Today's Meetings:

9.45am Children's Bible Club
10.15am Sunday Prayer Meeting in cottage
11.00am Morning Service
5.40pm Lord's Table (Please see notes overleaf)
6.30pm Evening Service
After Church Fellowship at Cliff & Joyce's home

Weekly Meetings:

Monday

3.45pm to 4.45pm Children's Hour

Tuesday

7.15am Prayer for revival.
8.15pm Deacons' mtg

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 - Open meeting
7.45pm Bible Study and Prayer Meeting - Led by Pastor

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:

"... whatever a man sows, that he will also reap." Galatians 6:7

Prayer For The Church:

Praise God for good numbers at the Children's Hour and FOY - and attentiveness at all the mtgs. Pray for conversions.
Pray for Mike as he recovers from a knee operation yesterday.
Pray for Lee as he recovers from a knee injury.
Continue to pray for Derek Sewell and his family.
Pray for Mona as she is still seeking employment.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Apologies - we don't seem to be receiving these at present.

Prayer For The Wider Area:

RUSSIA - PRESSURE ON PROTESTANT CHURCHES INCREASES Over recent months several Russian churches have been facing harassment and pressure from local authorities and government officials. In the town of Yurgamysh in the Kurgan Region two members of a small congregation were questioned for four hours by Federal Security Bureau (FSB) officers about internal church matters on 9 July.

That same evening the FSB officers attended worship at the church and secretly filmed the whole service. In late August the regional state television broadcast a programme called "Criminal News", which portrayed the church in a completely distorted light, using excerpts from the secretly filmed service. The programme voiced unsubstantiated allegations, for example that the children from the church were "retarded, downtrodden . . . and often had to repeat the year", and that church members lived off illegal business.

In Bolkhov in the Orel Region, four Christians were detained for four hours on 13 July. The believers had been singing hymns and reading from the Bible close to the town's market square together with several other Christians when they were approached by the mayor and two police officers, asking for the group's identification documents. The local head of police reportedly warned the group during questioning: "If you don't want problems, forget about Bolkhov and don't ever come back. God could abandon you for 20 minutes, and that would be quite enough for something to happen to you." One of the four people detained was given a fine for violating regulations on holding demonstrations.

In another incident local authorities warned a small church in the city of Norilsk in the Krasnoyarsk Region that is could no longer use a church member's groundfloor flat for holding Sunday services. The authorities claimed that the flat could be used only in line with its original designation, i.e. for residential purposes. The congregation had been meeting at the flat for ten years without any complaints from neighbours.

• Pray for the Russian churches and Christians targeted by local authorities. Pray for wisdom and God's guidance in dealing with the authorities.
• Pray that this behaviour will not become the norm for local authorities in Russia. Pray that Christians will continue to be able to meet together and worship the Lord freely, without harassment and threats.

Bible Readings:

October
5th 2 Samuel 18:1-33; James 1:1-18
6th 2 Samuel 19:1-43; James 1:19-27
7th Psalms 54-55; James 2:1-13
8th 2 Samuel 20:1-21:22; James 2:14-26
9th 2 Samuel 22:1-51; James 3:1-18
10th 2 Samuel 23:1-39; James 4:1-17
11th 2 Samuel 24:1-25; James 5:1-20
12th 1 Kings 1:1-53; 1 Peter 1:1-12

General Announcements:

Diary date -
Church Anniversary - Sat. Nov. 15th 5.30p.m.

Please note
Members' Mtg arranged for Tues 28th Nov. is having to be postponed as it clashes with the half term week - and several are away.

Lord's Table: We invite visitors who are active members of an evangelical church and have been baptized by immersion to commune at the Lords Table. Friends who are not eligible to participate are welcome to observe but are kindly asked to refrain from taking the bread and wine.