Today's Meetings:

9.45am Children's Bible Club
10.15am Sunday Prayer Meeting in cottage
11.00am Morning Service
6.30pm Evening Service - After Church Fellowship will be at Mike and Rosemarys.

Weekly Meetings:

Tuesday

8.00 Lord's Table and Members' Meeting

Wednesday

9.30am to 11.00am Mums & Tots
3.45pm to 4.45pm Children's Hour
6.45pm to 8.00pm KIC club - For Year 4, 5 & 6 children.

Thursday

2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker: Andrew Hill from Slavic Gospel Association is bringing a presentation.
7.45pm Bible study and prayer meeting - Clive Anderson is bringing his presentation on "Gunpowder treason and plot"

Friday

7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children

Sunday

11.00am & 6.30pm Sunday Services - Led by Pastor

Thought For The Week:

"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the paths of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful." Psalm 1:1

Prayer For The Church:

Thank God that all was well when Elaine went for her scan on Wednesday. Continue to pray for the baby's healthy growth.

Please pray for Debbie as she begins her new job tomorrow.

Please also pray for Ruth and Sarah as they look for permanent work.

Continue to pray for the midweek meetings that God may bless these; thanking Him for granting the requests of His people this week!

Pray that God will give us wisdom at our members' meeting on Tuesday.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Knaphill is the church on the Prayer Diary for the coming week. The church correspondent writes: ‘Give thanks for answered prayer, Ben Short has accepted the call to the pastorate. Pray that he will soon be able to move to Knaphill.'

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Resolution on Armenian genocide may affect minority Christians
Turkey has hotly denied that the killing of nearly 1.5 million Armenians during World War I was a genocide. However, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee classified it as such on Wednesday.
The resolution is a "dramatic shift of wording" that officially labels the events a genocide.

Turkey's president Abdullah Gul has called the action by the U.S. subcommittee "unacceptable."
The decision comes at a time when relations between the U.S. and Turkey are already tense. Potentially, one way to strike back is to strike against Christians because this could be perceived as Christians ganging up on Turkish Muslims. And that makes a potential target out of the Christians who are in Turkey. There are only about 3,000 evangelical believers in a population of 65 million.

A report from the Turkish Alliance of Protestant Churches, said that there have been several recorded threats and attacks on church buildings, citing a noticeable increase since the April 2007 attacks in Malatya.

Jez and Helen Fage - Considering missions work in Uganda
We have been back in the UK for nine months and we continue to be amazed at all that God is doing and how He continues to surprise and bless us.

Since arriving back from Namibia in January, we have been pursuing some lines of possibility in Africa for us. In February, Gary Snowzell from Leominster came to talk to us and the elders about his new work in Africa, with a possibility of us becoming involved. Gary went back to Africa in June and an opportunity arose for Jez to go out with Gary's team to Uganda.

Jez travelled in the capital Kampala and had many opportunities to speak with the leaders of the projects out there about future possibilities.

And the question for us right now - is Uganda the next step for us?

Here in Swansea we continue to work at the church on a regular basis and with the kid's cell group. We are excited to have responsibility for this lively group which now numbers 14- we are passionate about seeing God work in their lives. It has been great to see their progression and openness to God; this term we are seeking to build on those foundations.

Weekly Bible Readings:

Mon 15th Oct

Job 30

James 5

Tue 16th Oct

Job 31

1 Peter 1

Wed 17th Oct

Job 32

1 Peter 2

Thur 18th Oct

Job 33

1 Peter 3

Fri 19th Oct

Job 34

1 Peter 4

Sat 20th Oct

Job 35

1 Peter 5

Sun 21st Oct

Job 36

2 Peter 1

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.