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 & Janet's home

Weekly Meetings:

Monday

3.45pm to 4.45pm Children's Hour - Reception to Year 3

Wednesday

9.30am to 11.00am Mums & Tots
6.45pm to 8.00pm KIC club - For Year 4,5 & 6 children.

Thursday

2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker: Flora Lam
7.45pm Bible Study and Prayer Meeting -Led by Pastor

Friday

7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children

Saturday

9.30am Open Air Outreach

Sunday

11.00am Harvest Thanksgiving - Led by Pastor
5.00pm FAMILY SERVICE - speaker Darren Arthur
Followed by tea.

Thought For The Week:

"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 6:23

Prayer For The Church:

Pray for the on-going work of the Church as our midweek meetings continue. Thank God for the ones that have returned after the summer break. For increased numbers at KIC club and FOY.
Pray for Simon and Ali and family
Pray fervently for an outpouring of God's Spirit upon the ministry of the Word.
Pray for Mona as she seeks work and for Ruth as she commences her new job.

Prayer For Local Area:

Covent Garden ‘Praise God for sustaining us through some busy periods and for providing another worker, Roger Carter, who replaced Ben Thomas, who has gone to pastor Cricceith Family Church. There are many opportunities particularly with the open air and encouragements from those we have been doing one to one with.'

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Papua New Guinea Tribal church growing in number and maturity.
59 new believers of the Siawi tribe chose to follow the Lord in baptism on Sunday, June 8, New Tribes Missions reports. About 100 Siawi have now been baptised and appear to be growing in their faith.

A few difficulties came up, but the Siawi allowed nothing to stop their baptism service. The river was low because it hadn't rained for a week, so the Siawi built a small dam to make a deeper pool. They also postponed the baptism for a few hours to give missionary Tom Brendle more time to recover from malaria.

The missionaries are beginning to teach the book of Romans after finishing the book of Acts just a few weeks ago. About 100 Siawi have been coming to the Bible lessons.

Siawi Christians are beginning to realize that they need to live out what they are learning in the Bible, which forbids many things that they do. Their culture is in bondage to fear of sorcery, spirits, sickness, and death. Kwaelom was thoughtful after hearing the final lesson from Acts.

"I just can't stop thinking about what Paul said in Acts 28:26. Isaiah wrote that the Jews would hear and hear but not know. We have been just like that," he said.

The subject of baptism came up several times while the tribe was studying Acts, and the missionaries invited the Siawi to ask about being baptised if they were interested. They made sure that the baptism candidates fully understood the significance of their salvation and the purpose of being baptised.

They were surprised when Noa, Ekebauele and Sek-young men who had been making trouble for the church-expressed an interest in being baptised. Ekebauele used to throw stones at the building where the Bible lessons were taking place.
"Oh yes, before I wasn't a believer in Christ. I didn't care about God's road. But as I listened to the teaching on Acts, my thinking became clear," Ekebauele told Brendle and Swanson.

"I understand that Christ's death made the way for me to go to heaven. His blood was shed for me, and there is no other way for my sins to be paid for. I want to be baptised because it is what Jesus said should happen to those who believe in Him. I want to follow Jesus' Talk."

Bible Readings:

September
22 2 Samuel 4:1-5:25; Hebrews 5:11-6:12
23 Psalms 51; Hebrews 6:13-7:10
24 2 Samuel 6:1-7:29; Hebrews 7:11-28
25 2 Samuel 8:1-9:13; Hebrews 8:1-13
26 2 Samuel 10:1-19; Hebrews 9:1-10
27 2 Samuel 11:1-27; Hebrews 9:11-28
28 2 Samuel 12:1-31; Hebrews 10:1-18
29 2 Samuel 13:1-39; Hebrews 10:19-39

General Announcements:

Annual Meetings of the Associated Churches
At St John's Wood London
Sat. 4th October.
10.45am Ministry Mick Lockwood.
12.15pm Lunch
13.45pm AGM - (We still need two delegates please!)
16.00pm What's happening in central London?
5.00pm Epilogue.

Member's Meeting is Tuesday 28th October

Church Anniversary
Saturday Nov. 15th