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 Joyce & Cliffs.

Weekly Meetings:

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.
8.10pm Holiday Bible Club Preparation

Thursday

2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - Fellowship Meeting
7.45pm Bible study and prayer meeting Speaker - Daniel Webber speaking on the work of E.M.F

Friday

7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children

Saturday

9.00am Onwards Calendar distribution

Sunday

11.00am & 6.30pm Sunday Services - Led by Pastor

Thought For The Week:
"Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God." Psalm 146:5

Prayer For The Church:

Continue to pray for the midweek meetings that God may bless these. Pray that leaders may be given wisdom in some difficult situations.

Paul and Janet really appreciate the thoughts and prayers of the fellowship for Sarah at this time. Please continue to pray for her.

Please begin to pray for the outreach opportunities that arise over the Christmas period. Please see notes over page for dates.

Please pray for Sarah and Debbie as they look for permanent employment.

Prayer For The Local Area:
Guildford Park. ‘We thank the Lord for our new pastor and his ministry. Some young people have professed faith and are due to be baptized soon. There are new faces amongst us and a desire to try different ways to reach out with the gospel to people around us.' An evangelistic Christmas service by candlelight is planned for 23rd December at 5.00pm. Please pray.

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Volunteers help with mission air strip repairs in Papua New Guinea
Collapsing . . . breaking apart . . . sliding down storm-soaked slopes . . . overrun by thick, jungle vegetation . . .
These are not the descriptive terms and phrases anyone wants to hear when it comes to airstrips-especially when attempting to land on them.

Unfortunately, these adjectives accurately describe the current condition of many runways in Papua New Guinea. And because of their present state of deterioration, many Bible translators may soon be delayed in reaching important regions of that nation.

Working in very hot and humid jungles, Wycliffe Associate volunteers will be repairing 20 of the more than 500 airstrips the country depends on for basic travel.

PNG has more than 850 indigenous languages and is one of the high priorities for Bible translation in the world. Access to these remote communities is critical. Aeroplanes carrying translators and their families are already being diverted from landing strips in disrepair. And in some cases, the translators must walk for miles through difficult terrain, unable to carry with them vital support supplies. On foot, these journeys can take many exhausting hours, even days to complete.
Some have suggested that helicopter travel is the answer. While this does circumvent the need for adequate airstrips, it is exceptionally costly-as much as $450 per flight hour! That's nearly twice as expensive as light aircraft travel.
The answer-the only solution, really-is to assist our Bible translation partners in mounting a massive effort to repair and refurbish the airstrips. This will mean bringing in heavy equipment to push back the vegetation, moving earth, digging drainage systems, lengthening and widening landing strips, and bringing in Wycliffe Associates volunteers to work with the local people in this work.

As Wycliffe Associates president, Bruce Smith, explains, "Aviation is the backbone of transportation in PNG, and transportation is vital to Bible translation."

At stake is the opportunity for people who have never experienced the Word of God in their own language to encounter the life-transforming power of the Gospel.

During 2007, some 1,402 Wycliffe Associates volunteers served in 35 countries as part of the worldwide Bible translation team. These volunteers built and renovated facilities, constructed roads and airstrips, taught Vacation Bible School, helped with language development and office work, oversaw projects, used their computer skills, and much more.

Weekly Bible Readings:

Mon 3rd Dec

Psalm 30

Matthew 4

Tue 4th Dec

Psalm 31

Matthew 5

Wed 5th Dec

Psalm 32

Matthew 6

Thur 6th Dec

Psalm 33

Matthew 7

Fri 7th Dec

Psalm 34

Matthew 8

Sat 8th Dec

Psalm 35

Matthew 9

Sun 9th Dec

Psalm 36

Matthew 10

General Announcements:

Dates for the Diary
December 8th - Distribution of Calendars 11th Paul speaking at Christmas Lunch at Whitstable. 15th - Mums and Tots dinner. 16th Carol Service at David Coffer Court - 3.30p.m. Matthew leading. (No Sunday Bible club) Sunday 23rd - special Family Service at 5 p.m. followed by refreshments. (no Sunday Bible club) Christmas Day - 10.30 a.m. Worship service. 31st - New Years Eve - games and refreshments from 9 p.m. Devotions and prayer . - 11.30 p.m.
Christmas Cards

Post box for internal posting is now available. Last Collection on Thursday 13th Dec and will be delivered on Sunday 16th Dec. (Stamps available from Cliff!)