have the Google Play Store app on your Kindle, then follow the instructions for Android Users. If you don't have Google Play installed (and most won't), there is a convoluted and complicated way of getting it on to your device. You can follow the instructions here if you want to try it.
 

For All Users

Click on the app on your device to use and explore it. The content is the same on both platforms. The app opens on the Media page, which gives you access to the main, live worship and sermon playlists. You will note that the main playlist (the top one in the list) has the next live episode at the top. This is one way to access live worship from the app on Sunday. But for now, simply click on the playlist you want to explore to access the content. When you choose an episode you will be presented with the details and the content available. The Video button accesses video of the episode, the Audio button will serve just audio of the episode, and if the PDF button is showing, then you can view a document associated with the episode (for example, our live worship episodes have access to the Worship Sheet for that week). Click on the Home button to return to the Media page.

Also on the Media/Home page is a Series button which organises the content into sermon series, in case you want to consume the content in this way.

In the top left hand corner is a "burger icon" (a series of three or four horizontal lines). This gives access to the menu for the app, to help you navigate the content:

Media

This is the place where the content is stored as described above.
 

Search

Click on this to search the app for any content that's available. Once you've clicked on Search then put your search term (e.g. sermon title, series title, speaker, date, etc.) in the box marked Search Media (you'll need to click on the magnifying glass icon on Android) and then click on Search or the magnifying glass icon on your keyboard.
 

Blog

This page gives you access to my blog posts. Choose a post that interests you and then click on it and you'll be taken to it. Click on the left arrow icon at the top of the page to return to the app.
 

Lives and Broadcasts

This is where our live broadcasts are listed. If there are any planned for the day you are looking, they should be listed under Upcoming (or Ended if you've missed it!) and if we are On Air when you are looking, it should be listed under On Air. This might be the easiest place to access our live content when we are live or about to go live (e.g. Sunday mornings).
 

About & Links

This page gives you information about the Corps, including email address, web address, a link to our Facebook page and a link to sign up to our mailing list. It also shows a map of our location.
 

Events

This page gives you details of our forthcoming events. It will ask if you want to give access to the Calendar on your device. If you click yes it gives you the ability to add any events to your calendar.
 

Bible

The Bible menu item gives you access to the Bible on youversion.com. You can read the Bible in many different translations and paraphrases (useful in the Bible reading and sermon!), sign up to a reading plan, receive a Verse of the Day and more.
 

Settings

The settings page allows you to toggle on or off several settings for the app, including if you want the app to show you a badge (the red numbers on the icon on your device) and send you a notification when we are on air.

The Salvation Army works with some of the most vulnerable people in society. As we face the worst public health crisis in our lifetime, people on the margins need us now more than ever.

From running food banks and checking up on people who live alone, to offering counselling and supporting NHS isolation units, The Salvation Army is responding to the crisis in dozens of different ways.

Please visit our Justgiving page and donate what you can. Help us support as many people as possible.

DURING THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN,

OUR ACTIVITIES ARE TAKING PLACE ONLINE ONLY

OUR CURRENT LOCKDOWN ACTIVITIES

10:45-12:15     LIVE STREAM WORSHIP | Featuring songs, music, prayer & relevant Bible teaching

You can watch on this page or at BasingstokeSalvationArmy.sermon.net/21606498

On Facebook - www.facebook.com/BasingstokeSalvationArmy/live or

YouTube - www.youtube.com/robwestwoodpayne/live or

Listen to it on any phone by dialling 01256 679888 (from around two hours after conclusion). 

12:15-13:15     VIRTUAL COFFEE FELLOWSHIP ON ZOOM

Please call us on 01256 328178 or email us at basingstoke@salvationarmy.org.uk for the relevant Meeting ID and password.

15:30-16:30 VIRTUAL SUNDAY SCHOOL ON ZOOM | Fun, Bible-based activities for tots to 12’s

Please call us on 01256 328178 or email us at basingstoke@salvationarmy.org.uk for the relevant Meeting ID and password.

20:00-21:00     VIRTUAL YOUTH FELLOWSHIP ON ZOOM | Friendship and fun for teens and twentysomethings

Please call us on 01256 328178 or email us at basingstoke@salvationarmy.org.uk for the relevant Meeting ID and password.

OUR USUAL ACTIVITIES

09:45-10:45     GRID GROUP | Friendship & discussion for teens

10:00-10:30     BAND OUTREACH | Except third Sunday in the month. To conduct a short worship meeting in a local care home

11:00-12:15     ALL-AGE WORSHIP MEETING | Featuring songs, music, prayer & relevant Bible teaching followed by tea, coffee and friendship

11:40-12:10     SUNDAY SCHOOL | Fun, Bible-based activities for tots to 12’s

15:00-15:30     BAND OUTREACH | Third Sunday in the month. To conduct a short worship meeting in a local care home

17:00-17:45     PRAYER GROUP | Second & Fourth Sunday in the month. Speaking & listening to God

18:30-19:45    CHRISTIAN TEACHING & WORSHIP MEETING | Featuring songs, music, prayer & relevant Bible teaching

DURING THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN,

OUR ACTIVITIES ARE TAKING PLACE ONLINE ONLY

OUR CURRENT LOCKDOWN ACTIVITIES

MONDAY

14:15-14:45     LIVE STREAM TAI'CHI GENTLE EXERCISE | A fun way to slow down and relax during the current stressful crisis (OCCASIONAL)

You can watch at www.christianworldmedia.com/livesite/BasingstokeSalvationArmy

On Facebook - www.facebook.com/BasingstokeSalvationArmy/live or

YouTube - www.youtube.com/robwestwoodpayne/live 

WEDNESDAY

11:30-12:30     VIRTUAL COFFEE STOP ON ZOOM | A chance to enjoy some fun and friendship with a tea or coffee and a piece of cake (bring your own!)

Please call us on 01256 328178 or email us at basingstoke@salvationarmy.org.uk for the relevant Meeting ID and password.

19:30-20:30 VIRTUAL PRAYER MEETING OR SMALL GROUP STUDY ON ZOOM | Speaking and listening to God and discussing faith matters (ALTERNATE WEEKS)

Please call us on 01256 328178 or email us at basingstoke@salvationarmy.org.uk for the relevant Meeting ID and password.

OUR USUAL ACTIVITIES

MONDAY

09:30-12:30     EMPLOYMENT PLUS | Help & support for those seeking work

13:30-15:00     BABY SONG | Fortnightly in term time. Fun, music & friendship

14:15-14:45     TAI'CHI GENTLE EXERCISE CLASS | Fortnightly. A fun way to slow down and relax

TUESDAY

10:30-12:00     TUESDAY FELLOWSHIP GROUP | Fun & friendship for everyone, followed by

12:15-13:30     LUNCHEON CLUB | Three course meal & great friendship for all

18:00-19:15    YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHOIR REHEARSAL

20:00-21:30    SONGSTERS (ADULT CHOIR) REHEARSAL

WEDNESDAY

09:30-12:30     EMPLOYMENT PLUS | Help & support for those seeking work

10:30-12:00     COFFEE STOP | Fortnightly. Drop in for coffee & delicious homemade cakes

THURSDAY

09:45-11:30    FAMILY TIME | Term time. Play & chat for babies & tots & their carers

20:00-21:30    BAND REHEARSAL

FRIDAY

09:30-12:30     EMPLOYMENT PLUS | Help & support for those seeking work

10:00-11:00     BIBLE STUDY GROUP | 1st & 3rd Friday in the month. Lively discussion

17:30-19:00     MESSY CHURCH | Last Friday in each month. A fun and messy way to find out more about God for children and their families. Hot meal served.

SATURDAY

Special events as advertised below.

EVENTS & PROGRAMMES

Sunday 26 July | Online worship led by Majors Andrew & Ingrid Diaper-Clausen (DHQ)

SATURDAY 6 MARCH 2021 – ADVANCE NOTICE: Concert by Household Troops Band

OTHER NEWS & INFORMATION

ONLINE WORSHIP

If you have difficulties with buffering or "choppy" video on sermon.net, we encourage you to: 1) consider downloading an alternative web browser, such as Google Chrome (available at https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/chrome/), 2) watch on either Facebook or YouTube (both Facebook and YouTube are better at detecting your internet speed and serving up video that your service can cope with) or 3) if you are watching on a smartphone or tablet, download our Basingstoke Salvation Army app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

RECORDINGS OF OUR WORSHIP MEETINGS

We can now produce our worship meetings on DVD to watch or CD to listen, in addition to our online and phone channels. If you don't receive one and you'd like one, please contact Lt. Rob.

CONTACTLESS OFFERINGS

Givt is a way for you to use your smartphone (or tablet) to give during our weekly collection plate offering (not our envelope/standing order cartridges, which should continue to be given in the usual way). You will be able to give in the "offering" during online worship whilst we are not in our building.

Using the Givt app is simple and easy. Whilst away from our building you simply:

1. Open the app.
2. Select an amount to give.
3. Select Basingstoke Salvation Army from the List of Goals (as the app calls them) or scan the QR code on the online worship screen.
4. That's it!

The Givt app can be downloaded from the Apple and Google Play stores and at www.givtapp.net/en/download-2/ After downloading you simply enter your email address and start giving. You can complete your registration later. The Givt system is linked directly to the SA Accounting System. Giving this way is anonymous, so we will not know who has given, but we will be able to see the amount that has been given (as we do with our usual offerings). All Givt giving can be included in our claim for GASDS (Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme), which brings more money from HMRC into the Corps finances.

If you feel comfortable in giving in this way (acknowledging that many may not), then please be ready to do so from Sunday. Thanks again for your financial support of the Corps.

BASINGSTOKE SALVATION ARMY APP NOW AVAILABLE

You can now download the corps very own app to your Apple or Android smartphone or tablet. Simply search the Apple or Google Play app stores to download and install. The app gives you the ability to watch or listen to live worship online, past worship meetings and past sermons and read Lt. Rob's blog. The app should even notify you when we're going live or when the latest content is added. This may make it easier for those who find it difficult to follow the published links to our worship meetings. If you need help installing, please contact Lt. Rob.

BIG COLLECTION DOOR-TO-DOOR APPEAL

THQ has confirmed a door-to-door appeal will not take place this year, due to Government restrictions. No appeal target will be set for the corps this year, but we will be expected to raise as many donations as we can by means other than door-to-door collecting.

TUESDAY FELLOWSHIP

To all Tuesday Fellowship members, you are in my prayers, if you need anything, or just want a chat, please contact   Ian 07966837036.This week a quiz to spot the missing book of the Bible.

1: The ____ Tree (U2 Album) 2: _____ Radcliffe (Actor) 3: _____ Pepys (Diary writer)

4: Billy _____(Musician) 5: There is safety in ______                 (Idiom) 6: Blue _____ (                  Children’s TV)

7: Hey _____(Beatles) 8: _____ Lomu                  (NZ rugby player) 9: _____ was a bullfrog (Lyric)

10: The Italian _____(Movie) 11: _____ Andronicus (Shakespeare)

Something to make you smile from June Bligdon

Signs seen in Church “When you have emptied the Teapot please stand upside down in the sink” or the other sign “Jumble sale next Friday 3pm make this an opportunity to get rid of unwanted items. Ladies do not forget to bring your Husbands”

3 THINGS TO PRAY THIS WEEK

If you can access Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/BasingstokeSalvationArmy) or YouTube (www.youtube.com/robwestwoodpayne) then why not set aside ten minutes on Friday (10 July) to pray through these 3 Things using the video provided. Or pray through them in your own time:

Encouraging those Grieving

So encourage each other with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:18 NLT)

Pray that God would help us to be an encouragement to those who are grieving. Pray that we would be looking to the needs of others and seeking to meet them.

Focusing on the Goal

So whether we are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please him. (2 Corinthians 5:9 NLT)

Difficult circumstances are a new opportunity to live in a way that pleases our Creator. Whether their illness is serious, or minor pray that those Christians we know who are sick would make pleasing God their number one goal as they focus on their recovery. Pray that they would take the opportunities God gives them to respond to their situation in a deliberately godly way.

Patience with God

We give great honour to those who endure under suffering. For instance, you know about Job, a man of great endurance. You can see how the Lord was kind to him at the end, for the Lord is full of tenderness and mercy. (James 5:11 NLT)

“Why is God letting this happen?” “When will he stop this?” “Why won’t he answer my prayers?” Ask God to help you to be patient with his plans, and specifically with his timing. Pray for increasing confidence that God’s ways always lead to blessing for his people, even when you can’t see how that can be.

Quiz Answers: 1: Joshua 2: Daniel 3: Samuel 4: Joel 5: Numbers 6: Peter 7: Jude 8: Jonah 9: Jeremiah 10: Job 11: Titus

PRAYER REQUESTS

Those who are sick, especially those in hospital. Those who have been bereaved recently. Those who are concerned about family members. All those who are working on the NHS and other frontlines.

3 THINGS TO PRAY THIS WEEK

3 THINGS TO PRAY THIS WEEK

If you can access Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/BasingstokeSalvationArmy) or YouTube (www.youtube.com/robwestwoodpayne) then why not set aside ten minutes on Friday (19 June) to pray through these 3 Things using the video provided. Or pray through them in your own time:

Peace for Worried Loved Ones

Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. (Romans 5:1 NLT)

Christians are at peace with the most important person in the universe - but we find it easy to forget this! For those worried about sick and grieving loved ones we pray in Christ that they will know and treasure this peace. Ask that they would always be able to rejoice in the wonder of God's Good News, even as things in life seem to be going wrong.

The Tragedy of Racism

When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her, a deep anger welled up within him, and he was deeply troubled. ... Then Jesus wept. (John 11: 33, 35 NLT)

Thank Jesus that he knows how to cry with grief. We pray for all those affected by the death of George Floyd, and the unrest which has followed around the world. We pray that those close to him and those who experience racism would come to see Jesus as we see him in this story - deeply grieved for the hurting, and outraged at the intrusion of suffering in his creation. Ask God to give you a more compassionate - more Christ-like - heart.

Lonely, but Known

O Lord, you have examined my heart

    and know everything about me.

  You know when I sit down or stand up.

    You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. (Psalm 139:1-2 NLT)

Loneliness is so hard to endure! But praise God that even when we feel at our most alone and unknown, he sees us and understands us perfectly. It may be that no one else can share in what we're doing or see how we're feeling, but God "knows everything [we] do" (v.3). So talk to him now - out loud if that helps - about whatever is on your heart.