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 at Paul & Janets

Weekly Meetings:

Thursday

2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker: Peter Jermyn

7.45pm Bible study and prayer meeting - Speaker: Pastor

Sunday

11.00am & 6.30pm Sunday Services - Led by Pastor

Thought For The Week:

"But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night." Psalm 1 v 2

Prayer For The Church:

Continue to pray for Ruth and Sarah as they look for permanent work.

Please pray for Ralph as he speaks at Whitstable this evening.

Prayer For The Wider Area:

News from Uzbekistan
Recent news reports indicate Uzbekistan evangelical churches are being closely monitored by the secret police. Christians says microphones have been planted in churches, and spies have been recruited to infiltrate church leaders in Uzbekistan. Despite these attempts to antagonize the church, Russian Ministries reports a growing number of believers.

Vice President of Russian Ministries Sergey Rakhuba just returned from Uzbekistan. "Currently cell groups and small groups and family churches have to meet underground secretly. I was surprised to hear that despite very hard persecution, the church is growing. Some of the pastors are in prison now for their faith in Uzbekistan."

Rakhuba says it was like visiting the first century church. While this type of persecution could cause many to keep their faith quiet, he says, "This persecution inspires them [to believe] that they're following the true God."

The trip wasn't problem-free, however. When the team stopped to get tickets to go deeper into the country where Christians were being persecuted, they were robbed of their belongings. "We came out 20 minutes later," reports Rakhuba, "and all our possessions were gone. Most [of the] concern was about all the contacts we had in the luggage. We're praying that it will not cause more persecution for the believers there,"

According to Rakhuba, their Schools Without Walls program will help in "training young Uzbek believers for their ministry [who] are so eager, [who] are so zealous about ministry and just hungry for the training and the skills they can receive with this training to continue expanding their church."
However, this outreach is quickly becoming an international training program. Rakhuba says many Tajik and Uzbek believers from Afghanistan are living in Uzbekistan. "They want to receive some basic training, and [they're] planning to move back to Afghanistan to reach out to their communities there in Afghanistan, reaching out to Uzbeks and Tajiks."

Rakhuba says there are approximately 5,000 believers in the country. And because he's lived through persecution during the Soviet days, he's able to help them cope and plan for underground worship.

Weekly Bible Readings:

Mon 22nd Oct

Job 37

2 Peter 2

Tue 23rd Oct

Job 38

2 Peter 3

Wed 24th Oct

Job 39

1 John 1

Thur 25th Oct

Job 40

1 John 2

Fri 26th Oct

Job 41

1 John 3

Sat 27th Oct

Job 42

1 John 4

Sun 28th Oct

Job 43

1 John 5

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