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 Bruce & Margaret's home.

Weekly Meetings:

Monday

3.45pm -4.45pm Children's Hour - Children Rec. to year 3

Tuesday

8.15pm Elders' and deacons' mtg

Wednesday

9.30am Mum's and Tots
7.00pm - 8.00pm KIC club - Children in years 4 to 6

Thursday

2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - John McIllmurray
7.45pm Mission Prayer Meeting - Please let Ken have your prayer notes by tonight please.

Friday

7.30pm FOY - For Secondary School Children

Saturday

9.30am OPEN AIR outreach

Sunday

11.00am & 6.00pm Sunday Services - Mike Swales.

Thought For The Week:

"There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots." Isaiah 11:1

Prayer For The Church:

Pray for Mark as he is unwell this weekend.
Pray for Michael Whyte as he has been diagnosed with throat cancer and has an operation on Tuesday.
Pray in the 3 weeks leading up to H.B.C. for all involved in planning and preparation.
Pray for Pete as he seeks employment.
Praise God for encouragements at Thamesmead and the planned baptisms.
Pray for the continuation of our youth work that God will guard these activities from any attack of the enemy and pour out His Spirit upon the Word.

Prayer For The Local Area:

St John's Wood The Lord continues to bless us with many small blessings. We are still weak in number and too small in faith, but he is great and his love never fails us. We are rejoicing that he has given one of our number permission to remain in this country when it looked unlikely. But we are longing that he would add new life to us. Please pray.
Treasurers' event. The Treasurers' event is planned for 27th March at St John's Wood Road Baptist Church, London NW8 8QX.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has issued a warning about a new email scam aimed at taxpayers. The email describes itself as coming from ‘HMRC Online services - test' and says that the recipient has a new alert message. People are then invited to log into their online account to read the message. In fact, the email contains a link to a fake website that asks visitors to hand over their passwords and details about their personal accounts. People are being urged not to visit the website contained within the email or to disclose any personal information to the fraudsters. HMRC has said that anyone who receives a copy of the email should forward it to phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk

Prayer For The Wider Area:

The ‘flood gates' of India open

"For 2,000 years, India has been resistant to the Gospel. Now, all of a sudden, it seems that the flood gates have opened, and now is the time for us to reap the harvest in India," said David Rice, executive director of India Gospel League.
And that is exactly what IGL is doing.

"We are working strongly to raise up 1,000 new church planters to send into areas of India where there is absolutely no Gospel witness," Rice said. They hope to have all of these pastors ministering within three to five years.

As they go out, people will hear of Christ's love for the first time. Rice said with the number of workers they are sending out and based on past witnessing in new areas, they could see as many as two million people come to Christ in this time span.

For example, several years ago the ministry went into the state of Maharashtra. At the time, only one percent of the population was Christian. Today, around three percent of the population are evangelical believers.

Rice said they want to do this once again. However, they cannot do so without your help.

"These bold Indian brothers and sisters are going into places that you and I could never go. So our role is to undergird them with our prayer support, our financial support, and see a great harvest for the kingdom," he said.
Pray for these pastors as they look to expand Christ's Kingdom across India. Pray for their boldness and strength, even in the face of persecution.

It costs $100 per month to support one pastor, though IGL said a pastor should be self-sustaining within two years of the start of their ministry. In the meantime, $65 of this money will go to support the pastor and his or her family, while $35 will go toward Bibles and other supplies for the new church.

So far, IGL has seen God work tremendously through their ministry. "For every dollar we invest, based on our historical data, we'll see a person come to Christ."

General Announcements:

Members' Mtg
Please let Ken have in writing any matters for consideration by the church officers- TODAY.
Mission Prayer Mtg Jan. 28th
Please let Ken have "bullet points" for prayer or praise for your link mission please - TODAY! kenandanne2009@live.co.uk