Today's Meetings:

9.45am Children's Bible Club
10.15am Sunday Prayer Meeting in cottage
11.00am Morning Service
5.00pm All welcome to a buffet tea to say farewell to Simon Ali and family. (please bring an edible contribution!)
6.30pm Evening Service
After Church Fellowship at Mike and Rosemary's

Weekly Meetings:

Monday

3.45pm to 4.45pm Children's Hour

Tuesday

8.00pm Members' Prayer 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: Jimmy Whyte
7.45pm Bible Study and Prayer Meeting - Led by Pastor

Friday

7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children

Saturday

Free Grace Sidcup Anniversary
(Please see General Notices For Further Details) We need to let our friends have approx numbers tonight.

Sunday

11.00am & 6.30pm Sunday Services - Led by Pastor

Thought For The Week:

"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;
The whole earth is full of His glory!"
Isaiah 6:3

Prayer For The Church:

Pray for the on-going work of the Church as our midweek meetings continue. Thank God for the children that have returned after the summer break.
Pray for Jonathan at the outset of his PGCE course in Canterbury.

Prayer For The Local Area:

Brighton (Montpellier Place) Stephen Nowak writes: We have five weeks of evangelistic services based on Tim Keller's book ‘The Reason for God'. The sermons aim to address post-modern critiques of the gospel starting on Sunday the 7th of September and finishing on the 5th of October. Please pray for many visitors and conversions as we have distributed 5000 invitations. Please pray that the Church would have an ever-increasng burden for the lost.

Prayer For The Wider Area:

Trouble mounts for the Church in Orissa, India
India's Supreme Court wants to know what the government in Orissa state has done to stop a wave of anti-Christian rioting. New Delhi has even gotten involved. They've now promised financial aid to the victims of the anti-Christian clashes.

The violence erupted August 23 after unidentified gunmen, later believed to be Maoists, shot and killed a popular Hindu leader.

In the meantime, religious reprisals continue. Official sources say at least half a dozen churches were set ablaze this week.
Police arrested around 200 people in connection with the riots. The unrest left 13,000 people as refugees. Many fled to surrounding forests or fled to camps in Orissa's Kandhamal district.

JP SunderRajan with Audio Scripture Ministries says they're concerned because the violence appears to be spreading.
With anti-conversion legislation on the books, Hindu radicals often accuse missionaries of luring poor and low-caste Hindus to convert to Christianity by offering free education and health care. Those accusations have been more successful in the rural areas than in the urban areas, until recently.

"The violence that started in the villages has started slowly, seeping its way into the cities. So my question to him this morning was, ‘What's going on?' he said, ‘I thought that this was going to subside, but it has shown no signs of subsiding, and in fact, has gotten worse and worse.'"

Has the violence stopped AMG partners from church planting? SunderRajan says caution is prudent. "I don't know for all ministries, but as far as ours go, we'd encourage our staff to just kind of stay put and keep your families safe when you can, because when there's a mob out there, you don't want to aggravate anything. So I would say we've put it on hold for a little bit."

Pray for the AMG team that they would be safe. Pray too that the violence will settle down quickly and that believers will boldly share their hope with others.

Bible Readings:

September
14th 1 Samuel 26:1-25; Titus 2:11-3:8
15th 1 Samuel 27:1-28:25; Titus 3:9-15
16th Psalms 50; Philemon 1-25
17th 1 Samuel 29:1-30:31; Hebrews 1:1-14
18th 1 Samuel 31:1-13; Hebrews 2:1-18
19th 2 Samuel 1:1-27; Hebrews 3:1-19
20th 2 Samuel 2:1-32; Hebrews 4:1-13
21th 2 Samuel 3:1-39; Hebrews 4:14-5:10
22th 2 Samuel 4:1-5:25; Hebrews 5:11-6:12

General Announcements:

Date for the Diary
Sat 20th Sept Free Grace Sidcup Anniversary
3.00 - Games 5.30 - BBQ
7.30 - Meeting
URGENT Help needed
Someone to take the epilogue for children's hour on Monday week - (or to help with games) Please see Janet
Janet and Paul cant get to association mtgs on 4th Oct. - is there anyone prepared to go as delegates please. - please see Paul