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.

Thursday

2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker: Brian Khurt
7.45pm L.D.O.S John Roberts

Friday

7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children

Sunday

11.00am & 6.00pm Sunday Services

Thought For The Week:

"Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour." Matthew 15:28

Prayer For The Church:

Pray for Sarah and Mona
We continue to see increasing numbers at all the clubs, please pray that the children will be spiritually attentive during the teaching time.
Pray for a booking officer for CCIW. Mike Carson is retiring from this huge job of taking bookings and organizing payments etc.
Pray for Rose and her family. Rose has made slight progress and is now able to form some words.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Chesham

The pastor writes: ‘Pray for increased faith, love and hope. For Andrew and Danielle Gullett's work permit that they might help in a strategic literature work in Kenya. For more workers here. A young woman is due to be baptised a week on Sunday, the first for ages. Pray for her and all those there. Positively, we have many serious enquirers.

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Bible distribution moves to the ‘Cloud'

Troy Carl with Faith Comes By Hearing says a new software application called the Audio Bible Ambassador will revolutionize Bible distribution.

Here's how it works: "A person simply downloads a Bible for themselves. They give us permission to load a small piece of audio Bible information into the software."

In other words, the FCBH team set up a network that functions much like Skype, using a grid or cloud interface to store pieces of the audio Bible in different languages on the hard drives of "host" computers.

Then, let's say you choose to be an ambassador to the Kirundi speakers of Burundi. Carl explains that "the computer system will go out to the grid or to the ‘cloud', and it will say, ‘Where have people around the world downloaded this particular language, and how do I stream that information back to the user?'" That means that others wanting to download those languages will snag pieces of the Bible from you as well as other computers for a complete recording.

A request for a Kirundi Bible in Burundi will go to your computer, and you will send the Scriptures back through using a three-layer security encryption. "It'll actually give you a notification that says ‘you've reached 427 people in these language groups. Click here to see a map of where you're personally having an impact and distributing Scripture to these people groups around the world.'"

The best part is that it's virtually untraceable. It also is virtually unblockable. The Audio Bible Ambassador is the perfect tool for church planters and evangelists in countries where persecution makes Bible distribution dangerous. Even if government officials catch one sender, they can't catch everyone when the information comes from a million computers across the world.

So far, Carl says, they've already reached 90,000 people through word of mouth with this program. At present, China is the second most-distributed country. Think of how many house churches and other underground believers that translates to who are finally able to have their own copy of the Bible in their own language.

Bible Readings:

May
10th Isaiah 10:1-34; 1 Corinthians 5:1-13
11th Isaiah 11:1-12:6; 1 Corinthians 6:1-11
12th Isaiah 13:1-22; 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
13th Psalms 97-98; 1 Corinthians 7:1-40
14th Isaiah 14:1-32; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13
15th Isaiah 15:1-16:14; 1 Corinthians 9:1-27
16th Isaiah 17:1-18:7; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22
17th Proverbs 22; 1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1

General Announcements:

Help needed
Janet is not available for Monday Club on Monday 18th May. With the large numbers attending it would be really helpful if someone would offer to take the epilogue. The children are usually split into two groups of about 10 children for about 15 minutes each.

Dates
B.B.Q. 13th June - 5.30 p.m.
Church outing Saturday 4th July