We would like to extend a warm welcome to you for our services today which are led by Pastor Mark Gladwell. 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 Mike & Rosemary's home
Weekly Meetings:
Monday
3.45pm to 4.45pm Children's Hour
Wednesday
9.30am to 11.00am Mums & Tots
6.30pm to 8.00pm KIC club - For Year 4,5 & 6 children.
Thursday
2.00pm Ladies Rest Hour - Speaker: William Smith
7.45pm Prayer and Bible Study - Peter Townsend
Friday
7.30pm to 9.00pm FOY - For secondary school children
Sunday
11.00am & 6.00pm Sunday Services - Led by Pastor
Thought For The Week:
"Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever." Psalm 106:1
Prayer For The Church:
Pray for the preparations leading up to Holiday Bible Club. Pray that children will be brought to faith in Jesus Christ. Pray that KIC club will have additions following this outreach.
Pray that we will get more applications from the older age group.
Please pray for our local churches without a Pastor.
Please pray for Flora Lam (C.W.I.) as her father died suddenly.
Prayer For The Local Area
Erith is the church on the Prayer Diary for the coming week. The church correspondent writes: "We praise God for a good response to the TBS calendars delivered at Christmas and for a couple of new attendees, one of whom has asked about baptism. Please pray for our outreach in 2009 and for church growth."
Prayer For The Wider Area:
Ministry update from Wayne Mack -Grace School of Ministry- South Africa
Plans seem to be moving forward for the transmitting of classes to other parts of Africa by way of electronic media. There are some men in South Africa who see the importance of this and are working on making it a reality. This would broaden our outreach considerably without me leaving Pretoria. In addition to the regular teaching at GSM we will be ministering
at a family camp in March and then for a couple of weeks in Zambia in April and then at three Shepherd's conferences in May and then at a pastor's conference in Mozambique in June. We have been asked to come to Tanzania to teach pastors there - 47 of them signed a petition asking me to come and I was also asked to come to Mauritius and to Japan to do some teaching.
Opportunities are many, but trainers are few and my schedule is full. So there are many invitations I just have to refuse. It's not that I am that exceptional; it's just that there are so few here who have the training or experience that God has given me. Please pray for skilled, well-trained, experienced, capable and zealous help - at my next birthday I will be 74. This kind of help is critical in that right now I carry the lion's share of the teaching at GSM.
Please pray for funds to provide scholarships for students who come from a distance to GSM (books and transportation and food must be provided) and also for the funds to pay for the equipment that will be needed to transmit our courses to other parts of Africa and also for the funds that will make it possible for us to send teaching DVD's and other materials to pastors and ministries who are requesting this material in other parts of Africa and even overseas.
Thanks for your interest and prayers and support. Our God is able (Ephesians 3:20; Jeremiah 32:17; Matthew 19:26). So we are confidently hopeful.
Bible Readings:
8th Ecclesiastes 1:1-2:26; Matthew 28:1-20
9th Ecclesiastes 3:1-22; Acts 1:1-26
10th Ecclesiastes 4:1-16; Acts 2:1-41
11th Psalm 79; Acts 2:42-3:26
12th Ecclesiastes 5:1-6:12; Acts 4:1-22
13th Ecclesiastes 7:1-29; Acts 4:23-37
14th Ecclesiastes 8:1-17; Acts 5:1-16
15th Proverbs 18; Acts 5:17-42
General Announcements:
Holiday Bible Club
If you would like to help please see Daniel.
We currently have 25 applications for children in
Yr groups Rec - Yr 3 and only 6 children in Yr groups 4 to 6
Members' meeting
Agendas will be available this evening.
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 7.30pm.