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 on reverse)
6.30pm Evening Service
After Church Fellowship at Joyce and Cliff'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: Peter Jermyn
7.45pm Bible Study and Prayer Meeting - Led by Jon Wayman

Friday

7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children

Sunday

11.00am & 6.30pm Sunday Services - Led by Jo Long

Thought For The Week:

"In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." John 16:33

Prayer For The Church:

Pray for Pastor & Marilyn camping!
Please pray for the CCIW camps this summer. Pray for Alistair and Norman as they prepare their daily sermons. Pray for the tent officers as they prepare their Bible studies.
Pray for Ruth and Mona as they seek employment.
Please pray that through God's grace the weekly prayer meeting will increasingly become the powerhouse of the week's ministry.
Please continue to pray for the clubs - we have definitely seen specific answers to prayer recently.
Pray for Simon and Ali - that Simon will know real recovery and that they will see the Lord's provision for their daily needs.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Tring The church correspondent writes: "Praise God for new members, contact with lots of unbelievers and the evidence of God's gracious work amongst us. Pray for Richard Underwood (FIEC) preaching for our 207th Church Anniversary on 13 July. Pray for wisdom as we consider our building project and for vision and energy as we seek to reach out with the Good News."

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Sudan: a window of opportunity for evangelism
Sudan remains a country with major issues. A lack of progress towards resolving the 5 1/2-year-old Darfur conflict, fighting in the oil-rich Abyei region claimed by both north and south Sudan, and tension with neighbouring Chad are all critical issues. However, despite these issues, the church in the south is growing.

E3 Partners Sudan Strategic Coordinator Mike Congrove says the work they're doing is helping with that. "We started a Bible school to train pastors and leaders and give them some more sound doctrinal training and really encourage them to plant new churches. And then, in addition, we use North Americans on short-term trips to come over and share Christ home to home." The homes are identified by Sudanese Christians where there are no churches.

Congrove says North Americans are pretty effective in Sudan. He says it's cultural. "You respect visitors, and you respect outsiders. And so we've been able to use that for an advantage to share Christ. So they're very accommodating, and they want to hear what we have to say."

He's encouraged by what he's seeing in the national church. "Recently they organized their own short-term mission trip and went to another town, outside where our headquarters is [located], and established three new churches on their own. So we're really excited about that."

While things have been improving in some areas of Sudan, it's still a troubled society. He thinks Sudan is uniquely ready to hear the Gospel. "After years of war, you have a traumatized people, and absolutely when they get to hear the hope that comes from Jesus Christ, it's powerful."

The major issue right now is finding national leaders. Congrove says, "With the amount of war that has happened, we lack male leaders from the ages of 30 to 65. There's a huge gap there. So what we've done is we've taken a giant step backwards and started this Bible school to train leaders for the long haul." It not only provides training but feeds and houses these new leaders.

Bible Readings:

July
6th Joshua 3:1-4:24; Philippians 2:19-3:11
7th Joshua 5:1-6:27; Philippians 3:12-4:1
8th Psalms 37; Philippians 4:2-23
9th Joshua 7:1-26; Colossians 1:1-14
10th Joshua 8:1-35; Colossians 1:15-23
11th Joshua 9:1-27; Colossians 1:24-2:5
12th Joshua 10:1-43; Colossians 2:6-23
13th Joshua 11:1-12:24; Colossians 3:1-25

General Announcements:

Want to get fit ?!?
If you would like to have some fun getting fit, please see either Sarah or Debbie. This is open to everyone on a Monday evening from 7.30 pm.