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 Paul & Janet's home.

Weekly Metings:

Tuesday

8.00pm Lord's Table and Members' Meeting

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: Michael Whyte
7.45pm Bible Study and Prayer Meeting - Led by Pastor

Saturday

FOY outing

Sunday

11.00am & 6.00pm Sunday Services - Led by Pastor

Thought For The Week:

"Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us." 1 John 5:14

Prayer For The Church:

Pray for Sarah, Mona and the unborn babes.
Pray that God may bless the summer camps with a full camp of campers. There are potentially 20 more spaces available on each.
Our brother Graham Spavin was given a relatively poor prognosis when the cancer was first diagnosed. In the Lord's mercy it has been in remission for some time, but is now active again. Please pray for healing; for his family and for the church in Sidcup.
Pray for the FOY trip on Saturday that all will be kept safe as they travel and spend the day at the zoo.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Southend

The church correspondent writes: ‘We are grateful to God for every evidence of his love amongst us ~ we would particularly ask you to pray for our youth work as we consider ways of re-organising it.'

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Sri Lanka begins reconciliation

Conditions at some of the camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka remain difficult. People are waiting to return home, if there is still one standing.

Roads are still closed, and what were lush fields now are riddled with mines. That is likely to mean a food shortage in the autumn.

On top of that, humanitarian groups are concerned that impending monsoon rains and inadequate sanitation will place tens of thousands of people at risk from disease in the camps.

The 26-year-old civil war came to a violent end with the government chasing Tamil rebels into the north and crushing them there. Tamils are a minority group on the island, and the Tigers were an armed militant group fighting for a separate homeland.

Through partnerships with local churches, Faith Comes By Hearing is helping to respond to the overwhelming needs, says Doug Harstine. "One of the top priorities is to provide food of course, but also to find out what regions have been the most damaged. Then our team can go in through churches or ministries in those regions, helping them get together and plant new fields."

IDPs urgently need a message of hope. As they return home, pastors and other workers will continue helping them rebuild their lives.

Harstine says their team is expanding their ministry in a region that hasn't been open before. They're sending out a recording team and an outreach team to re-record the Tamil Audio Bible using indigenous Tamil voices.

The new outreach team is made up of Ceylon Bible Society staff. They will be using the dramatized Audio Scriptures to reach out to the poor and illiterate people in Sri Lanka in a format they can use: audio.

As people listen to God's Word, they are evangelized, discipled, and transformed. When listeners hear Scriptures about the New Testament church, they take action planting churches in response.

Harstine says their distribution has a lot of room for growth. "Faith Comes By Hearing is going to be supporting churches in Sri Lanka with audio Scriptures. We have 250 audio Scriptures for them to start with."

Bible Readings:

21st Isaiah 52:1-53:12; Galatians 4:8-31
22nd Isaiah 54:1-17; Galatians 5:1-26
23rd Isaiah 55:1-56:12; Galatians 6:1-18
24th Psalm 106; Ephesians 1:1-14
25th Isaiah 57:1-21; Ephesians 1:15-2:10
26th Isaiah 58:1-14; Ephesians 2:11-22
27th Isaiah 59:1-21; Ephesians 3:1-13
28th Isaiah 60:1-22; Ephesians 3:14-4:16

General Announcements:

Fitness Club - Monday at 7.30pm

Church Outing. Please see Joyce today if you are still wanting to book for the church outing week Saturday.