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 below)
6.30pm Evening Service
After Church Fellowship at Cliff & Joyce's home

Weekly Meetings:

Monday

Please pray for KIC club outing

Tuesday

7.15am Prayer for revival

Wednesday

9.30am to 11.00am Mums & Tots
6.45pm to 8.00pm KIC club - For Year 4,5 & 6 children
7.45pm S.E. Dist. Prayer meeting at Bethersden.

Thursday

2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker: Graham Spavin
7.45pm Bible Study and Prayer Meeting - Led by Pastor

Friday

7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children

Saturday

BBQ 5.30pm - 7.00pm

Sunday

11.00pm & 6.30pm Sunday Services - Led by Pastor

Thought For The Week:

"Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth." Colossians 3:2

Prayer For The Church:

Please continue to pray for Elaine, David and baby Abigail now they have returned from hospital yesterday. Pray they may all settle down to a normal routine.

Continue to pray for the midweek meetings that God may bless the Word at each of these and we might see fruit for our labour to His glory. Special call to "prayer watch" Wednesday evening!

Pray for the success of the BBQ this coming Saturday. Pray that the love of Christ may be clearly seen in us.
Pray for the group of boys from KIC club attending a football competition in London tomorrow.
Pray for Ruth and Mona as they seek employment.

Prayer For Local Area:

Greenwich

‘While we bless God that all our services are maintained we would love to see some of our neighbours join us. We are very conscious of our need of the Lord's help as we face the challenge of being surrounded by many new housing developments- and we are few in number.'

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Kenya - Students bridge gaps to reach the unreached

Ray and Jill Davis have worked for 10 years in Eldoret, Kenya with the Mission College of Africa Inland Mission. Their students are already pastors who are often married and sometimes have families. "We require that they come with their wives and their children, if they have children, and we train the whole family to be missionaries," said Jill.

She says the plan to help Africans reach out in their own nations is to help them strategically fulfil the Great Commission - to reach groups that non-native missionaries could not easily reach.

They also watched as the violence erupted after the presidential elections. The economic difficulty that resulted will be likely to affect churches who usually support the sending of missionaries. In addition, the tribal grievances are another challenge for Christians to overcome.

Despite that fear, they believe that Christians are part of the solution along with the government officials doing their part. "We believe a grassroots movement of believers in local churches, local neighbourhoods and communities should be reaching out to one another," Ray said.

At the college, the Davis's work helps students to bridge cultural gaps and create understanding which could be a vital tool even in their own villages between opposing tribes. Students learn to survive in a culture with different customs. "These particular differences might not have anything to do with their getting saved, so our students need to learn how to go into another culture and make friends with people so they can bring them to Christ," said Jill.

She also explained that once their students complete the training, many are going to strategic places that they otherwise would never have dreamed of going. "We even have missionaries going to places that we couldn't mention on the radio because they are closed places. And yet, as Kenyans, they are able to go to those places and reach out to people with the Gospel, so it's exciting."

According to Ray, other nations were shocked by the once-stable Kenya's chaotic situation. However, he believes that through prayer, Kenya can rise up once again to take the baton to be a powerful force for the Gospel in Africa.

Bible Readings:

May
5th Numbers 11:1-35; 1 Corinthians 1:1-17
6th Psalms 27; 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5
7th Numbers 12:1-13:33; 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
8th Numbers 14:1-45; 1 Corinthians 3:1-23
9th Numbers 15:1-41; 1 Corinthians 4:1-21
10th Numbers 16:1-50; 1 Corinthians 5:1-13
11th Numbers 17:1-18:32; 1 Corinthians 6:1-11
12th Numbers 19:1-22; 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
13th Psalms 28-29; I Corinthians 7:1-40

General Announcements:

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.