We would like to extend a warm welcome to you for our services today which are led by Pastor John McIllmurray (Bexleyheath)
Today’s meetings:
9.45am Children’s Bible Club 10.15am Sunday Prayer Meeting in cottage 11am Morning Service 6.30pm Evening Sevice - All are welcome to the after church fellowship.
Weekly meetings:
Tuesday 7.45 a.m Prayer for revival
Wednesday 9.30 to 11 Mums & Tots 3.45 to 4.45 Children’s Hour 6.45 to 8.00 KIC club - For Year 5 & 6 children. 2p.m Women’s Meeting Aniversary(Bexleyheath) Speaker - Graham Trice
Thursday 2.00 Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker – Mee Kee Poon C.W.I. 7.45 Bible study and prayer meeting - Speaker – Pastor
Friday 7.30 to 9.00 FOY - For secondary school children
Sunday 11.00 & 6.30 Sunday Services Led by Pastor
Prayer for the church:
Thank God for his blessing in numbers for the youth work. Over twenty now attending at both Wednesday clubs. Extra help would be welcomed for Children’s Hour.
Pray for Sarah and Debbie as they look for a job once their studies finish in the summer.
Continue to pray for our local churches without pastors and few committed workers.
Pray for Ann Winnie as she goes into hospital on Tuesday for a knee operation.
Continue to pray for Simon that his return to work will be successful.
For the Local Area:
Twickenham. ‘We praise God for the continued contacts with people via the children's clubs and special services (Sunday School Anniversary is on 13 May) and pray that people hearing the gospel may be challenged and respond as prompted by the Holy Spirit.’ Wood Green. ‘We praise the Lord for the continued growth and development of the church. We are especially encouraged by the progress of the students in our ministerial training program and the expanding opportunities for them to serve the Lord in London and beyond. We request prayer for our workers in China and our efforts to plant a new church there in a city of some 1.7 million people. There is a wide door of opportunity but there are many adversaries. Pray for wisdom and courage.
For the Wider Area:
An extract from “A letter to the Global Church from The Protestant Church of Smyrna”.
Many of you have heard by now of our devastating loss here in an event that took place in Malatya, a Turkish province 300 miles northeast of Antioch, the city where believers were first called Christians.
A group of young muslim men attended a Bible Study. The boys tied Ugur Yuksel, Pastor Necati Aydin, and German missionary Tilman Geske's hands and feet to chairs and videoed their torture and murder on their cellphones.
When Susanne Tilman expressed her wish to bury her husband in Malatya, the Governor tried to stop it, in the end, the men from the church in Adana (near Tarsus), grabbed shovels and dug a grave for their slain brother in an untended hundred year old Armenian graveyard.
In an act that hit front pages in the largest newspapers in Turkey, Susanne Tilman in a television interview expressed her forgiveness. She did not want revenge, she told reporters. "Oh God, forgive them for they know not what they do," she said, wholeheartedly agreeing with the words of Christ on Calvary (Luke 23:34).
In a country where blood-for-blood revenge is as normal as breathing, many reports have come to the attention of the church of how this comment of Susanne Tilman has changed lives. One columnist wrote of her comment, "She said in one sentence what 1000 missionaries in 1000 years could never do."
When our Pastor Fikret Bocek went to give a statement to the Security Directorate on Monday he was ushered into the Anti-Terror Department. On the wall was a huge chart covering the whole wall listing all the terrorist cells in Izmir, categorized. In one prominent column were listed all the evangelical churches in Izmir.
The Church is better having lost our brothers; the fruit in our lives, the renewed faith, the burning desire to spread the gospel to quench more darkness in Malatya all these are not to be regretted. But we pray-- and urge you to pray-- that someday at least one of those five boys will come to faith because of the testimony in death of Tilman Geske, who gave his life as a missionary to his beloved Turks, and the testimonies in death of Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, the first martyrs for Christ out of the Turkish Church.
Weekly Bible Readings:
Mon 30th Apr 1 Kings 6 Luke 16
Tue 1st May 1 Kings 7 Luke 17
Wed 2nd May 1 Kings 8 Luke 18
Thur 3rd May 1 Kings 9 Luke 19
Fri 4th May 1 Kings 10 Luke 20
Sat 5th May 1 Kings 11 Luke 21
Sun 6th May 1 Kings 12 Luke 22
Thought for the week: Joseph said to them “…You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day.” Genesis 50:19
General Announcements:
Want to get fit? If you would like to have some fun getting fit, please see either Sarah or Debbie. This is open to everyone on a Monday evening from 7.30 pm.
Annual Association Meetings The South East District is playing host this year to the annual meetings in October. As none of our church buildings are large enough the association is using the Tonbridge Baptist church for the day. Michael Birch has spent a lot of time identifying the help that will be necessary. As you know few churches in the S.East are very large – so it will be good if we can lend as much support as possible. Volunteers needed by 15th May. Details to follow.
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