Today's Meetings:

9.45am Children's Bible Club
10.15am Sunday Prayer Meeting in cottage
11.00am Morning Service
6.00pm Evening Service
After Church Fellowship at Mike and Rosemary's

Weekly Meetings:

Monday

3.45pm to 4.45pm Children's Hour

Wednesday

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

(ERITH - 7.45pm Glen Taine from the Red Sea Mission.)

Thursday

2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker: Angela Box
7.45pm Bible Study and Prayer Meeting - Led by Paul- "An outcome of settled descipleship" John 17v11

Friday

7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children

Saturday

3.30pm Lewisham 135th Church Anniversary - Preacher Mark Gladwell

Sunday

11.00am & 6.30pm Sunday Services - Led by Mike Swales (Pastor preaching at Lewisham)

Thought For The Week:

"Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever." Psalm 136v1

Prayer For The Church:

Please pray specifically each day for the activities - that the word given will be with power and that these activities will know God's protection.
Continue to pray for Mike as he recovers from a knee operation and for Lee as he recovers from injury.
Praise God for answered prayer for Margaret.
Pray for Vanessa and Pete as the time nears for the arrival of their little one.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Nothing received - but we must continue to pray for the work on Thamesmead.

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Christian radio fosters unity on teve of Ecuador's consitution vote.

With 90 percent of ballots counted, 64 percent of Ecuadorean voters approved the country's 20th constitution in the history of this unstable South American nation.

The new constitution will broaden President Rafael Correa's powers and will allow him to run for two consecutive terms.
Doug Weber is the Director of Radio for Latin America with HCJB Global Voice. Weber says Christian radio played an active part in the election pricess, but not the way one might think. "Instead of trying to take a side, we thought it would be great if we could get the church to actually focus on the Lord and His sovereignty over whatever decision was made with the constitution."

HCJB Global provided airtime to Ecuador pastors to begin praying for this monumental period in the country's history. Weber says, "We had pastors from all over the city and all over the province, really, coming in several times and praying for the nation and this important decision."

This prayer focus, says Weber, had other side benefits. "To some extent, we were able to unify the church, in a sence, because the church was pretty uncertain on what they should do."

Weber believes their apolitical approach to the election spoke volumes to the government. "There was a lot of media in the country that was taking a very distinct position one way or another and we have always tried to maintain a neutral position, even in our news broadcasts and our daily programming."

He believes this puts HCJB Global on a more solid footing for ministry in the future.

Correa is expected to swiftly overhaul the judiciary, the Central Bank and other key institutions, giving the U.S. - and European-trained economist greater liberty to fashion what he calls a "new political model."

Weber is hoping this will allow HCJB Global to accomplish their future goals. "One of the big things we want to begin doing is mobilizing and helping mobilize LAtin Americans to move into missions in other parts of the world. And we're trying to figure out our strategy. We don't want to duplicate what other people are doing, but we want to compliment what other mission and church groups are doing."

Pray thet HCJB Global will be able to accomplish this.

Bible Readings:

12th 1 Kings 1:1-53; 1 Peter 1:1-12
13th 1 Kings 2:1-46; 1 Peter 1:13-2:3
14th Psalms 56-57; 1 Peter 2:4-12
15th 1 Kings 3:1-4:34; 1 Peter 2:13-25
16th 1 Kings 5:1-6:38; 1 Peter 3:1-22
17th 1 Kings 7:1-51; 1 Peter 4:1-19
18th 1 Kings 8:1-66; 1 Peter 5:1-14
19th 1 Kings 9:1-10:29; 2 Peter 1:1-11

General Announcements:

Important - MEMBERS' MEETING
We have been trying to re-arrange the members' meeting. The date that we hope will be possible for everyone is Monday 3rd November at 8.00pm Please let Paul know today if this is too difficult for you.

Reminder - Church Anniversary Service Saturday November 15th at 5.30pm