Today's Meetings:

9.45am Children's Bible Club
10.15am Sunday Prayer Meeting in cottage
11.00am Morning Service
6.30pm Evening Service
After Church Fellowship at Mike & Rosemary's home

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: John McIllmurray
7.45 L.D.O.S John Roberts

Friday

7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children

Sunday

11.00am & 6.30pm Sunday Services -Led by Pastor

Thought For The Week:

"Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is in the LORD" Jeremiah 17:7

Prayer For The Church:

Continue to pray for the midweek meetings that God may bless the work of each of these and that we might see fruit for our labour. Pray that God may over rule with the work at KIC club.
Pray for Ruth and Mona as they seek employment.
Thank God for many visitors to the B.B.Q. and good contacts made. 76 attended.
Pray for Ann Winnie as she goes into hospital Tuesday for a knee operation.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Borough Green Please pray for a sense of the Lord's presence and blessing as Richard Peskett proclaims God's Word on the occasion of the church's 199th anniversary this weekend. Please also pray for wisdom as the church plans its bicentenary in 2009.

Soho Please pray that people will read and respond to the message in the literature that has just been delivered to every local home that could be reached in Soho and Covent Garden. Please pray also for a solution to the problem of the Fair Share Shop workload, which is proving more than can be managed well at this time - especially that more help will be forthcoming.

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Ministry encourages churches in Myanmar response

In the wake of one of the worst cyclones to hit Myanmar (Burma), the country's junta government is finally allowing some aid on the ground. It may not be soon enough for those in the outlying regions.

Official media reports now say as many as 10,000 people were killed in one town alone. The storm's 12-foot tidal surges and high winds blasted away the bamboo huts that dotted the low-lying coastal areas where death tolls would be catastrophic.

Rural areas, already primitive, are likely to be the last to receive any aid that does trickle in. Faith-based humanitarian groups joined the voices urging the junta government to loosen restrictions at the borders-with little success.

Global Advance's David Shibley notes one prospect: "The government is being resistant to aid. However, this does give opportunity for some mission groups that are already on the ground there to be very significantly used."

There are some agencies with projects in the hard-hit areas that will be able to make use of an already-established distribution network.

According to the 2008 Open Doors' World Watch List, Myanmar ranks 25th among the world's worst persecutors of believers. A police state, it is approximately 90 percent Buddhist and 4 percent Christian. Most of the country's Christians belong to ethnic minorities.

Shibley explains, "This is a very repressive culture against the Gospel, and yet there is a small but vigorous and growing and multiplying church." He conducted a pastors' training conference some time ago that laid the groundwork for partnerships. From that, he saw a readiness from these leaders to communicate the love of Christ however they could.

That's what's behind his great hope for evangelistic opportunities. Shibley says these Christians will be ready with answers because, "For some, they will see this tragedy as an act of punishment for not following their religion closely enough. But many others will see the bankruptcy of their traditional religions and be open to the Gospel in a way that they had not been, previously."

Pray that food, clean water and shelter will be delivered to the neediest as soon as possible. Pray too that Christians in Burma will feel the peace and comfort of worldwide prayers.

Bible Readings:

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