Words for the Week.

In the past few days I have learned about two words. The first word is “Albedo” from the Latin meaning, “whiteness”. If you’re like me, it’s not a word you come across every day, so I looked it up to find its meaning. Albedo is, in simple terms, a measure of how well a surface reflects sunlight, so a totally black surface would have 0% reflection and absorb heat. However, a pure white surface reflects 100% of all the sunlight and absorbs no heat. That’s why, in the sky, some stars are brighter than others depending on its albedo level. The albedo level of the Earth is important because it helps regulate global temperatures. You see, at the poles, all the snow reflects back the sunlight and heat so remain cold. Now the oceans are dark and, therefore, they absorb much more light and heat. Too much of this, and it causes the ice caps to melt leaving less snow to reflect heat back into space. All this, I guess, is part of global warming.

I hope after all that, you are still with me for the second word I learned. This word is actually the Collins Dictionary Word of the Year and it is, “Mogging”. Now, what was amazing to me was that on checking out the meaning of mogging I found out it was about outshining someone. Apparently it is a fast-growing internet slang word which has been voted the Collins Word of the year. So it struck me as odd that learning one day about albido, light shining and for the next day to read about mogging, outshining.

So with “outshining” and “reflecting light” being presented to me, I thought about my love for Jesus and questioned myself about my life. But it is a question for us all if we profess the name of Jesus. Do we reflect His Glory? Do we shine out with His love? Matthew 5:16 says, “ …… let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in Heaven”. This means, in our deeds and words, we point people to God.

Vic, 08/11/2026

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Our Church meets every Sunday at 10:30am for our Sunday Service. There is limited parking but there is plenty of local free parking on Sundays
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Wymondham Baptist Church
Queen Street
Wymondham
Norfolk NR18 0AY

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You will receive a very warm greeting from us. Our dedicated welcome team will be able to answer your questions and direct you to where you need to go. A member of the Leadership Team is also on hand to help with any queries. There will be praise and worship, singing, prayer, Bible reading. There will be teaching from one of the leaders at the Church with a chance to respond at the end of the service.

Tea, coffee and biscuits (and sometimes cake) are served after the service when there is plenty of time to meet new people, chat and ask any questions.

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We have fantastic programmes for the youth at WBC, for:

Creche (3 months - pre-school). Children under 3 months are welcome but must be accompanied by their parent/carer at all times.
L2:52 (reception - year 6)
T4:12 ( Year 7 - year 11)

Children stay with their parents at the start of the service as we worship and sing songs together for the first part of the morning. Someone will announce when the children need to go to their programme.F
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